Casting: Haute Couture or Bargain Basement?

[Aethera]

A place to discuss the casting of various players in this story - who is well cast, who is not? Who would you have cast instead?

[dubbel zout]

Edgar Ramirez is doing a fantastic job as Gianni. I first saw him in Domino, a movie about Domino Harvey (daughter of the actor Laurence Harvey), who was a bounty hunter. It starred Keira Knightley, who was not well cast. But Ramirez is mesmerizing, and he's given a starring role in the miniseries Carlos, about the terrorist Carlos the Jackal, and he absolutely runs with it. He's amazing.