So apparently it's Emma Frost week here at seriousfic...

[seriousfic]

I, personally, blame the new icon. GAZE UPON IT, YE MORTALS, AND TREMBLE!

But anyway, you know who'd make a truly EPIC Emma Frost? No, not Ali Larter. Not even Tricia Heifer. No...

Tilda Swinton.


Emma Frost always hated when she had the senior prom nightmare.

Yes, she's at least ten years too old for the comicverse character, but as headmistress/White Queen she'll have to hold her own against Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan, while still being hot enough to be a love interest to Jean Grey Scott Summers (sorry, Sigourney Weaver). All that gravitas and authority is going to come from her a lot easier than it will from Blake Lively or whoever. Plus, she'll probably be reading from a script from Zak Penn, so she'll need that ice-cold British accent so her lines can at least sound good. And let's be honest, ladies, don't you wish you'll be that fit when you're forty-eight?

In fact, don't you wish you were that fit now? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Chronicles of Narnia, Michael Clayon, Constantine, Burn After Reading: Practice. It's basically the role she was born to play. And, hey, who doesn't like it when an older woman gets to play a sex goddess character in a Hollywood blockbuster?

Best of all, her character's appearing in Wolverine, which is a prequel. So you can just say that character (who is hopefully villainous) grew up into Emma Frost, X-Men headmistress and technically a good guy. How's that for a slice of fried gold?

ETA: Although if there were a flashback to Emma in her Hellfire Club days and it was Ali Larter... how cool would that be?

Comments

[cissie-king.livejournal.com]

Too asexual for Emma, though.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

I choose to read that as "her boobs are too small," but really, it's impossible to duplicate Emma's incredible boobage (or most of her costumes) in live-action, so you might as well hire someone who can act like they have a fantasy rack.

Plus, she has two boyfriends. Born. To. Play.

[cissie-king.livejournal.com]

From experience, I can tell you that the boobage can be done with tissue paper. But no, I was talking about her face. She has a boyish face. She kinda looks like she belongs to the same hermaphrodite race as David Bowie. I think their faces even look alike... the incestuous freaks!

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

This hasn't stopped fangirls from wanting to do David Bowie and won't stop fanboys from wanting to do Tilda Swinton! Never underestimate the power of the human spirit!

[kali921.livejournal.com]

I'd phrase it as androgynous and ethereal rather than asexual, although you're right, I'm not sure that Tilda could pull off Emma's overt lustiness or her spectacular cattiness and sleazetastic outfits. Tilda's somehow too...classy.

[sabinetzin]

I dunno. She just doesn't seem right for the role. I'm really, really, really gay for her, but... she hasn't got it. I'm not sure what it is. I'd totally go see a movie with Tilda Swinton as a badass telepathic headmistress... but it wouldn't be Emma Frost.

[galamb-borong.livejournal.com]

I can sort of see it... but the face is a stumbling block.

Not that I'm good at practical suggestions. My ideal candidate for Emma is a magically de-aged Vanessa Redgrave.

[mcity.livejournal.com]

1. Wait, when did Miss Swinton get boobs? Every pic I've seen of hewr before has her looking more or less androgynous.
2. The line is "a slice of fried gold". Not a "crisp".

[distractedone.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD. Great minds think alike. I have ALWAYS considered Tilda Swinton for Emma Frost, buuut, I was too embarrassed to say it because I knew she was old and a little ugly!

Have you seen Burn After Reading? She SO reminded me of Ems a little bit, and I think that's why she was my favorite character in that movie.

Anyways, I think she'd make a good, older White Queen Emma...I just can't picture her as the Emma of now. But she has definitely been on my list of Emma Frost actress possibilities.