Casting mis-steps

[montavilla47]

Montavilla47:
> > I've never heard anyone say a bad word about the actor who plays
> > Neville Longbottom, but I don't find him at all like Neville 
> > physically. Neville is also described as blond and "moon-faced".
> 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> You mean "round-faced", right :-)? And I don't remember Neville's hair color ever being mentioned :-). 

Montavilla47:
It may have been "round-faced," but I remember it as "moon-faced." 
I'm pretty sure he's described as blond at some point, but I could be
wrong.

I do know that in PoA, Harry imagines Peter Pettigrew as looking like
Neville, so that might have been where I picked up the blond thing.

Zanooda:
However, this is different - the boy *did* look the part when he was cast. You never know with the kids. Who could have predicted that Matthew Lewis would grow up tall and handsome :-)? I'm sure if he was tall, slim and handsome as a kid, many of us (me included) would consider him miscast, even if he played the part as well as he does. He wouldn't be convincing, that's all. Yes, now he has to wear a fat suit and fake teeth, but it's all right. 

Montavilla47:
I'm not sure about the fat suit, but he was wearing fake teeth from
the beginning.  

He originally tried out for the part of Harry and physically, he and 
Daniel Radcliffe weren't that different in the first film.  Now, of course,
he's much taller than Daniel.

But in how he "read" to the director, he must have been much more
suited to Neville.



> > montavilla47 wrote:
> 
> > - she might have benefited from better costuming and a lighter 
> > tint to her hair
> 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> Yes, and I also noticed in the pictures that she looks better with her hair hanging down. Why did they make her wear a pony-tail in the movie?


Montavilla47:
I keep wondering why they made her wear that weird hat.


> > montavilla47 wrote:
> 
> > With practically no lines or scenes, just how was Poesy 
> > supposed to convey that?
> 
> 
> zanooda:
> 
> They do it to all secondary characters, don't they? It's always funny to read how some kid was chosen from thousands others to play some part, and then in the movie he has nothing to play. What's the point in chosing the most talented kid, if he only has two words to say in the movie?
> 

Montavilla47:
I know.  I wonder what was so terrible about the PoA Patil twins.  They
were both really cute and they were actually twins.  Why did there need
to be a big casting search to replace them?

At least with Luna they gave her a few good scenes.  And they found 
the perfect girl to play her.

I also thought that Cho was really delightful with that Scottish 
accent.  My nephew, however, declared her not nearly hot enough
for his tastes.