CASTING - Lupin

[frantyck <frantyck@yahoo.com>]

Petra Pan <ms_petra_pan at y... wrote:
> > Does the sadder-but-now-wiser John Hannah fit
> > anybody else's mental image of Lupin?

"GulPlum <plumeski at y...>" <plumeski at y...> wrote:
> In brief, not in the slightest.
> 
> Sorry for the short post, but the suggestion *really* made me 
shudder.
> -- 
> GulPlum AKA Richard, still holding out for a Jeremy Irons type (if 
> not the man himself).


Hmm. Why the shudder? Explanation would be nice.

As for Jeremy Irons, I disagree. Irons is far too throaty and suave 
for a Lupin. He has a sense of immense and immensely-controlled 
internal power, as if it were on the point of breaking loose and is 
only held in restraint by an iron will (ha). In any case, the 
actor's palpable intensity on-screen makes him an odd choice, IMO, 
for an apparently mild and unprepossessing Professor Lupin. Even if 
he were sprinkled with dust and dressed shabbily.

Although John Hannah -- I see it, but it doesn't seem quite right. 
He doesn't look intense enough (I've watched only the Mummy films).

Rrishi, sadly with no suggestions of his own.