[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Azkaban Casting Rumor

[Deidre]

At 12:24 PM 12/8/02 +0000, alora wrote:

>--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...>
>wrote:
> > Lupin must have a young-looking, lined face, so whoever they
> > select, he must be someone who looks a bit prematurely aged. Timothy 
> Dalton might
> > fill this bill; I'm not sure about Jeremy Irons. And it must be someone 
> who
> > will be convincing as a schoolmate of Snape, played by the perfect but 
> yes, technically too old Alan Rickman. Rickman's age sets the parameters 
> for Lupin (and Sirius).
>
>Timothy Dalton is a great actor, but don't you find him just a bit
>too....RUGGED?  You know what I mean.  He has that rogue-ish look
>about him.  And that cleft in the chin, doesn't he?  I just cannot
>see him as Lupin.  *coughEWANcough*  :D  I'm cracking myself up!


Dalton being one of my favorite actors, I just had to come out of lurk to 
say that although I would like to see him in the Harry Potter movies, the 
part of Lupin just doesn't seem right for him, or vice versa. He might make 
a good Sirius Black, though. <g>

If we have to consider Rickman's contemporaries in acting for the parts of 
Lupin and Sirius (and by extension, Peter Pettigrew, and James Potter, and 
maybe Lily), Jeremy Irons is in the right age group, but not at all I how I 
see Lupin. Nor for Sirius either. Irons always seems to play characters 
that are too cold, and Lupin and Sirius are both passionate men, albeit in 
very different demeanors. <g>

Instead, for Lupin, I would suggest an actor who is yet another 
contemporary of Rickman, Dalton, and Irons ( the 50-something crowd, as you 
please <g>), one Mr. Anthony Andrews. He's best known to American audiences 
co-starring with Irons in "Brideshead Revisited", but has done some 
wonderful things since. He played a smashing Sir Percy Blakeney in the 1982 
movie/tv film "The Scarlet Pimpernel", with Sir Ian McKellan as Chauvelin, 
and also in that same year, played the lead in Douglas Camfield's 
"Ivanhoe", co-starring James Mason and Olivia Hussey.

Like another good English actor, Edward Petherbridge (Lord Peter Wimsey in 
a series of British-filmed tv-movies of some of Dorothy Sayers' novels in 
the late 80s), Andrews is tall, blond, lanky, and can play a wide range of 
characters, but often gets stereotyped as the drawling leading man or the 
sardonic villain. Petherbridge, who might also fit in well in the movie 
Potterverse, once said that actors like himself, the preppie, 
cricket-playing romantic lead, had gone out of style in English cinema in 
the 50's, sadly enough, just before his own career got started.

Another possibility for Lupin might be someone who has acted with Rickman 
before: Michael Maloney, as Mark in "Truly, Madly, Deeply". Check his bio 
at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com
for a list of credits. Granted, he's ten years younger than this group 
listed above, but his young face might serve the part of Lupin well. And 
he's diffident and natural in his acting style, which would contrast well 
to the sometime dramatic styles of the other adult leads in the movies. 
(No, I wasn't thinking of Branagh. <g>)

Deidre, enjoying the casting game