Tom Felton (was Re: Daniel Radcliff/Emma Watson/Rupert Grint

[potioncat]

> Carol responds:
> 
> I haven't seen him in anything else, but his first credit was as
> Peagreen Clock in "The Borrowers" in 1997 and his best-known
> preformance outside HP, probably, is as Louis Leononwens (Jodie
> foster's "son") in "Anna and the King." He was in a 2008 film called
> "The Disappeared." He seems to have a nice little career going. 

Potioncat:
You have to see some of Tom Felton's early movies. Such a sweet 
little boy! I don't which role was more adorable, Louis or Peagreen. 
I'd suggest "The Borrowers" just for the combination of Felton, 
Arthur (can't think of his name) and Hugh Laurie.It's amazing to me 
that such a sweetheart was cast as Draco. Nothing against Dan...but 
Felton was a known performer and he auditioned for Harry. 

Part of this thread has been about actor/character age. My husband 
and I went to see "Last Chance Harvey." The theater was full---and I 
swear everyone there had gray hair! I thought that Tom and I were the 
youngest couple in the room---then remembered we have gray hair too!

Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson are the romantic pair in the movie. 
He's older than me and she's younger than me, but I'm not sure how 
old each of them was supposed to be. I'm sure it was Hoffman who drew 
all the gray haired movie goers. Most of them would have been young 
when he played in "The Graduate." I think he was almost 30, playing a 
new college grad. Anne Bancroft wasn't much older than Hoffman, and 
she played his girlfriend's mother.

I think the movie industry has a skewed idea of age.