Casting for Phoenix

[Sarah]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tasha" <bruney200 at y...> wrote:
> I think we should have a petiton going to let American actors be in HP
> films. 

I guess we don't know for sure that all characters are definitely 
British, and with a name like Kingsley Shacklebolt ... (can't actually 
see him being American though - sorry).
I think Jo said that she wouldn't put American characters in just for 
the sake of it - and you've got to be as true to the characters she 
thought up as possible haven't you?  I know some people would argue 
that "whoever" isn't as they imagined - you know, Ron should be taller, 
Petunia and Dudley are blond in the books etc etc
Did you know that Tim Roth was considered for Snape before Alan 
Rickman?  I love Alan Rickman to pieces and he certainly brings a 
unique perspective to the part (and nobody does sardonic like Rickman), 
but he wasn't my ideal image of Snape (Tim Roth seems a better kind of 
age too, and could certainly pass as a school mate of Gary Oldman and 
David Thewlis.)  But Alan Rickman pulls it off (?!)and has become 
Severus Snape. To me, as much as I think Samuel L Jackson is a fine and 
accomplished actor, and I certainly have nothing against Americans per 
se it would grate on me to have him play Kingsley.
Sorry
Just MHI
Sarah xx