Jasper isn't a major role, and he certainly isn't the character people come away from the movie with. I don't think anyone except the two leads in Twilight would be a big draw to a general audience. I don't agree that he's widely known. It's sort of like (speaking of HP), casting Matt Lewis in a movie and expecting him to be a draw for the general audience.
As far as the rest of the cast goes, unknowns are cheaper to contract.
I agree, but again, then why not cast Asian/Inuit unknowns? They're not more expensive.
Rain is getting expensive.
More expensive than McCartney? I'm not saying it needed to be him though. I was just throwing a name out.
I would rather that if the main characters are white, then they *all* should be white.
Right, I was saying that if they needed starpower, they could cast him. I wasn't meaning to imply they'd cast Rain or whatever and then have the rest of the cast be white. I could actually deal with a couple white cast members. What really gets my shackles up most is Katara and Sokka.
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Date: 2008-12-11 10:52 pm (UTC)As far as the rest of the cast goes, unknowns are cheaper to contract.
I agree, but again, then why not cast Asian/Inuit unknowns? They're not more expensive.
Rain is getting expensive.
More expensive than McCartney? I'm not saying it needed to be him though. I was just throwing a name out.
I would rather that if the main characters are white, then they *all* should be white.
Right, I was saying that if they needed starpower, they could cast him. I wasn't meaning to imply they'd cast Rain or whatever and then have the rest of the cast be white. I could actually deal with a couple white cast members. What really gets my shackles up most is Katara and Sokka.