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BERLIN, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 17: Saoirse Ronan and Paapa Essiedu attend the “The Outrun” premiere … More during the 74th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Zoo Palast on February 17, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images) Getty Images It occurred to me recently, when HBO dropped another batch of casting reveals for its upcoming Harry Potter TV series, that the casting strategy is pretty obvious at this point: Cast the most attractive people possible for nearly every single adult role. I’m not suggesting that there weren’t attractive actors in the Harry Potter movies, but the hotness factor was dialed way down in favor of strong character actors who often had more outlandish features. Alan Rickman was not an unattractive man by any means, but his features lent his version of Snape a pallid quality that pretty perfectly matched the book character. There’s something a little larger than life about Rickman’s Snape. The show’s casting choice, Paapa Essiedu (pictured above), is a talented actor but is both younger and better-looking than Rickman. Essiedu is 34 while Rickman was already 54 when the first movie began filming. Now let’s take a look at the Dursleys. This is Bel Powley as Petunia Dursley and Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley Bel Powley as Petunia Dursley and Daniel Rigby as Vernon Dursley Credit: HBO This is quite the stark contrast to Fiona Shaw and Richard Griffiths, who were both much older. The movie Vernon was quite a lot heavier as well. Again, this is not to say that Shaw isn’t a beautiful woman, but she was also a decade older than Powley when she first played Petunia, and neither Dursley was prettied up for the films (of course, Powley and Rigby will undoubtedly look different in the series than they do…

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