Gary Oldman as Sirius Black

[alshainofthenorth]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Kimberly Roth" <twinslove at m...>
wrote:
> 
>   I have to say I was surprised that Gary Oldman *wanted* the part
of Sirus.
> I guess I would not
>   have thought Harry Potter movies was his cup of tea, so to speak.
> However, I think it is an
>   excellent choice, and he is an awesome actor who definitely could
pull the
> part off.  I think he
>   is going to make the movie much better. :-)  Like you said, I'd rather
> have someone who can
>   act, but I will say, to me, Gary Oldman, in costume, is what *I*
thought
> of as Sirius, or close
>   to it.
> 
>   Kimberly

Gary Oldman has repeatedly stated that he is bored with playing
villains. I don't think it's that strange -- Chris Columbus said
somewhere that they wanted the darkest Brit actor alive (can't be
bothered to look it up, so you'll have to take my word for it), so the
choice must have been rather obvious.

Besides, it's been well established during the Harry Potter project
that the persuasiveness of children can make fathers, grandfathers and
godfathers do some pretty strange things. :-) Oldman has two sons.

Alshain