Lifetime’s ‘Blue Lagoon’ Reboot Casts Leads

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• What? They couldn’t find any ‘American’ actors to fill these roles? Hmmmm.

  Comment by HS — Monday February 6, 2012 @ 2:21pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I agree! In this US economy they are still outsourcing actors?! My new rule is that I will not watch American Movies that don’t have American Actors in them… Too many hunger and willing to work American actors not to have them in their films…

    Comment by Tim — Monday February 6, 2012 @ 7:33pm PST  Reply to this post

  • I think that this movie was a hit the first time I ever watched it. When I was at school today all I could think about was the new blue lagoon because of the trailer all i need to find out now is when it is coming out so i don’t stress about it while doing tests. please tell me before i have a break down.

    Comment by madison — Monday May 14, 2012 @ 3:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• And we know what big stars that Christopher Atkins and Brian Krause became. Note to the male lead: Get out of this project. It will doom your career. Its cursed.

  Comment by Joe in SM — Monday February 6, 2012 @ 2:51pm PST  Reply to this post

• When will it stop?????

  Comment by SickOfRemakes — Monday February 6, 2012 @ 3:32pm PST  Reply to this post

• While Home & Away has proven to be a great breeding ground for young Australian actors: Chris Hemsworth, Isla Fisher, Ryan Kwanten, Melissa George for example. These two aren’t.

  Indiana Evans, yep her real name. (Guess she got named after the dog)
  was particularly annoying.

  Comment by dee123 — Monday February 6, 2012 @ 3:53pm PST  Reply to this post

• To all Young Aspiring Actors in America,

  Let’s say you have your sites set on Hollywood. For instant success you should:

  1. Start practicing your Australian Accent now! Even though you are in Missouri or Alabama. Do it!
  2. When you get to Hollywood, upon walking into every audition, speak in your perfected Aussie accent.
  3. When you do your reading, speak in your normal American accent.

  That’s it. They will think you are brilliant and different.

  Also, make up a BS backstory as well. Say you are from Sydney, Melbourne, Perth. You can also get creative and say you are from…Woolamaloo if you like, but you get the gist.

  There it is boys and girls the current recipe for success in Hollywood.

  Crikey!!

  Comment by Vincent Hanna — Monday February 6, 2012 @ 3:57pm PST  Reply to this post

  • And then train and be talented, be rugged, and grow up on a farm, or brick laying, and become someone your not. Then again, become an actor in a country where even hot actors don’t get rich or very famous and do it because you love it. That plus the pretend Ausie thing and you are all set.

    Also, the Ausie actors who get these jobs have to hide the “ausie” and do the audition and the all the call backs in perfect American.

    Lastly, for the all the haters who had people not get this role, go focus on pilots.

    Otherwise if you havent read it, don’t comment until you see it.

    Comment by Evans is very talented — Monday February 6, 2012 @ 6:23pm PST  Reply to this post

• While I’m not citing BLUE LAGOON as proof of this, generally speaking, young English and Australian actors take the craft much more seriously than American actors. They train harder and better and know great literature. American actors just wanna be famous.

  Now, of course there are many, many, many exceptions. But, as a general statement, I believe this to be true.

  Comment by Johnnie — Monday February 6, 2012 @ 5:48pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Johnnia- you have no idea what you are talking about. There are loads of trained, hard working, craft oriented, actors in this country. Ever heard of the Yale School of Drama, or Juilliard, NYU, ACT, Carnegie Mellon, SUNY Puchase, etc… ? Every year these, and many other, programs produce some of the finest actors in the world. I’d put an NYU MFA actor up against anybody! Are there fame-chasers out there? Of course. Do they represent the majority of artists in this country? NO.

    Comment by Jason — Monday February 6, 2012 @ 10:10pm PST  Reply to this post

    • JohnniE, said if you bothered to notice Jason, “Now, of course there are many, many, many exceptions. But, as a general statement, I believe this to be true.”

      That means you can’t come back and say that he meant there weren’t “loads of trained, hard working, craft oriented, actors in this country.”

      The many, many, many exceptions took care of that..

      Comment by Matt S. — Tuesday February 7, 2012 @ 8:43pm PST  Reply to this post