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

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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

[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.