Where have all the good men gone And where are all the gods?
Where’s the street-wise Hercules
To fight the rising odds?
No - I cannot take credit for these wise words, they are courtesy of 80's power ballad queen Bonnie Tyler from her song I need a hero. In my current ms, the h&h are the best man and maid of honour at a wedding where the bride, amongst many things, is an 80's music tragic. The bridal waltz is danced to (The Glory of Love from the movie Karate Kid Part II).
Usually when I start an ms, I cast my hero & heroine using movie stars, models, etc... but since this ms came to me thick and fast to begin with, I had no time to think about who would play my h&h. That was until I wrote the bridal waltz scene and I had a minor epiphany (phrase borrowed from Rach's blog, thanks Rach). My hero Adam appeared as none other than Dr McSteamy himself, Eric Danes and my beautiful heroine Blair was the beautiful Katherine Heigl.
OK - I admit, I may also have been watching Grey's Anatomy at the time too, and had no intention of casting them both (felt like I was cheating because I plucked them from the same pond, so to speak) but then saw a trailer for Katherine's new chick flick The Ugly Truth and there was something about her that screamed Blair and I thought - this is my heroine. Now all I have to do is picture them with Aussie accents and all will be sweet... Oh that and actually finishing my ms...
PS - Sorry for the wonky pics. I'm technologically challenged.
Great choices Janette! If you'd chosen Meredith I may have some issues (I find her soooo irritating) but those two look pretty good to me. Gotta love those epiphanies...
ReplyDeleteMe too - although, I can't use Mc Creamy either, he looks my friend's hubby, too weird...
ReplyDeleteThey do look good together don't they? Someone call the Grey's Anatomy writers :) Now I'm off to try and find Katherine's trailer...
ReplyDeleteOMG - I really should edit my own posts - Mc Creamy!? What was I thinking?
ReplyDeleteLacey - I am trying to pitch the new movie to the hubby as 'it's got the hot chick from grey's' as incentive for him to see it, but really its a chick flick, not that i'll admit that to him...