Cast Leaked For "Brothers & Sisters: The Early Years"

"Forget it, Bugsy. You'll never get your hands on Ojai Foods!"

When I heard Brothers & Sisters planned a two-part flashback where we would see Kevin, Kitty, and the rest of the Walker siblings as young teens, I immediately thought of that seventies film Bugsy Malone, which had Scott Baio as a singing, dancing mobster and Jody Foster as his flapper gun moll.

Weird, right? But that's the association I made. I guess I'd be more interested in watching child actors pretend to be the adult Walker siblings (possibly with singing and dancing!) than I am in a serious dramatic flashback to the Walker clan's Pasadena childhood.

Still, the casting for this thing has me curious, and E! Online's Watch with Kristin offered up some names on exactly who will be playing who in B&S: The Early Years. We've got the side by side pictures for you so you can compare the teen versions to the adult cast:

Joe Jonas as Tommy

Kay Panabaker as Kitty

Anna Wood as Sarah

Kasey Campbell as Kevin

All in all I'd say they did a reasonable job finding teen actors who resemble their adult counterparts. It's actually a better phyiscal match up than they did with the original casting. I mean, in what universe could Calista Flockhart be biologically related to Rachel Griffiths?

No word on who might be playing Justin, Saul or William Walker. Also no word on whether a young Robert McAllister might show up, but we should probably brace ourselves, since the damn character seems to worm his way into every scene on the show.

Lastly we have the casting for Nora Walker. That part is still up in the air, but Watch with Kristin mentions a few names on the shortlist:

clockwise from top left: Nora Zehetner, Rachel Leigh Cook,
  Sally Field, and Courtney Ford

I'm thinking that Nora Zehetner looks a lot like a young Sally Field, so she might make a believable Nora Walker. But who knows, maybe they'll just give the part to Sally herself. Remember, the last time they did a flashback on Brothers & Sisters (way back in episode 109) they just put Sally in a dark brown wig and filmed her through a shower curtain.

So what do you think of the young Walker cast line up? Any suggestions for Justin, Saul, Holly and the rest?