More About Ava
February 28th, 2004 | Posted by Shannon
Who was responsible for casting 1957’s The Sun Also Rises? What a piss-poor job that was. I think when they got to the part of Brett Ashley, they scratched their heads and said, “hmmm, what actress likes nineteen-year-olds in really tight pants?” Why, Ava Gardner, of course! It probably made perfect sense at the time.
Of course then the whole cast had to be twenty years older than they should have been. The only worse casting in the history of mankind was the TV version of the same novel with Jane Seymour and Hart Bochner (now there’s a juicy twosome. Gag.)
