![]() ![]() Everything he's worked so hard on since Voldemort's fall is beginning to crumble, and it is taking a toll on Dumbledore himself. General_Ridley posted on 11/20/05 2:14pm I think the idea of 'angry dumbledore' is a reflection on that starting now, Dumbledore does not have control over the situation, and no longer has all the answers. Excellent work, whch revealed his skill in the craft some time ago. supersora1 posted on 11/20/05 2:13pm Patrick Stewart as Dumbledore.Ĭould've been awesome, even though I'm used to seeing him bald. There is a lot of exposition in the part, which is bit difficult at times, but I don’t mind. Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore, because he is funny, rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.ĭo you ever get frustrated with him, because he never seems to explain anything to anybody? The films are quite different, but that is to do with the writing, not Alfonso or Mike. How much funnier is Mike Newell direction to Alfonso’s? In terms of making more, I’d be happy to. I do two days and then you have month and then you have a day. This film has taken a year to shoot, I think, but I feel as if I have hardly been here. They are such mammoth films that, apart from Daniel, each contributing actor isn’t used that much. These films? I think so I haven’t really thought about it. But a kid came up to me the other day, though, and says, “Gandalf can I have your autograph?” and I said, “Piss off!”Īre you quite content to see the series out? It’s fun.ĭo kids approach you on the street when you haven’t got your beard on? With this, it is just a sense of having fun, and it is very technical blue screen work… I have to work with Frankie today, and she’s playing a giantess, and I can’t be in the same frame as her because the technical details of making it. So it is all very nice, but it is like water being thrown over you. I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I’ve taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. You seem really busy in movies at the moment. People who have read the books get miserable because of all the bits that have been cut out. Have you still not read any of the books? Why do I say this? Because it’s a magic spell. ![]() There’s no subtext in Harry Potter really it’s all magic, anything can happen. I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever ] writes them, and say them. What makes Dumbledore the greatest wizard of all time? No real character actor, of course, just me. Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. I just play him as myself, I don’t ease myself into any role really. We talk to Michael Gambon about not acting, the misery of beards, being mistaken for Gandalf and playing practical jokes on Johnny Depp…Īre you kind of easing into the role a bit more now you have done one film as Dumbledore? ![]() But none of that mattered a damn to the world's teens and tweenies until he stepped in to the late Richard Harris' shoes as the immensely powerful, immensely eccentric Professor Dumbledore, to act as headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is one of Britain's most respected stage actors and a man with a career most thesps would kill for. ![]() I've highlighted the worst bits, but it's all quite shocking. So anyway, that's all opinion of course, but it all seemed to make a lot more sense when I read the interview he gave to Empire recently (I hope this isn't old, I did a search on this board and it didn't come up). He has none of Dumbledore's eloquent calm or thoughtful restraint: it's as if he's playing some grumpy old man with a short fuse. In my opinion, Michael Gambon is a horrendous Dumbledore, so much so that he almost ruined Goblet of Fire for me. His loss is a great shame but you'd think it wouldn't be too hard to find a decent replacement. He was perfect and I always picture him when I read the books, even though I started reading them before seeing the films. To me, Richard Harris didn't just play Dumbledore, he WAS Dumbledore. ![]()
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