Casting Umbridge

[irene_mikhlin]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Julian Smith" <jools31 at y...> wrote:

> 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 we are in perfect agreement. On the scale from abomination
(Dick van Dyke? ;-) to perfection (i.e. you can't tell the actor is
faking it) they are good, but not perfect.
I'm trying to think of an example of "perfect" (with someone who is
not British, obviously) - Christopher Plummer?

Irene


> 
> 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