Editing Brazil (1985 film) (section)

==Cast==
===Main cast===
* [[Jonathan Pryce]] as Sam Lowry. Pryce has described the role as the highlight of his career, along with that of [[Lytton Strachey]] in ''[[Carrington (film)|Carrington]]''.<ref>{{cite web|first=Terri|last=Paddock|url=http://www.whatsonstage.com/interviews/theatre/london/E8821084788789/20+Questions+With%85Jonathan+Pryce.html|title=20 Questions With ... Jonathan Pryce|website=Whatsonstage.com|date=17 May 2004|access-date=19 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417192253/http://www.whatsonstage.com/west-end-theatre/news/05-2004/20-questions-withjonathan-pryce_25160.html|archive-date=17 April 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Tom Cruise]] was also considered for the role.<ref>{{cite web|first=Simon|last=Kinnear|url=http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/at-the-movies/a554073/re-viewed-terry-gilliams-prescient-sci-fi-brazil.html|title=Re-Viewed: Terry Gilliam's prescient sci-fi ''Brazil''|website=[[Digital Spy]]|publisher=[[Bauer Media Group]]|location=London, England|date=8 March 2014|access-date=11 March 2014|archive-date=10 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140310193728/http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/at-the-movies/a554073/re-viewed-terry-gilliams-prescient-sci-fi-brazil.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Kim Greist]] as Jill Layton. Gilliam's first choice for the part was [[Ellen Barkin]]; also considered were [[Jamie Lee Curtis]], [[Rebecca De Mornay]], [[Rae Dawn Chong]], [[Joanna Pacuła]], [[Rosanna Arquette]], [[Kelly McGillis]] and [[Madonna]].<ref name="SciFlicks">{{cite web|url=http://www.sciflicks.com/en/brazil/facts.html|title=Brazil – The Facts|work=sciflicks.com|access-date=19 August 2012|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080113/http://www.sciflicks.com/en/brazil/facts.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Gilliam was reportedly dissatisfied with Greist's performance and chose to cut or edit some of her scenes as a result.<ref name="SciFlicks"/>
* [[Robert De Niro]] as Archibald "Harry" Tuttle. De Niro still wanted a part in the film after being denied that of Jack Lint, so Gilliam offered him the smaller role of Tuttle.<ref name="CriterionCommentary"/>
* [[Katherine Helmond]] as Mrs Ida Lowry. According to Helmond, Gilliam called her and said, "I have a part for you, and I want you to come over and do it, but you're not going to look very nice in it." The make-up was applied by Gilliam's wife, Maggie. During production, Helmond spent ten hours a day with a mask glued to her face; her scenes had to be postponed due to the blisters this caused.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/katherine-helmond|title=Katherine Helmond|date=8 December 2010|work=Television Academy Foundation|series=The Interviews|access-date=19 August 2012|archive-date=14 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014152812/https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/katherine-helmond|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Ian Holm]] as Mr Kurtzmann, Sam's boss.
* [[Bob Hoskins]] as Spoor, a government-employed heating engineer who resents Harry Tuttle.
* [[Michael Palin]] as Jack Lint. Robert De Niro read the script and expressed interest in the role, but Gilliam had already promised the part to Palin, a friend and regular collaborator. Palin described the character as "someone who was everything that Jonathan Pryce's character wasn't: he's stable, he had a family, he was settled, comfortable, hard-working, charming, sociable—and utterly and totally unscrupulous. That was the way we felt we could bring out the evil in Jack Lint."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wideanglecloseup.com/palin.html|title=Michel Palin on BRAZIL|last=Morgan|first=David|website=Wideanglecloseup.com|access-date=19 August 2012|archive-date=21 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721195056/http://www.wideanglecloseup.com/palin.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Ian Richardson]] as Mr Warrenn, Sam's new boss at Information Retrieval.
* [[Peter Vaughan]] as Mr Eugene Helpmann, the Deputy Minister of Information.

===Supporting cast===
{{Cast listing|
* [[Jim Broadbent]] as Dr Louis Jaffe
* [[Brian Miller (actor)|Brian Miller]] as Mr Archibald Buttle
* [[Sheila Reid]] as Mrs Veronica Buttle
* [[Simon Nash]] as Boy Buttle 
* [[Barbara Hicks]] as Mrs Terrain
* [[Kathryn Pogson]] as Shirley Terrain
* [[Bryan Pringle]] as Spiro
* [[Derrick O'Connor]] as Dowser
* [[Elizabeth Spender]] as Alison "Barbara" Lint
* [[Derek Deadman]] and [[Nigel Planer]] as Bill and Charlie
* [[Ray Cooper]] as Technician 
* [[Gorden Kaye]] as the M.O.I. porter
* [[John Pierce Jones]] as Basement guard 
* [[Ann Way]] as Old lady with dog 
* [[Myrtle Devenish]] as Jack's secretary
* [[Simon Jones (actor)|Simon Jones]] as Arrest official 
* [[Bill Wallis]] as Bespectacled lurker 
* [[Don Henderson]] as Black Maria guard
* [[Howard Lew Lewis]] as&nbsp;Black Maria guard 
* [[Oscar Quitak]] as Interview official 
* [[Harold Innocent]] as Interview official 
* [[John Grillo]] as Interview official 
* [[Patrick Connor (actor)|Patrick Connor]] as guard 
* [[Roger Ashton-Griffiths]] as the Priest
* [[Jack Purvis (actor)|Jack Purvis]] as Dr Chapman
* [[Sue Hodge]] as performer
}}

===Cameos===
* Co-writer [[Charles McKeown]] as Harvey Lime, Sam's co-worker
* Director [[Terry Gilliam]] as the smoking man at Shang-ri La Towers