The box-office failure of Ocean’s 8 made me think of a conceit from the summer of 2014 when in an argument I recast Inception with all the male roles played by women and vice versa.
Look, I didn’t have anything to do with you not making it into the recasting. And stop asking me questions while I’m trying to handle the plastic explosives.
It wasn’t always possible to cast the same nationality or exact age but I quite liked my recasting then, and think it still stands up now. Try in particular to think about the scene in limbo near the very end where Cobb, Mal and Ariadne are at the table chez Cobb arguing over whether Cobb should stay with Mal in limbo forever.
Replacing Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb – Cate Blanchett
Replacing Joseph Gordon-Levit as Arthur – Lizzy Caplan
Replacing Tom Hardy as Eames – Emily Blunt
Replacing Ellen Page as Ariadne – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Replacing Ken Watanabe as Saito – Li Gong
Replacing Dileep Rao as the Chemist – Archie Panjabi
Replacing Marion Cotillard as Mal – Mads Mikkelsen
Replacing Cillian Murphy as Fisher – Jodie Whitaker
Replacing Tom Berenger as Uncle Peter – Margo Martindale
Replacing Pete Postlethwaite as Fisher Sr – Eva-Marie Saint
Replacing Lukas Haas as the 1st Architect – Tina Majorino
and
Replacing Michael Caine as Miles – Vanessa Redgrave
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