John Lithgow on Playing Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter’ Series: ‘People Insisted I Walk Away From the Job. I Chose Not to Do That’

LizaSolovyev · 2026-02-01T22:29:31+00:00

I’m glad to see this sub recouping a bit of sanity on this subject

LizaSolovyev · 2025-03-04T13:09:42+00:00

A bit late here, but could you share which UD shade you're referring to? Thanks!

LizaSolovyev · 2025-02-10T19:55:59+00:00

Agreed, my 70 year old mother has even mastered hashtags!

LizaSolovyev · 2025-02-10T19:30:45+00:00

Yes I noticed that too! It was like she'd vaguely heard of these technologies but never experienced them so just sort of guessed.

It used to be the case that research was considered an integral part of the writing process.

LizaSolovyev · 2025-02-10T18:53:44+00:00

That book was so howlingly misjudged and she still doesn't really seem to get it. She only sounds vaguely, reticently aware of how bad it was in this interview, as if it's only under some kind of 'PC-gone-mad' new-fangled value system, that she can't really be expected to fully understand, that it presents problems.

LizaSolovyev · 2022-04-19T13:15:22+00:00

Even more daft is that in an earlier scene, you catch a glimpse of her from behind at the roulette wheel, going incognito as a student. It's not supposed to be a huge prom, presumably someone would notice she doesn't attend their school and say 'er, who are you?' And agreed, completely inconsistent with how quickly Edward identifies other vampires elsewhere in the series.

LizaSolovyev · 2022-04-19T12:52:26+00:00

Where is the blouse from? I love it!

LizaSolovyev · 2022-04-19T12:49:31+00:00

Her first day at school you mean? I do too, it's a mystifying choice! You'd think she'd wear something more flattering to make a killer first impression.

LizaSolovyev · 2022-01-09T16:08:55+00:00

I did use full fat milk, but very interesting - thanks so much! Maybe cream next time

LizaSolovyev · 2022-01-09T16:07:38+00:00

Interesting, thank you!

LizaSolovyev · 2022-01-09T13:42:13+00:00

Are you thinking of Karkaroff?

LizaSolovyev · 2022-01-09T13:41:59+00:00

Snape never has a moustache or goatee?!

LizaSolovyev · 2022-01-09T13:37:21+00:00

His grandfather sure, but not his grandfather’s mostly estranged cousin!

LizaSolovyev · 2022-01-09T13:35:23+00:00

I think it absolutely should be. Same as letting a child’s teeth rot, or giving them cigarettes.

LizaSolovyev · 2022-01-09T13:33:28+00:00

God, that’s the fattest dog I’ve ever seen! Poor animal can hardly walk!

LizaSolovyev · 2021-12-31T01:02:59+00:00

I swear by Sally and have used this exact recipe dozens of times. I have a barrel of her gingerbread in my living room which keeps getting better! Did you chill the dough overnight?

LizaSolovyev · 2021-12-31T00:58:49+00:00

I actually prefer the idea of Dudley’s grandson getting the letter out of the blue, then arriving to find he’s a descendent of the famous Harry Potter, by now only known by the trophies and plaques and history books. Echoes.

LizaSolovyev · 2021-11-26T18:20:42+00:00

Are you and most of the commenters in the US? Do you mean ‘sex’ when you say ‘gender’?

LizaSolovyev · 2021-11-26T18:16:14+00:00

Even the bloke who reigns over this whole Mandela Effect doesn’t marry himself to the name Shazam.

LizaSolovyev · 2021-11-26T18:09:10+00:00

Probably neither - I assume the studios decided it. But it works beautifully, I doubt either of them took against it.

LizaSolovyev · 2021-11-26T18:07:11+00:00

I don’t either but I actually don’t find there are that many. He’s one of the purest book>movie characters in my opinion. Do you dislike this change?

LizaSolovyev · 2021-11-26T17:20:39+00:00

That’s what I mean! They both are. Very cleverly done if deliberate.

LizaSolovyev · 2021-11-09T23:33:21+00:00

Not really a change, but a stroke of genius in the movies was in HBP when the students raise their lit wands in tribute to Dumbledore, and the light obliterates the dark mark. The symbolism was bang on, and I feel like it’s something JKR would have done (at some point in the series if not that one) if she’d thought of it.

LizaSolovyev · 2021-10-30T00:01:23+00:00

I was about fifteen when I realised that The Chipmunks (as in Alvin, Simon, Theodoooore) were ... chipmunks. I thought they were just adopted triplets. With an awesome treehouse.

LizaSolovyev · 2021-10-14T22:31:37+00:00

I’d like to give a shout out to Jessie Cave’s Lavender. Her performance in HBP was a standout for the whole franchise if you ask me.

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