How genetic screening can only help Hollywood

[subplotkudzu]

 Seriously, how much would the studios pay to be able to screen child actors before signing them to multi-picture deals. Not to prevent them from hiring people who are likely to self destruct, but to stop casting "errors" like this one. 

The young man in the photo was cast, lo those many moons ago, to play short, thickset nebishy Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films. Oops. One can only wonder why Hermione isn't falling all over him? (Not that Emma Watson isn't turning into quite the little heart-breaker, but at least Herminone is supposed to clean up real purty like in book 4.)

So seriously, let's see the science establishment and the entertainment industry go hand in hand on this one, giving those of us who were genetically predestined to turn into short, thickset nebishes a fair shot at the silver screen!

(Thanks to cmdr_zoomfor the link)

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In the film adaptation of _Deathly Hallows_ they're going to diverge from the books a little. It turns out Harry's a big bluff set up by Dumbledore to distract Voldemort, so that Neville can sweep in and save the day. With music by John Barry.

"Longbottom. Neville Longbottom." Da-da-DA DAAAAAH!

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

If not gene-screening, then maybe the "+10 years" software they use for milk cartons.

short, thickset nebishy
Well, he was. And then, sometime around the second movie, he fookin' GREW. I was like, "who's that tall kid in the back...? Oh!"

Emma Watson ... quite the little heartbreaker
(*checks calendar*)
I'm afraid I couldn't possibly comment.

a fair shot at the silver screen!
Not gonna happen. Everyone in the movies is pretty. Heck, even "pug-faced" Pansy is, as played by Genevieve Gaunt, more the "bitchy little Slytherin princess" type.

[mamasays01.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Danny DeVito lately? Short, fat, bald, and that's how he still gets work. I can't think of a suitable female example. There likely isn't one. Hollywood has tougher standards for woman. I'm not crying ERA or anything. I look rather like a female Danny DeVito myself and I sure as heck don't want to see myself on a 30 foot screen.