Miscast? Angelina Jolie as Kay Scarpetta

Angelina Jolie has signed on to play Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the protagonist of Patricia Cornwell’s best-selling crime novels. The casting is bound to irritate purist fans of the Scarpetta series, as the Amazonian, brunette Jolie bears little physical resemblance to the character. The Dr. Scarpetta of the novels is a petite, middle-aged woman with short blonde hair, much like the author herself. In the early nineties, Cornwall lobbied heavily for fellow diminutive dyke Jodie Foster to play the movie version of Scarpetta.