Rachel, 'fess up

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rachel Bray" <bray.262 at o...> wrote:
> I've watched Pride and Prejudice for the last couple of days (and 
> rewinding the lake scene...*sigh*...) And I still stand by my 
> thoughts of Colin Firth being Lupin.  I mentioned it to a friend 
and 
> she said "I don't know.  I always pictured Lupin as someone 
> resembling an unmade bed."  My reply was "Yes...and an unmade 
> bed is very inviting to lie upon, isn't it?"  :-)
> 
> *ahem*
> 
> Hope everyone had a great weekend.


Colin for Lupin?  That's interesting.  I am sure everyone is sick of 
me by now, blathering on about Colin Firth as Sirius, but Lupin?  
Hadn't considered it.  I chose Colin Firth as Sirius, as, besides the 
fact that he is undeniably sexy, he is also very good at the tortured 
soul/enigmatic roles.  Besides P&P, does anyone remember him in a BBC 
drama in the 80s?  It was called Tumbledown or Tumbleweed or 
something like that, and he played an ex-Army officer with post 
traumatic stress syndrome.  As you can see, my memory of this is a 
little shaky, but I do remember that he was extremely good at 
conveying this - manic one moment, violently angry the next, in a 
deep depression after that.  I think remembering this made me think 
of him for Sirius, who is also a character who is teetering close to 
the edge - at least in PoA.
For Lupin. I don't know.  Despite the fact that Lupin has to hide the 
fact that he is a werewolf, I have always considered him a much more 
open and less-faceted character than Sirius.  I certainly can't 
imagine him smoldering enigmatically at the camera.  He is more even 
tempered, open of face, fair, and (dare I say it) bland compared to 
Sirius, and therefore not the sort of person I could imagine Colin 
Firth playing.  I don't know where all this comes from - just my mind 
on super-rant, I guess.

Catherine