Casting - Charles Dance

[Annette]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Sara_ELL" <sara1412au at y...> 
wrote:
> Whoops! Forgot to add my words of wisdom (or otherwise) before 
> sending the message <sheepish grin>..
> 
> Charles Dance (as I recall) is fairly tall, thin & vaguely 
> aristocratic... I could see him as a Death Eater quite easily - why 
> not Augustus Rookwood? I was going to suggest Cedric Diggory's dad 
> but he's more of a ruddy faced wizard in the book. Cary Elwes was 
my 
> vision of Lockhardt and - throwing oil into the fire - until I see 
> Gary Oldman as Sirius, I'll always imagine Dougray Scott as the 
> character.
> 
> 
> BTW whoever's getting cast as Trewlany must be breathing a sigh of 
> relief after reading OOP. I can easily imagine that her character 
> would've been an easy choice for editing out of the new film but 
not 
> any more!

**************hello, newbie here, I love this thread of casting ideas 
for OOP. I agree Charles Dance will be a wonderful asset to the cast 
of ANY HP movie. He's a perfect English gentleman! who could also 
play a bad man to great effect.
How about Patricia Routledge for Dolores Umbridge? The actress who 
plays the gawd-awful Hyacinth Bucket in the sit-com. I imagined her 
when reading the book, with that high pitched whiney voice and just 
the right amount of bombastic snobbery to carry it off. 
Luna Lovegood? I suppose Samnatha Janus would be too old, but someone 
of that ilk, maybe younger.
As you can tell I'm a Brit. so sorry to anyone who doesn't have a 
clue who I am refering to in this post :-)

Cheers !   
> 
> Sara