Casting decisions (was: Half-Blood Prince)

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:

> Huh.  Did I say that??  Maybe I should take credit for saying that, 
> although I have no recollection of it. :D 


zanooda:

Sorry! It was Potioncat, I remember now :-). We were on the movie 
list, and I was whining, as usual, about Snape being old, and then 
she said it :-).


> SSSusan:
 
> Then again, JKR could always have gently instructed the 
> casting folks about what age Snape should have been, 
> if they were way off course like that. 


zanooda:

Maybe she also thought that he was too good :-). 

  
> SSSusan:
 
> Die Hard was released *twenty* years ago.  Which one of 
> us can claim to look the same as, or even as good as we 
> did 20 years ago?  Hmmmm??


zanooda:

No one can :-)! OTOH, *we* are not actors hired to play somebody who 
is 25 years younger :-)! I understand though that most people don't 
care about Movie!Snape's and Movie!Sirius's age. It's just me :-).