Brexit: The Movie
a perfectly no… 17 Oct 19 15:29
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Who would star alongside Hugh Grant's portrayal of Boris Johnson?

nb there already has been a TV movie with Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings (WTF)

Boris Johnson plays Hugh Grant every day!

There would be lots of good cameo opportunities.

Surely we could find room for Vinnie Jones as Yannis Varoufakis

Yeah more like what JM said.

And Hugh Grant is an ardent remainer who hates Boris Johnson and everything he stands for. If he were going to play a Prime Minister he'd be cast as a cool Britannia 1990s New Labour type like in Love Actually.

Rowan Atkinson - Michael Gove

Swiss Tony - David Davis

Adolf Hitler - JRM

Any woman from the far-away bits of Hampshire who reads the daily mail - Andrea Leadsom

Boris Johnson - Michael Fabricant

Heh, I can tell you feel I've sullied your heart-throb. Sorry m88!

I think he'd make a great Johnson.

p.s. JM ok you are definitely NOT on the casting team. You can be third grip.

Heh, I can tell you feel I've sullied your heart-throb. Sorry m88!

I think he'd make a great Johnson.

I'm not saying that he is not a good enough actor to play a bumbling buffoon like Boris Johnson. But he is definitely not fugly enough.

For the TV movie, they avoided portrayal of most of the major political figures in favour of a focus on the Leave campaign organisation, but they did find a guy called Paul Ryan to play Farage, who was basically just a lookalike. We need a good Farage.

Some strong female casting from LP. I'd go for Liz Hurley as Leadsom personally.

u r just worried about the prospect of a Boris Johnson you'd have the horn for

I embrace the prospect of an Andrea Leadsom I'd have the horn for. Liz Hurley it is.

Sophie Cookson cameo as Isabel Hardman, as per the other thread.

Hello, script department... what? Hmm? Yes of course! Of course the Kuenssberg/Hardman love scene is necessary. It really fleshes out the characters."

No idiotic castings based on your own partisan allegiances pls we are trying to cast a serious indie film here. Bernard Cribbins and Adolf Hitler are not going to be in it. I doubt Hitler even has an Equity card FGS.

It's also worth mentioning, in the category of prior art, the specialist film Hard Brexit, which unlike the dire-looking Cumberbatch vehicle, I have actually seen. Rebecca More is especially compelling as Theresa May.

This could be Hugh Grant's Oscar opportunity.  Go full on Christian Bale, eat all the pies till his face explodes and play the foppy Etonian role that was always meant to be his.

BoJo is a difficult casting challenge. It needs someone who can do a good chinless wonder routine whilst at the same time appearing like someone who could plausibly be PM of a G7 economy.

Timothy Spall before he discovered salad would have been a good choice.

 

Grant is getting the lead role, mainly to annoy LP by making her fancy Boris.

Rhona Mitra as Priti Patel I think. From what I recall of Mitra's acting credits, she looks smoking but is not 100%% convincing as a human being. She'll be perfect.

Grant is getting the lead role, mainly to annoy LP by making her fancy Boris.

Rhona Mitra as Priti Patel I think. From what I recall of Mitra's acting credits, she looks smoking but is not 100%% convincing as a human being. She'll be perfect.

Full casting so far. We have some key roles left to fill.

Primary Characters

Boris Johnson: Hugh Grant

Theresa May: Celia Imrie

Nigel Farage: UNCAST

David Cameron: UNCAST

Dominic Cummings: Let's allow Cumberbatch to reprise his role

J-C Juncker: Gerard Depardieu

Jeremy Corbyn: Dominic West

Mark Francois: Danny Dyer

Gina Miller: Indira Varma

Jacob Rees-Mogg: UNCAST

Michel Barnier: UNCAST

Nicola Sturgeon: UNCAST

David Davis: UNCAST

Keir Starmer: UNCAST

Priti Patel: Rhona Mitra

Michael Gove: UNCAST

John Bercow: UNCAST

Arlene Foster: UNCAST

 

Cameos

Donald Tusk: Daniel Craig

Isabel Hardman: Sophie Cookson

Jolyon Maugham QC: Ben Whishaw

Leo Varadkar: UNCAST

Laura Kuenssberg: Romola Garai

Donald Trump: UNCAST

Yvette Cooper: Keeley Hawes

I’d never even heard of Latymer before it was mentioned in this thread. But then, I’m not a petit-bourgeois tede from the peripheral Londosphere, so.

You seem to have rejected all of the casting suggestions anyone else made, Laz.

For example, there is simply no better casting than David Walliams as Keir Starmer or Matt Lucas as Emily Thornberry.

Your excuse that they are comedians not actors is both wrong and irrelevant. Plenty of comedians transitioned to serious acting (Robin Williams, Whoopie Goldberg, Eric Bana, Eddie Murphy, Russ Abbott).

a perfectly normal human being

18 Oct 19 09:53

There’s no way we’re going to get away without casting Damien Lewis, so what role can we give him?

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Seumas Milne

I accepted most of Lady Penelope’s suggestions because they were sensible. I can’t see a role for Emily Thornberry in the script. If you think Walliams should play Starmer then pls explain why.

This is shyt already.

Celia Imrie as May is from the clown school of casting. I actually have Celia's mob no. I'm actually seriously tempted to ask her whether she'd accept such an absurd part.

Try Rebecca Front instead. 

Danny Dyer as Mark Francois?! Are you having a fvuking larf? An East End hard man? You need to cast an actor capable of portraying an absurd Pooterish person. I repeat: Mark Benton would be perfect.

All I can say is I'm glad you lot are City lawyers/Argentinian football journalists/ retired SAS men living in Cornwall/inventors of Insane Kung Fu. Otherwise, I'd genuinely fear for the future of British cinema.