I often think about what a goddamn feat, what an astonishing creative trial it would be to film Nona the Ninth as a live-action, purely thinking about actors. Because like,
on one hand, you've got two actors who up until now have played Harrow (and a bit of Gideon) and G1deon (with a liiittle bit of Pyrrha) now playing Pyrrha and Nona. It's wildly different characters, wildly different mannerisms and speaking styles, with a completely opposite dynamic. That in itself would be amazing to watch two good actors pull off.
You've got Camilla's body now housing Camilla and Palamedes.
Can you imagine the tape recorder scene?
Nona presses play and starts listening, then the visual cuts to a shot of Camilla, sat down recorder in hand, halfway through her line before pressing pause and rewind, then she closes her eyes for a half second and when she opens them it's Palamedes, with Palamedes's body language, pressing play and hearing the line again, reacting with a whole different set of expressions.
The whole conversation, delivered through a single shot that slowly zooms in, then out, on that one actor. Camilla almost giving a small, dry half-smile as she deadpans “You thought it was your agenda? Huh”, Palamedes hearing it play back and taking a moment because his eyes are getting teary, then “I cannot bear the thought of losing you”, Camilla then bringing a hand to her own cheek because it's wet? Then “Love and freedom can't coexist, Warden” and Camilla giving herself a hug so Palamedes can wake into it.
After the conversation is done, looking strained, Camilla immediately takes a tissue to her nostril—when she takes it away, here's some blood on it.
Do you see my vision. I think a scene like that, well-executed, would take out most of us.
Ofc you'd also have that actor playing Paul, who would keep some mannerisms but integrate them into a new, confident body language, and also Palamedes being played briefly (and up to one of the most emotional scenes) by the actor for Naberius, who would mostly have been playing Ianthe, and then the actor for Ianthe shows up at the end—and, unless we're doing a double casting, she might have been playing Crown until then.
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