Is there a film you secretly wish you had been in?

[Flowersarebest]

Am I the only person who fantasizes about being in a film? Are there some films that you imagine yourself either having the staring role, or playing a really cool part and then (in your fantasy) your whole life just comes together and everything is brilliant?

Don't laugh, but mine's Galaxy Quest. I just love that movie and Sigourney Weaver is very funny. Maybe I hanker after being some sort of superhero with attitude? Please tell me I'm not alone.

[booooooooooom]

I would have made a brilliant Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest. Not sure what that says about me TBH.

[booooooooooom]

See also: Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.

...I can see a theme...

[shabbs]

Wish I was Shirley Valentine - best film ever!!!

[LorelaiVictoriaGilmore]

I think I would make an excellent Elizabeth in P&P... Or at least I would have done a few years ago...!

[Gileswithachainsaw]

I'd love to have been that girl in the tattooist. film wasn't great however the role looked like fun

[Diggum]

The Age of Innocence. Any female role. I'd have been crap but, my God, the costumes would have been fabulous.

[UntilTheCowsComeHome]

Jurassic Park.

Obviously without the scary being-chased-by-dinosaur bits, but I'd have loved to have arrived at the island to see the majestic Brachiosaurs and to have poked about in triceratops' shit.

[gabsdot45]

gone with the wind. I love the dresses and dancing.

[kelper]

I was going to say gone with the wind, so I shall say the part of Katy brown in calamity Jane. Or maybe calamity herself, since I am a bit of a calamity :)

[comeagainforbigfudge]

Bugsy malone. Splat funs. What more can you ask for

Goonies.

[comeagainforbigfudge]

*guns

[0pheliaBalls]

One of the whores in Les Misérables. Or Miss Havisham in an adaptation of Great Expectations. Yes please.

[SunshineAndPeardrops]

Great idea for a thread, op.

I know it's not a film, but I would quite like to be in Call the Midwife. Downton Abbey appeals too.

Or, the film Goodnight Mr Tom, or Tess of the D'urbervilles. I have fantasised about being in that sort of thing before.

I would have to rely quite heavily on cameramen / camerawomen using clever angles to hide my disability though, as I don't think I would have survived being born at any time pre-1980.

[SunshineAndPeardrops]

Also, I wish there was a little clay character version of me in the Wallace and Gromit films

[SandyMumsnet]

Hi everyone,

With the OP's kind permission we're sweeping this thread into films.

[PhyllisDietrichson]

Double Indemnity of course!

[patterkiller]

Miss Hannigan in Annie. Dd1 did a stage version years ago at her dance school and I dreamt for weeks of the moment they would recognize me as the willowy lush that just had to play Miss Hannigan.

The feckers cast one of the older girls who in my opinion had no experience in the consumption of gin.

I was robbed.

[Moln]

Anything that had Alan Rickman in. Especially now .

[SoleBizzz]

The Midwife in Eastern Promises

[MiddleClassProblem]

A female Legolas in LTRO

[twirlypoo]

I want to be the princess in enchanted. Fairy creatures doing my housework? Handsome prince? New clothes every day to fit my beautiful body that never gets fat even if I eat none stop cake? Yes please! Sod reality!

[Dolly80]

Rizzo in Grease. Although it's not really a secret, my best mates know I would love to be her in that film. I was quite a well behaved teenager so think I always liked the idea of being a 'bad' girl.

[sugar21]

Marilyn Monroe in Some like it hot
I could sing I wamna be loved by you boo boo be do

[Jud1969]

It would have to be Vivian in Pretty Woman for me.