Dudley Slimming down (was: something about Lupin)

[Scully931]

I have thought from the beginning that the actor playing Dudley 
wasn't large enough. He just looks like a boy who has some baby fat. 
Really not at ALL the way he is described in the books. Perhaps they 
were worried about lawsuits from overweight people. (Sounds silly, 
but people will protest anything.) I never saw the problem myself. I 
mean, Neville was large and Harry and friends didn't make fun of 
him. And, Dudley was large because he ate so much - not because of a 
medical condition or something. They don't really seem to be 
focusing on his weight much in the movies. Which, is too bad, 
because some of the descritions in the book are hysterical. (And, I 
don't say that to be mean about overweight people - just Dudley 
because he's so mean.) Anyway, that's my opinion. :-)

Deborah


--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "joj" <joj at r...> wrote:

>   Anne U:
>   <snip>
>   I'm just a tad worried that Dudley (Harry Melling) is going to 
slim down the
>   way Neville (Matthew Lewis) has and Harry won't be able to call 
Dudders "Pig
>   in a Wig" anymore ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   I remember reading an interview with the man who plays Uncle 
Vernon, and he said the boy who plays Dudley wears padding to make 
him bigger.  I couldn't find the article, but I'll keep looking.
> 
>   Joj
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