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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why HBC left the production but I'll be honest and say I don't mind. I never felt like she was a great fit for the show. I like her a lot and also think Mike White is pretty brilliant with casting and also writing characters for specific actors, so I was hopeful. But when they announced she was being replaced, my first thought was that it makes sense because she never felt like a good fit for his vibe. [/quote]
Agree. I think she's best in a straight dramatic role like The King's Speech but she can be too much and Tim Burton dod her no favors in making her into a goth weirdo. I have a feeling this season is going to jump the shark. There are too many actors involved and a strange assortment of them besides. HBC and Sandra Bernhardt seems like overkill of extreme personalities. I saw a list of about 20 people who have signed on. How many storylines can there be? I'll be interested to see what this looks like.[/quote]

The season is taking place during Cannes and Mike White has talked about wanting to explore the art world. I suspect many of the cast who has signed on have smaller, almost cameo roles, playing actors, directors, or other creatives who might pop in for a scene or two but are not central cast. Think of Sam Rockwell in Season 3.

Yes it could be a mess, but could also be amazing. I'm imagining a season with his standard 3-4 main storylines but then augmented by very memorable scenes where the main characters interact with more heightened or extreme characters dropping into the hotel on their way in or out of the film festival. Like imagine Sandra Bernhardt in a very small dose but playing right into that grating, obnoxious quality she has (that people on this thread are saying they hate) in order to provoke one of the main cast characters in a specific way. That's how I imagine the season playing out. If he can pull it off, could be really epic.

I also wonder of maybe HBC was actually going to play a smaller role like this, someone they were using in smaller doses, and that is why they are able to just replace her and rewrite the role after shooting has started. Maybe like Rockwell, she was being brought in for one or two special scenes where her character does or says something really wild, and they saw in rehearsals that it wasn't having the desired impact, and decided to go a different way. That would make it easier to rewrite (because you'd be talking about rewriting just one or two scenes, perhaps even just one monologue or very pointed exchange of dialogue) and also make it more reasonable that they could pull in someone else really great on a last minute basis. It's not that hard to get an actor to fly into the south of France for a week of work during peak season there, to work on a hit show. Many are already in the vicinity. It's not like with Thailand where getting actors to commit required more logistics and was more disruptive to their lives.[/quote]
PP here. Your vision sounds really good. I hope it does turn out to be like this![/quote]

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