Actor's ages (was Wands and broomsticks)

[Tammy Rizzo]

No: HPFGUIDX 56354

On 28 Apr 2003 at 17:54, darrin_burnett wrote:

> There is a wonderful timeline of that day at the lexicon. You also
> have to remember, according to the timeline we have, Lily and James
> were only a couple years out of Hogwarts when they had Harry. (One
> reason I'm REALLY annoyed that Gary Oldman, fine actor that he is, is
> playing Sirius Black in the film-- should have been Sean Bean! Oldman
> is just too much of an OLD MAN!)
> 
> Darrin

Okay, point of order here (or maybe not an actual point of order, but a point, at 
least).  I looked 'em up.  Sean bean was born in 1959.  He's 44 this year.  Gary 
Oldman was born in 1958.  He's only 45 this year.  That's not much difference, 
Darrin.  ;-)  Besides, I've seen Gary Oldman look quite young, and I've seen him 
look quite old, both quite recently.  It's called makeup artists.  And Snape is only in 
his late thirties, right?  Thus spoke JKR in an interview, when she told us 
McGonnagal was in her 70's and Dumbledore in his 150's.  Alan Rickman does a 
very convincing late-thirties for a guy in his fifties.  Who says Gary Oldman couldn't 
do a very convincing late-thirties, too, huh?  Besides, he's a much better fit for the 
physical description of Sirius than Sean Bean is -- lanky, harrowed, looks like death 
warmed over . . . Gary's good at that look.

Actually, I guess this could be called a point of order, because if we go any further 
on this topic, it really should be moved over to the Movie list, huh?  Sorry, I'll shut 
up now about actors and ages and stuff like that.  :-)

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Tammy
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