Playing Dumbledore

[Amanda]

Annalisa:

> I apologize, but Gambon is 10x the Dumbledore Harris was. He's wise 
> and humorous and wacky, just the way DD should be. Sean Connery as 
> DD would make me sick. For one thing, he'd try to take the whole 
> franchise over, as he did with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 
by 
> bullying the producers and waving his enormous ego around. Sean 
> Connery, amazingly, is NOT the most appropriate person to play any 
> role calling for an aged man in the general location of the British 
> isles.

Two words.

Peter O'Toole.

I wanted him from the first. Alas, they did not consult me before 
miscasting it. Either time.

~Amanda