American Actors
Richard
hp at plum.cream.org
Mon Dec 5 01:44:36 UTC 2005
Julie replied to my notes about the practical issues of American actors
appearing in HP:
>Your practical issue though is really not an issue. After all, a great
>variety of British actors relocate to the US periodically to film
>American movies. As do Australians. Actors of all three nationalities
>have relocated for long periods of time to many other countries--New
>Zealand for the Lord of the Rings movies being a prime example. Given the
>ease of air travel, it's not always even a question of relocating for
>long periods of time.
The point I was trying to make is that unlike, say, most of the LOTR guys,
who decamped to New Zealand for 18 months' fairly solid work (within the
movie-making definition of "solid", of course), :-) most adults involved in
an HP movie would be required to make several *short* appearances over a
period of 9 or 10 months. Gambon mentioned somewhere along the line that he
was present for several periods of no more than 2-3 days at a time over the
whole schedule (while appearing on stage in London for some of it).
Clemence Poesy came to the UK on six different occasions over that time
(while making another film in France).
I don't know if you've ever flown across the Atlantic, but it's not quite
as easy as you make out; sure, the *flying* bit is easy, but the rest
isn't. So my comment remains: why *bother* having an actor flying halfway
around the world for 2-3 days when someone who could do the job just as
well (if not better) lives an hour's car journey away? (Or, in Clemence's
case, 3 hours by train, pretty much door-to-door.)
--
Richard, 45 minutes from Leavesden
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