Orlando Jones cast as Mr. Nancy.
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murillo_luna — 9 years ago(June 15, 2016 09:59 PM)
Great actor,but kind young to play AnansiHe would be perfect instead as his son Spider.Morgan Freeman should be Anansi,but i think that the channel would not have to much money to spend on him and the cg that will be in the show.
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ur53486799 — 9 years ago(June 16, 2016 08:46 AM)
I agree about Nancy, he's much older looking in my mind's eye and like you I 'saw' Scatman Crothers in the character. However, as Ranguvar mentioned, he's a bit too dead. Maybe Jones'll act and be made up to look a few years older than he really is (there's also an
Anansi Boys
project in the works so if Jones is to reprise the role there he'll definitely need to 'be' older; he has two fully-adult sons in that).
Absolutely disagree about Czernobog: I think Peter Stormare is not just a perfect choice for the character, he's
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ur53486799 — 9 years ago(July 24, 2016 03:14 AM)
What can I tell you? Mr Nancy is a whimsical, unreliable trickster with a propensity to
want
to look way older than 48.
It's an opinion, but on looks alone I would say Orlando Jones would be better suited playing one or both of Nancy's sons, Spider and Fat Charlie. -
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."