FANTASY casting...

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 170618

houyhnhnm wrote:
> 
><snip> I don't know why Rod Steiger for Scrimgeour. It was just a
feeling.  A movie I can't remember the name of--not "In the Heat of
the Night" I don't think.  I love Rod Steiger because he was so
different in every role so it's hard to say what about Scrimgeour made
me think of  Steiger, but he did.
>
Carol responds:
I wasn't going to respond to this thread because it's hard to bring
canon into it, but, oh, well.

Maybe you're thinking of Rod Steiger in "Doctor Zhivago"? Not a cop or
ex-cop role, but there's something both tough and ambiguous about him,
and possibly you suspect Scrimgeour of being a potential bad guy (as
opposed to the quintessential tough politician, with Fudge as the
quintessential weak one?)

At any rate, my vote for Scrimgeour, especially since we can use
American here and it's just fantasy, is Ted Levine (with or without a
mustache) in any of his tough cop or ex-cop roles--I'm not thinking of
Jame Gumb! (Ted can "speak Southern," despite being from the Midwest,
so maybe he can manage a British accent. At any rate, he'd look the
part, coloring and all, except for the blue eyes.

For Rosmerta, how about a forty-something Blythe Danner (Gwyneth
Paltrow's mother)? She's too old now, but she used to be cute and
perky, and I think she'd have been attractive to a teenage boy without
being sexually threatening. As someone mentioned, Rosmerta has to be a
bit older than MWPP since she was already running the Three
Broomsticks when they were in school, but since witches and wizards
age differently from Muggles (unless they're subjected to werewolf
bites or Azkaban), we could make her thirty-something instead.

Someone suggested Rita Hayworth for Rosmerta, but I don't picture
Rosmerta as sultry and smouldering. That's more like Bellatrix before
Azkaban, only she'd need a regal air as well, and I don't know if Rita
could have managed that.

Snape, as Potioncat(?) mentioned, should be Alan Rickman with
twenty-five years subtracted from his age. The voice, the gestures,
the facial expressions are already perfect, but the age is wrong.

Carol, feeling like she's posting to the wrong list since fantasy
video games are closer to films than to books