Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
 
> Of course, the casting director and whoever else is
> responsible for such decisions didn't know that the Snape
> of SS/PS was only 31 or 32, in effect, twenty years older 
> than Harry.


zanooda:

All they had to do was ask :-)! Unlike us, they are in contact with 
the author of the book, who seems happy to help. I suppose they 
wanted Rickman so much (understandable :-)), they didn't care about 
anything else. JKR seems happy with him as well.


> Carol wrote:

> By that time, Rickman was well-established as Movie!Snape and the 
> fans would have been very upset if the casting had been changed


zanooda:

I would have been upset myself :-) - I really don't like changes in 
casting in the middle of a series, even if I'm not happy with the 
cast. It's not a soap-opera :-)!


> Carol wrote: 

> I can't remember when the ages of James and Lily were established


zanooda:

That depends :-). In the book their ages were officially established 
only in DH (iirc), where they were written on their graves. But I 
suppose JKR might have said something in one of her interviews. I, 
for instance, remember her saying that Sirius was only 21 or 22 when 
he was sent to Azkaban, that's why he never grew up, but I can't 
remember *when* she said that :-).


> Carol wrote:

> OTOH, I thought right away that the people cast as James and Lily 
> were the wrong age, far too old to be the parents of one-year-old 
> Harry.


zanooda:

Me too :-)! I can't even say why exactly, but I've always thought 
that in the WW people marry soon after school, and to the people they 
met in school. Wizards don't have much of a social life, and there 
are so few of them, where are they supposed to meet someone new? 
Besides, I come from a place where girls get married rather early (at 
least it used to be like this when I was young :-)). So I had it 
subconsciously in my mind that people are supposed to marry and have 
children in their twenties, not in their thirties, like movie!
Potters. They seemed old to me right away :-)!


> Carol wrote: 

> What I hated was the tattoos.


zanooda:

Finally, someone else who hated the tattoos :-)! I was under an 
impression that everyone loved them :-).


> Carol wrote: 

> David Thewlis is a little closer to the right age


zanooda:

Which is even worse, because when we see Snape and Lupin together, it 
becomes obvious that they just couldn't be in the same year :-).


> Carol:

> but he never looked like Lupin to me. 


zanooda:

Not thin enough :-)? I have a whole personal problem with movie!
Lupin. I saw this actor for the first time in a movie 
called "Dragonheart" (or similar, I'm not sure :-)), and he played a 
really disgusting character there! 

Now every time I see the actor (Thewliss - sp?), I associate him with 
this character (which is really strange, actually), and I have 
nothing but very bad feelings towards him. He even seems very 
unpleasant-looking to me, although all my family assures me that I'm 
just crazy and he looks fine. 

It is a very strange phenomenon, because I never mixed up an actor 
and a character before. And here, I look at Lupin and I see that 
scoundrel from "Dragonheart", whatever his name was :-). I just don't 
know what to do about it!



zanooda, in deep thought about mysterious workings of the mind ... 
LOL!