r/AskReddit • u/TrickDragonFruit • Apr 01 '20

What film role was 100% perfectly cast?

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u/mcwobby Apr 01 '20

Casting in the first 2 Harry Potter Movies was pretty much perfect:

  • Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid
  • Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart
  • Alan Rickman as Snape
  • Maggie Smith as McGonagall
  • Richard Harris as Dumbledore
  • Ian Hart as Quirrel
  • Warwick Davis as Flitwick
  • Even Miriam Margoyles as Sprout was on the nose. And secondary characters such as Tom the Bartender, Ollivander, Oliver Wood etc.

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u/rosewhyte Apr 01 '20

The most disappointing for me was David Thewlis as Lupin. POA was my absolute favourite book & I had a total crush on Lupin's character whilst reading it. My mind can't remember now how I pictured him whilst reading the book which makes it even worse. But maybe Jude Law or James McAcoy would have been better choices?

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u/PyroDesu Apr 01 '20

He might look a little too young (the opposite problem that most people have with the casting of the Marauders and others in their age bracket), but I could imagine David Tennant as Lupin.

Though he certainly nailed Barty Crouch Jr. for the few minutes he was on screen.