Casting the Other Films (long)

[Heather Moore]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., tenpinkpiggies at h... wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "John Hancock" <seeker at h...> wrote:
> > --- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "David " <davisaacs at h...> wrote:
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> > > > Mr. Bagman - Stephen Fry
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> > Has anyone else heard rumours that Colm Meaney has been discussed 
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> > regard to the above role, and does anyone else think that Ken 
> > Brannagh isn't the right choice for Lockhart?
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> Oooh, don't take the wind out of my sails on Brannaugh. I predicted 
> him before I even knew they were making a movie. I used to imagine 
> Lockhart AS Brannaugh. The casting is totally brilliant. They are 
> creepily similar in real life...Brannaugh is so terrible arrogant, 
> yet smooth. The only difference is that Brannaugh is actually 
> brilliant whereas Lockhart is an idiot.


  And Brannagh is also said to have a genuinely likeable charm and 
sense of humor, despite the self-worship. You wouldn't mind being 
stuck in an elevator with him for about twenty minutes, although 
soon after *that* you'd start searching around in your purse for 
your feminine hygiene products and asking him to turn around and 
give you privacy, just to torture him and make him squirm. Also ditto 
the "not Lockhart" part of the equation - it would be straight for 
the sharpened-nailfile shiv for that one, baby, and none of this 
"press the emergency button and see if someone answers" crap!

 Hrm... although... Lockhart would have still commanded a soft spot in 
my heart if only he hadn't been so willing to leave the kids down 
there as basilisk chow while he got his own yeller ass outta dodge. 
Damn you, Lockhart. You were rather cute in your bumbling, windbagged 
bluster right up until that point.