What do you think of the casting? Is Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Norén perfect for the main characters, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander?
Posted by Editor in Sweden , 17 November 2008
What do you think of the casting? Is Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Norén perfect for the main characters, Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander?
Posted by Editor in Sweden , 17 November 2008
Swedish characters are BLOND!!!(for the rest of the world anyway).Get a real Aspie to play Lisbeth-Aspies are FANTASTIC PERFORMERS.Their whole life is one performance for neuro-typical people…..THEY ARE NOT selfconscience as they live in the 3rd person anyway.
Posted by Marlene- RSA ,
I’m looking forward to this and think the cast suits well but for one minor thing: Noomi looks a little bit older than I would have imagined Lisbeth to be.
Though I have faith in the directors choice.
Let’s SEE the movie before we start critizising, yes?
I’m thankful they actually are making this film in the first place.
Cheers!
MirrPL
Posted by MirrPL ,
What?
Sorry but Noomi Rapace doesnt look like what Stieg Larsson has described in his books.
She is supposed to be short, to have a scary look with rings, tatoos, etc…
In the picture in this page she is way too nice looking.
I’m too disappointed. I wont go watch the movie when it goes out…
Posted by Eric from Montreal, Quebec, Canada ,
Who will play Armanskij and Niedermann??
Posted by aloalo ,
Mikael Persbrandt would have been the perfect Mikael, as he’s supposed to be a man with a sexual charisma as well as a good journalist, and and the make up artits should do well to make Noomi look like Lisbeth! Lisbeth should not look this normal and pretty, she should look like a special person.
Posted by wellwell ,
Gee, Michael Nyqvist in a larger Swedish film, who would have thought? What’s next, Johnny Depp appearing in a movie by Tim Burton? Disney making DTV sequels? *rolling eyes*
For some reason Nyqvist gets cast in every single larger movie produced in Sweden these days. He’s completely wrong for the part of Blomkvist, and quite frankly I’m tired of seeing him all the time. I wish they would have gone with a lesser known actor who fits the role better. As for Rapace, I haven’t seen her in anything so I can’t really comment. Looks can be changed with makeup, aside from height, but rather a too tall actress who can play the part than a short enough one who isn’t good enough.
Still, the casting of Nyqvist bores me and makes me a lot less interested in seeing this film. If they’re so low on creativity that they cast him, I can’t imagine that they would create any wonders with the rest of the production.
Posted by Svala ,
I would have liked to see Stellan Skarsgaard as Mikael! And my idea of Lisbeth is a trasher girl than this actress! A bit disappointed, but let’s wait and see. BTW I am about to finish volume 1…
Posted by Olivier D ,
Good casting for Mikael and Erika, but Lisbeth must have been played by Cristina Ricci !
On the cover of the french edition of the novel (Actes Sud) they used an illustration of “Wednesday the Destroyer”(referring to Wednesday of the Addams Family, played by Ricci). She fits perfectly, I’ve read the trilogy thinking of her as Lisbeth!
Posted by JLe ,
Lisbeth should have been played by Lo Kauppi. She looks like Lisbeth. Not so tall and has that special energy/intesity.
Posted by KM ,
I think Peter Haber will do a terrific job as Henrik Vanger. Class actor.
Posted by fatty ,
there is a casting error here! Salander isn’t supposed to be this nice.
YAY!!!! this is going to be AMAZING!!!! hihihi!!! i loved the books!! its true that Noomi Norén isnt exactly what we would expect when we think about Lisbeth, but shes not in character yet, we have to give them time and wait till the movie is out, thats when she will be fully tattoed and pierced!
Posted by Nazaré, Montreal,Canada ,
Um Lisbeth looks a bit too old than she is in the book! I think Mikael looks great
Out of respect for Stieg Larsson the casting people might have actually read the books a bit more carefully… sorry but your choice of actors for the two main characters made me wonder… I am French and do not know the actors in questions, so I googled a bit out of curiosity, the comments on this page tickled my curiosity too. Frankly I totally agree with the comments that the actors are inappropriate, with exception of the “Erika” character who is totally spot on, it seems to me. Noomi Nóren looks much too pretty much too tall, and sorry, but I would be surprised if Noomi has been confused for a 14 year old by strangers in a very long time… it will take a hell of a make up artist to make her look like Stieg´s Lisbeth. But I guess his Lisbeth is probably not pretty enough to sell cinema tickets…As to Mr Nyqvist, he looks too old for the role. The character turns 45 during book 2, a fit 45 year old would look considerably younger and though undoubtedly an attractive man, his attraction is not the type of attraction described very clearly by the author, just read book 2 again, somewhere at the beginning there is a brilliant portrait of him. Conclusion the goal, sadly, is to turn these brilliant books to cash. Ask yourselves: what would Stieg Larsson think of this, or is he totally irrelevant because he is dead?I have never until now written anything on the net, but I am so impressed by the talent and the social engagement of this author that I just had to say : try at least, out of respect, not to mess up the rest of the film!
Posted by Francoise ,
dear francoise , i truly agree to your opinion , in being an professional in film business i asked and wrote to the publisher for the filmrights to produce an own series because when i heard of the yellowbird project and that paramount is interested in making a typical hollywood movie of …. i thought about being it better in having a series about 20 parts of 52 minutes for tv refferring to the hundreds of scenes and pages i read in all three parts of the trilogy , and i agree that there must be another cast , but i hope that yellowbird will answer soon to my request in preparing an own version of what i was banned in the last two weeks …..kind regards … maurice, strasbourg
Posted by m.philander, strasbourg ,
I think it works with Michael Nyqvist, such an intense yet everyday actor. I’m reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and can see him in the role now. Lisbeth was always going to be difficult. Not as difficult perhaps as Peter Hoeg’s Smilla Jasperson, still my favourite of all time.
Posted by Elizabeth ,
I almost finished the first book and loved it so much that I can’t await to start the second one.
And I was so excited when I heard that a movie is about to come, but now that I’ve seen the casting I am quite disapointed.
I really like Michael Nyqvist. He is a great actor, but he is not what even an ounce of what I imagined of Mikael Blomkvist. In my eyes he is too old. I imagined Mikael as somebody who looks much younger as he is.
As I am german, I don’t know many swedish actors, but if I had to choose among Hollywood-Actors I would choose somebody like Edward Norton or David Duchovny. It’s not that they are my ideal Mikael, but they are a kind of men who look younger as they are. Futhermore I imagined Mikael much more attractive.
Regarding Lisbeth I can’t they anything. Noomi Norén is even more out of place than Michael Nyqvist.
Noomi looks healthy, less anorexic, too old as well, too beautiful and some kind of boring.
I am surprised how they changed her appearance for the movie, but I can’t imagine that she will ever become Lisbeth. I imagined a girl like the young Winona Ryder and how she looked in “Girl, interrupted”.
I am surprised if this film will ever be able to persuade me.
Posted by Vanessa-Nina, Germany ,
I think Noomi is the perfect Lisbeth Salander!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Linda in Hannover/Germany ,
I most agree to most people here. Tanya “I imagine her skinniest, more dirty and particular than her. Lisbeth is weird, beautiful but not this way”
so true
Noomi loooks nothing like “the weird” girl Stieg desrcribed. But properly the casting crew has lag of imagination as usual in Scandinavian filmmaking.
This movie going to be pathetic cause the Director suck.
Posted by Søren Jensen in Denmark ,
I go very much d´accord with the casting. You can never never find the 100 percent-type for a role. There are always people who like to complain and argue. Wait, open your mind and enjoy the movie. Then you can critizise. Ok, I don´t believe that the actress is 150 cm tall and the actor is not the most handsome one but the realisation is important and the quality of the acting. So give it a chance! :o)
Posted by das_bambi in Berlin ,