Kalliope lives with one purpose. To inspire.
As an immortal muse, she doesn’t have any other choice. It’s part of how she was made. Musicians, artists, actors—they use her to advance their art, and she uses them to survive. She moves from one artist to the next, never staying long enough to get attached. But all she wants is a different life— a normal one. She’s spent thousands of years living lie after lie, and now she’s ready for something real.
Sweet, sexy, and steady, Wilder Bell feels more real than anything else in her long existence. And most importantly… he’s not an artist. He doesn’t want her for her ability. But she can’t turn off the way she influences people, not even to save a man she might love. Because in small doses, she can help make something beautiful, but her ability has just as much capacity to destroy as it does to create. The longer she stays, the more obsessed Wilder will become. It’s happened before, and it never turns out well for the mortal.
Her presence may inspire genius.
But it breeds madness, too.
A quick disclaimer: A dream cast is just that - a dream. In
an ideal world, Inspire would be made into a movie starring these lovely,
talented people and I could write the script and direct it and it would be
wildly successful and win all sorts of awards! Okay. Maybe not write and
direct. That's a lot of pressure. More likely I would just sit in the back
somewhere in awe. With popcorn. Gotta have popcorn. But really, this is just a
fun way to put faces to the characters that I imagined. I’d love to hear your
ideas for who you cast in these roles - feel free to leave them in the
comments!
Kalliope
If we were going on looks alone, I think Shay Mitchell (of Pretty Little Liars fame) would be
perfect.
But then I started thinking…. who do we know who is THAT
gorgeous AND talented enough to totally pull off an immortal muse with
millennia full of baggage? Perhaps someone who knows what it's like to handle
TONS a of backstory all at the same time. And hell, someone who could play all
nine of the muse sisters at once.... TATIANA MASLANY.
(If you don’t know who Tatiana Maslany is, stop reading this
blog post and go watch Orphan Black.
I’m serious. DO IT NOW. She’s absolutely incredible. And she even has a super
unique name to match Kalliope! Oh man...I have such a girl crush on you,
T-Mas.)
Wilder
Sweet, sexy, steady...when I think of Wilder, I think of
Ryan Gosling. You may recognize him from movies like The Notebook, Blue Valentine, and Crazy, Sexy, Love. I
mean...just look at him:
“Hey girl, I’d love to
be in a movie based on that book you wrote.”
Wilder even sometimes wears glasses like Ryan does. And I
see one tattoo - now he just needs sleeves!
Rook
Rook is Wilder’s best
friend, a moody, brooding musician with tattoos for days and a freaking awesome
beard. I imagine him looking a lot like Maroon 5’s front man, Adam Levine.
Jack
Jack is a painter and
one of the artists that Kalli provides with inspiration. He’s a hipster with
great hair, and the first person that comes to mind when I think of him is Matt
Smith, who you may recognize as the Eleventh Doctor from Doctor Who.
Lennox
Lennox, a fashion
design student who welcomes Kalli into her circle of friends, is funky and
friendly, quirky and unapologetic. She has a style all her own, and she’s often
dying her hair colors that may or may not appear in nature. In my head, Lennox
looks a lot like Hayley Williams, lead singer for the band Paramore. Especially
if you threw some hipster glasses on her.
And last, but
certainly not least….
Gwen
So…I’m allowed to
time travel when I’m making a dream cast, right? Because Wilder’s sassy little
sister is TOTALLY Mary Kate or Ashley Olsen circa 1992.
What do you think?
When you read Inspire, how did you picture Kalli and Wilder? I can’t wait to
hear your ideas! <3
Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters. She's done a multitude of things in her life-- boring jobs (like working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.
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