[HPFGU-Movie] PoA Casting

[Richelle Votaw]

GulPlum wrote:

> 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.

Actually they're not all too old.  Snape is supposed to be, according to
JKR, 35 or 36.  Alan Rickman is actually way too old for Snape.  He's made
up to be a great deal younger than he really looks.

Colin Firth is 41, almost 42.  Christian Bale is too young, really, though
if Rickman can be made up to look younger I'm sure he could be made up to
look older.  Ewan McGregor too, though I really doubt he'll be in it as
filming for Star Wars Episode 3 is set to begin in 2003 as well.

Richelle