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David Kenneth Harbour (born April 10, 1975) is an American actor. He has received nominations for a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. David began his career acting in Shakespearean theatre productions. After his professional debut on Broadway in the 1999 revival of The Rainmaker, he was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. He made his television debut on Law & Order in 1999 and had supporting roles in films such as Brokeback Mountain (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008) and Black Mass (2015). Harbour gained global recognition for his portrayal of Jim Hopper in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things (2016–2025), for which he received a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. His starring film roles include the title character in Hellboy (2019), Santa Claus in Violent Night (2022) and a former racer in the sports film Gran Turismo (2023). Harbour has played Red Guardian in the Marvel Cinematic Universe media franchise, beginning with the film Black Widow (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article David Harbour, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Been a while since I've done one of these, but this is something that I've been wanting to do for a really long time now. Let me just preface this by saying that we absolutely DO NOT need for any kind of live action adaptation of Arcane to be made in any way, shape or form. We all know the actual Arcane animated series is purely phenomenal entirely on its one and has no need to be changed or altered in any regard whatsoever. However, while I do wholeheartedly think that it doesn't need to happen, I also think that there is some level of possibility that it could actually work if it were to be given the same exact treatment that was given to the most recent live action One Piece series, as that's a live action reinterpretation of an animated property that pays respect to the source material that it's based on while also having its own distinctive identity. Which is exactly what a live action Arcane series should be if it were to ever be made. With all of that in mind, here's my casting ideas for the key characters of a hypothetical live action reimagining of the incredible work of cinematic art that is Arcane
