[HPFGU-Movie] Re: CASTING - Lupin

[Moonstruck]

Rrishi:

>>>>>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.>>>>>


He's also far, far too old. Lupin is repeatedly
refered to in PoA as appearing quite young. Plus, he's
supposed to be PREMATURELY graying. This is important,
because the fact that Lupin is so often ill and
graying AT ALL for someone so young emphasizes the
physical (if not mental) toll being a werewolf has
taken on him. 

Casting an actor too old would eliminate that
significance and take away an important nuance of the
character. Irons, I'm afraid, has probably been gray
for many years. He's certainly not believable as
someone who is PREMATURELY graying. 

Granted, they cast older for Snape, but JKR never
refers to as Snape as looking young in any way. He's
believable as someone who looks older than his age.
Lupin, however, is not --at least not to Snape's
degree.

-Jessica 

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