# The guys playing Fred and George are horrible actors \[Harry Potter\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557 "2008-10-05T15:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/1 "2008-10-05T15:34:17Z")
The title pretty much says it all. Daniel’s a bit rubbish too. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/2 "2008-10-05T15:38:11Z")
Darn it. This shoulda gone in Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/3 "2008-10-05T16:10:46Z")
I would imagine the pool of tall, red-headed, twin male actors is somewhat limited. And I think Radcliffe has gotten better over the years. He’s still not great, but he was truly awful in the first couple of films. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/4 "2008-10-05T16:17:13Z")
Actually, I thought Daniel Radcliffe was all right in the first couple of films, but stumbled in the more emotional moments of Prizoner of Azkaban. However, I thought he was just fine in the last one, and he seems to be serious about working on his craft. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/5 "2008-10-05T16:18:55Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I would imagine the pool of tall, red-headed, twin male actors is somewhat limited. But hair dye and makeup isn’t. So that just leaves tall and twins. I guess you have a point. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/6 "2008-10-05T16:18:57Z")
What bothers me is that the various members of the Weasley clan all have very different accents - far more than is reasonable in a family group who grew up together. ---
**Author:** ![PeskiPiksi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e495f1/32.png) [@PeskiPiksi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeskiPiksi)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/7 "2008-10-05T16:32:47Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > But hair dye and makeup isn’t. So that just leaves tall and twins. I guess you have a point. Actually, in the books the twins aren’t even tall. They’re short and stocky, like Charlie. Bill, Percy, and Ron are the tall ones. So all they had to find for the movie were identical male twins of about the right age. Who could act. And yeah, Daniel Radcliffe isn’t great. But he’s better than Emma Watson, the uber-eyebrow actor. ---
**Author:** ![judikium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@judikium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/judikium)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/8 "2008-10-05T16:40:29Z")
I was most appalled with Emma Watson in _Order of the Phoenix_. She appeared to have lost any talent she once had. The Phelps twins aren’t naturally red-haired, so it wasn’t as difficult of a search for the actors as it would seem. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/9 "2008-10-05T17:39:44Z")
> [@judikium](#): > > I was most appalled with Emma Watson in _Order of the Phoenix_. She appeared to have lost any talent she once had. Um, go back and watch the first two movies again. Her “acting” consisted of emphatically stating her lines while trying to clearly enunciate every word. ---
**Author:** ![Superfreaknduper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Superfreaknduper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfreaknduper)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/10 "2008-10-05T18:47:03Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Um, go back and watch the first two movies again. Her “acting” consisted of emphatically stating her lines while trying to clearly enunciate every word. In her defense, that kinda sounds like the sort-of intelligent "stuck-up"ness you would expect from her character. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/11 "2008-10-05T19:18:21Z")
I never really thought Emma’s acting was bad. She was ‘one of the good ones’ in my opinion. Also Draco Malfoy has been consistently good. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-guys-playing-fred-and-george-are-horrible-actors-harry-potter/466557/12 "2008-10-05T19:48:44Z")
I thought Daniel Radcliffe did a very nice job in OotP. He’s consistently improved in each of the films. Emma Watson has not. Overall, I think the acting has been quite good considering it’s an ensemble cast of children, cast when they were all very young. Hard to see who will develop over the years.