Casting Umbridge

[Marci]

CLShannon at a... wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 10/13/03 3:55:58 AM, kirst_inn at y... writes:
> 
> << Personally, I've always seen Imelda Staunton as Umbridge.
> 
> Everyone who isn't convinced that Emma Thompson will be fantastic 
as 
> 
> Trelawny should rent Peter's Friends, which also features Staunton, 
> 
> who is about four foot ten, with a wee potato face and frizzy brown 
> 
> hair. She was also in Twelfth Night (check 
> 
> http://www.finelinefeatures.com/twelfth/index.html  - go to the 
cast 
> 
> and crew site and click on her name for the most Umbridge-y picture 
I 
> 
> have ever seen), and she played Gwyneth Paltrow's nurse in 
> 
> Shakespeare in Love. >>
> 
> Imelda Staunton was also in David Copperfield with Daniel Radcliffe 
and 
> Maggie Smith and Zoe Wanamaker and she was in Sense and Sensibility 
with Emma 
> Thompson and Alan Rickman <g>
> I also think it's interesting that while reading the mini bios of 
the actors 
> on the David  Copperfield page I read that Zoe Wanamaker's father 
was Sam 
> Wanamaker (which I knew, but never really thought about) - he was 
an American, so 
> she says that British actors consider her the token American and 
Americans 
> consider her British ;)
> I think Ms Staunton would do great as Umbridge - she has the 
physicality and 
> is not as old as the other candidates mentioned and she is a 
terrific actress.
> Cindy

Me:

I agree about Staunton.  She was my original choice for Umbridge or 
Skeeter.  I only suggested Liz Taylor because it would be a hoot, and 
because most people have probably forgotten that she's a Brit.  But 
maybe an appearance as Neville's gran would be more up her alley.  
Hmmm...

Marci