[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Christopher Lee?

[sam]

 It's a female Sam. :)
I would accept Ian McKellen easier than I would Christopher Lee, but you have a point.  Go with an unknown.  Do you think they'll try that?
sam
  GulPlum <plumeski at yahoo.com> wrote: Welcome aboard! (for future reference, just out of curiosity, are you a male Sam or a female Sam?) 

As for Christopher Lee, firstly he himself has discounted the rumour and refuses to comment on it (other than to say that he has not been approached, and considers the rumour to be in bad taste so soon after Harris's death).

My own view is that this fan-generated rumour (together with the Ian McKellen one) have originated with fanboys who can't see beyond pigeonholes. These same people objected to Richard Harris's casting in the first place on similar grounds (I have seen nothing wrong with Harris in principle; the fact that he clearly didn't take any trouble to work out what made the character tick and thus played him wrongly is beside the point). 

My ideal choice would be to take an unknown septagenerian rather than any of the other big names that have been doing the rounds (Connery, Hopkins, Attenborough, O'Toole, any of whom could have played the part). I certainly don't see Lee playing Dumbledore, not because he wouldn't be able to (on the contrary, I think he'd be great!) but because he'd play the part very differently to Harris. The same, in a different direction, goes for McKellen.

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GulPlum, a male soft fruit. :-)


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