[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR on Rosie?

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4039

milz wrote:

> That was on today?!?? I thought it was scheduled for friday? Oh
> well...As long as nothing new was revealed.

She wasn't on very long.

> I guess the positive side is that I missed Rosie's awful "British"
> accent. I heard it before and she sounded like a Valley Girl with a
> stuffy nose.

JKR told her she wasn't doing a London accent, she was doing Dick van Dyke.
Which is pretty funny, really, since he's American.

> I'm happy the movie is an All-Brit cast. I had a hard enough time
> dealing with Rosie as Betty Rubble. I wonder which character Robin
> Williams wanted to play. (I hope he didn't want to play Dumbledore!)

I'm amazed they offered to be in it for free. Maybe they'll allow
non-speaking cameos or something; those are always fun and if they don't
open their mouths they won't spoil it.

--Amanda