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Direct link to casting submission page: https://app.castittalent.com/HPCasting
James would be my choice. He’s not attractive enough, but neither was the older actor they picked for James in the films.
Yeah James has so few scenes that it could even be possible, and fitting in a way.
But he has said he’s not really interested in doing Potter anymore.
But if we could disregard that… we should remember that Radcliffe is currently 35. And James Potter, when he died, was 21.
It would’ve been rather weird to have some barely twenties actor doing James in the movies, lol.
The scene with the Mirror of Erised where he sees his family as he wanted, that was the correct use of the older James as he’s be 30s if Harry was at hogwarts. The times he appeared, such as the voldamort graveyard scene, were wrong as that should have been the 20s James as that was his actual spirit.
If we go with that, then a one-off for Daniel, then that’s doable without JK.
I actually did give it a bit of thought as to if some of the representations would have aged.
Well reasoned there that a magical portrayal of Harry’s wishes would show aging, but the “true” spirit would not.
I like it.
Huh, I never thought about it that way. I like it too.
Why? It’s canon that Lily and James died young.
Yeah, it definitely is. But I’m sure there were a lot of people who either had read the book but hadn’t considered the timeline (it’s not like they specify Lily and James’ age iirc) and a lot of people who hadn’t ever even gone through the story before seeing the first movie. (I mean, most probably were fans, like me, but I was like, well, Harry’s age, and hadn’t really paid attention to the ages and I’m sure I would’ve felt Harry’s dad being a bit young had they been 21.)
No, it shouldn’t be weird, but you know what I mean.
Their ages are specified in the books, but not (I think) until DH, which was released in 2007, the same year the OotP movie was released. By that point, Snape, Lupin, Sirius, etc. were already cast, so it was a bit too late to fix it.
Hopefully for the new series, they can cast age appropriate actors from the start.