Scandalous Movie Casting: Bonnie Parker

Anyone who reads the tabloids or watches the infotainment shows has probably heard that Hilary Duff has been cast as Bonnie Parker in a new movie about Bonnie & Clyde. Well when Faye Dunaway, the star of the 60's classic Bonnie & Clyde, heard the news she told a reporter "Couldn't they have found a real actress?"

Not to comment on Hilary Duff's acting chops but if you look at pictures of Bonnie Parker like the one on the left, she looks a lot more like Hilary Duff than Faye Dunaway. Bonnie Parker was tiny, barely five feet tall and skinny. And she was seriously young while she was robbing those banks. She died at the age of 24 in a hail of bullets. My concern is more about the director's comment that Bonnie Parker will never shoot a gun in her movie. Uh, seriously? What's that in her hand? It looks like a gun to me and she looks like she knows how to use it.

Seriously, Bonnie wasn't just sitting in the car, doing her nails while Clyde and his brother Buck were robbing banks, people.

Comments

Heather Carroll said…
Ugh whose gonna be Clyde, Justin Timberlake? That girl has some big shoes to fill! But you're right, at least she's the right age and might pull off the look. No guns though?? Pshhhh...
February 19, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon said…
LOL! Justin Timberlake as Clyde! That would be hysterical! Seriously, it makes me wonder how much research this director did. If she's going to claim that Bonnie was just an innocent little victim of Clyde's.
February 20, 2009 at 10:11 AM
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon said…
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
February 23, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Leanna Renee Hieber said…
Seeeeeeeeeeeeriously - WTF - she won't have a gun? What country is this anyway?! :P
February 26, 2009 at 3:13 AM
Elizabeth Kerri Mahon said…
It's bizarre but that's what the director said. That the viewer will not see Hilary Duff fire a gun, which makes no sense. It's like Al Capone without a gun.
February 26, 2009 at 11:21 AM
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