Ewan as Lupin

[Heather Moore]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., Christina Gross <changeling707 at l...> wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Dec 2001 17:36:11 -0000, "Wanda Sherratt"
> <sherratt at m...> wrote:
> 
> >I know JKR wanted Alan Rickman for the part of Snape, but I can't 
> >believe she would have gone along with that degree of rewriting 
just 
> >to get him.  This whole story is built on people's connections 
with 
> >each other - Snape, James, Lupin, Black, Pettigrew - you can't 
take 
> >Snape out of the equation without really messing up the plot.
> 
> I agree. Didn't Rowling say she thought about Alan Rickman while she
> was writing and not just when the movie started to take shape and
> casting decisions had to be made? Rickman would have been the right
> age back then. 
> 
> >  I think 
> >a better way of doing it would be to be rather vague about the age 
of 
> >Harry's parents.  
> 
> I don't have a problem with that. I always pictured Sirius, Lupin,
> Snape and Harry's parents, had they lived, in their late thirties or
> early forties anyway. I can also pretend that Alan Rickman is 
actually
> ten years younger, unless they cast somebody like Ewan McGregor and
> expect me to believe that they are the same age. I like the idea of
> Snape looking older because of what he has been through as a Death
> Eater and spy, but it doesn't really work as an explanation why he
> looks so much older than his former classmates. Sirius had Azkaban 
to
> live with and Lupin's life is a mess because he's a werewolf. 
> 


 Actually, in the books the Marauders Generation are all in their mid-
30's, roughly 35 in POA.  But I noticed last night that while yes, 
Snape looks a leeeeetle bit older than 33 in the movie, the "aged up" 
parents Harry sees in the Mirror look about the same age as Snape; 
they all look roughly late 30's. I don't think there will be all that 
much of a problem if either Christian Bale or Ewen MacGregor 
eventually signs on as Lupin. In any case, it's not horribly 
difficult or expensive to do a makeup which ages an actor about ten 
years or so -- I don't think such a smallish transformation requires 
any latex pieces or the like.