Originally posted by vraiblonde
BK, I hate to ask but...what did you do to deserve Richard Gere? Yikes!
I can't think of who'd play me. I'd want it to be someone really mean and authoritative - maybe a young Bette Davis or something. I look like a twit in real life so I want a boss chick as my alter-ego. Someone who looks good with a drink in one hand and a whip in the other.
Actually, Vrai, it was a bit of a joke on me. We've been doing this at the beach for about a year now. We always say that one day someone will make a movie about "our place".
At first shot, someone said "Richard Gere", but then another friend said "No, he's not quirky enough...Dustin Hoffman!"
(quirky my butt!)
Then, I was in Nashville for a convention not long afterward, and a couple of people at the restaurant where I was eating kept coming out from the kitchen and looking at me. We were sitting in an atrium at the Opryland Hotel.
Finally, this girl came to my table and said "You're Lyle Lovett, aren't you?"
So, in a matter of about a month, I went from Richard Gere to Lyle-freakin' Lovett!
Ugh...
Jet has the right idea on this. You have to think of someone who marginally resembles you, but also has the character and personality that would allow them to play you too...