JKR on Rosie?

[Kaitlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 4047

How do we know that the signature was actually hers?  She kept 
talking about the role as if she had it.  "And this boy plays my son, 
Ron..."  
American actors would have overdone the movie.  Nonetheless, Robin 
Williams IS British.  He would have made a pretty good ghost.
~Kaitlin

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "milz " <absinthe at m...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Trina " <lj2d30 at g...> wrote:
> > I tape the show so I saw it today.  Basically, not a lot of new 
> > info.  Rosie talked about her desire to be Molly Weasley and the 
> fact 
> > she got shot down by Chris Columbus since they  were going for an 
> all 
> > British cast.  Rosie even did her ghastly Brit accent; JKR hid 
her 
> > cringe gallantly, I thought.  One point of interest, though,
> Molly's 
>  
> > signature on the invite to the Quidditch World Cup is Rosie's.  
> > Talked about Cedric (not by name in case someone hasn't read GoF 
> yet) 
> > and the death, phemonema of spurring on an entire generation to 
> read, 
> > casting of the movie... (Robin Williams also got shot down when 
he 
> > volunteered his services.  Perhaps there's hope after all)
> > 
> > Trina
> 
> That was on today?!?? I thought it was scheduled for friday? Oh 
> well...As long as nothing new was revealed. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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!)
> 
> :-) Milz