[HPFGU-Movie] PoA Casting

[Amanda Geist]

I think they should squeeze Bill Nighy in there somewhere....he would have
been a delicious Lucius, but he'd be a good Lupin too....

--Amanda

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From: "GulPlum" <plumeski at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 2:57 PM
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] PoA Casting


> 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...
>
>
>
>
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