Post by Lolua on Jun 26, 2004 22:03:34 GMT -5
This is kind of old news, of the same vintage as the Mme Maxime casting. Brendan Gleeson, seen most recently as Helen's crusty husband Menelaus in Troy, has landed the role of Goblet of Fire's Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, says HP producer David Heyman.
Article on CBBC Newsround about the interview with Heyman: news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_3742000/3742727.stm
You may also remember him as Mel Gibson's large sidekick Hamish in Braveheart -- he's the guy with whom Mel Gibson's character William Wallace has the rock-throwing contest near the beginning. He has also appeared in Cold Mountain, 28 Days Later, Gangs of New York, and as the flesh-fair owner in AI: Artificial Intelligence. He's even worked alongside young Daniel Radcliffe before, in 2001's spy thriller The Tailor of Panama!
Brendan Gleeson's IMDb entry (with pictures): us.imdb.com/name/nm0322407/
More photos: images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22brendan+gleeson%22+and+%22actor%22
Poor guy. I feel as sorry for him as I do for Harry Melling, who plays Dudley Dursley. While Harry was cast to play someone "roughly the size of a baby killer whale," Brendan Gleeson will be playing someone with a face "that looked like it had been carved out of wood by someone who had only the vaguest idea what faces should look like." Good luck to the make-up team, who will undoubtedly be denied an Oscar on the same techicality that kept Nicole Kidman's nose in The Hours out of the running.
I'm not too worried about the mad morphing scene toward the end. The FX team did a marvelous job with Lupin's transformation in the PoA film. The filmmakers already discarded inter-film continuity when Alfonso Cuaron and Stuart Craig re-designed Hogwarts between the second and third movies, so I hope that his lines aren't all dubbed over by the guy playing Barty. That would be such painful obviousness, as not everyone is as stupid as Draco Malfoy.
I do, however, worry about how they're going to do the magical eye....
Article on CBBC Newsround about the interview with Heyman: news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_3742000/3742727.stm
You may also remember him as Mel Gibson's large sidekick Hamish in Braveheart -- he's the guy with whom Mel Gibson's character William Wallace has the rock-throwing contest near the beginning. He has also appeared in Cold Mountain, 28 Days Later, Gangs of New York, and as the flesh-fair owner in AI: Artificial Intelligence. He's even worked alongside young Daniel Radcliffe before, in 2001's spy thriller The Tailor of Panama!
Brendan Gleeson's IMDb entry (with pictures): us.imdb.com/name/nm0322407/
More photos: images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22brendan+gleeson%22+and+%22actor%22
Poor guy. I feel as sorry for him as I do for Harry Melling, who plays Dudley Dursley. While Harry was cast to play someone "roughly the size of a baby killer whale," Brendan Gleeson will be playing someone with a face "that looked like it had been carved out of wood by someone who had only the vaguest idea what faces should look like." Good luck to the make-up team, who will undoubtedly be denied an Oscar on the same techicality that kept Nicole Kidman's nose in The Hours out of the running.
I'm not too worried about the mad morphing scene toward the end. The FX team did a marvelous job with Lupin's transformation in the PoA film. The filmmakers already discarded inter-film continuity when Alfonso Cuaron and Stuart Craig re-designed Hogwarts between the second and third movies, so I hope that his lines aren't all dubbed over by the guy playing Barty. That would be such painful obviousness, as not everyone is as stupid as Draco Malfoy.
I do, however, worry about how they're going to do the magical eye....
