POA "actor" -Josh Herdman + Hugh Mitchell

[Carol]

zanooda:
> 
> You are right about this. I remember reading one Gandalf actor 
interview (oh, I know his name, but can't remember the spelling and 
don't have time to check :-)), where he says that the first and the 
last Gandalf scenes (meeting with Frodo in the beginning and sailing 
away with Frodo and the elves in the end) were shot either on the 
same day or at least one right after another. <snip>

Carol:
Ian McKellen (who refused the role of Dumbledore, having already
played one "iconic wizard," I think his phrase was).

Steve wrote:
>  
> > So, I have to ask, do you think this 'all grown up' Colin is going
to work for you in the final movie?
> > 
> > In my mind I pictured sweet young innocent small Colin meeting his
end. Of course, Colin was age 11 in CoS, so it would seem that he
would have been a 6th year in the final book which would presumably
make him age 15 (or maybe 16).
 
> zanooda:
> 
> That would depend on *how much* the boy has grown. Colin may be 16
in DH, but still, "he was tiny in death", and Oliver Wood could carry
him easily over his shoulder. If Colin actor grew up to be very tall,
it won't work for me.

Carol responds:
As  you said, he would be a sixth year (assuming that a Muggle-born
somehow attended Hogwarts that year), but McGonagall tells "Creevey"
that he's underage and tries to keep him from joining the battle.
Either he has a summer birthday like Harry and consequently is still
underage (and McGonagall keeps track of Gryffindors' birthedays) or
McGonagall was referring to *Dennis* Creevey, who would be a fourth
year and definitely underage, or *JKR* was confused and not only
forgot that Colin was a Muggleborn and wouldn't be at Hogwarts but how
old he was. (sometimes I think that she forgets that not every student
has a summer birthday like Harry and stays the same age for the entire
year, which accounts for her identifying sixteen-year-old James as
fifteen in OoP and Hermione and Harry as "two thirteen-year-old
wizards" in PoA when Hermione has been fourteen for nine months--comes
of JKR's being born, like Harry, on July 31, I guess! <smile>)

Anyway, I agree with Julie that the teenage Hugh Mitchell is *pretty*
in those photos that Steve linked to. (I've never seen a lower lip
like that, divided in two like a flower petal). However, he's already
eighteen and by no means "tiny," so if they want someone "tiny" to
die, it will have to be Nigel--unless *he* grows a foot in a year as
some boys seem to do around fourteen or fifteen. And also, I don't see
how they can reintroduce Colin Creevey (who was a real pest during
CoS) as if he'd been referred to by name in OoP as a member of the DA.
But, yes, it would be affecting to see that beautiful boy dying
bravely as long as the audience somehow knows who he is. That's
assuming that he looks in the film like he does in the photos that
Steve linked us to. There's a (much less flattering) group photo of
him with Natalia Tena (Tonks), Devon Murray (Seamus), and the actress
who played Angelina in the first three films here:

http://www.snitchseeker.com/gallery/albums/userpics/84186/normal_2523280334_d41ec11e73_b.jpg

And here's one where he appears to be some sort of (punk?) rock
musician--he has a pierced lip (WHY???) and rather greasy hair:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1076/1305930823_2b6e47ef56_b.jpg

I don't know whether he grew too fast for the part or changed his
image too much or temporarily didn't want to be associated with the
role of Colin when he was, say, fourteen--you know how teenage boys
are. <grin> He seems, at age eighteen or so, to have gotten over that
problem--at least to the extent of playing Colin's voice in the OoP
video game and apparently being cast as Colin in the DH film, by which
time he'll be about twenty. (He's just a few months younger than
Daniel Radcliffe.)

Anyway, I don't know what to think. Bless thee, Colin, Bless thee!
Thou art translated! (to steal a line from "Midsummer Night's Dream").

Carol, wondering how they can possibly write Colin back into the story
at this point