Sirius Casting

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Omigod!! What a yummy he is!! And a scottish accent, eh?

I agree about GB's age being an issue-- but we are in a qunadary 
because of AR, ren't we. yes, they ahve smooth out his face and he 
now has jet black hair. But anyone playing RL or SB must look like 
they are in the smae age range.

Also with SB and RL I would expect some premature aging. I think in 
PoA RL is described as prematurely grey.

Who was that guy in Rob Roy, Aiden Quin was it? Magnificent blue 
eyes? I wonder how old he is....

--Suzanne




--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner" 
<bohners at p...> wrote:
> 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 p...
> http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj