No more Emma?!?!?

[artsylynda at aol.com]

Emma has done this for every film - she's always the last of the  major cast 
members to sign up.  And they're not filming the two films (OoP  and HBP) at 
the same time!  That's impossible with a "growing" cast (have  you seen the new 
photos of the DA?  Dean Thomas is as tall as the twins all  of a sudden, half 
a head taller than Neville!!!  And the trio are all still  close to the same 
height as each other.)  The HBP script hasn't been  finished - Dan said in a 
recent interview (when asked if he was doing HBP) that  he'd love to do it but 
"it depends on the script."  Rupert said recently  he's doing HBP, but other 
articles say nobody's signed yet.  So they're not  filming them both at the 
same time.  That kind of thing is only possible  with adult casts, as in "Pirates 
of the Caribbean."  Kids change too much  from year to year - remember how 
Dan's face went from soft and rounded to  angular, with stunning cheekbones, in 
GoF?  You could tell which scenes  were done when he was younger and which 
when he was older, and they never shoot  in order.  I read somewhere that they 
had to change the sizes of some props  due to the kids' growth - when they 
needed that set again (whichever it was),  the scenes didn't match.  The same thing 
happened in "Peter Pan" starring  Jeremy Licht and Jason Issacs - they had to 
change the size of the window  opening because Jeremy ("Peter") grew so much 
during the filming.
 
As for Emma - a recent photo (in an Austrian magazine) shows her  and Dan 
receiving Penguin Awards for best Actress and Actor.  Her hair is  very blond and 
she has long bangs (a "fringe" for you Brits).  Yet in the  stills from the 
film, her bangs are much longer, as they were for GoF, and off  to the side, 
and her hair is darker.  So is she wearing a Hermione wig now,  or do they put a 
rinse on her hair every day to get it dark or what?  Who  knows.  I do know 
that she doesn't have to work in the films nearly as much  as Dan does, yet she 
doesn't do any "extra" projects like Dan and Rupert do  (films, TV 
appearances, plays, etc.).  She goes back to school and is a  kid, which is perfectly 
fine.  But she has leisure time the boys don't have  as a result (which is the 
boys' choice).  She just isn't as "into" acting  as they are, I suppose, but 
she did say in one of those interviews that she'd  like to do something after 
the Potter films are over - so I think she'll be  back.  And if she isn't - as 
long as the boys are there, I'll watch the  rest of the films!  But recasting 
Dan or Rupert would probably kill the  franchise at this point, unless they 
waited years.
 
My two knuts worth. . .
 
Lynda AKA "Abraxan"

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