[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Casting Voldy in GoF / general casting

[Iggy McSnurd]

>>Iggy:
> > Paul Bettany as Charlie Weasley, and Heath Ledger as Bill!   *grin*
> >

>Laura:
>
> You know...I, um...well.  *blushes* I have this thing for Paul Bettany.
>   Everything I see him in (such as "A Knight's Tale"), I am simply
> entranced.  I have no idea why this is, although I'm sure it's not his
> looks, because he's far too old for me and not my type at all.
> Furthermore, I am almost never that impressed by movie stars,
> especially ones who aren't even particularly pretty.  *is distressed*

*chuckle* My wife and I each have a "Hottie List," which is a list of people
who (if we had a shot with for a couple of days...*grin*) the other one
would kinda have to understand if we took it.

My list actually includes a wide variety of women, some of who a lot of
people wouldn't think to put on such a list, but are definately in my book.
(Caroline Rhea, Queen Latifa, and Bette Midler, to name a few... BTW: I'm
33, and my wife is 35...)
And yes, I include some more mainstream "hotties" like Drew Berrymore, Selma
Heyak, and Rachel Weisz as well...  *chuckle*

I tend to be more of a fascination based person as well... I tend to also be
attracted to women who are intelligent, funny, and self confident with who
they are, in addition to them being good looking... even if not by the
popular "media" standard of beauty.  (All of which, of course, describes my
wife pretty well.)

> Anyhow, since he obviously can't be Ron, I'm thinking that the next
> best thing would probably be Bill.  I mean, Charlie is sort of the
> rough-and-tumble dragon slayer (or..erm, caretaker) type, and I picture
> him as sort of muscular and stocky.  Bettany just does not have that
> look.  On the other hand, I think he could pull off Bill quite easily
> (and not just because I think the man is, in Harry's words, "Cool").

See, I think he would actually do a decent job as wither Charlie or Bill...
But I'd be more inclined to put him as Charlie if Heath Ledger was the other
brother, since Bill is described as more of a "pretty boy" in a cool guy
sort of way.  (This seems to be more of a Heath sort of area... and I think
he'd look a lot better with the longer hair than Bettany would.)

As for the "muscular and stocky" part... Yeah, the book does describe Charly
as such, but that type of thing can be worked with a little bit...   (He
would require a dye job, again, but Mark Addy fits the physical look,
otherwise.  He played Roland in "A Knight's Tale," and Dave in "the Full
Monty.")

>
> Laura (who would like to note that her thing for Paul Bettany is not
> exactly a "crush," per se, and that she only called it that for lack of
> a better word.)
>

How about "an intense fascination"?  *grin*


Iggy McSnurd
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