To think that Jose Mourinho is Roberto Rannaldini?

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Big fan of the rutshire chronicles. I like to picture the characters as real people. My next door neighbour is Kitty Rannaldini and I think Jose Mourinho is Roberto Rannaldini. Am I just an oddball?

Is Lysander your neighbour too?

Unfortunately not!

Yes! Perfect casting.

Daniel Craig for RCB?

Most definitely, great casting OP. I'm sitting next to Lysander right now, he's my colleague. Lucky, lucky me.

Hmmm I'm not sure about rcb that's a difficult one. Daniel Craig is a possibility definitely

Daniel Craig is not right for me. He could be someone, but not RCB. I don't think I've seen the correct Rupert suggested yet, it's difficult to measure up to the perfect looking man I have in my head!

A young Rob Lowe is the closest I've got to RCB.

I think a young Jude Law would do for RCB.

I see Daniel Craig more as Billy.

And Lysander could possibly have a look.of David Beckham but without the nasal tones.

Spot on op. I've always seen a young Minnie Driver as Taggie !

I haven't seen a single man yet who could play RC-B. JC has always billed him as Mecca for most women. The TV adaptation had a reasonable stab at casting him but it wasn't quite right.

I always thought that Helen Baxendale would make a good Helen though; she'd get the nervy and neurotic behaviour to a t.

I think that Andrew Scott would make a fantastic Rannaldini - completely amoral, erratic, brilliant, mesmeric..and crucially not too tall

Rob Lowe is beautiful enough, - and American looking as RCB is according to Jc - along the right lines, not quite there.

I wish I could remember some of the casting on other theads, some were brilliant. James Vereker was always Richard Madeley for me, but he wasn't everyones idea.

Andrew Scott would work as RR Paul

Dusting off 'Riders' as we speak (ok firing up the Kindle actually).
Great posts inspiring me to re-read them all yet again.

I think a young Jane Asher would be Helen. I would be played by a young JC herself, but now I am oldear, perhaps Fernie? (Britton). RCB is just impossible to cast, I've been trying for nearly 30 years...

I agree RCB is almost impossible to cast!!
I think I need to dust off the old books too!! Loved some of those characters but RCB was a toe curler!!
Off for a think!!

Brilliant!!!!! Reading the list of recurring characters in the Rutshire chronicles on wiki it seems I've inadvertently named both my children after main characters!!!

Love Jilly Cooper and I wish they'd remake the TV movies. The man who made husbands jealous in particular is a poor adaptation (but I do drool over Hugh Bonneville)

The actor who played Arthur I'm Merlin would be fabulosity as Rcb

In - not I'm

Crisp-hhhmmm!! Not bad!!! I think perhaps a younger blonder Vigo Mortensen

Jessica Chastain would be my Helen.

Wow loving these suggestions. I don't think there is anyone who can play rcb. He's been written to be too perfect looking.

I saw a young Jane Asher in tales of the unexpected the other day and thought she would be a great Helen.

I'm really racking my brains for a hermione

Jessica Chastain would be brilliant actually - good suggestion.

Hermione is just too bloody irritating for words. In terms of looks, she is an older Kim Kardashian really. Very attractive, dark haired, huge arse and a bit deluded in terms of her figure and desperate to strip off every 5 minutes (remember 'Kind Bob' always turning the scales down for her?).

I used to work with a girl who would have made a perfect Flora.

Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan as Abby and Viking. I'm sure they could do the accents.