[HPFGU-Movie] One more thing.

[Kathryn Wolber]

--- clshannon at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 6/17/04 2:04:53 PM,
> aiphmmw at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> 
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> Ah yes, the age thing ;-) Actually, most people do
> acknowledge that in the 
> books, the kids age from 11 to 17. The question
> about the actors is that since 
> each film takes over a year from actual shooting to
> release, that the actors 
> will slowly creep up in age faster than the
> characters. This is true, but hardly 
> a problem, at least in my opinion. As someone else
> said, even if they are 20, 
> 19 and 18 when they do the last movie, it's not that
> big a stretch to think 
> they are all 17. And as many people have pointed out
> in various forms about 
> this argument, there have been countless actors on
> TV here in the US and in films 
> who play much younger ;-) The infamous Beverly Hills
> 90210 is a prime 
> example. Those actors were much older than their
> characters ;-) 
> Our TV Guide here in the US had an article about
> young stars recently on 
> popular shows and not one of them was anywhere near
> the age of their character. 
> Most were playing high school   kids and they were
> all in their early twenties.

For an HP age reference, the girl they cast as Fleur
is 21 portraying a 17/18 year old. So they've at least
said that a 4 year age gap is acceptable. But really,
I think they're just making a big fit about nothing.
It really just depends on what the kids want to do and
I don't think age is that big of an issue.  I'm about
to turn 20 and I look almost exactly the same as I did
when I started high school at age 14. Once the actors
reach about 17 and puberty is basically done their
physical appearance shouldn't change drastically for a
few years. So as long as JKR doesn't take a huge break
after book 6 I can't see age being a problem.

~Kathryn


		
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