Casting Questions

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Tamara <buffyeton at y...>"
<buffyeton at y...> wrote:
> Okay, as I feel I should cast all the HP movies from now on (I 
> should have started at the beginning with Harry et.al but oh well), 
> I have a few questions.  Now I've read the books, over and over and 
> over, but still can't get a total grasp on some of the characters.  
> So please answer these:

bboy_mn fills in the blanks:

My responses relate to the characteristics of the actor who should
play the character and how the character should be represented.

> 
> Remus Lupin: (actors? - really don't know.)

> How old: 
An actor between an old 30 and a young 45 could play this character.
There are repeated references to him being young, but at the same time
looking weathered, worn, and weary.

> Looks:
Average height, slightly underweight (5'7" to 5'9"; 125 to 145
pounds); dark blond to brown hair with slight but noticable grey (grey
which could be make-up). Attractive but not devistatingly handsome;
cute in a very manish sort of way.

> Personality traits:
Lupin is a savage, he is a werewolf; a monster, therefore his normal
personality will be gentle and intelligent, but with an unmistakable
underlying inner strength. This is a man who has lived a torturous
hell of a life since he was a little boy, and it's taken it's toll; at
great toll in both physical and psychological stress. At the sametime,
he has weathered this with great strength of character and little
bitterness and resentment. Lupin is a gentle soul, quiet and
unassuming, but at the sametime, he has an unmistakable inner strength
that no wise man would dare to test.

 
> 
> Sirius Black: (actors? - I think both Jason Carter or Viggo
Mortensen have the perfect look)

> How old: 
Again, anyone from an old 30 to a young 45 or perhaps even as old as 50.

> Looks:
Above average height (5'9" to 6'0") and strongly built when he is at
his full health. Although, due to being in prison, he would have to be
slightly underweight (130 to 150 pound). Absolutely must have dark or
preferrably black hair, beard (but not a full beard (one like Jason
Carter or Viggo Mortensen)), has a very powerful presents, charismatic
(people's attention is instantly drawn to him), high cheekbones and
hollow cheeks to emphasis how underweight he his, but at the same time
given him a very handsome manly look when his is at a health weight.
During the best of times, unmistakably a ladies man.

> Personality traits:
Srtong presents, attractive, handsome, charismatic (duende), impulsive
even now, although more so when he was younger, stronge emotions,
passionate, but not necessarily hot headed (remember we see him at an
unusual time in his life - PoA), showing both a physical strength even
in his weakened state as well as great strength of character. A
strength of character that is mixed with an element of danger that you
don't see in Lupin. Sirius is a very powerful wizard, something you
know from your first glimpse. Being loyal and having strong emotions
combined with an element of danger tell everyone who comes near that
this is one wizard you do not want to cross. Sirius is strong, dark,
charismatic, handsome, exuding an umistakable aura of danger but at
the same time, the unmistakable essence of an honorable man.

> 
> Thanks as always!
> 
> Tamara

Of course, that's just my opinion. But I do think it's important for
Lupin to have a gentleness to him that contradicts the werewolf
aspects. Just as I think it is important for Black to have an
unmistakable element of danger combined with the sense that he is an
honorable and trustworth man.

Lupin is the guy your mother wants you to marry (in terms of
personality); and Black is the kind of guy you father absolutely will
not allow you to associate with.

bboy_mn