[HPFGU-Movie] Re: The Casting Game

[Gretchen Crumpacker]

About Gary Oldman for Sirius Black, I agree that I
would not have liked him for the role, had I read POA
first . . . but I sort of came to the books through
the movies, and so by the time I had worked my way
through the first two books and read POA, I had
already seen the Sirius Black "wanted" poster, so I
ended up picturing Sirius, while reading the book, as
Gary Oldman played him.

Gary Oldman is a very good actor.  He has played very
bad people in some movies I am very fond of (The Fifth
Element and The Professional come to mind), and I
really hated those characters.  I think he' s going to
be great as Sirius.   He's got the right bad-boy edge,
and I think he will clean up quite nicely.  He also
appears to have lost a bunch of weight for the role!

Gretchen

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