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




More information about the HPFGU-Movie archive