Perfect Casting, part 2

[NeuroHeart]

not weaselly enough to be Rudy.

You are mistaking character for looks. Rudy is a weaselly guy, personality-wise, but he's not described as a weaselly looking guy. He's actually described as clean-cut and rather good-looking (except when Harry makes him look more weaselly than he is in the illusion.) At worst he looks smug and acts weaselly.

[bellmaker]

My idea for Rudy is a sort of Iago type person.  so I'm thinking Kenneth Bragan, I do not think that I'm spelling ht elast name right but he played Lockhart in the second Harry Potter movie.

[Figging Mint]

I think we should put some eyeglasses on McKidd and have him appear in Harry's summoning circle.

[NeuroHeart]

I think we should put some eyeglasses on McKidd and have him appear in Harry's summoning circle.

You think he has the appearance of a giant crab?

[Snowleopard]

I don't think Clancy, I think that was his name, looked like a crab?
The one Harry summoned to ask some questions of in one of the early books.

[Tempus Corvus]

I don't think Clancy, I think that was his name, looked like a crab?
The one Harry summoned to ask some questions of in one of the early books.

Chauncy looked like something with crablike pincers and a beak of some sort.

How about Alex Kingston as Titania or Mab?

[Baalirock]

Titania is harder to cast, since we haven't actually met her in the books yet.  My pick for Mab (as pointed out by my lovely wife) is Natalie Dormer.  Check her out in the Tudors. 



"Mine! Mine! Mine!"

I could see Alex Kingston playing Lea, though.  She could pull off the godmother vibe.

[NeuroHeart]

Chauncy looked like something with crablike pincers and a beak of some sort.

And don't forget covered in chitin. Pincers and chitin make for something at least similar to a giant crab, though its mouth might be close to a squid. Either way, not very human-like.

[habu987]

Titania is harder to cast, since we haven't actually met her in the books yet.  My pick for Mab (as pointed out by my lovely wife) is Natalie Dormer.  Check her out in the Tudors. 



"Mine! Mine! Mine!"

I could see Alex Kingston playing Lea, though.  She could pull off the godmother vibe.

While she's definitely attractive enough to play the part in my mind, I've always thought Mab appeared older, as in middle aged.

[Figging Mint]

You think he has the appearance of a giant crab?

Bah, that's makeup's job.      I think he would be perfect to give that crab the right personality.

Urbane, sympathetic, intellectual even.   With deadly hints of ulterior agenda.

[Figging Mint]

While she's definitely attractive enough to play the part

So long as they don't put her hair up in one of those Tudors dos that make her head look long and boxy.    Like a refrigerator lying on its side, with a Natalie Dormer mask on the narrow bit.

[Quantus]

Bah, that's makeup's job.      I think he would be perfect to give that crab the right personality.

Urbane, sympathetic, intellectual even.   With deadly hints of ulterior agenda.

Kelsey Grammar?  He did good in Beast in X-men and did urbane evil great in the Simpsons. 

[Figging Mint]

Kelsey Grammar?

I'm still seeing Frasier Crane, but if it works for y'all...

[Baalirock]

Sideshow Chauncy?  I could only get behind that if they cast David Hyde Pierce as a  "good" summoned entity... like the Loa Harry calls on and puts in a doll's body.  Just his voice, of course.

[Figging Mint]

Sideshow Chauncy? 

Somehow I'm thinking that would give the whole production a bit of a Dogma flavor.   

Not a bad thing in itself.