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Cena and Holland for next G.I. Joe movie?
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10-05-2020, 05:32 AM
Mud Wasp
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Weirdly, for a week, I'd been misreading this thread title as Tom "
Hardy
", not "Holland". (Which would have made a lot more sense, actually, imo.)
Now, let me try to word this as carefully as possible so as not to upset anyone ...
Duke being played by John Cena perfectly represents everything I
wouldn't
want a G.I. Joe movie to be. For many people, the idea of portraying Duke as a hero is somewhat problematic to begin with: "true believer", friendly face of colonization, casual racist/sexist. So the role requires an actor capable of capturing that complexity, not a grotesque buffoon. (No offense to Mr. Cena.) Also he seems too old to play active military.
As far as a dream cast, personally I'd prefer primarily unknowns, as opposed to awkwardly shoehorning "big names" into roles heavily modified/distorted to suit them. Fitting the actor to the character, not the other way around.
Having said that, for Lady Jaye, maybe Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("10 Cloverfield Lane", 3rd season of "Fargo") might be really good. Lizzy Caplan ("Castle Rock", "Masters of Sex") comes to mind as well. And I could definitely see John David Washington ("BlacKkKlansman") as Stalker. That would be the sorta direction I would go.
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