PoA Casting

[GulPlum]

A problem I have with most of the actors who've been suggested here 
recently (the Fienneses, Hugh Jackman, Colin Firth, Christian Bale, 
Ewan McGregor, etc, etc, etc, ad nauseam) is that they are all too 
young. It's easy for us HP book fans to consider the characters' ages 
as per the books, but we have to remember that that both Remus and 
Sirius have to be believable contemporaries of Snape's. 

As that role has been cast for the foreseeable future, perhaps a bit 
less wishful thinking is in order...

While out shopping today, I saw a photospread in one of the British 
glossy magazines (Hello, OK, one of those...) of Jeremy Irons with 
his latest squeeze. Although I've thought of him as a fairly good 
candidate for Sirius for some time, I got the impression from his 
appearance in those pictures that he wanted this shoot to be his 
candidature for the role. He was absolutely perfect! :-)

Broodingly staring into the camera, looking quite haggard yet with a 
trimphant gleam in his eyes (hey, where have I heard that phrase 
before?), all he needed was a cartoon balloon superimposed on the 
photos with the words "I've been unjustly imprisoned for the last 
dozen years, and I have an alternate existence as a big black 
dog"). :-)

The notion of having the two memorable baddies from the Die Hard 
movies in the same film has a certain appeal to it, I must admit...

There were also a few pictures in that magazine of Liam Neeson. I'd 
never considered him before as he's just a *little* younger than 
Rickman or Irons, but he looked like a decent shoe-in for Lupin...