Sirius Casting

[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

Gabriel Byrne is lovely, but alas, too old for Sirius.  And unlike Alan
Rickman, you can't easily make him look younger (they *did* smooth out AR's
wrinkles a bit, have you noticed?).  His face has too many deep-carved lines
of character -- I think they're delightful, but there's no way you could
mistake Byrne for a guy in his thirties.  Or so it seems to me, anyway.

I've thought of Daniel Day-Lewis, but he's perhaps a little too old by now
as well.  I haven't seen him in anything since LAST OF THE MOHICANS, but he
is incredibly versatile and also incredibly good-looking, which seems to
suit well with my idea of Sirius.  And if you want to know what he looks
like as a jailbird with scraggly hair, there's always IN THE NAME OF THE
FATHER...

But you know, I wouldn't mind seeing a complete unknown (or near-unknown) as
Sirius.  When I watched the recent DUNE miniseries a couple of weeks back,
the fellow playing Duncan Idaho struck me as being a near-perfect Sirius.  I
mentioned this to my husband (who has let me read him all the HP books,
bless him), and he said immediately, "Yeah, I can see that."

The actor's name is James Watson and you can see a picture of him (as Idaho,
but looking very Sirius) at
http://www.sf-fan.de/sf-film/dune/neu/ornithopter_2.jpg .  And oh, he has
the loveliest soft Scottish accent.

Yep, after a second look at this picture I think I'm gonna stick with this
one.  James Watson for Sirius in 2003!  Or 2004!  Or whatever!
--
Rebecca J. Bohner
rebeccaj at pobox.com
http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj