Azkaban casting

[doliesl]

>>>> 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? <<<<<
 
My answer to that: No. 

My mental image of the young Sirius would be more of a 70s British 
punk rocker type. The post-Azkaban Sirius would be a wasted version, 
added on a psychotic edge. Imagine the shock I had when I found out 
the "romantic-dangerous-stud!Sirius seems to be THE most *popular* 
interpretation out there (at least what this list gave me the 
impression of). And I remember reading an article (AFTER I've form my 
own mental image of Sirius) that stated J.K.Rowling's own "dead sexy" 
idol was punk legend Joe Strummer (of The Clash). Joe Strummer is 
dark, average height, slim and slender (definitely NOT tall, NOT 
broad shoulder and NOT muscular). 

So Gary "Sid Vicious" Oldman may fit just fine. I was so worried 
they'll find some pretty-boy actor, or some gym buff-up muscle men 
for Sirius, which I know I'd despised.  

It's funny to see how a vague "black hair, handsome and skinny" can 
be interpret so differently cross-age/culturally. I heard some young 
fans saying their mental image of Sirius are Ben Afflect/Matt Damon. 
Many Japanese fan art interpret him as a long hair, clean face pretty 
boy (the Johnny Depp type). 

-D.