Which young actress today could play Scarlett O'Hara?

Someone American.

None.

I don’t think there would be much appetite among today’s actors and filmmakers for telling a story lamenting the loss of the southern plantation way of life. Though there would probably be plenty of Americans who’d want to watch it.

Florence Pugh could

Ronan is a great actress but not really sexy enough to pull off this role

O'Hara would be approached differently today. She wouldn't be the heroine in her own story. It would be more of an ensemble that would relay various perspectives. Ronan would be an appropriate choice. Anya Taylor-Joy and Florence Pugh would be strong choices as well. Elle Fanning would also work for those who would clutch their pearls at the idea of a non-American playing the iconic character.

MISS Viola Davis

Egad, none of those low-energy emos.

What's Andie McDowell's daughter's name? Maybe her.

Actually, R7, that's a good suggestion. She's fiery and raw. And she sprung from the loins of a Southerner mother, etc, which gives her some "cred" as well.

R7, Margaret Qualley. She'd be fantastic. She's been excellent in everything I've seen her in so far.

Joanne Whalley.

No one...no modern actress has the talent, fire, looks, drive or ambition to play Scarlett O'Hara 2022. They just do not have the "IT factor" to play Scarlett.

Catherine Zeta-Jones.

None of OP's choices are beautiful enough although Florence Pugh is probably the most conventionally attractive.

Ronan is by far the best actress of the group.

R13, the opening line of Margaret Mitchell's novel is "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful..."

I think Ronan would be ridiculous in that role. Nothing about her says femme fatale, and no amount of acting can surmount that.

The incomparable Vivien Leigh is Scarlett O'Hara for all eternity and beyond, she has no equal - past, present or future - SHE is Scarlett O'Hara, so fiddle dee dee...

Nena Leaks or Lens Dunham

Does Jennifer Connelly have an actress daughter?

Flo looks formidable in a hoop skirt.

Linda Lavin

Kristin Davis maybe 25 years and 2 pounds of fillers ago.

I could play Scarlett better than any of these menstruating hags...

As long as there's food stamps, I'll never be hungry again!

Would Emma Corrin shave her armpits for the role?

Raven Symone.

None, and nobody wants it.

If you read the book, it is on board or at least presents at face value the idea that black people were "like children" and better off under the guidance of their masters.

Very much like the MRA trolls are trying to say today, right now in the "men are the problem" thread.

SJP would be great

OP did you leave out Miss Jennifer Lawrence on purpose?

R17 that photo must be 'shopped. Florence Pugh is quite attractive but she has no neck.

Kaya Scordelario

R29 who is that girl? She's gorgeous.

Southern American actress

Florence Pugh beautiful to be Scarlett O’Hara?

Omg.

All these actresses listed as basic white women.

Vivian Leigh was stunning. Her nose, her cheekbones, her jawline, her eyes, her small pout. And she was an incredible actress.

None of these actresses come close in beauty or talent.

Florence Pugh looks like a kindergarten teacher to me. She’s got a moon face and absolutely no stand out features. She looks even worse as a brunette which is why she stays blonde mostly.

Damian Hurley is the only one with the fire and music.

I think of Scodelario as a British actress

OP, are you drunk?

Kristin Davis is 57 years old and made out of plastic.

So? Scarlett is 160 if she's a day.

I'm an amazing character actress and can always change my appearance - don't let my age, that old broad Joan Crawford, or my ungrateful daughter BD tell you otherwise.

I think ScarJo is still young and beautiful enough. But she’d probably insist on playing Mammy 🙄

The prestige picture could attract Mo’nique as Mammy and Beyoncé as Prissy.

Florence Pugh is way too big big boned and butch to play Scarlett.

R31 That would be ME, thank you!

It's fun to speculate but the truth is no studio or producer would touch this material in today's climate and attempting a woke treatment would be insane.

R33 that face, are you casting for a non-binary version O'Hara?

R29 I agree, I’m the poll I’d say Emma looks the closest

[quote]No one...no modern actress has the talent, fire, looks, drive or ambition to play Scarlett O'Hara 2022. They just do not have the "IT factor" to play Scarlett.

All of that is true, but there's something else too: all of the actresses listed (well, except Kristin Davis) are too girlish. None of them reads as womanly, the way Vivien Leigh did.

Margot ROBBIE or Emma Stone.

Olivia Holt... in a modernized and sanitized musical version for hulu, no doubt.

Thomasin McKenzie - has the aesthetics for period pieces... and could likely pull it off with a proper dialect coach.

Camila Morrone.... also could fit the aesthetic but has a crack baby voice.

Sophia Lillis... would be an interesting choice but very subdued energy.

Ariela Barer.... needs an acting coach.

I agree with those saying no one today could do it, due to lack of beauty, talent, and "it" factor. All but one of the women who originally auditioned were lacking in the same areas. Everytime I think about it, or watch the film, I'm so relieved and grateful that the casting of Scarlett ultimately happened the way it did. Especially after seeing the screentests of the other actresses who were considered.

And as amatuerish as Paulette Goddard was, she was quite close for a bit at one point. This could've easily been just another largely-forgotton film from the 1930s (even despite the soaring popularity of the book at the time) but Leigh WAS Scarlett, and Selznick (who worked tirelessly on every conceivable detail of the production) knew it, and cast her. It may have been the single greatest decision of his career.

Mayin Bialyk

I think the more important question is who should play Neely O'Hara in the remake of Valley of the Dolls.

Kristin Davis for Aunt Pitypat

[quote]Olivia Holt

Yea!!🤗 I literally have no idea who that is!

So I say Olivia Colman!

R50, Ben Affleck.

Neely would be easy to cast. Scarlett is hard. I can't think of one suitable actress.

No, r51, there's only one possible Aunt Pittypat.

Just like in 1939, I’m sure there is the perfect actress to portray Scarlett but she is not a Hollywood star, yet.

Ashley Judd or Natalie Portman when both were younger would have been interesting. But I mean before they each developed insane egos you can see on-screen.

That list is ridiculous.

Vickie Gunvalson

Ezra Miller as Melanie Hamilton

R55. You’re right!

Elliot Page as Beau Wilkes.

None.

Jennifer Lopez IS Belle Watling

R55 only if you cast Sen Tim Scott as Uncle Peter.

Lizzo as Scarlett and Christine Ebersole as Mammy in The Wiz version of Gone with the Wind:

Lost Windz

Delta Burke

I wasn't sure whether Clarence Thomas should be Uncle Peter or Big Sam but I finally decided he'd be best as Tara's evil Yankee overseer Jonas Wilkerson with his wife Ginni as the white trash Slattery woman he marries.

Connie Sellecca. "As God is my witness, I'll never go without Geritol again!"

Jizzy Jennings and her crockpot full of Yankee cheese!!!!!

I'll let G have this one.

Totie Fields!

Beanie Feldstein should be available soon.

To R70, but her "dirty parts" will fall out again full of GASP! New England cheese& Union soldiers, they will deflower the womanhood of the South.

Shelley Hack

Ezra Miller

NONE!

Olivia Rodrigo. She's enough of a bitch.

The Affleck interregnum

Me. I would do it and it's time Scarlett O'Hara was played by a strong black woman.

with Will as Ashley

Will should do it. He can give a mean slap and an excellent trembling lip cry.

I can't think of any actress who has Leigh's magnetism and would make audiences believe Rhett would lust after Scarlett all those years when she was so cunty to him. Elizabeth Taylor might have been able to play her in the 1950s, but I can't think of anyone else in cinema history.

Thankfully due to wokeness this film will never be remade

Gabourey Sidibe.

No one would touch this right now, which is good, because instead of simply being a modern retelling with an equality-minded perspective. it would be a total woke disaster. A future generation will have to take it on.

In the late 1980s a movie reboot was in discussion by a major studio with Sheena Easton being though of as the lead. Like a Scottish singer would have been casting choice,

Hayley from Modern Family.

Ana De Armas. She just can't talk...

Billy Porter as Mammy.

Where is VV in this poll?

Vivian Vance has been replaced by Kristen Davis as the default choice. Keep up!