Casting Call: Ava Lord – A Dame to Kill For

I recently finished my first reading of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, and knew going in that Rodriguez and Miller were planning to put it in the second Sin City movie. There’s been a lot of speculation about who would play the title character - Ava. Angelina Jolie’s name was kicked around for a while, but as far as I know casting hasn’t been made official yet. So here at Adorkification, I give you another name to throw into the hat:

I know what some people might say, but let’s look at this character for a minute. Ava’s a beautiful, manipulative beyotch who uses her looks to drive men to commit adultery, murder and suicide. This isn’t a dig about Megan’s personality; all I’m saying is that Ava Lord is definitely within Megan’s acting range based on what she’s been in so far.

Ava’s not the brightest crayon in the box, and uses what she has to great effect. Whomever they do cast for this role wouldn’t have to quote Shakespeare, and based on the way Rodriguez works would have to stare in awe of things that weren’t there.


In fact, since Rodriguez uses Miller’s visual style for storyboarding, she wouldn’t need to imagine anything. She could just look at the story and go from there.

The main obstacle this role has is nudity. Jessica Alba was able to get away with not exposing herself as Nancy Callahan – a very popular stripper by the way - but Ava’s character is built on her body…which is seen…a lot. The actress that plays her would have to go the same route as Carla Gugino and Jaime King, which admittedly would draw a lot of people to theaters.

So we’ll see. This is a great story, and she is a great character, and I can’t wait to see it on the screen.