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Title: The Human Stain (2003)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Anthony Hopkins | ... | Coleman Silk | |
| Nicole Kidman | ... | Faunia Farley | |
| Ed Harris | ... | Lester Farley | |
| Gary Sinise | ... | Nathan Zuckerman | |
| Wentworth Miller | ... | Young Coleman Silk | |
| Jacinda Barrett | ... | Steena Paulsson | |
| Harry Lennix | ... | Mr. Silk | |
| Clark Gregg | ... | Nelson Primus | |
| Anna Deavere Smith | ... | Mrs. Silk | |
| Lizan Mitchell | ... | Ernestine | |
| Kerry Washington | ... | Ellie | |
| Phyllis Newman | ... | Iris Silk | |
| Margo Martindale | ... | Psychologist | |
| Ron Canada | ... | Herb Keble | |
| Mili Avital | ... | Young Iris | |
This is the story of Coleman Silk (Sir Anthony Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with young troubled janitor Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children, and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all of his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life became unravelled. Written by lakeshoreentertainment.com
I love Roth's novel. I love Nicole Kidman. Above all I love Anthony Hopkins... and I think that both actors did a very good job indeed... But the casting of this film is absolutely wrong!
1)sir Hopkins: He's one of the greatest actors of our time, but this fair-skinned, blue-eyed gentleman with a charming Welsh accent is pretty unbelievable as an afro-American from New Jersey...maybe I haven't much imagination but I simply can't figure him as Coleman! Plus, there's very little resemblance with the guy who plays the young Coleman.
2)miss Kidman: You need the greatest suspension of disbelief to watch Nicole playing this sort of white trash, outcast janitor...
3)Gary Sinise: TOO YOUNG. Nathan Zuckerman is meant to be in his 70s, Sinise is in his 40s and the age gap with Coleman is too wide. In this way the very poetic "Cheek to cheek" scene lost much of his meaning. Read that scene in the book and you'll understand what I'm saying!
Only Ed Harris seems to fit better.
Just my two cents!