Lupin: Anthony Stewart Head

[heathernmoore]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "guretna" <guretna at y...> wrote:
> Forgive me if I take anyone by surprise here, but I think unless you
> are a Muggle, you must have heard the rumour that Ewan McGregor is
> considered for the part of Professor Lupin in the third movie. I
> cannot say I'm very happy with this decision, not because Ewan is a
> bad actor, but because he's a young actor. I mean Lupin is supposed 
to
> be about the age of James Potter or Snape, so unless you put some
> heavy make-up on him (which I find unnatural and as such should be
> prevented), you cannot make people believe that he (born 1971) is in
> his mid-thirties or early forties. If James has a boy of thirteen 
then
> he must be at least 35 (by general standards) and so should Lupin 
(and
> Snape and Pettigrew).
> 
> I do, though, have a rather controversial nomination too for Lupin:
> Rowan Atkinson! Some people would perhaps find him too comical to be
> Lupin, but as I'm sure he's a great actor, he should be able to 
change
> his air according to the role. What d'ya think?

  Although I previously vetted Anthony Stewart Head for Amos Diggory, 
now I've changed my mind and would love to see him as Remus Lupin. 
He's the right age to fit in with Alan Rickman and Robson Green. He's 
rather quietly attractive and not aggressively sexy or pretty. He can 
do that hangdog, persecuted vulnerability well and we've all seen him 
perfect the sadly secretive, affectionate Mentor shtick as Giles on 
BTVS.  Considering that by the time the movie is made, his Giles-back-
in-England show should be well-established, he may well be prominent 
enough to the casting staff to start getting the calls next year.