# Who Would You Cast in a Discworld Movie?

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**Created:** [December 17, 2004, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-cast-in-a-discworld-movie/280325 "2004-12-17T13:16:47Z")\
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**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:** [December 20, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-cast-in-a-discworld-movie/280325/41 "2004-12-20T23:19:11Z")

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> [@Angua](#):
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> Anyway, Angua’s blonde _and_ busty – Keira Knightly about as busty as an ironing board with two peas on it.

I don’t believe there’s anything in the books that suggests Angua is busty. In fact she should look kind of lean, muscular, and wolflike. Because Keira has played several quite tough fit characters, that’s why I figure she’d be good. And she’s a Brit with that sophistication that could put her in a noble Uberwaldian family.

But there could be better choices, I suppose.

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**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-cast-in-a-discworld-movie/280325/42 "2004-12-20T23:54:18Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> I don’t believe there’s anything in the books that suggests Angua is busty.

Actually, in _Men at Arms_ (where Angua is introduced), Pratchett says:

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> She wouldn’t have a full uniform yet, not until someone had taken a, well, let’s face it, a _breastplate_ along to old Remitt the armourer and told him to beat it out really well _here_ and _here_…

Which, to me, suggests that she is _very_ busty. The cover artwork appears to back me up on this one as well. [Link](http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0552140287.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)

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**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-cast-in-a-discworld-movie/280325/43 "2004-12-21T00:15:07Z")

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Paul Gross as Carrot.

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**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-cast-in-a-discworld-movie/280325/44 "2004-12-21T00:29:02Z")

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Janet Henfrey as Granny Weatherwax. Dawn French as Sybil Ramkin. Kathy Bates could do Nanny Ogg with a bit of makeup. **KellyM** suggested Debra Messing as Magrat.

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**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-cast-in-a-discworld-movie/280325/45 "2004-12-21T00:34:14Z")

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Tawny Kitaen would make a good Angua.

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**Author:** ![violacrane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c57346/32.png) [@violacrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/violacrane)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-cast-in-a-discworld-movie/280325/46 "2004-12-21T01:10:06Z")

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Diana Rigg for Granny Weatherwax.

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