Harry Potter zit team

[Ruined]

I'm in the process of reading book 4, and they actually mention acne. There are these plants in Herbology class that secrete pus (charming), and Madame Ponfrey can make some kind of salve to cure acne. So maybe they're trying to stay true...

 

[Vocenoctum]

I don't have a problem with it. For one thing, there's the "standardization" concern. How long does it take to film all the scenes of a movie of that length? And during that time, how many different "acne constellations" will have appeared on the teenage stars' faces?

Right, this is illustrated pretty easily by HP2, where the early bookstore scene was shot after the others... so they're noticeably OLDER in the early scene, as opposed to the later scene's.

 

[David Howery]

so, are there plans to find new actors for the 5th film? I mean, come on, they're getting a bit old to be playing the parts. They're supposed to be 14 in this newest film... they sure don't look that young. They've simply outgrown the parts...

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

so, are there plans to find new actors for the 5th film? I mean, come on, they're getting a bit old to be playing the parts. They're supposed to be 14 in this newest film... they sure don't look that young. They've simply outgrown the parts...

They're fine, age-wise.

In the newest film, they're fifteen year-olds playing fourteen year-olds. Daniel Radcliffe who plays HP is fifteen now; he'll be 16 by the time the film is released.

By the time film #4 comes out late this year, the films are only one year "behind schedule." If they finish up the films with the actors only 2-3 years older than the characters, that's fine.

It's not like Grease, where one of the actors was 32 playing a U.S. high school student!

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I think people have a warped idea of what teenagers look like - especially in terms of film and TV! Like Barendd Nobeard says, they're just fine age wise, and even if they skip a year or two between releases, they'll still be in the right range. There are people in their 30's playing 18 year olds in TV today...

 

[The Sigil]

I think people have a warped idea of what teenagers look like - especially in terms of film and TV!

I have to agree here. Have you looked at a 17- or 18-year-old lately (and I don't mean the "teenage amateur internet models" variety)?

I teach a class of high school students - ages 14 to 18 - every morning, and Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint would fit right in with them. People seem to forget that by the time you're 16 to 17, you're pretty much a full-grown adult, physically. That the trio of actors look like they're no longer children - but aren't yet full-grown adults - is NORMAL for 14- and 15-year olds! They're in the awkward in-between phase where clearly they're not kids any more, but they're not adults, either... which is exactly where they should be.

--The Sigil

 

[Jhamin]

I do seem to remember being taller than both my parents when I as 14. I hit my full height of 6ft2in when I was 15, then stopped.

Yet when you watch TV, all the 17 year olds are a head shorter than their parents.


Yep, the Harry Potter actors are just fine.