Alan Cummings is NOT Gilderoy Lockhart! (rant)

[cynthiaanncoe at home.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Jen P 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!
> 
> LOL!  The Hugh Grant rumor never had any evidence to back it up, as 
> far as I understand, so I wouldn't let rumors of AC "filling the 
> Hugh-Grant shaped hole" in the casting scare you either.  Yet.
> 
> I could not *stand* AC in the only thing I've seen him in, Circle 
of 
> Friends.  He was so over the top I was embarrassed to watch him.  
But 
> then, that's what I dislike about GL, too--he is by far JKR's worst 
> piece of writing, IMHAFDWO (in my humble and frequently-disagreed-
with 
> opinion).
> 


Hold your fire!  My daughters are over the moon about AC playing 
Lockhart.  They were able to list a bunch of movies they've seen him 
in, and they were right.  They adore him.  In Spy Kids (the only AC 
movie I've had the pleasure of suffering through), he was mildly 
amusing and pretty harmless.  And I agree with Amy:  GL is a 
dreadfully written character, so there is no place to go but up.

Cindy (who just wants to get the CoS movie out of the way so we can 
start casting PoA and GoF)