Daniel Radcliff/Emma Watson/Rupert Grint

[Carol]

Red wrote:
> > Hopefully she {Emma Watson]wont get to typed cast like Orlando
Bloom has.
> > 
> > she's an alright actress nothing though like Vanessa Redgrave or
Maggie Smith even. But she's alright for the HP series.
<snip>
> 
Sheryll responded:
> 
> Emma is young yet, so give her time to grow as an actress and who
knows. She was okay in Ballet Shoes. <snip>

Carol adds:

I agree that Emma is young yet and needs time to grow. I wish someone
would tell her to slow down a bit. She speaks her lines so fast that I
sometimes have trouble understanding her.

I don't think it's quite fair to compare her with actresses more than
old enough to be her grandmother--unless we look at films they made
when they were near her age. Vanessa Redgrave, of course, had the
advantage of having a famous actor as a father. I read recently that
the actor and comedian Ronnie Barker (whom I'd never heard of before I
read about him in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography's Life
of the Day) once told Maggie Smith, his contemporary, that she should
give up acting. Fortunately, she didn't follow his advice! (I'd
provide the link, but the Lives of the Day are available only for a
week and that one was posted January 8--I still have the article in my
e-mail.)

Carol, agreeing with Sheryll's (snipped) comment that Rupert Grint is
delightful in "Driving Lessons"