Maybe someone posted this a while back. Hell Maybe I didI don't care. Time for a refresher
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Leave_it_to_Weaver — 17 years ago(October 05, 2008 07:45 PM)
Its interesting that you mentioned Angelica Houston because she was nominated the same year for her brilliant work in "The Grifters." Even though i loved Kathy Bates in this role, i would have given the oscar to Houston. just my two cents.
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SenoritaTorres — 17 years ago(November 18, 2008 01:17 PM)
It's Annie Wilkes.
And I agree, Anjelica Huston would have been a good choice, and for some reason, I can see Rosie O' Donnell doing it. Don't be amused, I really can see her pulling it off. But Kathy Bates was by far the best choice.
'Wendy, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in!'
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przgzr — 17 years ago(November 22, 2008 08:19 PM)
Any good actress. There's no need for actress who's been doing similar movies before. A real good actress can be anything. Remember Kathrin Hepburn? And have you seen early Bette Davies movies, all her romantic roles or character that were making men lose their minds - and her horror roles, scary, creepy characters not like Jamie Lee Curtis who played in many horrors, but on the "sane" or "victim" side (wouldn't exclude her though!). So every really good actress can be imagined here.
Kathleen Turner, Sissy Spacek or Sally Field among already listed seem to be the best (though, unlike similar threads on different boards, most of offered actresses would be a good choice!). There is no reason to avoid any actress because she is making another type of roles, she is beautiful, older or younger good makeup, good director and good acting will make everything convincing. So why couldn't it have been done by Michelle Pfeiffer?
I'd add Mare Winningham to the list. It had been a whole decade after "Amber Waves", just finisher "Turner and Hooch" but have you ever seen her in Intruders? One of best female roles I've ever seen. As if you've taken a real farm woman and, just as curiosity, the character's name was Mary Wilkes.
I'm not certain about Geena Davis, but Candice Bergen would fit. Also, though not that famous, I'd add Joanna Gleason to the list. Shelley Duvall would be perfect, but hardly convincing as a person who might carry anybody through the deep snow.
Anybody remembered Louise Fletcher?
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Ryo7 — 17 years ago(April 02, 2009 07:58 AM)
It was a joke if anything really. The 'Lesbian Thing' is part of Rosie just like her acting. We just don't need Dyke Annie anytime soon, lol.
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tambourine_man36 — 16 years ago(August 07, 2009 09:50 PM)
Kate Winslet was what? 16 when this was made. Get serious. Yet another thread with her name thrown in there for a casting possibility.
I like the choice of Roseanne but only because she a pyscho in real life. Sissy Spacek's name also gets brought up in Stephen King adaptations, like for the role of Wendy in The Shining (and of course there's Carrie) so I honestly think she's a little too obvious of a choice. I don't find Angelica Houston attractive at all so I think she would have been a decent choice for Annie Wilkes. Sally Field is one of my favorite actresses but she'd already played a nut job in Sybil so it's all a matter of going against the grain. Kathy Bates was the best choice. Like William Goldman said, they needed an unknown for this role because Annie essentially came out of nowhere and turned out to be some terrifying caricature. What about Diane Wiest? -
sevadaj — 16 years ago(September 26, 2009 06:50 PM)
Although IMHO Kathy Bates played a perfect psycho in Misery, Kathleen Turner would of been a good choice,she played a psycho in Body Heat.Sigourney Weaver would of been a good choice as well, she played the evil boss in Working Girl.
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Happy_Warrior — 16 years ago(October 21, 2009 03:20 PM)
At a later date, Camryn Mannheim could have done it, not as well as Bates, but she had some Annie Wilkes-like qualities in the movie "Happiness." Look at her scenes with Philip Seymour Hoffman - his squirmy reactions to what she's telling him are a lot like James Caan's to Kathy Bates.