🔄 To reshape 🎭 To change actors 🔔 To melt and form

to recast

7 5.3

Give a role to a different actor in a play or film

verb
/ˌriːˈkæst/

: repartir

Due to scheduling conflicts, they will recast the main character in the film adaptation.

So they told him like, we're going to recast you.

Examples

You were recasting the lead actress.

Mulholland Drive (2001)
They're recasting your role.

Bewitched (2005)
Well, then we'll just recast her.

Honor Society (2022)
- I can always recast the part.

Moon Over Parador (1988)
I just recast the part!

Fiction book (1994)
So the news is out that they are recasting the part of Summer.

Blog text (9)
They're recasting my role already?

Bewitched (2005)
The director decided to recast the lead role after the actor dropped out.
After much discussion, the producers agreed to recast the actress for the upcoming season.

Synonyms

to cast

vsto recast

183 3.0

To choose actors for roles in a play or film

assign a different actor or choose a new performer later

Antonyms

to retain

236 3.4

To keep having something such as a job or possession

How Different

to rebuild

485 2.8

to recast

7 5.3

to replace

∞ 1.8

to reassign

74 4.1

Surface Forms

recast infinitive

recasting present participle

recasts third person singular

recasted past

recast past participle

Morphology

recast = cast (transparent) = re + cast

With the theatrical verb 'cast' meaning 'assign roles', 'recast' straightforwardly means to cast again or differently.

Etymology

Recast comes from re- meaning 'again' and cast meaning 'to choose actors', like the 'cast' of a play, so to recast a part is to 'cast it again' — give the role to a different actor.