casting to type

[laurenmcoakley]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at ... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 4/25/2006 4:12:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
> HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:
> 
> Lauren  wrote:  I think the directors are using the 
> Dan, Emma & Rupert's  personalities to their advantage when they 
act 
> as their HP  characters.  I think I read a recent interview with 
> Rupert where he's  talking about "Driving Lessons", and that he 
can 
> relate to Ron much better  than to his Driving Lessons character, 
and 
> I feel that, since he's "been"  Ron since he was twelve, maybe he 
gets 
> to be an influence on how he plays  Ron, and (movie) Ron 
has "rubbed 
> off" on him too.  He and (movie) Ron  *are* growing up together!<<
>  
> What I think happened is, they cast children whose personalities 
fit the  
> characters perfectly.  I read somewhere that when JKR saw Dan and 
heard him  
> laugh, she knew he was the perfect Harry.  Rupert keeps saying 
he's a lot  like 
> Ron because of his ginger hair and the fact that both come from 
big  families 
> and both of them hate spiders.  I think those are rather silly  
reasons, myself, 
> but whatever works, right?  Emma comes across as a bit  pushy in 
interviews, 
> which equates in many ways to Hermione's bossiness.   Dan evolved 
as the true 
> leader of the trio of actors, just as Harry is the leader of the 
trio of 
> wizards.  Yes, directors are certain to use the  natural 
tendencies and affinities 
> of their cast, but a good casting director put  those actors in 
place because 
> they fit the parts.  And these three fit  their parts particularly 
well, 
> except for Emma being too pretty and Rupert not  being 
particularly tall and 
> gangly.  The twins in canon were shorter and  more solidly built, 
Ron in canon tall 
> and gangly - in the films, the twins are  the tall, gangly ones, 
but boy, do 
> they portray F&G perfectly or  what???  :-D  Kudos to the casting 
directors 
> and to David Heyman who  found Dan in a theater watching a show 
with his parents!
>  
>  
> Lynda
> 
> "The cat's among the pixies now!" Mrs. Figg,  OotP


Hi Lynda,
Lauren again.  I "hear" what you're saying here, with the children 
perfectly fitting their roles, but I think your total personality 
isn't completely developed (and stays that way) from the time you're 
eleven or whatever.  People change, sometimes slightly, sometimes 
drastically, and I'm not sure it would be entirely realistic to 
think that (for instance) Rupert Grint is the same person 
(personality-wise) now as he was when he first started filming this 
series.  He's grown, he's met a lot more people, he's visited a lot 
more places... and even if he wasn't an international celebrity, 
regular people go through changes as well.  I still stick to my 
theory that Movie!Ron has rubbed off on Rupert, at least where his 
public persona is concerned.