British actors that you'd like to see in the last two films

[Maria Holub]

And now me:
Christopher Lee is always Christopher Lee, no matter what role he is playing. King Haggard, Saruman, that Magisterium guy who only has one line in The Golden Compass.... Even the villain that he played in Star Wars Episode 2. He always comes across as roughly the same character. In the Golden Compass in 15 minutes, in fact, in the scene where Christopher Lee appears his acting is described simply - 
Christopher Lee: *Christopher Lees*
Now, don't get me wrong, I LIKE Christopher Lee, I think he's wonderful, and I think he has been sadly typecast in recent years, but I just don't see him as Grindelwald.
What about Bill Nighy? Has anybody suggested him?...


...AND replying to my own post:

It occurs to me somewhat belatedly that Grindelwald is not supposed to BE British. He went to Durmstrang, which is presumably in Bulgaria (although I don't think that's ever actually confirmed and merely assumed because Krum played on the Bulgarian Quidditch team and attended Durmstrang.) However, Grindelwald and Durmstrang are both names with obvious Germanic influence (Durmstrang, in particular, is a clear permutation of the German literary concept of Sturm und Drang or "storm and stress"), whereas the bulgarian language is actually one of the Slavic family of languages, and doesn't even use the same alphabet.... Hmm... did Jo screw up again?... Did she actually mean BAVaria, which is a State of Germany?... Or is Durmstrang actually in Germany somewhere, and Krum, the Bulgarian, attends as an exchange student?...

Maybe I should toss this over to the main list and see what happens?...

Maria Holub 
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