Chekhov's Mistress
Who Should Play Matula?
Tim at Intersecting Lines reports that James Meek’s The People’s Act of Love may be made into a film by Johnny Depp. About some of the potential casting, Tim says:
I’d probably buy Depp as Samarin, but Crowe and Walken are way too old for Matula. The guy’s supposed to be young, dashing and psychotic, not old, withered and psychotic. There is a difference.
I’m reading TPAoL right now, and yeah, he’s right. Matula is 24 years old and Crowe and Walken are certainly not, although Walken has become the stock psycho guy and could probably pull it off.
I hate to get movie actors in my head as characters of books. Having Uma Thurman in mind as the heroine of Ayn Rand’s “We the Living,” didn’t hurt (which is odd actually, because that must have been in the 80’s that I read it and she wasn’t popular then), but most of the time, it’s a distraction. Still, TPAoL struck me early as something that might be filmed. So who could play Matula? Hmmmm. The best I can come up with is Ed Norton.
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