[HPFGU-Movie] Casting HBP new characters... beware a spoiler!

[Taryn Kimel]

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From: "CYNTHIA L SHANNON" <clshannon75 at sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-Movie] Casting HBP new characters... beware a spoiler!


> --- Annette <CariadMel at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> 
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> Any thoughts on which actors are 'right' for the role
> of new Potions 
> master Horace Slughorn yet? I now it's all a bit in
> the future. But 
> did you have any particular actor in mind when you
> read the part?
> 
> Rotund and bewhiskered, I pictured a bumptious old
> man, I had in my 
> mind Joss Ackland. He'd be a comtemporary of DD,
> therefore akin to 
> Michael Gambon.
> 
> Annette.
> ****
> 
> My first thought for Slughorn was Bob Hoskins. Short,
> pudgy, yet not entirely harmless and also ingratiating
> to the point of nausea ;-) Not the actor mind you, but
> I think he could play that well. I think he also
> expressed an interest in being in a Potter film a
> while ago (he also talked about Daniel since he acted
> with him in David Copperfield and he played McCawber.
> ) So, if you are familiar with that book, he was
> halfway to Slughorn anyway ;-)
> 
> Cindy

Congrats!  The new issue of Entertainment Weekly agrees with you.  ;)

--Taryn