[HPforGrownups] Fwd: The Cast

[Alix Petty]

No: HPFGUIDX 2642


----- Original Message -----
From: Carole Estes <lrcjestes at msn.com>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 7:43 PM
Subject: RE: [HPforGrownups] Fwd: The Cast


> > Greetings;  I think Rickman is perfect for the role.  If you haven't
> > seen Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves you should see Rickman in that.  He
> > was perfect as the Sherriff of Nottingham.  He has a line about
> > canceling Christmas that still makes me smile.  I wouldn't have thought
> > of him as Snape if I hadn't seen this role but he is a really gifted
> > actor.  I like Rosie O'Donnell but don't see her in this movie.  Tina
>
> Rickman was the best thing about that movie (Robin Hood, that is) he is
> hilarious and very properly vicious...he would make an excellant Snape
based
> on that performance....

Surely he's too old, though.  That's been my gripe with this mooted casting
since I heard it.  I'm a huge fan of Alan Rickman, I think he's wonderful,
but he's in his 40's if not 50's, and bless him, gorgeous though he is, he
doesn't look like he's in his 30's, which IMHO is the age of the Marauder's
generation in the books, and this could throw out the casting of Remus and
Sirius (not to mention any other members of that generation who turn
up...here, I'm thinking of the old crowd mentioned by Dumbledore in Book
4...no evidence that they're definitely contemporaries of the Marauder's but
certainly possible).

Mind you, while watching the RNT's Oklahoma the other day, I'm increasing
convinced that Hugh Jackman should play Sirius Black when they get around to
filming Book 3...

Alix