[HPFGU-Movie] Re: Thewlis said what??

[Iggy McSnurd]

> Cindy:
>
> The Leaky Cauldron archive has this from June 6th.
> These are the actual quotes from the short article.
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>
> David Thewlis Interviews
>
> The Sydney Morning Herald has a short piece with Prisoner of Azkaban actor
> David Thewlis, in which he comments on his three young co-stars:
>
> Thewlis, who joined the cast as Professor Lupin for Harry Potter and the
> Prisoner of Azkaban, thinks it will be difficult for them to have acting
careers
> outside the series.
>
> "The most likely is Rupert," he said. "I think he's the most natural
actor.
> He's the oldest of the three. I can imagine him moving on. Emma's the
same."
>
> "Someone is going to have to make a brave casting choice to give him
> something that takes him away from Harry Potter," Thewlis said. "Or he's
going to have
> to shave his head and grow a beard ... to get away from it."
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Iggy here:

Here's my basic take on that quote...

I think that the main thing he's saying is that, after being in the HP
movies, and identified so strongly with the characters that they portray,
many of the kids (especially the trio) run the risk of being type cast in
similar roles... or in being seen as Harry Potter playing Dr. Who , rather
than Dan Radcliffe... Hermione Granger as Anna Karenina instead of Emma
Watson playing the role... or Ron Weasley as Hamlet, and not Rupert Grint.
In some cases, you have ingrained the role into your personality so much
because you've played it so long, that it can be difficult to get away from
it.  So far, the kids have been playing their roles almost non stop for 4
about 4 years or more... assuming they end up in the last three movies, they
will end up having played the same roles for approximately 10-12 years
straight.

Ron may seem, to Thewlis, as being the most natural actor because he
probably portrays Ron the most like his actual self.  From what little I
have read of him, Rupert IS the most like Ron.  Emma herself has stated, in
at least one interview I've seen, that she and Hermione are nothing alike.
On the other hand, we have also seen evidence that the kids are beginning to
become much more like their characters in personality.  (I'll point to the
essays they were asked to write about their characters, and Emma wrote
almost a chapter, Dan wrote a few pages, and Rupert got less than a page
done.)

As for Dan, I don't think he was saying that Dan is not a good actor or
anything... simply that it will be harder for him to get out of recognition
of his role than the others.  More extreme measures might have to be taken
by Dan to make him look less like he does in the movies... such as growing a
beard, moustache, or goatee and making sure he isn't in roles where he wears
glasses for a while.

Don't we all know of a number of actors, child or adult, who had a harder
time escaping their recognized roles than others?  For example:  Ron Howard
/ Ritchie Cunningham / Opie...  John Ritter / Jack Tripper...  Michael J.
Fox / Alex Keaton / Marty McFly...  Macaulay Culkin / Kevin (from Home
Alone)...  Henry Winkler / Arthur Fonzarelli... and virtually ANY of the
kids from Diff'rent Strokes, the Cosby Show, the Partridge Family, and
especially the Brady Bunch.

I think much of what he was saying was recognizing troubles along those
lines.

Just my two centaurs worth.

Iggy McSnurd