3. Eliza Dushku as Rogue
This particular offering might be the most controversial, not to mention a trifle premature, as current incarnation Anna Paquin isn’t exactly going anywhere. Now it’s fair to say that Paquin is fantastic and incredibly sexy as Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood. However as Rogue she is frankly awful.
Firstly, Rogue is one of the more flamboyant and openly sexy characters in the X-Men gallery. If you mix that with the tragedy that she can never really act on her passions makes her a great character. Unfortunately, Paquin (or the script she was given) plays her as a bland and unattractive mousey-brown goth. Rogue should be none of these things. She has a husky, confident flirtatatious nature, and she is also an absolute knock-out.
A second issue with Paquin’s Rogue is that she is young and naive, which again doesn’t work for Rogue, who in many ways has a fair amount of bitter experience which hides behind her huge personality. In which case, Eliza Dushku of Dollhouse and Buffy fame could be a really good call.
She is now in her early 30s, so a perfect age for a wise-cracking, confident sassy character, which, to be fair, could be considered her thing. Her character of Faith in Buffy was only meant to appear in 2 episodes but was so popular she was written into 20 more, not to mention appearances on the subsequent Angel spin-off. Faith is in many ways similar to Rogue, with that world cynicism and sharp tongue. Plus no-one can actually have a beef with Dushku, since she is known to kick-box and do her own stunts, which also means that she’s in great shape to play the super strong Southern belle.
Maybe with slightly darker hair and, of course, that famous white streak, Dushku might be a great candidate to make the words ‘kick’ and ‘ass’ synonymous with Rogue once more.
