[HPFGU-Movie] One more thing.

[AnitaKH]

Gretchen Crumpacker <gcrumpac at pacbell.net> wrote:
--- Nicole <aiphmmw at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I wanted to make an observation. Some people (mostly
> off of this list) say that the "kids" are too old to play these parts. I wish they would read the books and understand that these "kids" grow up through the series. Is a seventeen year old harry supposed to look 11?
> 

Gretchen responded: Yes, they do grow up, and besides, so what.  One of those 90210 "kids" on TV was about 30 when the series started.  I would much rather see Harry, Ron and Hermione look a bit older than they're meant to be
playing, rather than see new, younger actors populate
the roles.

akh chimes in: This is one of those touchy issues with me, too.  Right now, they are within 18 months of being exactly the right age, and we've seen people vastly older than the stated age play characters *cough* Alan Rickman *cough*  (BTW, I adore Alan Rickman, and I would probably accept him as Snape if he were 80.)  So what if 20-year- olds play 17?  

FWIW, if we look at the real world, kids almost the identical age vary widely in their physical maturity.  I looked 17 when I was 11, and my cousin looked 12 when she was 16.  I went to school with a pair of brothers who were half way through male-patterned baldness by the time they were 15.  We're going to believe the kids' maturation as it's depicted, whether we get movie 7 by 2008 or 2012. So there!

akh, who STILL looks 17 (in cat years, maybe)

 

  


		
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