Subject: OT: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child casting news.
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Posted on: 2015-12-21 19:12:00 UTC
Ahemhem:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
You have no idea how happy this makes me. None at all. If you need me, I shall be squeeing in the corner.
The casting for the trio is excellent in general, andNoma Dumezweni is a fantastic actress, too.
This is truly thrilling.
... that I didn't get tickets for next year. A group of me and my friends were going to purchase tickets and then travel together to Britain (from Denmark) but there were issues with the webpage and then everything was sold out for the next couple of years. :(
It's still an option of course, but it won't be for the foreseeable future.
But enough of me moaning like Myrtle. This looks like a great casting and I wholeheartedly support it!
I'm honestly so glad that this cast was picked. As a long time supporter of POC Hermione, this felt like winning a little bit. The fact that JK is so excited about it as well makes the news all the sweeter.
I know there are so many anti-sjw types who are gonna cry and whine over that and it makes the casting even better.
Newsthump has something to say to the pro-discrimination crowd. =]
Honestly, who cares what race Hermione is? It is left purposefully vague, (though I think I remember a passage somewhere of her face being pink or something, but that was because she was blushing, so flimsy evidence at best)and does not effect her character at all. Do I see her as black? Personally, no. I see Emma Watson. But do I care that this play cast her in a way that goes against my personal view? Not even a smidgen. But if this bloke playing Ron does not get a ginger wig or something...
Admittedly, that is also why I am not going to celebrate this as if the casting is some grand beacon of progress. Oh, look, somebody casting based on talent not race. Why is this newsworthy again? Especially on the stage, which has always been looser with casting. So, I am going to do what frankly I think everybody else should do: hope for the best, and look forward to seeing the production at some point.
"Hermione is British." Uh, yeah, okay. May I just point out, off the top of my head:
- Dean Thomas
- Lee Jordan
- Angelina Johnson
- Blaise Zabini
- Kingsley Shacklebolt
Oh, and just for fun, we could mention Cho Chang and the Patil twins, too.
One wonders if people forget that Great Britain was once an empire spanning the globe, and that there was naturally (and unnaturally) some commerce between the various nations in said empire.
~Neshomeh
Britain (mostly England) continues to have a massive influx of migrants from all over the world. Black African, Indian/Pakistani, currently Eastern European and Middle-Eastern... we like taking in new people. ^^ (Except for those horrifyingly large number of people who support the various nationalist parties, but I choose to ignore them right now.)
Hermione's parents were dentists in London in the '70s, according to <a href="http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/HermioneGranger">the wiki - yeah, African and Indian doctors and dentists are a Thing in Britain, and London (of course) has the highest migrant population. It may just be me, but other than various kinds of shopkeeper, it's hard to think of any job her parents could've had which would be more likely to hint at her being non-'Anglo-Saxon'.
hS
I was addressing born-and-raised-in-England citizenship rather than immigration and/or naturalization, but yeah. That's an interesting thing about doctors and dentists over there, too. (We prefer to import engineers and such over here, AFAIK. [Read: Americans are bad at math. Or maths, if you like.])
~Neshomeh
I has not yet stopped squeeing.
So if any of you can hear a high-pitched ongoing shriek of excitement, that's probably my fault.
There's a sequel? I take it this is an unofficial one, since JKR has been pretty adamant that she's not writing any more Potterverse stuff—though there might have been a qualifier, "unless I think of more stories to tell"? And, it looks like this is gonna be a stage play?
But, but, but, sequel? More Hogwarts?? I can haz???
And the casting choice for Hermione is also very exciting, but this is the first I'm hearing about this at all!
~Neshomeh
Well, partially JKR. Apparently the story was written by her, the playwright, and the director.
And it's two stage plays. No idea how that's going to work.
hS
'Scuse me, I'll be over in the corner with Scape.
(Though I'm slightly bummed that I'll probably have to wait ages for the States to have a go, and even then I probably won't be able to afford tickets. Maybe they'll publish the libretto?)
~Neshomeh
Cause it'll probably be at least hard for me to watch it down here in South America. But still, I'm so excited for this! Ohmygoshohmygosh :D