[HPFGU-Movie] Fanny Ardant as Olympe Maxime? AAAARGH!!!! (was Re: Casting Summary--Fill in the Blanks)

Mathilde Bouhon mbouhon at noos.fr
Wed Aug 13 22:04:51 UTC 2003


Le mardi, 12 aoû 2003, à 19:05 Europe/Paris, eowynn_24 a écrit :
> > > Maxine - Fanny Ardant
> > > > Karakoff -
> > > > Crouch - Roger Moore
> > > > Crouch Jr - Ewan McGregor
> > > > Moody - Sean Connery
> > > > Trelawney - Emma Thompson or Helena Bonham-Carter
> > > > Narcissa - Miranda Richardson
> > > > Frank Bryce - John Gielgud (He is still alive, isn't he?)
> > > > Figg - Vanessa Redgrave
> > > > Umbridge - Judi Dench
> > > > Bellatrix - Kristin Scott-Thomas or Catherine Zeta Jones
> > > 
> > > Rita Skeeter - Helen Mirren
> > > Tonks - Kate Winslet
>
> > What awful casting choices! Half of these actors appear to have been
> > chosen only because they are British and roughly about the right age.
> > I only agree with the Bellatrix and Narcissa ideas, although Sean
> > Connery and Ewan MacGregor are possibles (Ewan MacGregor would make a
> > much better Bill Weasley, though). Roger Moore particularly appalls
> > me. And Kate Winslet could never play Tonks. Surely, surely, SURELY
> > this isn't the final list? Or even a list composed of the ideas of
> > several people? Isn't this just one person's vague recollection of a
> > few actors who happen to be British?
> > Kirstini, ill and therefore vicious.
>
> Thank you
>
> I was getting a little worried that I was the only one who read this 
> list and was disappointed. I really like Emma T. and think that she 
> would do well in the role of Trelawney. However, Catherine Zeta Jones 
> and Kate Winslet, UGH. IMO neither of them can act very well, and they 
> wouldn't be able to portray those parts with any justice. Can we 
> please choose someone else for those parts. As for Sean C. and Ewan M. 
> I am all for them, I believe that they are good choices for Crouch Jr 
> and Moody, but I could also Ewan as one of the Weasley brothers.
>
> Eowynn


Well, put me in the package as well! I am a great supporter of a 
Miranda Richardson as Narcissa - Kristin Scott-Thomas as Bellatrix 
ticket and would be very curious to see Emma Thompson as Trelawney, but 
as for the rest (Catherine Zeta Jones as Bellatrix? Come on)... The one 
casting suggestion that definitely turned me off though was the idea of 
Fanny Ardant as Madame Maxime... FANNY ARDANT AS OLYMPE MAXIME??? No 
way!!!!! Just because our great and dear Mrs Ardant is a great french 
actress and has the most incredible posh accent of the whole french 
acting circuit doesn't qualify her for this part... I have always 
pictured Madame Maxime as an impressive and, let's say, "healthy" 
woman, and although I do like Fanny Ardant I just cannot see her as a 
semi-giant (nor as a woman with "thick bones" ;-) ), she is too thin 
and looks like a girafe! To cast her as the almost rabelaisian Madame 
Maxime would, to my opinion, be a casting catastrophy.
(And please, pleaaaaase don't suggest Catherine Deneuve or Nathalie 
Baye either just because they are french and famous!!!)

To my taste, for Olympe Maxime we need someone like Marianne James or 
the singer Juliette (although I don't know if the latter one acts): 
someone big and strong, slightly overweighted, impressive and 
authoritative. And with a great sense of humour as well as a real gift 
for frensh aksent ine inngliche   ;-)

Mathilde, french, fan of Olympe Maxime, and ready to start a 
"we-french-HP-fans-want-a-proper-semi-giantess-as-Olympe-Maxime" 
petition if WB ever casts Fanny Ardant in that part  ;-)))




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