Your favorite actor/actress in HP movies

[The Dossetts]

I have never liked Michael Gambon as Dumbledore.  For starters, he would have done a much better job in POA and GOF if he had read the books, and had some idea of what the character was supposed to be like!  There are many times in both those movies that I think his characterization of DD is definitely "off."  He seems to play the part from a "what would I think the reaction should be here" point of view instead of "what would Dumbledore do here," which he could have gotten if he understood the character in the book!  However, it's not only his interpretation of the role that bothers me, I agree with Carol and others who have pointed out that his costumes and the beard tie thing are just weird.  They certainly did a better job in the first two movies!

I have always wished that they had cast Peter O'Toole as DD after Richard Harris' death.  But Harris is always who I have in my head when I read the books - or at least something close to him: the actual picture of him in my mind is slightly different, even though Harris' voice is very close to the one I "hear" when I read!

I have enjoyed Gambon in other films; I just don't think he gets Dumbledore.  

Dan Radcliffe certainly appears to be maturing well as an actor as the films go on.  Rupert Grint as Ron has always captured my fancy as the best of the trio, though: for some reason, I think he's got Ron "spot-on" except for the obvious physical differences from JKR's writing.  While I like Emma Watson's Hermione, I feel that she sometimes speaks a little too quickly and I wish they wouldn't write her as quite the know-it-all they do.  I mean, certainly she is that in the books, it just feels like, in their determination to have Hermione be the "source" of knowledge in the WW, they give her lines that could more easily or even better be spoken by other characters.  She doesn't have to know :everything: all the time!

Great thread here - really enjoyable to hear others' opinions on this!
~Pat in VA

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