When Your Favorite Book Is Made Into a Film – With Your Least Favorite Actor
Sunday July 15, 2007
Hayden Christensen at the 2006 premiere of My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Peter Kramer / Getty Images.
So what do you do when material you like is adapted with people you don't like? Well, if you're like me, you rationalize your way into looking forward to the film anyway. After all, the director is pretty good, so maybe he'll coax an unexpectedly nuanced performance out of this callow stripling. And, um, the set design sure looks promising... and hey, we'll get to see the inside of the Coliseum...
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I have been waiting for years to see if the was ever going to be made into a movie, and now the letdown that HC is starring in it. The horrible overacting and brooding from everything he has done in the past does not bode well for the suffering life and evolution that must be put into this film. I am worried about the supporting characters not the least of which is his love interest. I suppose we can hope for someone like Amber Benson, but will have to settle for the flavor of the month…….When will they learn?
I should have mentioned in the article, but Millie has been cast — it’s Rachel Bilson from “The O.C.”