Casting

[Anne R Urbanski]

Beth Loubet wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about this for a while now, and I think the actor I'd 
> love to see do Dumbledore is Derek Jacobi. (See www.imdb.com for a listing 
> of his work. If you click on the entry for the Cadfael TV series, you can 
> see a picture.) I think his voice has both gentleness and strength, and he 
> can be kind, whimsical, and a warrior. I'd love to see him take this part.



Derek Jacobi!! What an inspired idea, Beth. I love the idea of Sir Derek as
Dumbledore.  I think he could get just the right tone for Dumbledore ...
though
I believe he's a bit shorter and broader, physically, than Richard Harris was.
I'm not so sure about Peter O'Toole.... he's certainly tall and slender
enough,
and British enough, but I'm just not sure about him for Dumbledore. Can't
quite
put my finger on my reservations though. I suppose I could be talked into
supporting Peter O'Toole - but I think I'd lobby more for Sir Derek Jacobi....
or Patrick Stewart!!

Anne U
(a big fan of Sir Derek as Cadfael and Claudius and of PS as Jean-Luc Picard
and Ebenezer Scrooge:-)

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