[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Christian Bale/Gary Oldham

[Katherine Coble]

On Jun 23, 2005, at 10:17 AM, theotokos wrote:

> Marita Jan <maritajan at yahoo.com> wrote: Not that I'm obsessed or 
> anything.... :-) ..... but Christian Bale,
> especially when his hair was long at the beginning of the movie, is the
> image I have of Sirius as he's described in the books, especially the
> young handsome Sirius in Snape's pensieve scene. As much as I really
> enjoyed Gary Oldham's performance in PoA, he just isn't (to me) pretty
> enough to fit how I see Sirius.
>
>
> I completely agree!  I like Gary Oldham just fine but he is not 
> handsome by any means.  JKR said [paraphrasing] Yes, Sirius is 
> sexy--or maybe it was handsome.  Christian Bale would have been 
> perfect, but alas he is not British.  Wait, is Gary?
>
> theotokos
>

K:

By the way, forgot to add that Bale is indeed British.  He was born in 
Wales:

In the "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" radio interview first aired June 
13, 2005, he admitted to Gross that because Batman is "such an American 
icon," he had decided not to perform his promotional interviews for the 
movie Batman Begins (2005) in his natural mixed Welsh/British accent. 
He instead spoke to Gross in an almost-inflectionless mid-American 
accent, only revealing his dialectic roots with a few words.


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