I was reading James Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss and watching the first season of HBO’s Perry Mason contemporaneously, and Matthew Rhys just kind of became CW Sughrue in the process. Paul Giamatti was once linked to a film adaptation of the character, if that gives you any indication.

Different but similar issue… I read the Harry Potter books before the movies came out, and the name “Hermione” was not at all something I had heard of, so I made my best guess and moved on. I was so mad when the first movie came out because her name was “Her-mee-on” in my head, and they kept messing it up.

when I read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, I kept picturing Rose McIver as Addie.

I still envision Megan Follows when I think of Anne Shirley even though I loved Anne with an E and thought the role was also perfectly cast

I always felt like Mike Hagerty, who played the super, Mr. Treeger, on Friends would have made a great Ignatius J. Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces.

Probably would have needed to do this in the late-80s or early-90s.

When reading the Twin series (dragonlance) I was always picturing Arnold Schwarzenegger as Caramon and Willem Dafoe as Raistlin

Whenever I read Discworld, I always picture Vetinari as Roger Delgado.

Read Doctor Sleep after watching the movie, I could only see Ewan McGregor as Danny and Rebecca Ferguson as Rose.

I've read most of the Reacher books long before Tom Cruise and was stunned when he played the giant. Thankfully, I've got Alan Ritchson to replace him in my envisioning and will always picture him as Reacher.

I read that recently as well. I pictured younger Jeff Bridges as Sughrue and Orson Welles as Trahearne, probably because it was written in 1978.

I feel like real-life young Jeff Bridges was a bit too clean cut, but a young version of old Jeff Bridges would be perfect, if that makes sense.

When I reread the Kenzie and Gennaro series by Dennis Lehane recently I couldn't help seeing Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie because of Gone Baby Gone (the movie), even though I had read the original five books before the movie came out.

It does! That's probably what I was thinking, too. He plays "grizzled" so well now it's easy to forget he was such a pretty-boy.

Vin from Mistborn is Felicity Jones with dyed black hair.

Elend is John Kransinski in a white imperial officers uniform.

When I read the Stormligth Archive books I always picture Sadie Sink as Shallan Davar

I imagine Commander Vimes as Hugh Laurie

Well Goblet of Fire was out before the first movie (I think?) and had a scene specifically written for Hermione to explain how to pronounce her name. So that’s on you.

In The Dark Tower series, in my head, the Gunslinger is a younger Clint Eastwood. I can't shake it.

I remember actually laughing when I read that scene.

In fairness, the book even says he looks like Clint.

When I read The Martian, for whatever reason I pictured Donald Glover as Mark Watley (the nerdy, sarcastic stranded astronaut). And then they cast him in the movie... in a small supporting role.

I definitely flagged that scene and had to keep going back to remember how to pronounce it.

I always imagined Duncan Idaho as Chris Cornell. The description of Duncan with goat black hair made me think of Cornell. Even though he wasn’t an actor, I think he could of looked the part with a couple of months in the gym.

I always imagine Tom Holland as The Kid from Blood Meridian. Looks too young and harmless from outside, but really good at battering the shit out of you if provoked enough.

I think by the time I got there, I just had it totally stuck in my head the wrong way. Also, it probably didn’t help that I read that whole book in one weekend because the only copy in my house technically “belonged to my brother,” so I had to wait until he went camping.

Sir Ian McKellen is Gandalf.

Vetinari is Dick Dastardly for me

I tend to latch onto an actor, and then they become the face-cast for whatever I'm reading at the time.

Makes sense, but it stuck with me the whole series haha.

Josh Gad as ignatius reilly...I don't want Josh to die

I just read The Maid by Nita Prose and for some reason Molly's mannerisms and description just put Ana de Armas in my mind's eye.

So it's a book but I saw Kevin Smith as Bob from the whole bobiverse series. If I had a billion dollars he would play the Bobs in the movie.

In Joe Keenan's hilarious 'Putting On The Ritz', I always picture a young John Cusack (around the time of 'Bullets Over Broadway' in the role of Philip.

Bombur from The Hobbit looks just like the Spirit of Christmas Present from Muppet Christmas Carol, just dwarf-sized. Which is less far-fetched than you might think, because SCP shifts size from too large for a room to comfortably in the room, to at one point the size of a mouse.

Megan Follows as Anne Shirley and Winona Ryder as Jo March! I know there are other great versions of those stories, but they seem like separate/totally different things, if that makes sense (it probably doesn't, lol)

Any time a male character is described as being ridiculously super handsome, I always think of Manny Jacintol and then get confused if/when later they refer to blond hair or whatever.

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