[HPFGU-Movie] Misc. casting (was re: Sirius casting/other Lockhart possibilities)

[Richelle Votaw]

Okay, somebody tell me this is a joke.  TLC has the lastest (and first that I've heard) rumor in the casting of Remus Lupin.  Timothy Spall???  No way.  Absolutely not.  He even refers to himself as a jolly fat guy.  Lupin is not a jolly fat guy.  Not any kind of fat guy.  No, no, no!  Quick, start another rumor, this one's killing me!

Julia wrote:

> I would not have been able to watch it without waiting for him to say "as you
> wish..."  :)  He would have been great though.  I thought I read somewhere,
> maybe the IMDB, that Hugh Grant was originally supposed to be Gilderoy 
> Lockhart. Now that would have been funny.  Brannagh was wonderful, as far as 
> mannerisms went, but not quite "prettified" enough.

I read someplace that they never actually offered it to Hugh Grant, though they considered him a front runner for a time.  But decided that viewers would look at the movie and see Hugh Grant playing Gilderoy Lockhart, but felt that with Kenneth Brannagh viewers would look at it and see Gilderoy Lockhart.  Not Kenneth Brannagh as Gilderoy Lockhart.  Whatever.

Richelle


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