Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Gerlinde Kenkel" 
<kenkel20002000 at ...> wrote:

> Who is your favorite actor or/and actress in a HP Movie 
 
> My favorite actor is:
 
> Alan Rickman as Professor Severus Snape.


zanooda:

Oh, Rickman is wonderful, yes :-). However, I just can't get over the 
fact that he is way too old for this role ;-(. I know that it doesn't 
matter for most people, but to me it does, unfortunately. 

For me, one of the greatest appeals of the Marauders' (plus Lily and 
Snape :-)) story is that it is about such young people, who lost 
their lives so early. Think about it, Snape is less than forty when 
he dies (and so is Lupin, who dies the same day) - just a boy in my 
view, LOL! Sirius was even younger when he died, and Lily and James 
were simply kids ;-(! 

So when a 60-year old plays Snape, it *does* seem old compared to the 
books (same goes for Gary oldman). I also don't like it when they 
make movie!Snape hit people on the head with a book - this is sooo 
out-of-character! Snape doesn't need to do this - his sharp tongue is 
scarier than any beating :-)!

I realize of course that it's not the actor's fault - he just does 
what the director tells him. And once again, Rickman is a wonderful, 
wonderful actor - always liked him! And he certainly does what is 
humanly possible to bring Snape alive, which is not easy, considering 
how little screen time he gets!


> Linda wrote:

> My favorite actress is:
 
> Maggie Smith as Professor Minerva McGonagall. A great actress 
> as I saw in the older movies with Peter Ustinov (and, as I 
> believe, in her role as McGonagall a lesbian in the closet)


zanooda:

Agreed :-). That's how I imagine McGonagall, only with glasses. But I 
don't see her as a lesbian, more like an old spinster, LOL.

I also like Jason Isaacs (sp?) as Lucius Malfoy. He is not like I 
imagined him while reading, but I just looooved him in the movie :-)!