HBO Casting Call: Who Will Play Sarah Palin? (In "The Race of a Lifetime"-- Tenative Title)

Seattle PI ^ | 4/15/09

[lewisglad]

In case you missed it ... HBO is making a movie about the 2008 presidential campaign.

Hollywood doesn't wait around anymore, it seems. So already a casting director somewhere is probably asking herself this question:

Who should play John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and -- yes -- Sarah Palin?

Salon & Entertainment Weekly have posed the question, and it's a good one.

Salon readers have pitched Megan Mulally, Hilary Swank, Sandra Bullock and Felicity Huffman for Palin and Laura Linney, Glenn Close and Meryl Streep for Clinton -- with Will Smith playing Obama.

P.S. -- The movie is based on a book about the campaign -- a book written by political writers Mark Halperin and John Heilemann that won't be published until next year.

[a fool in paradise]

HBO. Hmm. They are owned by Time-Lies-Warner. Same as CNN-Turner.

Worthless partisan propaganda.

[lewisglad]

Biden: Jason Alexander...lol!

[a fool in paradise]

They should get Janine Turner. And I hear that she went to the Tea Party held in Austin (where she lives).

[RinaseaofDs]

Hollywood doesn’t have anyone hot or smart enough. Scarface on SNL even admitted that Palin’s hotter than she was, which was a flash of the obvious.

[a fool in paradise]

Sandra also moved the Austin area some years back.

[Perdogg]

I will play Todd Palin.

[longhorn too]

“I will play Todd Palin”

You lucky dog!