PoA Casting

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--- In HPFGU-Movie at y..., "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> wrote:
> 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.
> 
Except Snape's bitterly nursing a grudge from his youth, Sirius has 
undergone several years of solitary confinement and intense 
psychological torture, and Lupin makes a very painful physical 
transformation once a month (and probably spends a good portion of 
the remaining time stressing over what he might do in that 
condition).  We're not talking conditions that encourage youthful 
looks here--but on the whole, I think the three of them should look 
roughly around the same age.
So with that criteria, I doubt Bale would work, McGregor is chancy 
(but might be able to squeeze in), but the Finnes bros (particularly 
Ralph), Firth, and probably Jackman 
would still manage. 

~Christi