My Cast For A Midsummer Nights Dream

When asked to do this I was very excited. I always wanted to cast a play or movie, I don't really know how it came to me, it just did. most likely it's because when I watch movies I say that so and so would be better at the role then the person who played it, and most people agree with me. So with out further adieu here is my cast for the production A Midsummer Nights Dream.

Puck

I see Puck as a very funny, comedic and entertaining goofball, but he also has the quality that no matter what he does, you always love him. That is why I have chosen tho have Puck be cast by Jonah Hill. Jonah is a very comical actor who has been on movies such as 21 Jump Street, The Watch, Accepted, and voiced in Megamind. In all those movies Jonah has played the lovable goofball that no matter what he does, you can't get mad at him. That fits Puck perfectly! In the play Puck messes up and puts the flower nectar on the wrong person and Oberon tells him that he messed up Puck doesn't become fearful, he makes a joke by saying "Then fate o'errules, that, one man holding troth A million fail, confounding oath on oath." (III, iii, 92-93). He just told Oberon, the king of the fairies, "Oh well, better luck next time." He's just there to have fun and that is what all of Jonah Hills characters have in common. That is why Jonah Hill would make a good Puck.  


Titania

Titania is a very strong independent women, but then she falls in love with Bottom and that's the tough part, You need a female actress that can be strong willed, fierce, and also desperately in love like a high school girl. That is why I have picked  Gillian Jacobs.I have picked Gillian Jacobs just because of her one role in Community of Brita Perry. That character is a strong willed, feminist, my-way-or-the-highway kind of girl, but when shes in love with someone, shes quirky, relaxed and does everything in her power to make it  a good time. That is who Titania is, when she argues with Oberon at the very beginning about th

e Indian boy she stands tall and keeps to her beliefs, but later when she falls in love with Bottom, she becomes very lovestruck and changes her views on everything not really caring about the Indian boy any more. To have an actress turn on love as fast as she can turn off love is hard, but I know Gillian Jacobs could do it.


Helena

For Helena I need to have someone that is dorky and yet has that cute essence to her. I need her to be tall and I need her to be sweet and sassy. The only person that I could see playing that role is Anne Hathaway. Not the recent Anne Hathaway, but the old Princess Diaries Anne Hathaway. I know that Anne would be a good fit for this character. In the Princess Diaries, Anne played a quirky, young teenager, whos life wasn't that good, but in the end I worked out for her. She became the princess that everyone wanted her to be. She also fits the physical characteristics as Helena. She's on the tall side, she can play a weird girl that is desperately in love and she can throw on the sassy attitude when ever she wants. That's why I think Anne Hathaway would be a great Helena.