Azkaban casting

[benevolntgoddess1]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Laura Ingalls Huntley" 
<huntleyl at m...> wrote:
> Kriselda:
> 
> > I was just looking at IMDb and noticed that they've cast Gary
> > Oldman as Sirius!  I
> > think my heart has just collapsed in on itself!
> 
> Sigh.  I think Gary Oldman as Sirius would be the first casting of 
a main character that I just *can't* reconcile with The-Picture-In-My-
Head.  I mean, I even accustomed myself to Emma Watson.
> 
> The problem is that for most characters I just use my imagination.  
But for sometime now, I haven't been able to think of Sirius as 
anyone other than a younger Timothy Dalton.
> 
> Sigh.  I suppose they know what they're doing.  I just always 
pictured Sirius as strong-featured and bright-eyed...a much more 
expressive and...broader...face than Oldman's.  You know?  He's a 
passionate man.
> Needs larger shoulders and hands than Oldman's, too.
> 
> Plus, Oldman isn't anything like "dead sexy."

*Takes a moment out of this dignified list to be a teenaged girl - 
boys boys boys* okay - I'm done now.

When I first read about Oldman a couple of months ago, I too, was on 
the "What are they thinking? No, No, No" list.  My main beef is
 he's 
too short and slender. He doesn't fit the picture in my head of 
Sirius (who is about 6'3", black hair, gray eyes, broad shoulders, 
formerly muscular but now a skinny thing – it's okay he'll get it 
back) I'm still battling that. I went to a few Gary Oldman sites and 
came up with a few very 
 interesting pictures of the man which have 
since changed my "NO NO NO" to "Well
 maybe
we'll see". I will say 
that from the pictures, he's got enough "sexy" in him to pique my 
interest, but, at this point, not enough to get me all Sirius hot and 
bothered.

JKR only gave "black hair, handsome and skinny". I know I'm not the 
only one to have the mental picture that I've described. (I surveyed 
a fellow Sirius fan and my Sirius fan mother) 

So, that asks the question – Is "6'3+", black hair, gray eyes, broad 
shoulders, muscular, needs a shave/goatee, really good looking in 
an `I don't care'/cross Cary Grant with Victor Webster kind of way" a 
universal picture of Sirius because women just *like that image or 
because JKR has given us so many embedded clues to point to it as 
being what's in her head too? Do you think JKR was thinking Gary 
Oldman when she wrote Sirius "I'll take two of those please" Black, 
or is this a ploy to get one more high profile British on board?

I must add that I heartily agree with David Thewlis as Remus Lupin. 
He has an "I'm so nice" look.

BG