Casting suggestion

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No: HPFGUIDX 8936

Kline for Lockhart sounds good to me.  Maybe JKR would agree to make 
the biggest jerk in the books USAmerican.  I don't even like Kevin 
Kline, that's why he'd be good!

Rickman IS Snape.  I was so delighted when I learned about that pick. 
 Okay, so he's too old, I still think he's perfect.  No other casting 
choice has so closely matched my inner vision (once the hair is 
greased and the scowl fixed on).

Am I going to get flamed if I say that I think Maggie Smith is an 
outrageous overactor and I don't want her to subject McGonagall to the 
same treatment she's given every role I've seen her in:  
repressed-spinster-who-seems-so-strict-but-is-really-an-old-softie?

>Kenneth Branagh for Lupin

Hmm, too healthy-looking.  Ian McKellen has the right amount of both 
wear-and-tear and sex appeal if you ask me.  I know, I know, he's way 
too old.  But he did say he'd like to teach Daniel again!  (Having 
apparently played a schoolmaster in David Copperfield, which I didn't 
catch.)

Ralph Fiennes, now, how about him for Lupin?  He's the right age, he 
frequently looks like he's about to keel over (anyone see Oscar and 
Lucinda?) and as for the sex appeal . . .

(fanning myself)
Amy Z

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