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The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer

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lazymonkeyface · 30/04/2012 19:08

Is today when we review it?

Is there already a thread? I can't find it. Can someone link if there is?

If there isn't - I just couldn't get on with it. I'm still not passed chapter 5. It's awkwardly written for me and just too much information, like she was trying to be too cleaver iyswim.

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LadyDamerel · 12/05/2012 13:32

Keeley Hawes can be Georgiana Newbury in Sylvester.

LadyDamerel · 12/05/2012 13:24

Got it!

Brendan Coyle as Miles in Black Moth.

LadyDamerel · 12/05/2012 12:21

Claire Foy is gorgeous. Andrea Risborough as Frederica?

LadyDamerel · 12/05/2012 12:18

Never heard of her but Holliday Grainger would fit the bill for Arabella, perhaps?

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LadyDamerel · 12/05/2012 12:01

Is John Sim the one from Life on Mars?

Keeley Hawes is very pretty, she'd be a good call.

LadyDamerel · 12/05/2012 11:59

Casting the male characters isn't too bad because they all tend to be in their 30s but the heroines are almost all late teens/early 20s aren't they? One of them is 29......can't think who right now, (Annis Wychwood, maybe?) but that's the only older one I can think of.

WyrdMother · 12/05/2012 09:40

Sorry, I'm a post behind Grin.

Honeysuckle Weeks and John Sim are both good choices, with John we've got the age issue again of course (Now, I wonder if he can get his hands on a time machine?)

Honeysuckle looks quite tall and a good pair of heels and cunning shots could help there.

WyrdMother · 12/05/2012 09:35

ooooh Joanna Page as Venetia. I like that, she's got a very fresh look and she could do the fiestiness well.

I was thinking of Billie Piper because Lavinia is a bit of a mare and I thought she could pull it off.

Age is an issue isn't it? I'm not that clued up on the younger actors and actresses. Except for Christina Ricci, I love her and if she can ditch the American accent I really want a part for her, Kitty Charing maybe?

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LadyDamerel · 11/05/2012 23:28

I actually remembered him but I usually check Amazon when I'm stuck Grin.

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LadyDamerel · 11/05/2012 23:07

Adam Deveril - is he the one that marries Jenny Chawford?

LadyDamerel · 11/05/2012 23:04

That's her, Leonie.

Gemma Arterton has done something period-y already but for some reason I thought she was blond, rather than brunette Confused.

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LadyDamerel · 11/05/2012 22:37

Gemma Arterton would make a great GH heroine. I could see her as quite a few of them - Annis Wychwood, Abigail Wendover and Venetia Lanyon for straters - she definitely has the right combination of looks and character, imo.

Billie Piper is too modern looking for my tastes. Even in the period dramas she's done she still looks like a 21st century woman dressed up, rather than a woman of the time.

I can't think of Molly either, although I'm racking my brains.

The girl who plays Stacey in Gavin and Stacey would look lovely in regency dress, I think. Perhaps she could be Venetia and Gemma Arterton could be Frederica.

WyrdMother · 11/05/2012 22:24

First sentance ...had a think...

WyrdMother · 11/05/2012 22:23

Right, I've had a and the difficulty is being an old fart and not being familiar with current young, so for some under thirty I'm probably going on looks alone.

Ralph Fiennes or Jason Issacs as Belmanoir
Gemma Arterton - Diana
Richard Arnitage - Jack
Martin Freeman - Richard
Sarah Harding or Billie Piper as Lavinia
Jack Davenport - Miles

I haven't discovered a Molly yet and I'm under pressure to stop hogging the laptop. Grin

LadyDamerel · 11/05/2012 21:40

Ooh, WrydMother, I was pondering that very question on the way to work this morning.

I think the veto is a direct result of the Reluctant Widow adaptation, which GH apparently detested - I have a vague recollection that she hated whoever was cast as Carlyon but I don't know where I read that.

I want to see Frederica or Sylvester adapted, with Richard Armitage as Sylvester or Alverstoke - I'm not fussed Grin.

The girl who played Anne Elliot in the ITV Persuasion has the right look for Phoebe but possibly not enough spirit.

Will keep thinking...

WyrdMother · 11/05/2012 18:44

imdb link, but that's as much as I know

I have just found part 1 on You Tube.

I didn't know about the TV veto. That is very interesting, perhaps she was worried about the kind of hatchet job that might be done.

Good choices Grin I like Rupert Everett in the role especially, I shall go and have a think and get back to you.

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WyrdMother · 11/05/2012 16:33

In the quiet bits between books we could have a bunfight debate on the current book regarding who we'd cast in the (long overdue) TV adaptation?

Bazillion versions of Dickens and only one adaptation of The Reluctant Widow in 1950, I ask you is this right?

Has anyone seen it btw?

minipie · 10/05/2012 12:59

Ooh totally agree Judy. I had such a crush on Vidal too in my teenage years, but when I re-read it now, he just seems a bit spoiled and I can't really see what Mary sees in him (seems more like she wants to mother him Hmm).

Can I also vote for going back to read Powder and Patch at some point? I know it's a bit silly (lacks a good central female character to put some spine into it) but I do enjoy all the clothes descriptions

Will start on These Old Shades but Blush I have read it so many times I can probably join in any discussion already...