[HPFGU-Movie] Playing Dumbledore

[Miller, Gina (JIS)]

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.

Amanda:
> Two words.
>
> Peter O'Toole.
>
> I wanted him from the first. Alas, they did not consult me before 
> miscasting it. Either time.


      
      There are lots of people that share the O'Toole opinion and I am one
of them. I don't think Gambon is horrible, but he is not Richard Harris. He 
is too stern and silly - more like a crazy old man. Harris could appear 
stern but with an obvious hint of a smile in his eyes. He gave the air of someone wise and kind, but that could be dangerous when need be.
         Gina