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Discuss: When Characters Are Recast
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This summer may be confusing to some less blog-literate moviegoers thanks to two recast roles. In both The Dark Knight and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, a prominent character is played by a new actress. In the former sequel, "Rachel Dawes" will be played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, replacing Katie Holmes, who had the role in Batman Begins. In the latter, "Eveyln Carnahan O'Connell" will be played by Maria Bello, subbing for Rachel Weisz, who appeared in both The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.
This certainly isn't the first time characters have been recast with different actors, and over at The Onion, the A.V. Club has listed 20 such memorably jarring switcheroos, which they're calling The Darrin Effect (after the famous character replacement on TV's Bewitched), in television and film. Surely everyone recalls when Sarah Chalke took over the part of "Becky" on Roseanne; the writers even occasionally even slipped in some reflexive jokes about it. And let's not forget the glaring problem of recasting Jodie Foster's Oscar-winning role of "Clarice Starling" -- Julianne Moore played the part in Hannibal. Or the tragic yet surprisingly respectable replacement of Michael Gambon for a deceased Richard Harris in the Harry Potter movies.
Shelley Winters dies at age 85
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Oscar-winning actress Shelley
Winters died today at the age of 85 of heart failure, after being hospitalized for a heart attack in October.
Winters won Oscars in 1959 for The Diary of Anne Frank, and in
1965 for A Patch of Blue, in which she played a mother who
tries to end her blind daughter's friendship with a black man, played by Sidney Poitier. During Winters' long career,
she evolved from a buxom sexpot to a serious dramatic actress. She was a devotee of The Actors Studio, and constantly
challenged herself to find new ways to perform and reinvent herself. She continued working into her 70s, playing
Roseanne's grandmother in a recurring role on the television show Roseanne in the 1990s.
The first time I knew of Winters was when she played the evil Lena Gogan in Pete's Dragon in 1977. My grandmother took me to that film, and I remember her expressing her shock at how Winters had changed. I didn't believe her when she said Winters had been known as a sex symbol, and so after the movie, my grandmother pulled out her photo albums of herself as a teenage chorus line dancer, so I could understand how people age and change. Shelley Winters represented my first childhood understanding that someday I would grow old; later in life, as she continued to act and challenge herself in new ways, she came to represent to me resilience in the face of change. She never stopped working and trying new things and starting from where she was at each point of her life to explore what she could do. She wrote several "tell all" books about Hollywood that ticked some people off too - she was never afraid to speak up and say what she thought, even if it meant offending people.
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