Lilith is 22 being played by Cate Blanchette who's in her 50's.
How much of this character being 22 is because gamers riot if they cannot masturbate to the women on the games, instead of being young being part of the narrative of the character?
Lilith is a cliched sort of grindhouse/action movie heroine: a sarcastic, sadistic badass who's believably athletic. There are probably some 50-something actresses who can pull that off, but Cate Blanchette bringing "someone's mom, going through a mid-life crisis" energy is just such a bad choice.
Grabbing big name actors that they could get and who weren't busy, regardless of what the role needed was such a bad, quintessentially Hollywood choice. They should have gotten literal nobodies and made a schlocky grindhouse b-movie out of it, not good but like fun bad spectacle slop instead of a baffling "how did this even get made?" make-work project for some random big name actors.
The casting choices being way out of line with the source material is a giant red flag. It's not a meaningless nitpick like when a characters race is changed (and their race never informed the character). It's that the vibes of the characters do not fit the actors and the trailer doesn't show them modifying themselves to fit their roles. Roland especially, he is a straightman, the opposite of Kevin Hart.
How much of this character being 22 is because gamers riot if they cannot masturbate to the women on the games, instead of being young being part of the narrative of the character?
Never played the game btw.
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Lilith is a cliched sort of grindhouse/action movie heroine: a sarcastic, sadistic badass who's believably athletic. There are probably some 50-something actresses who can pull that off, but Cate Blanchette bringing "someone's mom, going through a mid-life crisis" energy is just such a bad choice.
Grabbing big name actors that they could get and who weren't busy, regardless of what the role needed was such a bad, quintessentially Hollywood choice. They should have gotten literal nobodies and made a schlocky grindhouse b-movie out of it, not good but like fun bad spectacle slop instead of a baffling "how did this even get made?" make-work project for some random big name actors.
The casting choices being way out of line with the source material is a giant red flag. It's not a meaningless nitpick like when a characters race is changed (and their race never informed the character). It's that the vibes of the characters do not fit the actors and the trailer doesn't show them modifying themselves to fit their roles. Roland especially, he is a straightman, the opposite of Kevin Hart.