[Glenn.]

Great casting.

[Barry.]

I don’t see how it will work if they take years to film it. They will all be too tall, voice broken etc. They look fine though I just hope it doesn’t take them two years each time for a series

[Crimson Dynamo]

Woke garbage

[Barry.]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Woke garbage

J.K. Rowling has stated that Hermione can be any race, including Black, and she has endorsed the casting of a Black actress in the play, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Barry.

J.K. Rowling has stated that Hermione can be any race, including Black, and she has endorsed the casting of a Black actress in the play, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child"

Are you suggesting JK Rowling made racial exclusive characters??!

Wow

[Barry.]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Are you suggesting JK Rowling made racial exclusive characters??!

Wow

I copied that off the web. JK said she didn’t give her a colour in the book so it’s up to the reader to say if she’s black or white. So not really woke

[Mystic Mock]

Harry and Ron are bang on imo.

I'm not too sure about Hermione due to JK Rowling not really being really sure what her own character is even meant to look like.

[Zizu]

32,000 children auditioned for the three roles


Our future is fcuked if the next generation are basically all wannabes


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[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Barry.

I don’t see how it will work if they take years to film it. They will all be too tall, voice broken etc. They look fine though I just hope it doesn’t take them two years each time for a series

I think the first two series are being filmed back to back.

[Glenn.]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

Woke garbage

You know JK Rowling is executive producer….

The same woman in your profile picture….

[Niamh.]

I don't know why people are so upset about it, her race is irrelevant to the story and by all accounts is never mentioned in the books. Also its not unusual for book characters to look a bit different to how they're described in the books. The worst one I can think of is when Tom Cruise was cast to play Jack Reacher, who was described in the book as a "man mountain"

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I don't know why people are so upset about it, her race is irrelevant to the story and by all accounts is never mentioned in the books. Also its not unusual for book characters to look a bit different to how they're described in the books. The worst one I can think of is when Tom Cruise was cast to play Jack Reacher, who was described in the book as a "man mountain"

I think that some people are on high alert because there has been a lot of race swapping in Media over recent years.

Tbh I'm amazed that Ron is still going to be Ginger.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I think that some people are on high alert because there has been a lot of race swapping in Media over recent years.



Tbh I'm amazed that Ron is still going to be Ginger.

It just makes absolutely no difference at all to the story so it's a stupid complaint imo

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

It just makes absolutely no difference at all to the story so it's a stupid complaint imo

Yeah I don't think that the Hermione one is that big of a deal tbh.

I do think that Snape is an odd race swap though imo.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

Yeah I don't think that the Hermione one is that big of a deal tbh.



I do think that Snape is an odd race swap though imo.

Again it doesn't actually make a difference to the story however I think people will have a hard time with any new Snape, Alan Rickman was just so iconic as him.

[Oliver_W]

I saw a comment that said their names sound more wizardly than their characters

Apparently Arabella Stanton was Matilda in the West End/on tour, and she's a Hermionesque character ... raised by a Dursleyese family!

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Again it doesn't actually make a difference to the story however I think people will have a hard time with any new Snape, Alan Rickman was just so iconic as him.

Snape to me needs to be an older white man with dark hair, that's how he just is to me.

Probably like you've said, it's probably showing how iconic Alan Rickman was as Snape.

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Again it doesn't actually make a difference to the story however I think people will have a hard time with any new Snape, Alan Rickman was just so iconic as him.

Well some people have said James Potter will look "racist" for bullying Snape in the flashbacks ... as if all four of the Marauders will be white.

[Vicky.]

Looks good. Iirc the only physical description of Hermione was she had dark bushy hair..bren a while since I read them tho

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Again it doesn't actually make a difference to the story however I think people will have a hard time with any new Snape, Alan Rickman was just so iconic as him.

Snape os the only character who's skin colour is actually mentioned. All the others could be green for all is mentioned in the book.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

Snape os the only character who's skin colour is actually mentioned. All the others could be green for all is mentioned in the book.

I haven't read the books, still don't imagine it's a huge deal though, was it very relevant to the storyline?

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I haven't read the books, still don't imagine it's a huge deal though, was it very relevant to the storyline?

Not really relevant, he is the only one who is described as having pale white pasty skin and dark hair. As you said Alan Rickman was so iconic as Snape because he looked exactly the way he was described in the books.

It doesn't really make any difference to the story though and I actually think it's good if they look nothing like the original cast as they can make the roles their own

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I haven't read the books, still don't imagine it's a huge deal though, was it very relevant to the storyline?

Snape being black is problemnatic for the storyline IMO - Snape's storyline revolved heavily around his unrequited love for Harry's mum and being marginalised/oppressed by the James Potter group. The optics of that are EXTREMELY skewed if it's four young white lads attacking a black classmate because he fancies a white girl. It is honestly a bit of a mess. There's no way to avoid the racist overtones when, obviously, "The Half Blood Prince" was not written as a story about race. I think it's going to be extremely tricky for them to get this right. Pretty much any other character could have been race-swapped without issues, Snape is the ONLY one where it becomes an issue.

At one point they chase him down and magically hang him upside down in the air to humiliate him. I mean obviously they don't have to include that specifically as a scenebut yeah... TERRIBLE optics if the James Potter gang are all white and Snape is black .

[Niamh.]

Oh OK, they seem like good points

[Glenn.]

They bullied him because he was bookish and nerdy.