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In this episode, we talk about why Jude Law should play young Dumbledore in the new TV show. Enjoy!

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· Listen to episode 298 called “Warwick Davis is returning as Flitwick? Who else should reprise their role?” here!

· 2:14 Why two actors? Well, Dumbledore has a complex past. He feels like he was a different person back in his Grindelwald days, and a different person warrants a different actor. Choosing another actor to play a younger version of himself would show us that he is truly a three-dimensional character.

· 13:27 Why Jude Law? In Fantastic Beasts, he was fantastic. When interacting with Creedence we saw that Creedence’s pain was his own, and that Dumbledore truly regrets the difficult like that Creedence had. He also showed Jacob a huge amount of respect for diving into battle with no way of protecting himself.

· 21:13 What if there was only one actor? If Jonathan Lithgow was the only actor, we would lose the perspective of Dumbledore’s past. He would become a one-sided character, and we can’t have that.

· 25:24 Who else should have multiple actors? Dumbledore was one of the only flashback characters that didn’t have multiple actors. Voldemort had something like four actors. I think Aberforth deserves multiple actors, as well as McGonagall they play important behind the scenes roles that should be explored.

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In this episode, we discuss which actors should reprise their roles in the new Harry Potter TV show. Enjoy!

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· Listen to episode 287, “Tom Felton is returning to Broadway. Who should return to the TV show?” Here!

· 4:10 Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy. He was the perfect blend of haughty, rude, and fearful. He portrayed a fantastic arc, and really showed us what it means to be afraid. Without a doubt, he would be a great addition.

· 10:21 Alan Rickman as Snape. He shouldn’t return. His performance was too perfect. There are no changes I can think to make to it, and so I don’t think Alan Rickman should change that. Getting another actor puts a stopper in the bottle of his performance and really immortalizes it.

· 18:25 Matthew Lewis as Neville Longbottom. This is an interesting case, because there’s no chance for him to return as Neville, but there are other possibilities. Perhaps, he can be a herbology professor who watches over himself in a way, and sees just how much he grows.

· 24:41 Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange. I don’t think she should return, because she absolutely crushed it. We should get some new blood in there to preserve the performance.

· 27:00 Jude Law as Dumbledore. I know, he doesn’t really count, but the Fantastic Beasts Dumbledore is pretty close to the same time as some of the flashbacks we got in the films. It would be super cool if Jude Law played the younger version of him. It would put in a natural separation that Dumbledore himself wants between who he was, and who he wants to be.

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In this episode, we discuss how to reintroduce an old world. Enjoy!

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· 1:33 It’s not welcome, it’s welcome back. None of this is going to be brand new, so I’m hoping the filmmakers realize that they shouldn’t be trying to reinvent the wheel. We didn’t know what any of the characters or sets looked like when the films were coming out, but now we have an image for some of those. Now we’re past that and we don’t need a definitive answer.

· 10:59 We don’t need the background. You know when actors have lines just to introduce things to the audience? We need some degree of that or else we wouldn’t really know what was going on, but we don’t need nearly as much as we got in the films. Getting rid of the fluff is going to leave room for bigger and better things.

· 19:03 Make stuff up! They don’t have to grab everything directly from the films or books. In fact, making some new material that is still true to the story would be awesome.

· 22:54 More history. How amazing would it be to see an episode about the founders of Hogwarts? Or even just about a day in the life of a wizard hundreds of years ago? Or about the history of magic itself and the thousands or millions of years it has taken for it to evolve?

· 27:17 Some of it is going to be similar, and that’s ok. The story is the same and the characters are all the same, so we are bound to get things that are pretty close to the films or books. That’s just the nature of a remake. And it might even help us connect better with the TV show, seeing things we are already familiar with.

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