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Originally posted by shoemoney2night:
Okay, here's what I've got.

Baldur "Shadow" Moon
Shadow is thirty-two, though it's implied that he appears to be of somewhat indeterminate age. A prison guard tells him, "you wait like the old guys, but you're what? Twenty-five? Twenty-eight?" Another prison officer observes that he looks younger than his thirty-two years. He has "cream-and-coffee" coloured skin and a multiracial look about him. The aforementioned prison guard asks him whether he is a "spic" or a "gypsy", before musing that Shadow might have some "[African American] blood in [him]". Sam Black Crow asks him if he is Native American. He has "dark hair". There are two conflicting descriptions of his eyes - he's said at various times to have "light grey eyes" and "dark eyes". He's a big guy, very tall and muscular, and looks "don't-fuck-with-me enough" that he was never troubled in prison. He's empty inside. Marguerite describes him as "melancholy"; Laura calls him a "big, solid, man-shaped hole in the world".

I think Vin Diesel or Dwayne Johnson have the right look. Dominic Purcell could be good, too.



Laura Moon
She has "long dark hair", "chestnut"-coloured, and "eyes so blue" that when they first met "Shadow mistakenly thought she was wearing tinted contact lenses". There is a "crooked hopefulness" to her smile. Her age is given as twenty-seven. Jennifer Connelly has a great look but, as I said, I think she's just too old. Emily Blunt is perfect in my mind.



Mr. Wednesday
Wednesday has "reddish grey" hair and a "greyish red" beard which is "little more than stubble". He has a "craggy, square face with pale grey eyes"; one is a "darker grey than the other", that being his glass eye. He wears expensive suits, silk ties, silver tie pins and a "black Rolex". When he smiles, it reminds Shadow of a documentary on chimpanzees, in which he learnt that chimps only grin as a show of aggression. He is "almost Shadow's height", and Shadow is a big man.

This is the one I had the hardest time narrowing down. I quite like Rip Torn, Dennis Hopper, Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee and Malcolm McDowell, among others. However, put Brian Cox in an expensive pale suit and he fits my mental image of Wednesday pretty perfectly.



Low Key Lyesmith
Low Key "[keeps] his orange-blond hair pretty much shaved. You [can] see the lines of his skull." When he smiles, his lips "crease into a network of rough scars". His eyes glimmer "like the orange embers of a dying fire". Barry Pepper, maybe? Or Paul Bettany?



Mr. Nancy
Anansi is an "elderly black man" with a "pencil moustache"; "a small man, the kind of little old man who [looks] as if the passing of the years have shrunk him". He is seen wearing a "bright checked suit and canary-yellow gloves", and smoking a "black cigarillo". He has a "dazzling smile" and speaks with a faint twang, "a hint of a patois that might have been West Indian". His eyes are "the colour of mahogany".

So, definitely not Samuel L. Jackson! Morgan Freeman is much more age-appropriate. I also like Ben Vereen, and the Sports Night geek in me would love to see Robert Guillaume take on Nancy with the same warmth and humour he brought to Isaac.



Mr. Ibis
Mr. Ibis is a "crane-like man with gold-rimmed spectacles". He speaks in explanations, "a gentle, earnest lecturing that put Shadow in mind of a collage professor ... who could not talk, could only discourse, expound, explain." He wears a "sober brown hat" that matches his "sober brown blazer and his sober brown face". He is "well over six feet in height, with a crane-like stoop". Shadow observes that he has seen "black guys who looked like Mr. Ibis" and "white guys with tan who looked like Mr. Ibis". I like Ben Kingsley for him.



Mr. Jacquel
Mr. Jacquel is a "very tall, dark-skinned man". His "dark brown eyes" are as "quizzical and cold as a desert dog's". Laurence Fishburne.



Bast
She has "brown hair and brown skin" and her eyes are "the deep golden-amber of good honey". Her pupils are "vertical slits". Her mannerisms are perfectly feline. Rosario Dawson, perhaps? Or Leonor Varela.



Horus
He has "dark brown" skin, a high forehead and "tightly curled" dark hair. He's also mad, something Shadow is able to tell "at a glance". Jaye Davidson sprang to mind immediately and the thought refuses to budge.



Czernobog
Czernobog is a short man; he has a "grey face" with "craggy features" and "iron-grey hair". His voice is "old and cigarette-roughened" and his teeth are "yellow". He has "square-tipped" fingers, their tips "as yellow as if they had been dipped in iodine". His hands are "rough and callused". Shadow observes a "hunger" in his face "for something, for pain, or death, or retribution". His "grey eyes" are "like points of steel". This is the one that really has me stumped. A few ideas have come to mind but none that really scream Czernobog to me.

The Zorya
Zorya Verchernyaya is a "gaunt old woman" with a "thick, Eastern European" accent. I'm thinking Maggie Smith. Zorya Utrennyaya is "smaller and frailer than [Verchernyaya]", but her hair is "long and still golden". Kathryn Joosten. Zorya Polunochnaya has "pale and colourless" hair which falls "to her waist". Shadow can't tell her age; her skin is "unlined", her eyes "dark" and her lashes "long". She is "taller than either of her sisters" and has a "soft, Eastern European accent". I like Scarlett Johansson, though I keep seeing Claire Danes in Stardust.



Bilquis
A "tall woman" with "black hair... piled up high and knotted on top of her head". Her lips are "ruby-red". Monica Bellucci?



Easter
She is "not fat, no, far from fat," she is "curvaceous". Her hair is "so fair that it [is] white, the kind of platinum-blonde tresses that should have belonged to a long-dead movie starlet". Her lips are "crimson" and her eyes "the exact colour of a leaf in spring with the sun shining through it". She could be anywhere "between twenty-five and fifty". Her laugh is "deep and throaty, full-bodied and joyous". Cynthia Ettinger or Sara Rue.



Mad Sweeney
He has a "short ginger beard". He is seen wearing "a denim jacket covered with bright sew-on patches, and under the jacket a stained white T-shirt". Despite being a leprechaun, he doesn't have an Irish accent, having "been over here too fucken long". He's an "impossibly tall man" - Shadow estimates that he is "almost seven feet tall". Tony Curran? Jake Busey? Though I'd like to imagine Denis Leary in the role.



Hinzelmann
An "old man" with "blue eyes" and a "fluff of white hair". He has a "cheerful face" and a "goblin grin". His hands are "red-knuckled" and "as hard and callused as an oak branch". He is about "half [Shadow's] height". When Shadow confronts him, he seems "more like a gargoyle than an imp"; without his smile he seems "waxen and corpselike". Definitely Terry O'Quinn or Ian Holm.



Media
She is "perfectly made-up, perfectly coiffed". She reminds Shadow of "every newscaster he'd ever seen on a morning television sitting in a studio that didn't really resemble a living room." Angelina Jolie or Marcia Cross.



The Fat Kid
This unnamed technological god is a "fat young man" who looks "barely out of his teens: a spattering of acne glistened on one cheek". He wears a "long black coat, made of some silky material". Jonah Hill looks good to me.



Sam Black Crow
She has "a tangle of short dark hair and a face that [is] both attractive and ... faintly mannish: Her features might have been chiselled out of rock." She has "dark eyes". Her father is Native American and her mother is caucasian. I can't decide - Shannyn Sossamon, Tamara Podemski, Zuleikha Robinson or Natalie Portman.



Marguerite Olsen
Marguerite is a "tired woman" with "practical brown hands", "dark eyes" and "long, long black hair". Julianna Margulies or Carrie Anne Moss.



Chad Mulligan
No physical description given. I kinda like Jeffrey Dean Morgan.



Mr. Town
Town is in his late 40s and is described as having "thinning hair, a tan, and a faintly hangdog expression". I keep thinking Jack Coleman, maybe it's just the secret-agency-man-in-black vibe.



...I probably put too much thought into that.

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Originally posted by Phoenixinpa:
To all who think Shadow is bald, he's not. There's a line in the book that says he wets his hair and combs it back (pg 35). And where does it say he's black? Dark skinned, yes. But that doesn't mean black. He could be Italian or Spanish or something else altogether.

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Originally posted by balder18:
Anansi-Danny Glover (believe me, it would work)
. Yeah he does have a good attitude for that.

Mr. Ibis-James Earl Jones I wouldn't complain except an ibis is a storklike wading bird so ibis was described as very thin. But hell if james earl jones signed on I'd definitely not complain.

Eostre-Christina Ricci now that's just utter fail. a middle aged voluptuous big boned woman being played by an early 20's twig?

Whiskey Jack-Graham Green total win on this one hell I've never seen him not kick ass in a movie.

Johnny Appleseed-Tim Robbins: good pick

Ms. Media-Cameron Diaz: She just hasn't got the personality to pull it off. Since Media is actually whoever she wants to be (e.g. Lucy) and is mainly just a voice you'd need someone with a destinctive voice.

Mr Town-Ed Harris That would kick ass

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Originally posted by balder18:
You're right about Christina Ricci; I forgot about Eostre's description; perhaps,the older lady from the Skeleton Key.But Cameron Diaz, has the voice, Shrek movies, and Robert Guillame doesn't have Anansi's swagger-read Anansi Boys. James Earl Jones, as Ibis, was mainly for the voice-hell I would play Thoth if I could. Peterson isn't old enough and Hopkins would make a good Wednesday, but I like him as Hinzelman.