Casting Bellatrix (was Re: The Casting Game)

[Tim Regan]

Hi All,


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Bellatrix =  Helena Bonham Carter
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I love Helena Bonham Carter's acting (though I haven't seen "Big 
Fish"), but she seems too whispy for our Mrs Lestrange.

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Bellatrix = Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Maybe, she is fabulous. Though for me she'll always be partly 
Mariette Larkin, perfec'.

So I'm opting for 
Bellatrix = Helen Baxendale
Helen Blaxendale may be a bit young (she was born in 1969, how old 
is Bellatrix?). But I think she'd be very good at doing trapped-but-
powerful or dangerous-when-cornered. There are photos of her at 
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Helen%20Baxendale%22
http://tinyurl.com/ytpmx
but they don't seem to convey how powerful her acting can be (she 
was amazing in "Truth or Dare").