May 17, 2025 • 9 mins
This week on the bonus chapter an upcoming book to movie series sparked the question “is there a casting decision that you hate”. Lisa and Ryley then run through some cast choices that they love and some they hate!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey, welcome into Lisa's book Club, the Saturday Bonus Chapter edition.
We love doing this. It's like ten minutes of fun.
And I have producer Riley here. So what's going on? Hey, guys.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So I think late last week, maybe early this week,
I forget. There's this book series that's getting turned into
a film series with Amazon Prime. It's called Off Campus,
and everybody, like on Twitter and on Instagram, has been
up in arms because the casting just got released. So
there's like four main guys. There's a couple of books,
(00:36):
but every book is based off of like a guy
in the friend group. So all of them play hockey.
They're all like hot, and so this casting got announced
and people are like, these are not our boys, Like
what is this casting? Everybody was so upset about.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It, So why do you think they cast these guys?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The more of that has been coming out about them,
I've been a little bit more persuaded. One of the
guys in the book, he's described as like tall ginger,
and the guy that they cast as him is like
not that at all. So I think people are the
most upset about him. Everybody else. People are kind of
getting more on board with, well, is.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
There an actor that's a tall ginger that we can
even think of?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I know, And I'm like, maybe they couldn't find a
ginger that could play hockey, Like I don't know. I
don't know, but it got me thinking about like casting
that we really hate, like either book to movie or
book to TV show, or just casting a general that
we hate and then something that we really love.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So I'm going to come right out of the box
with a more recent book to movie that I saw.
It was part of my book club. It ends with
us Colleen Hooper book. Yes, because I read the book
first and then I saw the movie, and my vision
of what the Blake Lively character should have looked like
was very different. I personally, I thought that Blake Lively
(01:56):
did a good job. I thought that Justin Baldoni did
a good job, but I would never have cast them
in the film.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I think a lot of people felt that way.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I also thought that her wardrobe in the film was
so bizarre and not at all what I expected.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
People on Twitter ripped her apart.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
She spent more than she was supposed to on her wardrobe.
That was like a story, a set bar story that
it was like over the top spending and I just
don't get it because it she looked like she had
just like rolled out of just thrown whatever on. Yeah,
and I felt like the moviees cast in Boston and
I just didn't It wasn't giving me Boston vibes no right, And.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
She did her own wardrobe for that, so like, girl,
why would you insist on doing it if that's what.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You're really she just did. It just didn't work for me.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
People online were so I still see clips of that movie,
people being like, what was this great?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
What is she wearing? I again, Boston right, and just
it didn't It didn't fit the movie at all. Again,
though I thought that they did a good job with
the movie. It was it was like serious content, but
that part of it just didn't work for me. I
needed to come right out of it with that one
because that was more recent.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yes, and people will definitely agree with you. I have
one that the Bridgerton first season, and this is a
hot take. I didn't really like the guy who played
the duke.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I didn't either.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Okay, I'm so glad that you said that didn't work
for me. It didn't work for me either. I wasn't
feeling like the chemistry. But on the flip side, the
second season with Simone Ashley and Johnathan Bailey, they hit it, yeah,
the chemistry, and he's not straight, he's gay and did
a good job the way that I was like the
(03:41):
sparks flying off the screen. I sometimes I'd be clutching
my pearls watching that season, like giddy.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You wear pearls. No, but you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I know a movie that I don't even think it
was a book because it was so bad that didn't work.
The casting was Baby Girl with Nicole Kidman and Ars Dickinson. No,
he's cast in the New Beatles film, which I think
he'll actually I think they did a good job with
that casting. It was awful. That movie was awful. The
casting was off. He didn't work in the movie, she
(04:16):
didn't work in the movie. Didn't like it at all.
But I will say that the book Wicked with Gregory
maguire and then the subsequent film starring Ariana Grande and
Cynthia Rivo, I thought that was perfectly cast. I have
that on my list perfectly perfectly cast. And the past
weekend I just watched a behind the scenes of Arianna
(04:38):
talking about how for ten years she was dedicated to
getting that role and she got it and it was
it was really I cried like a baby during that movie.
She's the perfect Linda, she really was. And Cynthia Rivo, whoa.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Just absolutely insane, unbelievable you he watched her in the
movie Harriet, Harriet Tubman. That's a good movie. She has
like a little singing in it. I have a couple
songs from that soundtrack, like downloaded on my phone. It's
so good.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
But her Elphie or her Alpha Bah was different than
the Broadway show I Dina Menzal it was. It was
her version, and it was just so purely beautiful and
rooted in so much emotion that I just I really
loved it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So she did an amazing job.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, so I thought that was a really good one.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I actually had on my list of like somebody that
I don't actually know if I didn't like his casting.
It just stuck out to me every time he was
on the screen. Was Ariana Grande's boyfriend in it? And
I don't know if it was just because like, and
I know he's a good singer, and he didn't really
do a ton of singing in this first bit, but
like his character really changes in the next one, So
I'm excited to see what they do with it. But
(05:55):
every time I looked at him, I was like, you're
arian on his boyfriend?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, Like is that why you this role?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No, obviously he's very talented, but like, it's all I
could think about me too.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
He's a ginger there we go. Probably doesn't play hockey.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He should be on the shorelist for that movie.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Another one that I thought a book that I read,
and I don't know if you read this, but you
should check it out. It's Hidden Figures by Margaret Lee Shutterley,
and it's about the US Space program and the three
mathematicians who are female behind the scenes, the work that
they did to get up into get us up into space.
Did you read that?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I haven't read the book. I've watched the movie. That
movie is like high on my all time favorites.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It I think it was perfectly cast. I'm actually glad
to Spencer to Raji Henson, Oh my.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
God, I'm glad you brought that one up because I
wouldn't have thought of it. But absolutely stunner of a cast.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, and the book was even better.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That scene, that scene of the none of you drinking
out of a coffee pot and none of you want
to touch? Oh good chills every time.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I have to say, I think that the cast really
made a difference in the film and putting it over
the top, even though it was a great you know,
true story, right, don't you think? And don't you think
like the Devil worst Prada? That cast too, so really
put the book over the top and made it like
icon status.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah for sure. You know who's in hidden Figures. Glenn Powell.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yes, yes, like a very young Glenn Powell. Love him.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He's I don't think this was a book, but I
on the on my list was the movie set it
up with Glenn Powell and Zoey Deutsch. It's like a
Netflix rom com, but it's so good. They're like trying
to set up their bosses. Is you should watch that one?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He was great and twisters love that movie great and
Maverick so good.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well, that's also high on my like all time faves.
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I just really like that. I'mp gun Maverick. Yeah I
did too. That's a scene with them playing so good.
He's so cute at her hair. I am, Oh my god,
I have such a crush on him. I really do.
I you know, I think you know, we always say
like who would you wait in line to meet? I
would actually wait in line to meet him.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And he would be so happy to meet you. He
like gives that vibe, like the southern charm of it all,
Like you would just he would ask you about you
and be like you work on the radio?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Wow? Like you know, I feel like we would actually
have a good conversation.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You guys would hit it off absolutely.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
This is a fun discussion, yes, one that I want
to throw in real quick. Sorry, at least to interrupt you.
Somebody that I hate, Noah Sentenio. Don't really like him
in anything.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He was into all the boys I've loved before that
series that is a book series.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I hate him and like everything not not your guy.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Not to end this off being a hater, but like,
let's getting off with Glenn Powell.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Fat of Glenn Powell. He's actually in a new movie
coming out November twenty first, called The running Man, so
we'll be able to see him in theaters this fall.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, well, this was fun DM if you want to
reach out and tell us who you think was poorly
cast in a movie, what book to movie was ruined
because of a cast member, or what book in a
movie combo was actually made better because it was.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
A good cast, right, Yeah, let us know, let us know.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well, thanks for joining us. We'll have Gregory Maguire from
Wicked at Least's book Club this week and we will
be posting that podcast next Thursday.
Hey, welcome into Lisa's book Club, the Saturday Bonus Chapter edition.
We love doing this. It's like ten minutes of fun.
And I have producer Riley here. So what's going on? Hey, guys.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
So I think late last week, maybe early this week,
I forget. There's this book series that's getting turned into
a film series with Amazon Prime. It's called Off Campus,
and everybody, like on Twitter and on Instagram, has been
up in arms because the casting just got released. So
there's like four main guys. There's a couple of books,
(00:36):
but every book is based off of like a guy
in the friend group. So all of them play hockey.
They're all like hot, and so this casting got announced
and people are like, these are not our boys, Like
what is this casting? Everybody was so upset about.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It, So why do you think they cast these guys?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
The more of that has been coming out about them,
I've been a little bit more persuaded. One of the
guys in the book, he's described as like tall ginger,
and the guy that they cast as him is like
not that at all. So I think people are the
most upset about him. Everybody else. People are kind of
getting more on board with, well, is.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
There an actor that's a tall ginger that we can
even think of?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I know, And I'm like, maybe they couldn't find a
ginger that could play hockey, Like I don't know. I
don't know, but it got me thinking about like casting
that we really hate, like either book to movie or
book to TV show, or just casting a general that
we hate and then something that we really love.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So I'm going to come right out of the box
with a more recent book to movie that I saw.
It was part of my book club. It ends with
us Colleen Hooper book. Yes, because I read the book
first and then I saw the movie, and my vision
of what the Blake Lively character should have looked like
was very different. I personally, I thought that Blake Lively
(01:56):
did a good job. I thought that Justin Baldoni did
a good job, but I would never have cast them
in the film.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I think a lot of people felt that way.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I also thought that her wardrobe in the film was
so bizarre and not at all what I expected.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
People on Twitter ripped her apart.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
She spent more than she was supposed to on her wardrobe.
That was like a story, a set bar story that
it was like over the top spending and I just
don't get it because it she looked like she had
just like rolled out of just thrown whatever on. Yeah,
and I felt like the moviees cast in Boston and
I just didn't It wasn't giving me Boston vibes no right, And.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
She did her own wardrobe for that, so like, girl,
why would you insist on doing it if that's what.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
You're really she just did. It just didn't work for me.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
People online were so I still see clips of that movie,
people being like, what was this great?
Speaker 1 (02:54):
What is she wearing? I again, Boston right, and just
it didn't It didn't fit the movie at all. Again,
though I thought that they did a good job with
the movie. It was it was like serious content, but
that part of it just didn't work for me. I
needed to come right out of it with that one
because that was more recent.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yes, and people will definitely agree with you. I have
one that the Bridgerton first season, and this is a
hot take. I didn't really like the guy who played
the duke.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I didn't either.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Okay, I'm so glad that you said that didn't work
for me. It didn't work for me either. I wasn't
feeling like the chemistry. But on the flip side, the
second season with Simone Ashley and Johnathan Bailey, they hit it, yeah,
the chemistry, and he's not straight, he's gay and did
a good job the way that I was like the
(03:41):
sparks flying off the screen. I sometimes I'd be clutching
my pearls watching that season, like giddy.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
You wear pearls. No, but you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I know a movie that I don't even think it
was a book because it was so bad that didn't work.
The casting was Baby Girl with Nicole Kidman and Ars Dickinson. No,
he's cast in the New Beatles film, which I think
he'll actually I think they did a good job with
that casting. It was awful. That movie was awful. The
casting was off. He didn't work in the movie, she
(04:16):
didn't work in the movie. Didn't like it at all.
But I will say that the book Wicked with Gregory
maguire and then the subsequent film starring Ariana Grande and
Cynthia Rivo, I thought that was perfectly cast. I have
that on my list perfectly perfectly cast. And the past
weekend I just watched a behind the scenes of Arianna
(04:38):
talking about how for ten years she was dedicated to
getting that role and she got it and it was
it was really I cried like a baby during that movie.
She's the perfect Linda, she really was. And Cynthia Rivo, whoa.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Just absolutely insane, unbelievable you he watched her in the
movie Harriet, Harriet Tubman. That's a good movie. She has
like a little singing in it. I have a couple
songs from that soundtrack, like downloaded on my phone. It's
so good.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
But her Elphie or her Alpha Bah was different than
the Broadway show I Dina Menzal it was. It was
her version, and it was just so purely beautiful and
rooted in so much emotion that I just I really
loved it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So she did an amazing job.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Yeah, so I thought that was a really good one.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I actually had on my list of like somebody that
I don't actually know if I didn't like his casting.
It just stuck out to me every time he was
on the screen. Was Ariana Grande's boyfriend in it? And
I don't know if it was just because like, and
I know he's a good singer, and he didn't really
do a ton of singing in this first bit, but
like his character really changes in the next one, So
I'm excited to see what they do with it. But
(05:55):
every time I looked at him, I was like, you're
arian on his boyfriend?
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Yeah, Like is that why you this role?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No, obviously he's very talented, but like, it's all I
could think about me too.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
He's a ginger there we go. Probably doesn't play hockey.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
But.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
He should be on the shorelist for that movie.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Another one that I thought a book that I read,
and I don't know if you read this, but you
should check it out. It's Hidden Figures by Margaret Lee Shutterley,
and it's about the US Space program and the three
mathematicians who are female behind the scenes, the work that
they did to get up into get us up into space.
Did you read that?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I haven't read the book. I've watched the movie. That
movie is like high on my all time favorites.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
It I think it was perfectly cast. I'm actually glad
to Spencer to Raji Henson, Oh my.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
God, I'm glad you brought that one up because I
wouldn't have thought of it. But absolutely stunner of a cast.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, and the book was even better.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
That scene, that scene of the none of you drinking
out of a coffee pot and none of you want
to touch? Oh good chills every time.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I have to say, I think that the cast really
made a difference in the film and putting it over
the top, even though it was a great you know,
true story, right, don't you think? And don't you think
like the Devil worst Prada? That cast too, so really
put the book over the top and made it like
icon status.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Yeah for sure. You know who's in hidden Figures. Glenn Powell.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yes, yes, like a very young Glenn Powell. Love him.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
He's I don't think this was a book, but I
on the on my list was the movie set it
up with Glenn Powell and Zoey Deutsch. It's like a
Netflix rom com, but it's so good. They're like trying
to set up their bosses. Is you should watch that one?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
He was great and twisters love that movie great and
Maverick so good.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Well, that's also high on my like all time faves.
I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
I just really like that. I'mp gun Maverick. Yeah I
did too. That's a scene with them playing so good.
He's so cute at her hair. I am, Oh my god,
I have such a crush on him. I really do.
I you know, I think you know, we always say
like who would you wait in line to meet? I
would actually wait in line to meet him.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
And he would be so happy to meet you. He
like gives that vibe, like the southern charm of it all,
Like you would just he would ask you about you
and be like you work on the radio?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Wow? Like you know, I feel like we would actually
have a good conversation.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
You guys would hit it off absolutely.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
This is a fun discussion, yes, one that I want
to throw in real quick. Sorry, at least to interrupt you.
Somebody that I hate, Noah Sentenio. Don't really like him
in anything.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He was into all the boys I've loved before that
series that is a book series.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I hate him and like everything not not your guy.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Not to end this off being a hater, but like,
let's getting off with Glenn Powell.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Fat of Glenn Powell. He's actually in a new movie
coming out November twenty first, called The running Man, so
we'll be able to see him in theaters this fall.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Exciting.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, well, this was fun DM if you want to
reach out and tell us who you think was poorly
cast in a movie, what book to movie was ruined
because of a cast member, or what book in a
movie combo was actually made better because it was.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
A good cast, right, Yeah, let us know, let us know.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well, thanks for joining us. We'll have Gregory Maguire from
Wicked at Least's book Club this week and we will
be posting that podcast next Thursday.
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