Casting of Sirius (Was The Casting Game)

[Theresa]

Ok I have to chime in here as Sirius and Remus are my absolute 
favorites - partially because according to Lexicon, I would have gone 
to school with them and partly because I just love their 
personalities. Now on to the casting thing. At first when I heard 
Gary Oldman as Sirius I thought no way - he's Dracula! But then I 
thought about it and yes I always thought of him as good looking but 
having been through hell of 12 years in Azkaban he would not be as he 
was as a teenager. I read or saw a JK interview where she mentioned 
that James, Sirius and Remus were good looking while in school. 
Well...that doesn't mean they are now and they had to be equivalent 
agewise - think JK said Snape was 35 in POA and Alan Rickman is in 
his 50s. So I knew the young British men were out - the ones in their 
20s and early 30s. Anyway, I think Gary Oldman can come across as 
nice looking when you clean him up a bit. He has absolutely gorgeous 
eyes. As for Colin Firth...nope could never picture him as Sirius. He 
looks too much of a boy scout to me. He doesn't have the look of a 
prankster/marauder. I do like his acting but once again I just don't 
see him as the Sirius type. Can't picture him enchanting a motorbike 
to fly. As for Gary, yes I can see him as a prankster. I have seen 
just about everything he has been in and recently even saw Nobody's 
Baby - he was a dork in that movie but he was funny and he has pretty 
eyes. (or did I already say that). If you want assurance that he can 
be sexy, watch Dracula again and especially the dinner scene with 
Winona Ryder. That was sexy.

I was actually more concerned about David Thewlis as he was not at 
all how I pictured Remus but I am sure he will do a brilliant job. I 
picture someone a tiny bit shorter.

I have high hopes for the two of them though because the trio spoke 
so highly of being in awe during the Shrieking Shack. I loved Dan's 
comment about having Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Alan Rickman 
andTimothy Spall in the room so he would just let them do their thing 
and go be quiet in a corner.

Anyway, that's my 2 knuts on the Sirius casting.

Theresa
PS: Just for the record I went to my 20 year HS reunion a few years 
ago and some of the sexy guys were still nice looking but looked a 
little rough around the edges - and one has had a rough time with 
life since then (no prison time that I know of just bad luck) and he 
was not nearly as good looking as he had been but cleaned up to where 
you could tell it was still him.