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One Day fans - who is your Emma Morley?

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MugglesandLuna · 27/08/2011 10:21

Everyone has been slating the choice of Anne Hathaway as Emma, but who do you picture would be better?

I dont know why, but I always picture the woman that played Claire in Corrie, and Shane west from ER as Dex (and I know he is American, and not posh, but thats who I see in my head).

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SayCoolNowSayWhip · 01/09/2011 19:05

Bollocks, I just watched the trailer. Now I'll have to watch the film. And I take back Daniel Craig. Don't know where that came from!

mycatsaysach · 01/09/2011 19:07

charlotte coleman passed away few years ago Sad

i think dominic cooper would have been excellent and so would rebecca hall (from starter for 10)

think an american actress had to be chosen re u.s box office - boo

SayCoolNowSayWhip · 01/09/2011 19:24

Oh my gosh, I had no idea Charlotte Coleman was dead! :( How sad. Scarlett was one of my favourite characters in any film ever!

Longtime · 01/09/2011 19:53

Sadly she died of an asthma attack. Sad

ggirl · 01/09/2011 19:56

Yes I knew that ,but still pictured her as emma morley

birdofthenorth · 01/09/2011 20:23

SayCool yes Jennifer Ehle would have been great! She was in the Kings Speech so still around. As an Aussie, so can do accents. Damn this Hathaway nonsense, so many missed opportunities!

From this thread I have learnt that Rebecca Hal is Charlotte Coleman's sister (I see it now!) and that Coleman is dead Sad You learn something new every day...

SayCoolNowSayWhip · 01/09/2011 20:31

Jennifer Ehle, thankyou birdofthenorth!

sydneysuze · 01/09/2011 20:42

What about Andrea Riseborough? From Newcastle I think but I bet she could do Leeds accent. She was great in Party Animals and she's done a few US movies.

mycatsaysach · 01/09/2011 21:01

charlotte coleman's sister is cam in tracey beaker

T500 · 02/09/2011 07:12

Gemma Arterton

peggyblackett · 02/09/2011 07:14

Yy, Gemma Arterton or Romola Garai would have been better.

maccyw · 04/09/2011 13:06

Dex was fab exactly right and as for em it would have to be Ann Marie duff...she's just right...but never mind them...what about the mother and the lack of the headteacher!!!!

HarryDan · 04/09/2011 13:11

Emily Mortimer

kitya · 07/09/2011 00:48

Is it worth going to see the film?

scarymaclary · 07/09/2011 14:08

Yes, it is worth seeing the film - I enjoyed it despite Anne Hathaway's dodgy accent!

MummyPenguin · 07/09/2011 20:22

Emma's a tough one, isn't she? I know AH's accent wasn't great - having said that, at times it was spot on but at other times was too posh. It was a bit all over the place really. Visually though, and personality wise, I think AH was perfect for Emma. She's very versatile in as much that she had to look really young at the start of the film and age with the character, which I think she did really well. The only British actress I could think of who could possibly have pulled Emma off is Gemma Arterton, as others have said. I can't see Kate Winslet in the role at all. What about one of the British lasses that have been in period dramas such as Downton Abbey? For example that girl (no idea of her name) in Downton Abbey (played a kitchen maid) who was in Corrie quite a few years ago? Similar to the Claire Peacock actress.

sunflowerandcress · 07/09/2011 20:26

Rebecca Hall would have nailed it. I thought Dex was well cast.

MummyPenguin · 07/09/2011 20:36

I agree about Dexter.

MummyPenguin · 07/09/2011 20:38

Just Googled Rebecca Hall. God, yes!!

said · 08/09/2011 17:34

Oh, just googled her as well Envy Can you imagine going through life being that pretty??

MummyPenguin · 09/09/2011 16:50

Perhaps too pretty for Emma? She wasn't portrayed as a 'looker' was she?

TheWicketKeeperIsDown · 27/09/2011 23:33

I've just finished reading it (haven't seen the film), and in my mind it was Andrea Riseborough and Stephen Moyer. Couldn't get their faces out of my head.

bringmesunshine2009 · 01/10/2011 23:37

-> runs on to thread -> THIS BOOK IS BLOODY AWFUL----> runs away ducking bread rolls

LyraSilvertongue · 14/10/2011 00:30

Bringmesunshine, what an idiotic post.

SlightlyJaded · 21/10/2011 23:47

Kelly McDonald. I think she 'looks' like Emma and is a fab actress. Not nearly enough box-office-bankability though Sad

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