FANTASY casting...

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 170623

>> Shelley wrote:

>> I imagine Madam Rosmerta to be in the range from 28 to say, 34. 

> MercuryBlue:

> No can do, Shelley. Rosmerta's old enough that she was working at 
> the Three Broomsticks when the Marauders were in Hogwarts. She 
> might well look early thirties, but she's got to be fifty at least.


Wow, fifty! It's possible, but she can be younger, I think. She only 
needs to be a few years older then the Marauders. We only know that 
when they started visiting Hogsmead in their third year, she already 
worked at the "Three Broomsticks" (is she the owner, BTW?). She could 
have been just out of school. Anyway, like Shelley and Eddie, I 
imagine Rosmerta *looking* like she is in her thirties, whatever her 
real age might be.

> Eddie wrote:

> Julie Christie is 66 years old in real life. 


I didn't know Julie Christie, so I had to find her younger pictures, 
but to me even then she didn't look like Rosmerta. She looks 
attractive, but her face is too strong, you know? JMHO. Rosmerta's 
face is described as "pretty". And I couldn't see in the pictures if 
Christie was  "curvy" enough to play Rosmerta :-). I can't offer 
anyone else, unfortunately, because I really don't know any actors.

> Charles wrote:

> Amelia Bones: Dame Judi Dench as Jean Pargetter/Hardcastl e from As
> Time Goes By. No nonsense, but fair and understanding at the same 
> time.

> Griselda Marchbanks: Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo from Golden
> Girls. Good heart with the ability to be cantankerous and spit nails
> when necessary.

As I said, I know very few actors, but these two I know and they are 
excellent picks, great :-)!


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