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potential prequel series it's time to look at those other characters that make up this world
for this specific time period now if you haven't watched the first video i tackled my versions of
the marauder but in their last year at hogwarts meaning we're focusing on actors who are around
the age of 17 where i really want to explore their lives and where they leave after hogwarts
but as much as this is a story about the marauders it's also about those who they are surrounded with
meaning we should really tackle snape and lily who are really the other two main players of
this story but as i started thinking about there are even more characters that would be around at
hogwarts during this time and even when they get into the wizarding world characters like frank
longbottom or even a young gilderoy lockhart would definitely pop up in this time period
so i'm going to tackle snape and lily as well as those other two i previously mentioned
and then we're gonna get into the black family and then dive into the professors at hogwarts
but for now let's focus on these four so let's recast harry potter for a marauders prequel
first up let's tackle lily a character that i thought about including the last video because
she's pretty much a marauder by the end of their story now with lily it's important we have someone
who is kind welcoming but also incredibly smart i want lily to be that go-getter and a real whiz in
the wizarding world i want an actress who feels capable and that she can put james in his place
and almost outdo him i almost want to make her seem unattainable and beautiful that's why i
went dixie egrets who is 16 years old and honestly just looks like she walked out of a harry potter
prequel novel to me she just looks exactly like lily on top of that she's best known for her role
in secret garden where she definitely shows she has that go-getter attitude and really be the
intelligent kid who's out for an adventure stop that it's the pollen i told you breath
still alive yes but work out what hurts and what doesn't but you have to try
although she is younger in this you can really see a glimpse of her lily coming through she has
that heart of gold and that fierce loyalty that we definitely need spat on yourself you spit two
if you are too much of a lady there's no i'm no lady sir so dixie egg ritz is lily evans
next up we have frank longbottom now with the ages of these characters there's a little discrepancy
of when they're all born and when they would end up at hogwarts but according to the harry
potter wikipedia he's most likely a little bit older than the rest of the boys so i'm going
to double down on that because i think it would be really interesting to see frank for the first time
outside of hogwarts maybe in the second or even third film now at this moment i want frank to be
on his way to becoming an ore and crossing past and eventually joining the order of the phoenix
now with frank it's important we get that signature long bottom style across
he's described as very curious but overall an anxious person who really loves puzzles
he is extremely intelligent but he wishes for a more adventurous life now that to me all
boils down to asa butterfield yes he is older than everyone else i've cast and maybe a touch
too old but if you've seen him in sex education it just pretty much boils down to frank longbottom
he pulls off a very convincing teenager while being boiled up with that anxiety and the nerves
while still translating that perfect level of very intelligence sinuses
i'm going to get the morning after pill please excuse me who could i get
the morning after pill i can't hear you in the morning i'm going to go i still can't hear you
morning after pill i can't sell it to you why not you don't have a vagina sir
he's got that little bit of awkward nature which we need but you can see his true color shining
through you can't choose who you're attracted to you can't you can't engineer a relationship
you have to do what's right so asa butterfield as frank longbottom
next up i want to tackle gilda roy lockhart now gilderoy lockhart is actually four years younger
than the marauders so we would really only see him in the first film within the series
now with lockhart i think it's important that we have a very ambitious kid but someone who
is also having a tough time with luck think colin creevy or even sheamus
someone who doesn't have a lot of friends but just seems to be popping up time and time again
someone who can bring humor and comic relief from time to time but he hasn't turned into that cold
self-indulgent version of himself yet i want him to be a little bit awkward looking and hasn't
come into his own yet and still finding his way that's why i landed on roman griffin davis who i
think could actually really bring that heart and warmth here that would turn this character from
the joke that we know into something that we can actually understand and even side with at times
my adult wanna tell me about that rabbit incident what was all that about they wanted me to kill it
i'm sorry i couldn't i want him to be portrayed as overlooked and definitely
unsure which roman killed in jojo rabbit it's going to be intense today
you become a man so roman griffin davis as a young gilderoy lockhart
lastly we have the hardest man to cast within this entire series severus snape needs to be
a lot of things here and excuse me for being a little bit long-winded but he's such an important
character to this story now with snape we all know that he's going to make that eventual turn
and eventually be involved with the wrong set of people but it's important we show his gentleness
and his love with lily before going that way i want an actor who can do both someone who can
shut down play the reserve introverted intelligent part of snape but someone who can slow down relax
and be himself with lily now i know there are a lot of fan castings out there for a young snape
and i do agree that finn wolfhard would be great here but as discussed in the previous video i'm
trying to avoid american actors and honestly i think finn's coming a little bit into his own
now and he might be too good looking for this i want someone who looks like they could be bullied
and definitely stands out among the pack now i originally went with kier gilchrist here who
was an actor who was actually born in the uk but is more of a canadian than anything these days
and although i think he would really nail the loner side of snape he's a touch too old for
this role and honestly i haven't heard his british accent in anything before so i kind of took him
out of the running but honestly in my mind's eye this is what a young snape looks like so
i thought i'd just take this opportunity to show my photoshop of him now after going through actors
and actors of people who look more and even less like snape i eventually landed on a choice who
perfectly hits that believability of being bullied but also that dark and mysterious way
lewis macdougall is my choice for snape and although he doesn't look the most like this
character out there it's his performance in a monster calls that just sells me on this he
perfectly tiptoes that line where he's an outsider that just wants to find his own way essentially
the exact same as snape's path you're right there connor you look tired you're getting enough rest
yeah i'm fine i think you'd really bring a complexity to this role
and really bring that subtle warmth that snape needs here what is that it's a surprise
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here we go
why are they trying to kill king kong
people don't like what they don't understand
they get scared can concretely smash them all break them into a million pieces
so lewis mcdougall as sever's snape
so there's my cast for the characters that would interact with the marauders
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well as the professors within hogwarts beyond that what else do you want to see which characters do
you want to see how deep do you want me to dive within this let me know in the comments below
as well as let me know how i did on this one or let me know your cast for these characters as
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