[HPFGU-OTChatter] Casting Rumors

[Shaun Hately]

On 14 May 2003 at 2:21, stardancerofas wrote:

> Now, to switch gears for one moment. Do you know who I would cast as
> Mad-Eye Moody? If he were alive he'd be perfect. Practically no CGI
> needed either....Marty Feldman. A wonderful actor bless him, so very
> talented, and what he could do with his eyes...I don't think I ever
> saw a movie with him in it that wasn't hilarious!
> 
> Just throwing this out for the Group, but who would you cast?
> Thanks.

Chris Ellison, who played Frank Burnside on the long running British police series, The 
Bill. I generally don't have opinions on things like who should be cast as characters in 
various shows and I'm not much good at it. But ever since I read Moody, I've thought 
'Burnside'.

Some people on the list will know who he is - most probably won't. How to describe the 
character of Burnside (who Ellison plays brilliantly). He's a senior detective and can be 
*very* nasty - bouncing Malfoy the Ferret is something he could easily do. Early on in 
his time on the Bill, many of his colleagues wonder how he could possibly have escaped 
detection in a police corruption investigation - we later find out that he was working 
undercover as an integral part of that investigation. He breaks rules when he feels they 
get in his way, but he is also *obsessed* with putting criminals away. He detests and 
despises most criminals. He's fanatically loyal to his friends.

He's done some comedy and he's done it well - but generally he's a drama actor.



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