Katya
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I've read my way through almost the whole Vorkosigan series in the last couple of weeks, and enjoyed them thoroughly. Have you ever done any "dream casting" of actors/celebrities as your characters? (As someone who has a hard time drawing a mental picture from text, especially when it comes to faces—it's a weird neurological disconnect—I'd love to be able to "see" them as you visualized them.)
Lois McMaster Bujold
This seems to be a common fannish sport. I don't do it much, but if you like, you can picture Oliver Reed playing Aral, and Paul Darrow playing Duv Galeni. Cordelia might be vaguely young-Vanessa-Redgrave. Illyan seems to be some kind of cross between David McCallum and Walter Koenig. Adjust ages as needed,
Miles is hard, although there was an actor who played Richard III in a long-ago TV production that had something of him, lots of energy. Have forgotten his name. (Checks internet -- Ron Cook -- 30 years back. 1983 production, tho' I don't remember when I saw it.) Otherwise, characters' visages mostly float, even when I'm writing them.
Ta, L.
This seems to be a common fannish sport. I don't do it much, but if you like, you can picture Oliver Reed playing Aral, and Paul Darrow playing Duv Galeni. Cordelia might be vaguely young-Vanessa-Redgrave. Illyan seems to be some kind of cross between David McCallum and Walter Koenig. Adjust ages as needed,
Miles is hard, although there was an actor who played Richard III in a long-ago TV production that had something of him, lots of energy. Have forgotten his name. (Checks internet -- Ron Cook -- 30 years back. 1983 production, tho' I don't remember when I saw it.) Otherwise, characters' visages mostly float, even when I'm writing them.
Ta, L.
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J C
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Thank you for answering all these questions! I especially appreciate that, as a reader, I can't tell that you "build [the story] backwards, starting with the characters and their story and building the world around them". Question time! Re-read Mirror Dance; what theory of mind did you draw from to describe Mark?
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