seraphcelene | BtVS Movie Race!Swap

diochrony linked me to this awesome race swap casting of the BtVS reboot dreamed up by penny_lane_42. It is pretty damn cool. There are some things that I agree with and some that I don't, so I thought it would be awesome to come up with my own little list. Cause casting dreams, what's not fun about that? Unfortunately, I'm not as dedicated as penny_lane_42 so this is not of the oh, so fun picspam variety. I'm also not covering the entire cast because some people I'm not interested in re-casting. So, anyone not showing up in one form or another isn't anyone I bothered to think about.

penny_lane_42 cast the following and I'm good with them:
Buffy Summers - Antonia Thomas
Joyce Summers - Erica Gimpel
Xander Harris - Harry Shum, Jr.

penny_lane_42 cast the following and I'm in LOVE with the idea:
Spike - Michael Obiora
Faith - Naya Rivera
Tara - Q'orianka Kilcher
Maggie Walsh - Archie Panjabi

And then here's where my plan diverges:

Rubert Giles - Lennie James. I love the idea of Chiwetel Ejiofore, but someone mentioned Lennie James in the comments and I like that even better!

Willow Rosenberg - Summer Bishil

Dawn Summers - Paige Hurd

Cordelia Chase - Sofia Vassilieva. I started to say Brenda Song (like penny lane), but she is a little too bubbly IMO. I really, really like her and I can see her working Harmony to the max, but can't quite bite her for Cordelia.

Angel - Karl Yune. Penny Lane gave this one to Nicolas Gonzalez, and boy is he teh hotness, but I spent a significant part of my childhood in South Central and I just find it a little too cliched to cast a Hispanic as a guy called Angel. Karl Yune, however, is all kinds of super
scrumptious yummy! Totally hot and broody enough for the part.

Darla - Jurnee Smollett. I actually wanted to make this one Dichen Lachman, but since Darla is supposed to be similar to Buffy on a physical level, I went with Jurnee. I'm not convinced that Katerina Graham can carry Darla. How interesting would it be to see Jurnee's sweet face twisted and evil?

Drusilla - Smith Cho. I like the idea of Smith more than Dichen in this part. Like I said, I'd totally dig Dichen as Darla, however.

Oz - Khleo Thomas or Aaron Yoo.

Jenny Calendar - Fairuza Balk. pennylane42 cast Jasika Nicole and I actually LOVE that choice and would go with that. However, for the sake of fun and maintaining Jenny's heritage, I picked Fairuza Balk.

The Mayor - Juliet Stevenson. Okay this one was HARD! I don't like Dennis Haysbert for the part. He has a little too much gravitas. Although he is an excellent actor and I'm sure that he could pull of The Mayor's wackier personality traits, I decided to genderbend rather than race swap on this one. Juliet Stevenson, I think would be AWESOME! And imagine the crazy mama figure she would be for Faith. Lords!

The challenge with lists like this is avoiding ethnic stereotypes, but also not to forget the point of some characters.

So, yeah, there you go. And if anyone could manage to get Karl Yune cast as Angel, I would really appreciate it. Really.