Alan Cummings is NOT Gilderoy Lockhart! (rant)

[mystril at yahoo.com]

I saw Alan Cummings in Cabaret and it was wonderful and he was
amazing, but....he isn't Lockhart! 

Plus, I'd spend the entire movie wondering what he's wearing beneath
his robes.

And, basically, a great big giant "Me too!" to everything you just said. 

-mystril

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Jennifer Piersol" <jenP_97 at y...> wrote:
> Okay, I'm not debunking any rumors here... the rumor in question 
> being that Alan Cummings has taken over for Hugh Grant in playing 
> Lockhart in CoS - but I have to rant about it.
> 
> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
> 
> Alan Cummings plays a GREAT "smarmy" guy... smarmy in the sense that 
> he's slimy and "dirty" and has questionable moral qualities... he 
> doesn't seem to fit (IMHO) the fop role that Lockhart requires.  His 
> face seems wrong for the huge toothy grin I imagine GL often flashes 
> at his fans, and I'm getting more and more pissed off that he's even 
> rumored to be taking over.
> 
> ARGH!
> 
> Jen (who would love both agreement AND evidence that AC *would* make 
> a good GL... rentable movie titles would help, and if you saw Caberet 
> when he was starring in it, that is also acceptable)
> 
> (btw, just to make sure I'm understood... I *do* like AC's work... 
> very much.  But he's just not right!)