My Cast for The Third Secret by Steve Berry
by gaelstirler | created - 02 Jul 2011 | updated - 11 Jul 2011 | PublicWho would I cast for the characters in Steven Berry's novel The Third Secret? It is about the third and darkest prophesy made by Lucia of Fatima that deeply troubles Pope Clement XV. He sends his trusted secretary, Monsignor Colin Michener, to investigate but ominous forces follow his every move. Soon Michener is embroiled in suspision, deceit, suicide, and murder. He is forced to face his own secret past as he unravels the mystery that will shake the whole world.
1. Kyle MacLachlan
Actor | Twin Peaks: The Return
The "boy next door, if that boy spent lots of time alone in the basement", is how Rich Cohen described Kyle MacLachlan in a 1994 article for "Rolling Stone" magazine. That distinctly askew wholesomeness made MacLachlan a natural to become famous as the alter ego of twisted director David Lynch.
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Monsignor Colin Michener, Secretary to the Pope, American of Irish decent. My second choice is Pierce Brosden
2. Javier Bardem
Actor | Skyfall
Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.
He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...
Alberto Cardinal Valendrea, powerful Italian cardinal considered the front runner for the next pope.
3. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
Pope Clement XV, aging German pope, deeply troubled by the third Fatima prophecy. Mentor to Monsignor Michener.
4. Carrie-Anne Moss
Actress | The Matrix
Carrie-Anne Moss was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. At age 20, after studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she moved to Europe to pursue a career in modeling. While in Spain she was cast in the TV show Dark Justice which was produced in Barcelona for its first season and Los ...
Katerina Lew, atheist, journalist, mistress of Father Kealy and ex-mistress of Monsignor Colin Michener.
5. Max von Sydow
Actor | Flash Gordon
Max von Sydow was born Carl Adolf von Sydow on April 10, 1929 in Lund, Skåne, Sweden, to a middle-class family. He was the son of Baroness Maria Margareta (Rappe), a teacher, and Carl Wilhelm von Sydow, an ethnologist and folklore professor. His surname traces back to his partial German ancestry.
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Father Tibor, original translator of the phrophecy, now runs a Romanian orphanage.
6. Kevin Spacey
Actor | L.A. Confidential
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...
Father Kealy, defrocked and excomunicated priest who advocates for marriage in the clergy.
7. Lara Robinson
Actress | Upper Middle Bogan
With an impressive list of credits to her name, Lara is perhaps best known to audiences for her work in the ABC comedy Upper Middle Bogan. This year, Lara has taken a place on the MA Theatre Lab program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London.
Prior feature credits include Knowing, ...
Lucia, the child prophet of Fatima.
8. Dennis Haysbert
Actor | Far from Heaven
Dennis Haysbert was born on June 2, 1954 in San Mateo, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Far from Heaven (2002), 24 (2001) and Heat (1995). He was previously married to Lynn Griffith and Elena Simms.
Maurice Cardinal Ngovi, archbishop of Nairobi, senior of the African cardinals.
9. Ciarán Hinds
Actor | Belfast
Ciarán Hinds was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on February 9, 1953. He was one of five children and the only son. His father was a doctor who hoped to have Ciarán follow in his footsteps, but that was not to be. It was his mother Moya, an amateur actress, who was the real influence behind his ...
Pope Paul VI, predecssor to Pope Clement XV
10. James Frain
Actor | The Tudors
James Frain is one of Hollywood's most versatile and respected actors who has a reputation for bold, intelligent performances in a diverse body of work in which he's collaborated with some of the finest actors and directors working today.
James is well known for his portrayal of real life current ...
Monsignor Ambrosi, Valendrea's muscle.
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