Posted 01 January 2006 - 03:06 AM
You can't really cast Trilby until you know about all the massive amounts of characterisation I've given him in my private canon. I've tried writing a novel of his backstory, but I keep slowing down on it. Anyway, long story short, Trilby puts on the facade of a suave debonaire thief when inwardly he's a complete mental fuckup whose thieving tendencies come more from being neurotic than any sort of principles or monetary goals.
Also, he doesn't look like someone who could be a gentleman thief, or at least that's what he thinks when he looks in the mirror. He's neither sharply ugly nor devilishly handsome - he's just a guy you wouldn't look twice at. He only really started taking the idea seriously when he saw himself in the mirror wearing the full thief outfit and mask that covers his whole face.
My personal idea for Trilby's casting is Richard Roxburgh, who combines average looks with the slight hint of being ever so slightly insane.
As I walked through the valley of the shadow of death, I realised that it could do with a lick of paint.