Why Gambon is a Better Dumbledore Than Harris Was...

[sophiamcl]

Celestina wrote:  I remember reading somewhere last year,when PoA 
began filming, that 
> Gambon had never read the books before being cast, and still hadn't 
> when he showed up for his first day of filming as Dumbledore. He 
had 
> asked Cuaron how he intepreted the character (who also hadn't read 
> the books) > 

I don´t know where the info came from that Cuaron had not read the 
books, I don't think that's right. I heard him say in several 
interveiws that once he had read the PoA script--and loved it--he 
wnet on to read the cooresponding book, was hooked and read all of 
them. There is no way Cuaron could have made the movie he made 
without being thouroughly familiar with HP. As for Gambon, I haven't 
a clue.

Sophia