Not Just Anyone Can Play A Vampire – But Why Can't Sam Worthington?

For a few months now, there's been a growing fuss about the fact that Sam Worthington has been tapped by director Alex Proyas to play Dracula in Proyas's new movie, Dracula Year Zero, and the fuss hasn't been positive. First Showing.net is a milder and nicely generic example of the movie sites out there that think Worthington is the wrong choice for the role.

I think they're wrong, and not because Worthington is a fellow countryman, and way too sexy for his own good.  The second fact is...