picspam: mad men recast
This has been a very long time in the works. I obsessively recast things, even things I love, as those of you who know me well well know. And I've been playing around with Mad Men from the beginning and I am now doing this.
Setting London, 1963.
Don Draper: Daniel Craig.
Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing is OK. You are OK.
Roger Sterling: Robert Downey, Jr.
Remember, Don... When God closes a door, he opens a dress.
Pete Campbell: Nicholas Hoult
You know what? I have good ideas. In fact, I used to carry around a notebook and a pen, just to keep track. Direct marketing? I thought of that. It turned out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently. And then I come to this place, and you people tell me that I’m good with people, which is strange, because I’d never heard that before.
Betty Draper: Diane Kruger
-You're so profoundly sad.
-No. It's just that my people are Nordic.
Joan Holloway: Marion Cotillard
Go home, take a paper bag, cut some eyeholes out of it. Put it over your head, get undressed and look at yourself in the mirror. Really evaluate where your strengths and weaknesses are. And be honest.
Peggy Olson: Carey Mulligan
Why is that whenever a man wants to take you out to lunch around here, you're the dessert?
Bert Cooper: Bill Nighy
Philanthropy is the gateway to power.
Lane Pryce: Tom Hollander
I've been here 10 months and no one's ever asked me where I went to school.
Harry Crane: Benedict Cumberbatch
Draper? Who knows anything about that guy? No one’s ever lifted that rock. He could be Batman for all we know.
Ken Cosgrove: Henry Cavill
Did you know that lipstick was invented to simulate the flush of a woman's face when a man treated her right?
Paul Kinsey: Ricky Gervais
The meaner you are, the more I like you.
Salvatore Romano: Ben Whishaw
We're supposed to believe that people are living one way and secretly thinking the exact opposite? That's ridiculous.
Herman "Duck" Phillips: Anthony Stewart Head
You know there are other ways to think of things than the way you think of them.
Trudy Campbell: Felicity Jones
Peter, may I speak to you for a moment?
Jane Sterling: Natalie Dormer
You don't like me! I'm a nice person!
Midge Daniels: Charlotte Gainsbourg
You know the rules. I don't make plans and I don't make breakfast.
Rachel Menken: Rebecca Hall
I don't know what it is you really believe in, but I do know what it feels like to be out of place. To be disconnected. To see the whole world laid out in front of you, the way other people live it. There's something about you that tells me you know it too.
I'm imagining this as probably a very high costume budget British/French film involving long shots of Marion's ass, Downey being his American ass self all over the whiskey and a lot more Rachel than the series ever let us have. I wasn't sure whether to put Gervais here, since he's a star in his right and a comic to boot but he seemed really right for Kinsey, with the schlubby guy sort of trying to make up for it by being a bit too quick and acting like he's above everyone else. I also considered Eva for Joan (I knew she had to be French) but I thought Marion had more the kind of smirky, superior attitude that Joan has.
Also, maybe when we have the flashbacks to Don's sweaty, muscled punch-throwing teenager that we never got on the show, I should cast Jack O'Connell as baby Don? You know you buy it.
Setting London, 1963.
Don Draper: Daniel Craig.
Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It's freedom from fear. It's a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you're doing is OK. You are OK.
Roger Sterling: Robert Downey, Jr.
Remember, Don... When God closes a door, he opens a dress.
Pete Campbell: Nicholas Hoult
You know what? I have good ideas. In fact, I used to carry around a notebook and a pen, just to keep track. Direct marketing? I thought of that. It turned out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently. And then I come to this place, and you people tell me that I’m good with people, which is strange, because I’d never heard that before.
Betty Draper: Diane Kruger
-You're so profoundly sad.
-No. It's just that my people are Nordic.
Joan Holloway: Marion Cotillard
Go home, take a paper bag, cut some eyeholes out of it. Put it over your head, get undressed and look at yourself in the mirror. Really evaluate where your strengths and weaknesses are. And be honest.
Peggy Olson: Carey Mulligan
Why is that whenever a man wants to take you out to lunch around here, you're the dessert?
Bert Cooper: Bill Nighy
Philanthropy is the gateway to power.
Lane Pryce: Tom Hollander
I've been here 10 months and no one's ever asked me where I went to school.
Harry Crane: Benedict Cumberbatch
Draper? Who knows anything about that guy? No one’s ever lifted that rock. He could be Batman for all we know.
Ken Cosgrove: Henry Cavill
Did you know that lipstick was invented to simulate the flush of a woman's face when a man treated her right?
Paul Kinsey: Ricky Gervais
The meaner you are, the more I like you.
Salvatore Romano: Ben Whishaw
We're supposed to believe that people are living one way and secretly thinking the exact opposite? That's ridiculous.
Herman "Duck" Phillips: Anthony Stewart Head
You know there are other ways to think of things than the way you think of them.
Trudy Campbell: Felicity Jones
Peter, may I speak to you for a moment?
Jane Sterling: Natalie Dormer
You don't like me! I'm a nice person!
Midge Daniels: Charlotte Gainsbourg
You know the rules. I don't make plans and I don't make breakfast.
Rachel Menken: Rebecca Hall
I don't know what it is you really believe in, but I do know what it feels like to be out of place. To be disconnected. To see the whole world laid out in front of you, the way other people live it. There's something about you that tells me you know it too.
I'm imagining this as probably a very high costume budget British/French film involving long shots of Marion's ass, Downey being his American ass self all over the whiskey and a lot more Rachel than the series ever let us have. I wasn't sure whether to put Gervais here, since he's a star in his right and a comic to boot but he seemed really right for Kinsey, with the schlubby guy sort of trying to make up for it by being a bit too quick and acting like he's above everyone else. I also considered Eva for Joan (I knew she had to be French) but I thought Marion had more the kind of smirky, superior attitude that Joan has.
Also, maybe when we have the flashbacks to Don's sweaty, muscled punch-throwing teenager that we never got on the show, I should cast Jack O'Connell as baby Don? You know you buy it.