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

[Iggy McSnurd]

> Taryn:
> Oooh! I'm sold! I adore Malcolm McDowall. (Stupidly enough, starting from
the Wing Commander games.) I'd like to see his accent loosen up a bit. In
all the stuff I've seen him in, his accent has been very...exact (someone
with a better knowledge of British accents, help me out?), which doesn't
strike me as Moody at all. But I know he'd be great.

Actually, if you've ever seen the Teen Titan's cartoon on Cartoon Network (I
don't know if you get it there at all...), Malcolm McDowell played the bad
guy, Mad Mod, in the "Detention" episode.  In that episode, he talks very
much as what I'd expect the love child of Austin Powers and Andy Warhol to
sound like.  ("No, no.  You won't be going that way, my poppets."... stuff
like that.)  He's designed as a British Mod (you know, 60's hipster) type
guy who's trying to "reform" the supposedly bad behavior of the Teen Titans.

He definitely doesn't sound like an upper class, Oxford-type Brit.  I knew I
recognized the voice, but actually had to go to a "voice actor's page" I
have bookmarked on my explorer before I knew who he was... and even then I
was still amazed.


I think McDowell has a very versatile voice... He just tends to get cast in
a lot of roles where the more educated and precise sounding voice is more
appropriate.


Iggy McSnurd
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