[HPFGU-Movie] Digest Number 571

[Sara]

--- HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com wrote:
>Since then, following the messages in this thread,
>though, I think I do know who I would consider as
>the best choice - Jeremy Irons.  I forgot (SORRY!)
>who mentioned him, but as soon as I read that it
>struck me as being very much right - right age,
>right culture (must be a Brit after all), able to
>look both very scraggly and worse-for-the-wear as
>well as dapper and handsome - without being too sexy
>(it's hard for even someone who's cleaned up a bit
>to look too sexy after 12 years in a horrid prison).

I'll happily take credit for that. :) Irons would have
been wonderful, for all of the reasons that you
mentioned - and I would especially have loved to see
him go up against Alan! He has a comparable bearing
and presence, and he can switch back and forth from
mysterious and menacing to gentle and tormented. Plus,
he's a motorcycle enthusiast in real life, and seeing
him pictured working on one was, I think, what
inspired me to think of him for Sirius in the first
place. ;)

But, as I said, I am perfectly willing to give Oldman
a chance. I have loved him for years now - I'm
certainly no detractor of his in general. It's simply
that he is one of the last actors I would ever have
imagined in that role.

Sara

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