Casting Questions

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "GulPlum <plumeski at y...>" 
<plumeski at y...> wrote:
> 
> This is perhaps very idiosyncratic, but the way I see [Lupin's] 
eyes is 
> very important to me. They should be warm and non-threatening, but 
at 
> the same time world-weary and tired.

RALPH FIENNES!! RALPH FIENNES!! RALPH FIENNES!! (Did I suggest Ralph 
Fiennes yet??) Thanks, Richard, for the absolutely perfect 
description of *Ralph's* eyes ... even if you perhaps didn't know you 
were describing them :-)


> One thing which is very important to me is the way people speak; I 
> appreciate that for people unattuned to the diversity of British 
> speech patterns this might be irrelevant or not discernable, but 
one 
> thing about the casting to date which has impressed me the most has 
> been the care taken with that aspect. The kind of voices and the 
way 
> the actors speak has been spot on.
> 
> The way I hear (rather than see) Lupin is therefore quite important 
> to me, and further to above, I hear him very much with an educated 
> middle-class accent and all that goes with it. Not quite as clipped 
> as Emma Watson's Hermione, perhaps, and not quite as populistically 
> West London as Alan Rickman's Snape, but somewhere in the middle.
> 

Well there you go ... Ralph again! :-)

Others 
> (of whom non-Brits may not have heard) are Simon Williams ( 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/07_01_02/tuesday/info3.shtml) 

Is this James from Upstairs Downstairs? Yikes. Probably too old (but 
he's still handsome).

> or Nigel Havers 

Hmmm. Hadn't thought of Nigel ... but he could do too (he's certainly 
a contemporary of Alan Rickman!)

Anne U
(still lobbying for Ralph For Lupin though I realize it's not likely)