First Equus review!!!!!!! - Casting Dan

[Fiona]

> bboyminn:
> 
> A lot of people complain that Dan and the other actors
> are a bit 'wooden' in the HP preformances. I am quick
> to point out to them that the actors can never be
> better than what they are given to work with. 

Steve:  I agree that this comment is made about Dan's portrayal of 
Harry all too often.  It's my opinion that Dan deliberately has 
chosen to make Harry a very circumspect and closed-off individual.  
After all he's supposed to have lived for ten years of his life 
under the very oppressive regime of the Dursleys!  For goodness sake 
they didn't exactly encourage self-expression.  I believe that 
Christopher Columbus would have asked for an appropriate portrayal 
and that as he has progressed as an actor and a very insightful one, 
he would put himself in Harry's position and kept a lot of 
demonstration of emotion to himself.


Fiona Potter