# Unlikely Casting.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-casting/283493>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 7, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-casting/283493 "2005-01-07T01:27:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Balle\_M](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@Balle\_M](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balle_M)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-casting/283493/21 "2005-01-08T03:55:35Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> “Peter Lorre is _Mame!_”

Eve,  
You have a very, very sick mind.

I like that in a woman. 😃

Howz about _My Fair Lady_ with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Wanda Sykes?

“Vy can’t de Englanders teach der children hauw to zpeak?”

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-casting/283493/22 "2005-01-08T17:09:34Z")

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[QUOTE=Lobsang]  
I was just thinking about the casting choice of Angelina Jolie for Lara Croft  
(wondering why on earth they didn’t pick Rhona Mitra who was _born_ to play  
that  
part) when I let my mind wonder. Eventually I had pictured Woody Alen playing the  
Terminator. /QUOTE]

Well, you know, Philip Dick’s “Total Recall” really called for a Woody Allen type in the lead role.

And all things considered, a robot assassin would be more effective if it looked like a harmless nerd, rather than like a huge, muscular biker.

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