# Where's My Discworld Casting Thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147 "2006-01-22T20:58:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147/41 "2006-01-24T22:01:44Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > She’s the first one I thought of too, but she’s way too old. Tiffany’s only 9 in the first book, after all, and the girl who played susan is 17. I don’t like the girl who played Lucy, either. Unfortunately, it’s always a real challenge to find a 9-year-old actor/actress who’s up to playing a 9-year-old character. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147/42 "2006-01-24T22:04:45Z")
I also second Brian Blessed as Ridcully! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147/43 "2006-01-25T04:27:45Z")
> [@Maureen](#): > > No, we’re talking actresses who can, you know, _act_. The character of Angua has more depth than a slightly damp sponge. Not really. Besides, Katee Sackhoff looks like a tomboy and Uma Thurman looks more like a Magrat (kinda skinny, not very old but no longer young, sharp featured) than an Angua. Brian Blessed looks the perfect Ridcully. And from what I remember from Blackadder, he could pull the role off like it was written for him. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147/44 "2006-01-25T09:33:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I’ll vote for Katee Sackhoff as Angua. She doesn’t exactly look, well, lupine No, but she [does look like](http://www.serienjunkies.de/Seriendarsteller/Katee-Sackhoff/KateeSackhoff.jpg) she has an animal in her ancestry. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147/45 "2006-01-25T09:47:52Z")
Tiffany Aching needs to be played by someone that’s a cross between Christina Ricci when she first played Wednesday Addams, and Emily Browning, from _Lemony Snicket_. And maybe a touch of Emma Watson from _Harry Potter_. Only, around 10 years old. Hopefully they’ll strike gold. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147/46 "2006-01-25T10:19:55Z")
I love some of the suggestions so far (especial Brian Blessed!) so here’s one of mine: if you cleaned him up and got him to lose some weight, Brendan Gleeson would make the perfect Vimes. He can certainly provide the brains, determination, humor and working-class rage needed for the role - after all, he does specialize in [violent father-figures.](http://fametracker.com/hey_its_that_guy/gleeson_brendan.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147/47 "2006-01-25T11:26:23Z")
The reason I threw in Katee Sackhoff as a suggestion is that she must be able to convey physical strength. When she hits Col. Tigh and he falls over, it’s easy to believe she has the strength. And Angua must be portrayed as… well a dog. A beatiful a gentle creature, but it’s easy to see that there’s wolf in the ancestry. Having Uma play her would be like pointing to an Afghan dog as proof of wolf. Katee Sackhoff is more of a German Shepherd. Brian Blessed was born to play Ridully. Jim Broadbent could make a good Colon. Judi Dench might not look like I picture Granny W, but she can certainly get the personality right. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147/48 "2006-01-25T18:47:29Z")
As a starting point for the physical appearances of characters (where Pterry’s prose descriptions are not entirely clear), we should look to artistic representations that have more or less become canon in that Pterry has authorized them as illustrations in some few of his books. E.g., if you want to know what Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg **really** look like, check out the illos in _Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook,_ and try to find actresses that come as close as can be. See also _The Last Hero._ ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147/49 "2006-01-25T21:14:27Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > As a starting point for the physical appearances of characters (where Pterry’s prose descriptions are not entirely clear), we should look to artistic representations that have more or less become canon in that Pterry has authorized them as illustrations in some few of his books. E.g., if you want to know what Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg **really** look like, check out the illos in _Nanny Ogg’s Cookbook,_ and try to find actresses that come as close as can be. See also _The Last Hero._ That’s why I started this thread - the Vimes in _Where’s My Cow_ lookes like Postlethwaite, down to the MPB. Of course, he looks nothing like the Vimes in the Discworld almanacs…you see the problem there, there’s more than one (authorised) vision of what these characters look like. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147/50 "2006-01-25T21:40:37Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Too old. Vetinari is ageless. You just know his hair will never go gray or fall out. Not if it knows what’s good for it, it won’t… For Rincewind, I vote for [Adrien Brody](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004778/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-my-discworld-casting-thread/341147.md?page=2)