Casting Umbridge

[Julian Smith]

Hello, this is my first post.  But I digress....

If they were going to cast someone from overseas, they would have done it for the 
first film.

I disagree with you slightly Irene, about Renee Zellwger and Nathan Lane.  The 
accents were good, but they weren't perfect.  They were forced 'posh', which sounds 
really fake to a lot of British ears.

I think that they will continue to cast actors from the United Kingdom for the films, 
and I'm sure they will find the right person for Umbridge.   Even though it may be 
quite a few years before she is needed.


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "irene_mikhlin" <irene_mikhlin at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Scully931" <scully931 at y...> wrote:
> > Have I missed something? I thought the film makers were bound by 
> > contract to only hire British actors in the first place. I mean, the 
> > English accent certainly isn't a problem. 
> 
> You must mean "the English accent should not be a problem". :-)
> Because it's certainly is. There are some good examples: Renee
> Zellweger in "Bridget Jones", Nathan Lane in "Nicholas Nickleby" but
> there are much more terrible, cringe-worthy examples when it was a
> problem.
> Richard Gere and Kevin Costner come to mind as the worst offenders.
> 
> Irene