Casting for Phoenix

[Sarah]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, juli17 at a... wrote:

 It's a (very small) pet peeve of mine that JKR won't allow American 
actors in the HP films. 
Julie 

me again now ...
I don't think that she has necessarily said she won't allow Americans 
in the films, just that she wasn't going to write any American 
characters in the books.  Maybe I'm wrong.

I admit that someone like Mike Myers does a great English accent (but 
then he was brought up in Britain for a while), but most of the time 
cross atlantic accents do not work that well.  Alan Rickman's 
American accent is nothing to write home about, Clive Owen in Sin 
City just makes me want to curl up and I have to turn off Hugh Laurie 
in House!  Renee Zellwiger as Bridget Jones is horrific, Winona Ryder 
and Keanu Reeves in Dracula ... I could go on ... it's just not worth 
the potential cringe factor.  Saying that, I find Gary Oldman's 
accent as Sirius a little forced too, and Sean Bean sounds odd when 
he's not talking in his native Sheffield tongue.  Am I being too 
picky?  
I think Americans are better playing Americans and Brits are better 
playing Brits.  
And on that note I shall go and hide, masterfully dodging all the 
flak that will no doubt head east towards me.

Sarah xx