Casting mis-steps

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "Cat" <CatMcNulty at ...> wrote:

> Most of the casting has been spot on however, there have 
> been a couple of mis-steps IMHO ... 


zanooda:

I could never understand what exactly the word "miscast" means :-). Does it mean that an actor for some reason *can't* play a certain character the way this character is supposed to be? In this case I wouldn't call Gambon's casting a mis-step, like you suggest. 

Right, he was horrible in GoF, but quite all right in OotP. Doesn't it show that he *can* play Dumbledore, just didn't know at first how to do it right :-)? I don't know whose fault this was, the director's or the actor's, but Gambon obviously didn't know how DD is supposed to behave.In OotP he doesn't scream and shake people anymore, and it seems from the trailers that he may be not bad at all in HBP.

Now Fleur actress, for example, *can't* play Fleur however talented she may be, because she is rather plain, and, even though Movie!Fleur is not part-Veela, still, boys' reaction to her suggests that she is extremely attractive, when the actress is not. But again, maybe I don't understand the word "miscast" correctly, LOL. Besides, isn't it all very subjective? I'm sure there are people who like Gambon as DD  very much :-).