I've been thinking about this question for a while, and I thought I'd pose it to you guys... If the PPC were an actual thing in entertainment media, who would be your ideal choices for actors or voice actors for your agents? Additional question: given the "whitewashing" problem in a number of recent movies, do you think you can find an ideal match for the character in terms of ethnicity, appearance, etc.? Also, for each selection, what previous roles from existing media influenced your choice?
For the sake of simplicity, agents who were formerly character replacements and such will likely use the same actors/voice actors as the canon characters, so those don't have to be listed.
Added challenge: For self-insert characters, don't pick yourself, but find an actor or actress whom you think would be perfect for playing as you if your life story were made into a movie.
I'll start with my agents, or the ones who aren't replacements anyway.
- I always thought that if I couldn't get to voice/play as Falchion, he'd be played/voiced by Ryan Potter, whose role as Hiro Hamada from Big Hero 6 was my biggest justification here. I know he's Japanese/American, and not Indonesian like I am, but LOOK AT HIM! He's beautiful.
- Rashida would be voiced/played by Halle Berry, who is African American and has most recently starred in the CBS series Extant (her fiercely protective role as Molly Woods in that show fits well with Rashida's behavior; just make her more aggressive and irritable and there you go).
- Ripper, being partly derived from Light Yagami, would be voiced by Brad Swaile (as, of course, Light Yagami; I imagine Ripper would remain in anime cartoon style when disguised as a person).
- I've always imagined Sarah would be voiced by Ashleigh Ball, in no small part inspired by Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Sarah's voice would likely have less of a rasp, but would still sound just as tomboyish.
- Lapis is also voiced by another MLP voice actor, this time Andrea Libman and sounding like something midway between Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie. Flutter's timidness combined with Pinkie's excitability (and a deeper sense of insecurity than Pinkie herself).
- Speaking of MLP, after seeing and hearing Cody Maverick in Surf's Up, I've always thought Rayner deserves to be voiced by none other than actual cannibal Shia LeBeouf. That role just matches Rayner's determination and aggression so well. No, Shia's appearances in those god-awful Transformers movies don't count.
- E.V.L. having a British accent would basically make her a younger-looking Keira Knightley (assuming you can get away with that with enough makeup). My experience with her is primarily as Elizabeth Swann from PoTC, but I'm sure her acting diversity would allow her to play an "evil" character quite easily. (I'd personally have her speak in a deeper and more villainous tone when playing as E.V.L.)
