Open Casting for Violet and Klaus in Netflix's ASoUE

[Linda Rhaldeen]

Dec 7, 2015 2:38:20 GMT -5 Tryina Denouement said:

but i'm still ugly as hell and nobody thinks violet looks asian

Violet can look Asian if she wants, pretty much the only descriptor is that she has dark hair.

[Hermes]

DH has said that no one's race is stated in the series, and therefore the parts are open to all. There might still be some problems with members of one family - it would look a bit odd if Violet were Asian and Klaus were not. (I suppose Klaus might be adopted. That wouldn't work for Duncan and Isadora, though.)

[Invisible]

So I asked my mum if my stepdad's youngest son would be interested. She said no. Well, I tried.

[Cafe SalMONAlla]

Dec 7, 2015 9:28:04 GMT -5 Hermes said:

DH has said that no one's race is stated in the series, and therefore the parts are open to all.

This is where.

[Tryina Denouement]

But I'm still more fit to working backstage, and I have stage fright.

[Skelly Craig]

Well, nobody's forcing you. Pretty sure they're going to receive more than enough applicants.

I'd have loved to try and get a small on-set job too, though, if it weren't all the way in Canada.

[Tryina Denouement]

Hahaha, yeah.
I agree with you.

[allegedly bryan]

Dec 7, 2015 9:28:04 GMT -5 Hermes said:

DH has said that no one's race is stated in the series, and therefore the parts are open to all. There might still be some problems with members of one family - it would look a bit odd if Violet were Asian and Klaus were not. (I suppose Klaus might be adopted. That wouldn't work for Duncan and Isadora, though.)

Woah I just remembered when I was reading the books I just assumed the Quagmires were asian the entire time?? I wonder why

[Obscure Orestes]

i was ready to send for klaus.
but im 14, i look like a dead duck and guhh.
anyway i hope they will find good kids to play them

[Eponine]

You should still send in a video if you look young enough

[Violent BUN Fortuna]

Dec 4, 2015 3:44:24 GMT -5 Dante said:

At any rate, I do regard the "mystery of the mysterious death of their parents" as essentially a new plot element, though, as it was never presented as mysterious in the books until the penultimate chapter of the final book, at which point there's an open-ended suggestion that it might have been foul play.

Well, I always thought it was kind of presented as mysterious from the get go, without explicitly saying so. I mean, the very fact that this fire just started -- that's odd. And as the series go on and they meet other people with fires in their past, there are obvious links being drawn, so to me I always thought it was obviously supposed to be mysterious/suspicious even though the Baudelaires didn't properly address this issue until The End. 

[Dante]

I'm more of the opinion that it's something which was significantly more mysterious to the readership than to the characters themselves. As time went by, more and more prejudicial circumstances arose in relation to the Baudelaire fire, but nobody ever outright says that the cause of the fire is under suspicion, and a lot of the evidence that there's more to it would never have been encountered by the Baudelaires themselves (because it's in the U.A. or the BBRE).

[Violent BUN Fortuna]

Jan 16, 2016 4:43:34 GMT -5 Dante said:

I'm more of the opinion that it's something which was significantly more mysterious to the readership than to the characters themselves. As time went by, more and more prejudicial circumstances arose in relation to the Baudelaire fire, but nobody ever outright says that the cause of the fire is under suspicion, and a lot of the evidence that there's more to it would never have been encountered by the Baudelaires themselves (because it's in the U.A. or the BBRE).

While it's true that a lot of the evidence the readers get to see isn't available to the Baudelaires, I still felt that, as the series went on, the Baudelaires found more and more pieces of information which made the circumstances of the fire seem suspicious. Nothing explicit, but lots of 'coincidences' which pointed to something more than an accident. Indeed, when Klaus finally says 'You're the one who made us orphans in the first place' he is described as 'uttering out loud for the first time a secret all three Baudelaires had kept in their hearts for almost as long as they could remember.' So while it's not ever explicitly stated before this moment, it is clearly something the Baudelaires had considered at length, and I think that is reflected in how as readers we start to form opinions about the fire. 
However, I see your point that the tv series might talk more explicitly about the mysterious nature of the fire from a much earlier point than they did in the books.