The Reason Potter Films Will Never Be as Respectfully Done as LOTR

[cgahnstrm]

> > hp:
> > A cast that seems to either be in it for the money (Oldman) or 
for 
> > their children/grandchildren/nephew/neigbur's cat, pretty much 
for 
> > anyone but themselves. (The rest. Well, maybe not Thewlis.)
> 
> I just wondered why you thought Oldman is just in it for the money. 
> Is it something he said in an interview?  I just saw the movie again
> yesterday (had to take my friend before it left the theaters).  I
> really liked Oldman in the movie.  Thewlis was wonderful too.  When 
I
> first saw him I thought "that's not how I imagined Lupin", but once 
he
> started acting he was completely Lupin.  I really liked the scenes
> with he and Harry.




I think Gary Oldman did very well too. He is one of the best around, 
after all, and can probably act the behind of most other actors while 
in a coma ;). Anyway, this is what I found in the July issue of 
Empire:

Q: Why did you go for the role?
A: Well, I needed the work, that's the honest answer. (To be fair he 
also goes on about liking the director, but then he says he wanted to 
do a film that his kids can see. Which, I suppose, puts him in both 
my categories.)

Q: Sirius is the villain but also something of an ambiguous sort. 
Does that make it tougher?
A: It's not All The President's Men, it's Harry Potter. You don't 
want to be too clever with it, I'm playing him as a bad guy.


Christin