Harry Potter and working with child actors

[lobelia321]

You make the first Harry Potter film in 2001 and then you make a whole bunch more and before you know it, your child actors have grown up, and they have done so not always according to expectations and book-canon plan!

A look in pictures at the HP actors then and now! (I am so highly amused by this.)


Draco Malfoy: pick a pale dweebie meanie with greased-back hair...



... and he grows up into a creamy bit of hottie delicious enough to lick right off the screen. And just look at that philtrum. Tom Felton!!




Hermione Granger: Pick a determined little missie (who looks very little like canon but okay, we'll let that one go)...



...and she grows up into a tawny-maned lipsticked lassie. Emma Watson!!




Pick two identical-looking pudgy punks with scowling eyes for Crabbe and Goyle...



... and watch one of them grow into a sweaty pudgy punk, virtually unchanged from his younger self or from canon (Jamie Waylett!), and the other into a disconcerting pretty boy! (Josh Herdman!!)



Which one's which, eh? And how are you now going to deploy these two as identical guardian thugs of philtrum-wielding Malfoy?


Dudley Dursley: Pick a fat-arse ugly dude with piggy eyes...



... and watch him group up to be this little hottie!! Harry Melling!!




Ron Weasley: Pick an odd-looking tousle-eyed chappie...



... and grow him into an, er, odd-looking tousle-eyed chappie. Rupert Grint!



Phew. At least one who didn't pop up as a surprise... *gg*


Bonus pics of Felton/Malfoy/Peagreen Clock:





Then. Now.



This post comes to you courtesy of an inspiring post by azewewish. Some of its content may overlap with a comment I made over there... ;-)


So!
Who do you think underwent the most impressive transformation growing up?

I've cast my vote... *g*


ETA: helenish pointed out one omission in my post!!
Neville Longbottom: Take one cute little wood-elf with baby-pudge cheeks (not to mention the false teeth and ear-extenders you make him wear)...



... and watch him grow up into a sultry emo-boy. Matt Lewis!!

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More ETA: And are they all legal now? Are they all *gasp* rpsable?

Comments

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Josh Herdman/Gregory Goyle!

He went from pug-ugly pudgy teen to blossom into a smouldering well-fit young man! Go Goyle.

Second vote: Harry Melling! (Although: beware the Elijah-Wood eyes.)

These young men really made something of themselves.

Felton? Was always gorgeous. *shrugs*

[minavox.livejournal.com]

Wow, Goyle - what a transformation! Was poyjuice involved, inquiring minds want to know.

Also: philtrum - you always learn something new... *g*

Brilliant post!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Philtrum... *laughs* This was a big thing back in the day of lotrips and Billy Boyd/Pippin, just in case you were never a part of that. It was canon as actor Monaghan waxed lyrical over co-actor Boyd's philtrum.

Polygoyle!!! Good point! This had not occurred to me.

[minavox.livejournal.com]

Ah! The things you enlighten me about! Since I'm not into hobbits (Orlando/Elijah being the one exception) and so totally not into Monaboyd, I didn't know anything. Philtrum. Philtrum. Don't know why, but doesn't it sound a tiny bit obscene?!

[tvillingar.livejournal.com]

Ah hah! I'd completely forgotten the philtrum! Those were the days... Also, my eyes bugged out a bit when I saw that picture of Matt Lewis. Hel-LO there!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Those were totally the days! And you have to thank helenish for her enlightening link to Matt Lewis.

Extremely enlightening. *coughs*

[helenish.livejournal.com]

hey, where's that dude who plays Neville? I heard they made him wear fake teeth in the last one, basically because he grew up too sexy to be Neville (Not that I think that Neville could EVER BE PLAYED BY ANYONE TOO SEXY.)

[helenish.livejournal.com]

WAIT, I've come back with a link to a picture of good old Neville Longbottom

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I clicked the link and lost my breath for about 14 death-defying seconds there.

I am so ETAing this post. Thank you for pointing up my shoddy ignorance of matters Longbottom and for providing that PICTURE.

[ook.livejournal.com]

Where's DanRad and the guy who plays Longbottom? (he turned into a total hottie). :)

Nice post!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, helenish already pointed me to Longbottom hotness and I have amended and added an ETA, see above!!! I nearly had a fainting fit when I saw his transformation...

Radcliffe? Not so much into that man. And think he looks more or less the same. But hit me with some pics and I may reconsider!! *g*

[ook.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....no. I just thought since you did everyone else, it might be nice to included DanRad too. :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Heh. I didn't really do everybody else although it might seem so. I just did the ones who occurred to me. There must be dozens I've left out! ;-)

[ook.livejournal.com]

Well, you definitely did pick out the people who grew up the cutest. I'm stunned at how gorgeous Dudley and Longbottom turned out. :D

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Dudley and Neville are total revelations. And Goyle!! I am just amused by the choices behind the casting. I can see the minds of the casting directors 7 years ago: "Ah, and we'll pick this overweight mean-looking kid to be a thug. Oh. He's turned into a Young God! Quick, get out the thug make-up!"

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

OMGDUDLEYWTFYAY!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I know! Dudley!

Didn't I always know it? Ah, *sigh*.

:-)

You know what the best thing about this is? They're all growed up now and legally able to be rps'ed, omg!! (This only just occurred to me. Duh.)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I was going to say Dudley, but then you threw Neville in there. Very nice thank you.

Oh! Did you listen to the Today Programme this morning? Thought for the day was about RPF!!!! Thank god I wasn't eating my breakfast, I'd have been all over cornflakes!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

WHAT>

Thought of the Day?

................................

Wh...

I don't know whether to run for cover or whether to hunt out the BBC podcast thingy. I thought you fled the room when the dreaded Thought appeared!!

Neville is entirely due to the helpful nudgings of helenish.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

You can read it here, just to save you going through the whole podcast.

I do normally try to avoid the Thought, but I've been getting up earlier due to hot weather, and so the Thought occurs at a different point in my morning routine.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I cringe.

Darryn who? And excuse me: Darryn? A pseudonym for a woman or a man? I mean: a man! *scoffs*

I am starting to convert to your thought on the Thought. Fanfic incites people to violence? Yeah, right.

Okay, second thoughts (not Thought!): I do sometimes have compunctions about rps. Didn't we all, back in the day? Like not rushing up to the actual real life persons and thrusting your fanfic at them (remember? it was done!). Like not writing about people's children. Or about people who are children .

Oh, I don't know! I don't want all this debate aired on RADIO FOUR!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Definitely a man. Here's his picture.

Yeah, he's not from our neck of the woods, is he?

Oh, I don't know! I don't want all this debate aired on RADIO FOUR!

Don't worry, they'll forget about us for a bit now ('til the next "OOH, look at these weird people on the internet!" article, anyway).

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Eek, but that man looks creepy!!! *runs away fruitlessly*

How come it took me 25 years even to find my first fanfic or to get my head around the notion of such a thing, and nowadays just any old bloke can stumble across it?

Oh interwebs, where is thy sekrit hidey cave?

[yellow-oranges.livejournal.com]

I'm relieved to hear Matt Lewis' teeth were false! Whew! This was fun to read; thanks!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Matt Lewis is a revelation! Well, he was one to me, all thanks to helenish. You are welcome! :-)

[msilverstar]

Harry Melling! Well, he turned out quite scrumptious!

I never did think Neville was ugly, just awkward

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I know, what revelations! It gives hope to all the awkward teenagers out there. You too will get through this! ;-)