other Lockhart possibilities or perhaps Lupin????

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Anne <urbana at c...>" <urbana at c...>
wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "DaughteroftheDust 
> <daughterofthedust at y...>" <daughterofthedust at y...> wrote:
> > I can picture your cast well, except for Oldman as Petigrew.  
> > 
> > For me it would just take too much make-up. Gary would have to 
> > gain  weight, thin his hair, and he may not be short enough.
> > 
> > ... someone more fitting of the  role, i.e.  Bob Hoskins, who
> > not only is a good actor, but already looks the part.
> -end this part-

> Anne:
> Wallace Shawn is probably too old for Pettigrew. But he'd be an 
> interesting .
> 
> Mad-Eye Moody :-) I was thinking of Wallace Shawn for Pettigrew - 
> except he's (a) way too old, and (b) much too American :-( But he's 
> short and not thin, and he's got the right kind of facial features. 
> So if there's a mid30s-early 40s British actor who kind of looks
> like Wallace Shawn, he would be my pick.
> 
> Anne U

bboy_mn addressing two at once:

To Daughter of the Dust-
We need to think about casting Pettigrew as his is in PoA, not as he
was through out his life. By the time we see the actual person (Peter)
he is skinny, balding, weathered, worn, nervoius and stressed. He does
not appear in his lifelong Nevillish form.

The perfect person, accept for one thing, to play Peter is the
gap-toothed, foppish, blond-haired store clerk in the BBC-TV show 'At
You Being Served'; Mr. Humphreys. 

When I read the book, that is the person I see. The pointy face, the
squeaky whiney voice, the abnormally skinny body, etc... The one
problem is that I think he is about 100 years old now (figuratively).
But that's who I see when I read the book; as clear and as vivid as
life itself. His face and body are important, but he has this annoying
high pitched whiney voice that makes you want to choke him that would
really lend itself to Pettigrew. 

Keep in mind, I saw 'Are You Being Served' in re-runs on PBS in the
US. So my vision of him is a little distorted. I have no idea what he
looks like today. If he has a son who is nearly his twin, then that's
the guy we need to get.

The reason I pick Oldman originally for Pettigrew was because I don't
see Oldman playing nice parts. His image in my mind is fixed on bad
guys. Not dark or comples enough for Sirius, although I think he could
pull it off, and way to dark for Remus. That only leaves Pettigrew,
and Oldman is a good actor, he could easily play the nasty whining
Peter. I don't prefer him, but it seems that he is already signed. If
that's true then I have no choice but to stick him with Peter.

to Anne-
I agree, I think Bob Hoskins could pull off Moody.

Wallace Shawn is an acceptionally good actor and has done excellent
comdey as well as outstanding dramatic roles, but I have a hard time
getting past his cartoon-like voice.


Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn