CASTING - Lupin

[Deidre]

At 02:32 PM 12/20/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Message: 11
>    Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:16:37 -0800 (PST)
>    From: kelly broughton <kellybroughton at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: Re: CASTING - Lupin
>
>Since I am American and really don't know any of these names apart from
>Ewan and Jeremy, I'll throw out a name I am only a bit familiar with:
>Stuart Townsend. I only saw him in one role- playing Lestat in Queen of
>the Damned. He has had other movie roles, and he's Irish... hey, it was
>just a thought.
>
>Those of you who might be more knowledgable about his career...comments?


The man who would have been King, Aragorn, that is. <g> ST was cast and 
spent a couple of months with the cast and crew of "The Lord of Rings", but 
after a few days into actual filming, the makeup crews went to Peter 
Jackson and admitted that there was no way that they could age a 26 year 
old to have that older look that was needed to play Strider the 
weatherbeaten ranger who had been all over Middle Earth for years and 
years. So Stuart was let go, and Viggo was persuaded to play the role. 
Stuart was 26 in 1999, so I'm not sure that he is old enough for the role 
of Lupin, either. I'll have to head over to
http://www.imdb.com
and see if there's any pictures there of him and get back to you.

Deidre

Deidre, who only saw the first Anne Rice movie