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@Th3solution @LN78 Wow. I wasn't aware that JKR claimed Hermione was race swapped for the movies… that is indeed weird. Race swapping in general is fine by me, though I think I would react negatively to the casting of a white actor for a black/latinx/asian character. Not for the race swap itself but for the fact that there is still room for more diversity in entertainment, in my opinion, and there are plenty of «white» roles out there for white actors to get their hands on. The only time race swapping doesn't work for me is if it actually goes against something that defines the character. I'm not all that familiar with Resident Evil history, but I seem to remember reading that the Albert Wesker character was a white supremacist, which made it so weird that they cast the late, great Lance Reddick in the role. Haven't seen the show, so can't speak to whether it worked or not (knowing Reddick, though, I assume he carried what I understand to be an otherwise poor show).
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Apparently in the first few movies, they cast Rick Mayall as Peeves the Poltergeist. But all of his scenes were cut. He kept making the young actors laugh too much.
Mayall’s low opinion of the Harry Potter movies is fairly well-known, too.
Finished Peter May's «The Fourth Sacrifice» this weekend and though, for me, it fell a bit short of the first novel in the series, I still enjoyed it quite a bit. 3.5 stars of 5 (for me, 3 and above is a good read).
Now continues my Witcher project, with «Time of Contempt» and while I felt the previous one («Blood of Elves») dragged a bit in places, this one starts out quite promising (I'm about a quarter in)
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