[HPFGU-Movie] Hugo Weaving as Lucius (was Re: Has Anyone Seen "Rings"?)

[Katze]

heathernmoore wrote:
> 
> --- 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.


As someone mentioned before...we already have seen an American cast in
the film. Madam Hooch. Zoe Wanamaker is a US citizen, though lives in
Britain and speaks with a "flawless" english accent.