Hugo Weaving as Lucius (was Re: Has Anyone Seen "Rings"?)

[heathernmoore]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "katrionabowman" <gingerorlando at h...> wrote:
> > Hugoe Weaver is AMERICAN.  For that he does not qualified to be in 
> > a Harry Potter movie.
> 
> Hugo Weaving is actually Nigerian but lived in Australia from the age 
> of 16. Is it explicitly stated somewhere that anyone of non-British 
> descent cannot be cast in an HP movie? Zoe Wanamaker (aka Madame 
> Hooch) was actually born in New York after all, to American parents. 
> Though you could never tell from her cut-glass accent!
> 
> KT in Seattle - who remembers lusting shamelessly after Hugo Weaving 
> in his 1989 Australian TV miniseries _Bangkok Hilton_ - also starring 
> a then unknown Nicole Kidman.


 Yummy.. the only Australian miniseries I've ever seen was SWORD OF HONOR,
but that Tony was a hottie!


 What is *not* beside the point, however is that I really doubt the "Brits Only" 
restriction is going to survive all seven films. It might go as far as POA, but 
by the time we get all the way to movie 8 (assuming 2 movies for GoF), we'll
have seen non-Brits cast.