MY LADY JANE dream cast

Sometimes we girls get thinking about the movies. And then we think about MY LADY JANE as a movie--no news we can share with you on that front, sorry; we're just fantasizing at this point. And then we think about what actors and actresses we'd cast if we could see our fun little book turn into a big beautiful movie.

So today we're going to share our dream cast with you.

First off,

Jane 

She's the main character, and we'd need an actress who could get Jane's type A personality and her bookish seriousness, but who could also handle the comedy of the situation.

For this part we have four top choices:

Emma Watson

OR

Sophie Turner

OR

Hailee Steinfeld

All three of these actresses are amazingly talented, and seem like they could step right into the role of Jane, who has to be intelligent and witty and STRONG--because our book is filled with strong, capable women, and Jane has to be the strongest and more capable of them all. We've loved Emma Watson for just this reason, all the way back to Harry Potter.

Gifford

We like to joke that Gifford is the eye-candy of our book, because he's pretty. But he's also a pretty complicated guy. He has the reputation for being a bit of a bad boy, but he has the soul of a poet. We've had some arguments about this one, but for now our top picks for Gifford are:

Aaron Taylor Thomas

Yeah, we could stare at him all day, too. But he's also got the comedy chops that our Gifford would desperately need -- KICK ASS, anyone?

OR

Nicholas Hoult

This guy is both adorable and funny. We loved WARM BODIES.

Edward

Edward is tricky, because he has to seem believable as the king of England and as a teenage boy who wants nothing more than a first kiss. He is also sick and dying for a large part of the story, so he has to pull of the ability to look both strong and weak at the same time. Not an easy task. We have two suggestions.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

OR

Freddie Highmore

And there are a couple more key characters we'd like to talk about, like:

Bess

Anna Popplewell

There's just a quiet authority to this girl that just screams FUTURE QUEEN OF ENGLAND to us. Plus we can't get enough of her on REIGN.

OR

Emilia Clarke

Right????  Who says queenly like the mother of dragons? (Does it seem like we have a lot of GoT actors? We do, but what can we say? Our movie needs Brits.)

Gracie

Karan Gillan

We typically picture Gracie with wild, curly black hair and bright green eyes, but Karan Gillan has both Gracie's Scottishness (because, er, Karan Gillan is a Scot) and her playfulness down perfectly. Bring on the brogue!

So those are our movie daydreams, for now.