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Okay, I know the first film was grossly ahistorical, but...wibble:
Cate Blanchett is to reprise her role as the Virgin Queen in a $47 million sequel to the 1998 film Elizabeth.
The film, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, will detail the Tudor monarch's tempestuous relationship with Sir Walter Raleigh and suggest Elizabeth was infatuated with the courtier and adventurer.
Clive Owen, the brooding star of Closer and Sin City, is to play Sir Walter Raleigh.
Oh, my heart did an extra thumpy thing.
Who greenlighted this, and would they like a blowjob?
Ooh, and here I was thinking that Clive shouldn't play costume drama earlier than the 20th century.
Sir Walter Raleigh was not a fucking cockney.
And Queen Elizabeth I wasn't a fucking Aussie.
Yeah, but Cate is at least prepared to make a stab at an accent. Owen will just be Chancer in a ruff. Chancer was a great show, but Owen has been playing precisely the same character since.
Which is fine, you know - Connery is always Connery, Clint always Clint - but you need to fit that kind of Star into the right role. Otherwise you get the horrors of the days when Bruce Willis used to try and stretch himself, and no-one wants that.
Has he been asked to play any different characters? I mean, is the repetition because he can't do it, or because people loved what they saw once, and keep casting him in similar sorts of roles?
Cate's a brilliant chameleon. I have no idea if Clive can do it, but I can't be sure he can't until I see him fail.
Clint always Clint
I'd say there was at least one big exception here, when he was going for John Huston. In the end, I'm not sure how successful he was at it, but it was fascinating to watch and utterly un-Clint-like.