Casting - Fat Lady - Nagini

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 12302

Clearly, I have released a monster!

Judging from the wee little picture on the website, Hugh Laurie for 
Mr. Weasley looks perfect.  I forgot that that's another character 
they have to cast for CoS.

Kevin Spacey for Lupin?  Good actor, but I just can't match Verbal and 
Our Man Remus in my head.  Just goes to show how individual these 
things are (and how no casting director will ever please more than 20% 
of us).  Irons seems okay, though he's already 52.  Oh well, he played 
an undergraduate in Brideshead and he must've been 30+ then.

I am glad they've stuck with British actors (except for Chris 
Columbus's daughter . . . hmmm), but I think Lockhart would make an 
acceptable exception.  The self-obsessed, fame-obsessed American.

I have never seen Clive Owen before, but wow . . . that's my Sirius.  
Although against all reason, I picture him being clean-shaven (sure, 
he hasn't had time or breath for a haircut since leaving Azkaban, but 
he hates a scratchy chin, so he does a quick wandless "Depilio!" every 
morning).

Joywitch wrote:

>(Picard Apparatum)

LOL!  Well, not to be grim, but Richard Harris is getting on and they 
might need another Dumbledore before they're through.  We can tempt 
Patrick Stewart with the opportunity to have several feet of hair!  I 
do think he'd make a good Crouch Sr., but that isn't enough screen 
time for the incomparable Jean-Luc!

Kathy wrote:

>"casting HP with Muppets" 

Gonzo as Neville?  (you know, unintentional explosions)

Dee wrote:

>How do we know it WAS Sirius who did the slashing?  It could have 
been
>Peter, once he knew Sirius was onto him?

Interesting idea!  We do get the information from Peeves--not a 
totally reliable source.  But the implication is that the Fat Lady saw 
whoever did it (how could she help it?) so Peter would've given the 
game away if it were him.  I think Sirius has to have been in human 
form at this point for the same reason--the Fat Lady/Peeves would've 
reported that he can be a dog otherwise.

Amanda wrote:

> Yeah, but most of us will make the Rikki-Tikki-Tavi connection, 
where
> Nag and Nagaina were definitely *not* good.

I didn't remember their names.  I saw RTT when I was about 5, and 
those cobras induced a fear of flushing toilets in me for years (don't 
ask).  Maybe I'll see it again, now that my phobia has faded and CM 
has informed us that the animator was the sublime Chuck Jones.

Amy Z
...who can't recall what Cary Elwes looks like (it's been a long time 
since The Princess Bride)

...and who has never sent a letter to a movie star in her life, but is 
mentally drafting one to Ralph Fiennes begging him to play Lupin

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