A Switcheroo...

Why? I ask you WHY? Why must every movie series switch the actors and actresses to someone new halfway through the series?

WHY?!

The Twilight Saga recently announced that the actress playing Victoria has been changed because of a scheduling conflict for the original actress, Rachel LeFevre.

As you may have guessed, I am NOT thrilled about this. Not at all.

It’s not that I think the new actress will do a subpar job. Nope, not me! It’s just that I’ve seen Twilight. Several times. And I loved it. I’m planning on seeing New Moon as soon as feasibly possible when it comes out. I will probably see it several times, too. That’s 2 movies out of 4, people. Two movies in which I have become accustomed to certain faces for the characters, which is how I now picture the characters in my head when I read the books for the umpteenth time.

Because I like the characters they originally picked. I like the job that they do portraying the characters. I think they bring the characters to life on the screen (though if I don’t like the way they match the picture I have in my head, I go for the one in my head every time. Because when I read I have my own movie, and usually Hollywood matches… but when they don’t match, my version wins hands down!) so that everyone can see the same thing when they watch the story.

I think when producers or casters or whoever is in charge of these things for movies cast a part for something like Twilight or Harry Potter or anything that goes over multiple books and will last a while, they should make sure that the person cast for the part will be available WITHOUT QUESTION for the entire series (with HP I understand, Dumbledore REALLY died, so they had to find someone new. I get that. I’m ok with that. It’s when the person just decides something else is more important that I get miffed. And moving on...) so that we, the viewers, get a comprehensive character experience. New actors/actresses inevitably bring their own spin to a part (hey, that’s what they do, it’s their job) so when a character flips to someone new in the middle we suddenly have to readjust our vision of the character and scoot things around in our heads. Which can be very frustrating at times, depending on the differences and how well we liked the original portrayal.

Anyway, I’m sure that even though Victoria is new in Eclipse, I will still be happy with the movie, because at least Victoria is (arguably to a point) not a major character. I mean, she’s not at the same level of Bella, Edward, Jacob, Charlie or the other Cullens. And she is a villain, so most likely she will not be the favorite character of too many people. I just wish everything would have worked out and “Original Victoria” could have stayed.