[Warning: For anybody who hasn't read all the Harry Potter books, there's a spoiler ahead.]
The Harry Potter acting trio of Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson will play older versions of their characters in the famous "19 years later" epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The movie’s producer, David Heyman, told MTV News that instead of casting older lookalikes, the filmmakers will "age" the young actors. Harry and his friends are 17 years old in Deathly Hallows, which means they’ll be 36 years old for this "flash-forward" sequence. I, personally, would have opted for hiring older actors for the scene. Nineteen years is just too significant of a time jump, especially when you’re taking a character from his teenage years to his mid-30s (this is why you don’t see Zac Efron playing a 37-year-old version of himself in 17 Again). But, on the other hand, maybe director David Yates and his crew can pull it off. We’ll see in July 2011, when Part II of Deathly Hallows is finally released in theaters.
What’s your take, Potter fans? Are you looking forward to seeing the original actors play their characters to the very end? Or do you think asking Radcliffe to be a 36-year-old Harry is a bit of a stretch?
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Seems like their stretching here. This isn’t LOST or Heroes.
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It’s definitely not a stretch. I would much rather see the actors in makeup or computer altered than see anyone else play the parts. Look at 17 again, Matthew Perry looks nothing like Zac Efron. I am almost 36, and I don’t look too much different than I did at 17. At least I only look like an older version of my 17 year old self. I am all for this option.
I think it’s more of a stretch that they’re playing teenagers. In Order of the Phoenix, Dan looked far older than the 15 he was supposed to be. I would imagine they can pull it off.
get the same make-up artist that aged Kate Winslet in ‘The Reader’
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I think it can work. The entire cast of Six Feet Under were aged to look a lot older than they were and it was wonderful in the finale of SFU.
They should DEFINITELY keep the actors and age them. There would be a complete disconnect if they plugged in other actors and good God, the actors are in their early 20s, so that’s only 16 years or so. And 16 of the year where we change the least in our lifetimes; that is the EASIEST aging – add a few wrinkles and barely that. Look what they did with Benjamin Button. It would have been a cop out to cast older actors
It can’t be more than ten minutes of the movie – probably more like five. These three will have played the roles for 8 movies at this point. We can all suspend a little belief, can’t we?
they should have opted to not to film the epilogue at all.
I think your headline should not include spoilers. It’s one thing to include them in your article with a spoiler alert, but right in the title is a bit stupid. It doesn’t take a genius to figure it out when it’s the first line of a story before a spoiler alert.
I think the spoiler is in your headline. Doesn’t take a genius to figure out HP must not die in the end from that.
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Aren’t the actors already older than their characters? I’m sure they can pull it off with make up and some Benjamin Button style fx.
I don’t know why this is such a big deal. The actors are all in or nearing their twenties and it’s not like 30-something is a huge difference from 20-something. They’re not going to look like shriveled old 80 year-olds for crying out loud.
spoiler in the headline you dumb ass mofo’s. Go to hell!!!! (and cancel my subscription)