Orlando Jones cast as Mr. Nancy.
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housegrinder — 9 years ago(June 16, 2016 09:59 PM)
For Czernobog I imagined someone who is ancient, grandfatherly, and incredibly frail(after all he can barely hold his hammer)and I just don't associate Peter Stormare with any of those things. Christopher Plummer is closest to how I imagine Czernobog.
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prydain17 — 9 years ago(June 17, 2016 03:51 PM)
I imagined Czernobog as pudgy and middle-aged looking, out of shape but never frail or grandfatherly. Must have missed part of the description but I've read the books a couple times and listened to the audio. I thought the actor was not quite what I imagined but not far off, either.
"No! He is imprinted on you like a gay duckling. If you don't wean him off you slowly, he'll die."
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Toke-11 — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 11:06 AM)
"The man in the dusty bathrobe was short, with iron-gray hair and craggy features. He wore gray pinstripe pants, shiny from age, and slippers. He held an unfiltered cigarette with square tipped fingers, sucking the tip while keeping it cupped in his fist - like a convict, thought Shadow, or a soldier."
So yeah Stormare doesn't really fit that description, especially not the short part. I still think he's got the right creepy feel to nail the character and can also pull off Czernobog in other aspects:
"Shadow saw a gray-haired old East-European immigrant, with a shabby raincoat and one iron-colored tooth, true. But he also saw a squat black thing, darker than the darkness that surrounded them, its eyes two burning coals; and he also saw a prince with long flowing black hair, and long black moustaches, blood on his hands and his face, riding, naked but for a bear-skin over his shoulder, on a creature half-man, half-beast, his face and torso blue-tattooed with swirls and spirals." -
taranian71 — 9 years ago(June 22, 2016 06:09 AM)
I always saw Genecarlo Esposito in the role. I still like the casting so far on this show (it's not perfect of course), the one one I am not feeling at all is McShane as Wednesday to be honest.
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Ranguvar18 — 9 years ago(January 09, 2017 06:19 PM)
Two reasons: To keep the surprise about them both being Loki(who in myth is a shapeshifter, so it makes sense) from people unfamiliar with the book, and two, because when you get the chance to cast Crispin Glover, you jump at it.
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Moss_Garden — 9 years ago(August 04, 2016 11:44 AM)
I was hoping for Sidney Poitier, but the show is obviously going for a different tone altogether than the book (hence the Johnny Cash-esque look of Wednesday instead of a grizzled whitebeard), so I'm willing to go with it. This guy's a really good actor, and that's the most important thing.
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sarlicali — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 11:57 AM)
Reg E. Cathey is exactly how I pictured Anansi while reading the novel. I really wished they would cast him but it seems like young faces are a trend among the cast and probably for a good reason. I would have never pictured Mr Ibis and Mr Jacquel to be this young.
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ur53486799 — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 12:20 PM)
I had to look him up, I'm not familiar with the name. Yes, I could see that working very well.
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