[HPforGrownups] Casting - Fat Lady - Nagini

[B.K. DeLong]

No: HPFGUIDX 12306

At 12:55 PM 02/15/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>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'm still holding onto my Ralph Fiennes as Lupin picture ;)

>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.

Agreed - with a brit reading both the American and UK version of the book 
on tape/CD, I can't imagine anyone else but a brit playing these parts. I 
still think that Tim Curry, Cary Elwes, or Eric Idle would make a great 
Lockhart.

>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).

I dunno. Although my Sirius was "formed" by the voice Jim Dale used for him 
and I see him as a little older with scruffier hair and an unshaven beard.


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