Date change to July 15?

[Carol]

Charlotte wrote:
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> Good, I'm glad they're going to use the epilogue; I was hoping for it all along!  And I have more than faith that they can use makeup and aging techniques for the actors: wigs, hair dye, make them look a little "wrinkled" (just a little, since the characters are supposed to be in their late 30's/early 40's), make it look like they've packed on a little weight (at least for Hermione and Ginny, for gals who have had 2-3 kids!), have Ron and Harry with mustaches or beards...I can't help thinking about Dan and his mustache in My Boy Jack or the stubble he sprouted for Equus.

Carol:
So that's where all the "hairy Harry" photos are coming from! I thought (silly me) that he was showing up for rehearsals of DH with facial hair. Then again, if Harry and Ron are camping for months, they're going to be sprouting some facial hair unless they know how to shave with a wand or bring along the magical razor that Harry receives from the DelaCours (sp?) and never uses that I recall.

I agree that make-up and CGI (or whatever was used for "Benjamin Button") will be much better than using new actors. (As it is, we'll have child actors we haven't seen before. We need to keep the familiar faces.) The Trio and Draco will all be 38, the same age (coincidentally?) as Snape and Lupin at the beginning of DH (although, of course, the ages are wrong in the films). Ginny will be 37; Percy, who may be glimpsed briefly, will be 43.

Completely OT comment: I remember my 25-year high school reunion. Everybody was either 42 or 43. None of the women were recognizable though some of them looked quite good thanks to make-up and hair salons. The men, however, all looked the same (setting aside height and coloring), every one of them balding to one degree or another and sporting a beer belly. (My reaction was, who are all these middle-aged people! No doubt their reaction to me was, who is that skinny woman with glasses?)
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Charlotte: 
> I read the interview and even though Dan said he thought it would work if they used new actors, I don't agree.  I think it would be crap with new actors if they were capable of aging the "original" actors for the epilogue.   

Carol:
I think that Dan will be presently surprised. And even if it doesn't work perfectly, I agree with you that new actors would be worse.

Carol, who's rereading just the last two books rather than the whole series at this point