TLC reports WB confirms Ralph Fiennes as You Know Who!

[Sara_ELL]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Mandy" <ExSlytherin at a...> wrote:
> According to the Leaky Cauldron Warner Bros., has confirmed that 
> Ralph Fiennes has officially joined the cast as Lord Voldemort, 
and 
> Miranda Richardson at Rita Skeeter.
> 
> They are both fantastic. They keep raising the bar with all these 
> truly great British actors cast in these films.  I wanted Miranda 
to 
> play Bellatrix but she will be a phenomenal Rita.  And I imagined 
a 
> much older man as Voldemort, but who's to say that LV didn't 
choose 
> to regenerate himself into a young mans body at the end of GoF.  
> 
> Can't wait!  Roll on movie 4!
> 
> Mandy

I think that this is excellent casting as Fiennes is notorious for 
being somewhat choosy about whom he portrays (though I can only 
imagine that the excreble "Maid in Manhatten" was on account of 
wanting to break into the US market). It is a sign of faith in the 
series that he's been prepared to commit himself to another four 
films though I imagine that Cuaron's excellent installment and the 
involvement of Miranda Richardson (amongst the other brilliant 
British actors on board) had something to do with it.

Fiennes researches his parts mercilessly and I'm quite certain that 
he'll bring the required intensity, charisma and terror to the role 
(which I imagine will be very limited). He certainly succeeded in 
scaring me in "Red Dragon" and was downright creepy in "Spider".  
Now, if only Kirsten Scott-Thomas was to be cast as Bellatrix, we'd 
even have a bizarre "English Patient" reunion of sorts happening. 

My two knuts,

Sara_ELL