I visualised Tonks as Charlotte Coleman for half the book, before I remembered she died in '01.
After that I saw her as Emma Chambers from Notting Hill…
I must be stuck on Hugh Grant comic-relief sidekicks…
I totally saw the other new Auror as Mace Windu every time he was mentioned, but I don’t think Samuel Jackson is the man for the job
I know exactly who I can see doing Umbridge, but I can’t think of her name or anything she has been in. A very well known actress in the UK, usually type-cast as plump, dowdy, chainsmoking, tower-block or terrace resident… If anyone knows who I mean let me know.
In the meantime I rekon Caroline Quentin could pull off the simpering-evil act required.
We also have Mrs Figg to cast and probably a few others (I guess they will use unknowns for the kids again), suggestions anyone?
Yeardley Smith (a/k/a Lisa Simpson) = Umbridge Dennis Haysbert (a/k/a David Palmer from “24”) = Mace Shacklebolt
Gene Wilder = Cornelius Fudge
some new British girl no one’s ever seen = Luna Lovegood
-or- Hallie Eisenberg (a/k/a that scary Pepsi girl)
Chambers seems a bit too old to me (based on that one picture, anyway). I saw Tonks as in her early-to-mid-twenties: she mentions that she was only made an Auror the previous year, and IIRC, McGonagall mentions that Auror training takes another three years or so after graduation from Hogwarts.
I could see Laurence Fishburne as Kingsley Windu. He has that whole stolidly competent, deep-voiced thing down pat.
Robert Hardy already plays Cornelius, he was in COS.
Yeardly Smith is a great suggestion would be so cool to see her all little and evil. I wonder if she isn’t too cute? I guess they could ugly her down.
I am willing to bet bodyparts that Mace Shackelbolt will be played by Colin Salmon, who has been in amongst other things, Prime Suspect, Redident Evil and the latest Bond films.
Am I the only one who can see Eddie Izzard (in full drag) as Umbridge? Although now looking at some recent photos he appears to have lost a lot of weight…
I really wanted to see Eddie as Lupin, actually. I like David Thewlis fine, and Gary Oldman is a perfect Sirius, but I think Izzard as Lupin was a missed opportunity.
Rachel Weisz would have been a good Tonks, but she’s probably too old.
Also, keep in mind that the HP movie actors are all going to be British, per Rowling’s request.
