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Greta_9, Keeper of the 4/4 Beat and Deep Sexy Basslines, in a strange condition Posted Nov 29, 2002
Tilda Swinton? Oh nononononono. Too icy, classy, cool. She's brilliant, but I'm unsure if she could pull off a caricature like Skeeter. What about Judy Davis instead?
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Catwoman Posted Nov 30, 2002
Have to be someone who has done comedy before.
(anyway, if they announce anything, tell us)
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Swiv (decrepit postgrad) Posted Nov 30, 2002
well, Liv Tyler's irritating enough, but they'd better NOT cast her as Rita...
*scratches head trying to think of actresses the right sort of age*
Kathy Burke?
Samantha Bond? (Moneypenny) - too stunning I guess
whoever played Petunia in Bridget Jones?
Emma Thompson?
Sophie Thompson? - they're acting aristocracy, they could use one of them
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Catwoman Posted Dec 1, 2002
Rita could be various ages, it's not as big an issue as with the guys. (you all know which guys I'm talking about, I presume. THE guys?)
Hmm, obnoxious. Who do we know that's obnoxious?
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Geoff Taylor - Gullible Chump Posted Dec 1, 2002
Rita was a full adult in one of the flashbacks in "Goblet of Fire", so that makes her mid-thirties at least.
Rhona Cameron, Jenny Eclair, Sue Perkin could all do the job. For me, the best candidate is the lady who was the 3rd star of "Black Books", after Dylan Moran & Bill Bailey.
Bill Bailey should have been Hagrid, BTW 
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Greta_9, Keeper of the 4/4 Beat and Deep Sexy Basslines, in a strange condition Posted Dec 1, 2002
Emma Thompson could actually work as Rita... but she wouldn't do it.
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Catwoman Posted Dec 2, 2002
She has got the face. I haven't seen her do that sort of charcter though.
Why wouldn't she do it? There's a lot of "serious" actors lounging around the halls of hogwarts (or skulking)
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Greta_9, Keeper of the 4/4 Beat and Deep Sexy Basslines, in a strange condition Posted Dec 3, 2002
Wouldn't be too much of a stretch actually - playing tart, that is; she has that kind of prim tartness in her.
Great casting coup, too, to have Kenneth Branagh in the second film and Emma Thompson in the fourth. They're not on the best of terms now, are they? *pulls malicious gossipy face and is then ashamed of herself*
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Catwoman Posted Dec 3, 2002
Why are they not happy with each other?
*doesn't care if appears to be gossipy*
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Greta_9, Keeper of the 4/4 Beat and Deep Sexy Basslines, in a strange condition Posted Dec 3, 2002
They used to be married... way back in the Nineties. They had a rather public divorce. He accused her of "sleeping with Oscar" (meaning the award), and then they went their separate ways. Fond memories of when they loved each other (or appeared to) remain in "Much Ado About Nothing", where they play Benedick and Beatrice.
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Swiv (decrepit postgrad) Posted Dec 3, 2002
well, so they did - but they wouldn't have to be around each other would they? If Branagh had been picked to direct then it might have been a different issue of course...
Though I did hear *tries to remember where* Kate Winslet saying that after Sense and Sensibility (ahhh the Rickman link!) that she asked Emma Thompson whether it she should do Branagh's Hamlet, and was told to go for it...
still - I think I'd prefer Sophie Thompson for the part...
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Greta_9, Keeper of the 4/4 Beat and Deep Sexy Basslines, in a strange condition Posted Dec 12, 2002
From the Popbitch e-zine:
"David Thewlis (Mr Anna Friel) is set for a starring
role in the next Harry Potter film"
We hadn't thought of him as Sirius, had we?
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Swiv (decrepit postgrad) Posted Dec 12, 2002
I woulda said he was more Lupin myself - what with the hair
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Greta_9, Keeper of the 4/4 Beat and Deep Sexy Basslines, in a strange condition Posted Dec 12, 2002
Either character, but I think Sirius... the tormented look and everything... my money's on that one.
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Catwoman Posted Dec 12, 2002
Um, okay, who is this guy?
*frantic clicking*
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Thewlis,+David
Well, from that picture I can't really say.
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Swiv (decrepit postgrad) Posted Dec 13, 2002
well, I had a thought
Judi Dench as Trelawney???
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Greta_9, Keeper of the 4/4 Beat and Deep Sexy Basslines, in a strange condition Posted Dec 13, 2002
Judy Dench is too stately, methinks. I'd still go for Joanna Lumley.
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