[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your opinion about casting Voldemort

[Patty]

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From: "Susan Atherton" <suzloua at hotmail.com>
To: <HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: [HPFGU-Movie] Re: Your opinion about casting Voldemort


> Patty wrote:
> Tonight I went to see Shanghai Knights and there was a character on there
> that caught my eye. The first thing that I thought is that he would make a
> perfect Lord Voldemort. Now the only trouble is that he is a bit young to
> play him, but as I watched him up there on the screen I just kept thinking
> how much he looked like Tom Riddle. The man who plays this character is
> named Aidan Gillen. I have tried to find a good picture to show you, but I
> just couldn't find one in which he still had the Tom Riddle look to him,
but
> here is one just so you can see who I am referring to.
>
> Do any of you have an opinion on who you think would make a good Lord
> Voldemort in upcoming Harry Potter movies? And what is your opinion about
> whether or not this guy (Aidan) would make a good Voldemort?
>
> Now Susan:
> HA!!! I *love* Aidan Gillen, in the UK he played the main part of Stuart
in
> the original Queer As Folk (not the shoddy rip off you Yanks got ;) ). He
is
> EXACTLY what I imagine Tom Riddle to be like - annoying, cheeky, and
> arrogant. Sadly, he has a very Irish accent - haven't heard him do
anything
> else, so I don't know if he can. But as someone else said, LV doesn't
really
> look like TMR anymore. But god, it'd be ace to see Aidan playing someone -
> anyone! - in a HP movie...
>
> Susan


Good! I'm glad it wasn't just my imagination, me thinking he looked like Tom
Riddle. :)

Susan, you mention that Aidan has an Irish accent, but in the movie Shanghai
Knights, I was disappointed that he didn't seem to have much of an accent at
all. I wonder if, for this particular role, he had to sound more American?

Anyways, to keep this from being totally OT. I'm really pleased that you
(someone who knows of him) also thinks that he would make a good Tom Riddle.
Oh! I just had a thought! As Olivia pointed out it may not make much
difference if Aidan did play Lord Voldemort because he is to look almost
unhuman like, but what if in future movies they do flashback scenes? These
scenes would show Voldemort before! his Avada Kedavra curse against
Baby!Harry backfired and consumed his life instead? If there were flashback
sequences such as this, they would need someone who (without the gruesome
unhumanlike make-up) would look somewhat similar to Tom Riddle.


Patty