Grandma Mazur Cast in Stephanie Plum Movie

It’s the casting we’ve all been waiting for, the part that could either make or break this film, and well what can I say other than… eeeuuuuhhhhh???

I’m really not so sure about this one, not sure at all.

It’s Debbie Reynolds. Debbie Freakin Reynolds. Debbie annoying mom to Grace Adler on Will and Grace Reynolds.  As Grandma Mazur? OUR endearing, old, batshit crazy grandma. Can she do it?

I don’t know.

I suppose I should be more supportive of her, seeing as one of the reasons I got my name was that my mother loved her Tammy Movies, but I can’t.  I can’t help but question her in this role and even our name connection can’t keep me on her side.

Let’s have a look at what Grandma Mazur is meant to be.

From Wikipedia:

Grandma Mazur is Stephanie’s maternal grandmother. In Two For The Dough her real name is Edna. She lives in Stephanie’s parents’ house ever since her husband died of heart failure. In Lean Mean Thirteen Grandma Mazur uses his real name: Harry.

She is a woman unwilling to grow old, ever. Stephanie relates to Grandma Mazur more than any other member of her family. Beginning in Two For the Dough, Grandma Mazur begins to tag along on cases with Stephanie, often pulling a gun out of her purse at inappropriate moments. Grandma Mazur also frequents the local funeral parlors because they are the social center of the neighborhood. She sometimes peeks underneath the casket lid to see the dead body, causing hysteria in the parlor.

Grandma Mazur is also the official owner of Big Blue, a ’53 powder blue Buick that men love and women hate. The car is virtually indestructible, and Grandma Mazur got it from Stephanie’s Uncle Sandor. She moved in with Stephanie for a short periods of time during “Hot Six”. She also occasionally watches pay-per-view porn, on account that “The Weather Channel doesn’t have enough action”.

Ok, if you read that and have never read the books I suppose you’d think that Debbie Reynolds would be just as capable of playing this role as anyone.  If you have read the books though, I’m sure you’ll be with me on this one.  Grandma Mazur is old.  Like OLDER THAN DIRT kind of old.  The mental image you are given of her is that she is small and somewhat frail physically, a tiny little wrinkled crazy woman.

Debbie Reynolds is getting up there, sure,  but she’s not that kind of old yet, and she just doesn’t have it.  I don’t know what IT is but it’s that thing that makes you think OMG, She would be the perfect Grandma Mazur!

Sort of like you’d have with this lady…

Now that is a crazy ol’ grandma!  She was quite possibly the only good thing about that show.

Let’s not forget my first choice…

Rappin’ Granny in the hizzouuuuuse!!  I always thought Ellen Albertini Dow would make a great Grandma Mazur.

I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong.  They can do a lot with makeup nowadays and she is a good actress.  Perhaps with the right clothes, the right script, the right acting and the right director she just might be able to make us believe she is Grandma Mazur.

That’s a lot of things to have to get right though and they do, because I’m not convinced she is right.

The casting is starting to worry me a bit.  I don’t think they made the right choice for Morelli and now this… I’m happy with the rest of the cast but these are important roles that if not done properly could ruin the movies for a lot of people who truly love the books.

What do you think?  When you heard about the movie and imagined who would be cast as Grandma Mazur, how far down your mental list was she?

All I know is, she wasn’t even ON mine.