Jim Broadbent (horace Slughorn)

magic@home · Geplaatst: Di Sep 18, 2007 17:04

Het is net bekend geworden dat hij de rol van Professor slakhoorn in de volgende films op zich neemt.

Hier dus een vers topic om je mening over hem los te laten.....

LuCos · Geplaatst: Di Sep 18, 2007 20:36

Uhm.. nou.. ik had een foto gezien op mugglenet (geen reclame) en daar zag hij ergoed uit. Maar toen herkende ik hem opeens. Hij is de vader van Tom Felton in een andere film! Namelijk The Borrowers!
Ik hoop wel dat hi wat dikker is geworden, ik had namelijk in gedachte dat het (qua postuur) personage net iets dunner was dan Herman Duffeling, maar ook een snor had.
Maar ik heb er wel vetrouwen in dat ie hem goed speelt!

missme98 · Geplaatst: Wo Sep 19, 2007 15:19

Ik had hem heel anders verwacht. Maar zoals ik hem in moulin rouge zag, zag hij er wel goed uit. Hij moet wat dikker zijn en een snor hebben, anders slaan ze de plank net mis. Van acteren weet ik niet veel, want ik heb hem nooit zien acteren.

**Shirley** · Geplaatst: Wo Sep 19, 2007 15:26

Ja hij is wel zoals ik Slughorn verwacht. Vooral zijn gezicht is heel erg Slughorn. Zoals hij er in Mouling Rouge uitziet vind ik hem helemaal wel op een Slughorn lijken. Die snor zo, en zijn postuur passen er helemaal bij.

Ik heb hem wel zien acteren in Moulin Rouge, maar dat is te lang geleden voor mij om me nog te herinneren hoe hij het deed. Ach ik zie wel wat het wordt, hij gaat het vast leuk doen, ze casten hem niet voor niets.

Lupos-freak · Geplaatst: Wo Sep 19, 2007 19:42

Hij is niet meteen het beeld van Slughorn dat ik voor me had. Maar ik ben ongeloofelijk tevreden met deze acteur. Ik heb hem eerder in Moulin Rouge gezien en daarin liet hij zien dat hij over een heel goed acteer-talent beschikt. Verder is hij helemaal op en top Brits. En op het eerste zicht lijkt hij niet meteen zo erg op Slughorn, maar zoals hij er uitziet in Moulin Rouge is hij de ideale Slughorn. Ik ben echt blij met hem als Slughorn! Ik had nog niet eerder aan hem gedacht, terwijl hij volgens mij de beste keuze is.

Helen · Geplaatst: Wo Sep 19, 2007 20:16

Volgens mij kan een beetje meer info geen kwaad.

*jat van freakz*

Er staat daar een klein intervieuwtje:

Who are you?
Broadbent: Who am I? Heâ€™s called Horace Slughorn. Heâ€™s a retired teacher of magic whoâ€™s drawn back out of retirement because heâ€™s got some secrets they need in the battle against the Deatheaters and heâ€™s quite star struck as a teacher and heâ€™s drawn back into the fold because he likes to notch up celebrity students, and heâ€™s drawn back by Harry.
Question: Is he a comic character?
Broadbent: He is quite a comic character, yes. I havenâ€™t started yet. Iâ€™ve had endless costume fittings and makeup and â€¦
Question: What kind of costumes?
Broadbent: Tweedy sort of things with a bit of padding. Heâ€™s an older man, Iâ€™m aging up again.

Hij heeft in meerder films gespeelt onderandere in Moulin Rouge! als Harold Zidler. En in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe als Professor Kirke. Ook heeft hij in
Bridget Jones's Diary als Bridget's vader gespeelt. Meer staat op IMDB

Dit zijn dus gÃ©Ã©n fotoÂ´s van hem als Slughorn

Het is niet wat ik voor ogen had maar misschien gaat het heel erg meevallen. Misschien is hij wel heel goed voor de rol van Slughorn. Een beetje meer blos op zijn wangen en ook wat boller als we toch bezig zijn.

bateendje · 1e jaars Verdiend: 205 Sikkels

Ik vind dat hij eigenlijk veel te lief uitziet voor Slakhoorn.
Ik stelde me Slakhoorn eigenlijk meer voor als een Sneep, maar toch dat van
'ik heb veel meegemaakt, en al mijn littekens hebben een verhaal'- van
Dwaaloog. [veel fantasie en je begrijpt wel wat ik bedoel (= ]
Natuurlijk is hij (de acteur) geweldig, en ik twijfel er ook niet over dat hij
het goed gaat doen. Make-up enzo kunnen veel doen, dus misschien dat
ik dan toch nog mijn mening kan veranderen, (=

Smoky · Geplaatst: Wo Sep 19, 2007 21:20

bateendje schreef:

Ik vind dat hij eigenlijk veel te lief uitziet voor Slakhoorn.
Ik stelde me Slakhoorn eigenlijk meer voor als een Sneep, maar toch dat van
'ik heb veel meegemaakt, en al mijn littekens hebben een verhaal'- van
Dwaaloog. [veel fantasie en je begrijpt vel wat ik bedoel (= ]
Natuurlijk is hij (de acteur) geweldig, en ik twijfel er ook niet over dat hij
het goed gaat doen. Make-up enzo kunnen veel doen, dus misschien dat
ik dan toch nog mijn mening kan veranderen, (=

Het klopt inderdaad dat hij er lief uitziet en dta hij goed lief kan spelen, maar ik weet niet of je de film Moulin Rouge hebt gezien, maar daar ziet hij er meer Slughorn-ish uit. Ongeveer zoals ik me hem had voorgesteld en hij speelt daar ook wel een beetje een mean character. Ik denk dus wel dta hij het heel goed zal doen. Dat hoop ik tenmiste XD

Faunaat · Beginnend Tovenaar Verdiend: 443 Sikkels Woonplaats: Breda

bateendje schreef:

Ik vind dat hij eigenlijk veel te lief uitziet voor Slakhoorn.
Ik stelde me Slakhoorn eigenlijk meer voor als een Sneep, maar toch dat van
'ik heb veel meegemaakt, en al mijn littekens hebben een verhaal'- van
Dwaaloog. [veel fantasie en je begrijpt vel wat ik bedoel (= ]
Natuurlijk is hij (de acteur) geweldig, en ik twijfel er ook niet over dat hij
het goed gaat doen. Make-up enzo kunnen veel doen, dus misschien dat
ik dan toch nog mijn mening kan veranderen, (=

Ik vond Slughorn juist altijd een veel lievere man en totaal anders dan Snape. ^^"

Maar hij moet wel een grote snor krijgen en hij mag wel wat dikker. Maar voor de rest vind ik hem perfect! Very Happy

Yori87 · Beginnend Tovenaar Verdiend: 153 Sikkels Woonplaats: UK

Ik vind hem een goede Slakhoorn! Heb hem in verschillende films gezien en hij kan goed acteren. Maar zoals al gezegd is moet hij wel wat dikker en een snot mag natuurlijk niet ontbreken! Ben benieuwd hoe hij Slakhoorn neer gaat zetten.

bateendje · 1e jaars Verdiend: 205 Sikkels

Faunaat schreef:

bateendje schreef:

Ik vind dat hij eigenlijk veel te lief uitziet voor Slakhoorn.
Ik stelde me Slakhoorn eigenlijk meer voor als een Sneep, maar toch dat van
'ik heb veel meegemaakt, en al mijn littekens hebben een verhaal'- van
Dwaaloog. [veel fantasie en je begrijpt vel wat ik bedoel (= ]
Natuurlijk is hij (de acteur) geweldig, en ik twijfel er ook niet over dat hij
het goed gaat doen. Make-up enzo kunnen veel doen, dus misschien dat
ik dan toch nog mijn mening kan veranderen, (=

Ik vond Slughorn juist altijd een veel lievere man en totaal anders dan Snape. ^^"

Wat ik bedoel is dat hij degene was die Riddle vertelde over Horcruxes,
en hij had ook zijn "Slug Club", iemand met een air is hij dus.
Daar vond ik hem veel te lief voor uit zien, iemand zoals *komt nu even niet
op iemand die er goed voor zou zijn, maar vind een Herman best wel goed*.
Met Snape bedoelde ik trouwens alleen dat Slytherin gedoe. Snape is een
perfecte Slytherin, en zo stelde ik me Slughorn ook voor.

Waarschijnlijk begrijpt niemand me nu meer, waarschijnlijk ook minder...

Kirssy · Geplaatst: Zo Sep 23, 2007 14:07

Hij lijkt mij perfect voor de rol =D Ook ik heb Moulin Rouge! natuurlijk gezien, en ik denk dat hij dit heel goed kan. Hij moet toch ook iets lievigs uitstralen? Slughorn is volgens mij niet zo heel slim, maar niet verkeerd. Hij houdt er alleen erg van om met 'belangrijke mensen' om te gaan. Ik denk echt dat Jim dit wel kan ^^ Ik vond Slughorn ook eigenlijk niet zo'n echte Slytherin in de boeken. Maar dat is mijn mening en berust waarschijnlijk op een huge vooroordeel. Ik zie hem een beetje als een oude, lievige man, en Jim Broadbent heeft wel iets.

**Shirley** · Geplaatst: Zo Sep 23, 2007 14:22

Kirssy schreef:

Hij lijkt mij perfect voor de rol =D Ook ik heb Moulin Rouge! natuurlijk gezien, en ik denk dat hij dit heel goed kan. Hij moet toch ook iets lievigs uitstralen? Slughorn is volgens mij niet zo heel slim, maar niet verkeerd. Hij houdt er alleen erg van om met 'belangrijke mensen' om te gaan. Ik denk echt dat Jim dit wel kan ^^ Ik vond Slughorn ook eigenlijk niet zo'n echte Slytherin in de boeken. Maar dat is mijn mening en berust waarschijnlijk op een huge vooroordeel. Ik zie hem een beetje als een oude, lievige man, en Jim Broadbent heeft wel iets.

Slughorn is misschien niet het 'stereotype Slytherin' maar ik vond Slughorn toch wel veel Slytherin dingen hebben. Zoals dat hij heel ambiteus is. En best wel achterbaks, omdat hij via andere beroemde mensen hogerop wil komen. Hij doet er zelf niks voor, alleen maar met mensen omgaan die zelf al iets voorstellen.
En hij lijkt me ook wel een beetje laf, zo komt hij op mij wel over in boek 6. Hij wil graag iedereen te vriend houden en waait dus met alle winden mee. Dus ik vind hem echt wel iets hebben van Slyth.

Kevin. · Geplaatst: Zo Sep 23, 2007 19:04

Hier is een nieuw interview met Jim Broadbent, de nieuwste toevoeging tot de Cast van HBP:

Citaat:

Jim Broadbent: the heartbreak kid
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Jim Broadbent relived his mother's death in 'Iris' and, with his latest shattering performance, he's reliving his father's. He talks to Nigel Farndale about his family memories â€“ and the twin sister behind his 'split personality'. Portrait by Peter Dench

Like a patient in a dentist's waiting room, a patient regretting the neglect of his gums, Jim Broadbent sits on the sofa and stares at his shoes. I have been warned by his publicist that he is 'painfully shy but friendly when he warms up', and that's about right. On the rare occasions he makes eye contact, it is with a rictus smile, as if friendliness for him requires physical rather than mental effort, as if he has to remind his knobbly face that smiling is the way to signal warmth. It is the awkward manner of his speech that most clearly betrays his introversion, though. He stutters slightly and punctuates his sentences with a soft, nervy chuckle that makes his words melt away like butter on crumpets. They are desultory, these sentences, and full of old-fashioned turns of phrase. Many remain unfinished.

Jim Broadbent: 'I don't know when I last cried but I do choke up easily.'

It does occur to me that he could be acting all this. He is a great actor, after all, an Oscar-winning actor indeed. He often plays sweet, gentle, lugubrious types, such as Bridget Jones's father, or John Bayley, the academic who looked on in helpless anguish as his wife, Iris Murdoch, succumbed to Alzheimer's, or Lord Longford â€“ he may have been given a bald pate and prosthetic nose to play that role, but the sympathy for Myra Hindley seemed to be all his. People who know Broadbent privately say that this is what he is like away from the cameras. Yet in front of them he will as often play loud extroverts, such as the bombastic ringmaster in Moulin Rouge! (a role for which he won a Bafta) or the bumptious nightclub owner in Little Voice, or the corrupt police officer in Hot Fuzz. Some might call it versatility, but Broadbent has another theory as to why he is capable of such extremes, and we shall come to this.

Curiously, in his latest film, an adaptation of Blake Morrison's best-selling memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father?, he somehow combines the two. The character he plays, Blake's father, is a GP in the Yorkshire Dales. He is embarrassing, overbearing and boorish, but also capable of great tenderness and pathos. Already this is being talked of as an Oscar-winning performance. The scenes in which he lies in bed dying from cancer and tries to communicate with his angry son, played by Colin Firth, could not be more emotionally charged and affecting.

When I ask him what his relationship with his own father was like â€“ Roy Broadbent was a furniture maker who died of cancer when Jim was 23 â€“ he crunches slowly on a shortbread biscuit before answering. 'M-m-my father was a Yorkshireman who moved to Lincolnshire in the war. He was like Blake's father in some ways. Almost an exact contemporary. He would come down to see me in London and fix things around the house. He was always the black sheep of his family, a conscientious objector.' (During the war the family had gone to live in a bohemian, anti-war commune in rural Lincolnshire. His mother, Dee, became a sculptor.)

Broadbent felt some sympathy with Blake's father, then, even though he was an unsympathetic character. 'I think some people felt I was too sympathetic to play Arthur. I disagree, obviously. I think I can be unpleasant.'

advertisementThere is still the trace of Lincolnshire in his vowels, which is surprising given that he has lived in London for most of his adult life. He also dresses like a countryman, in anonymous greens and browns, as if trying to camouflage himself, deflect attention, fade into the background.

The death scenes in his new film, I note, really bring home the dribbling, incontinent ugliness of dying. 'It helped that when we filmed those scenes it was with a small crew in a real house.' He frowns. 'Was it? Just trying to think if there was a studio involved But it was certainly a small set. Quite claustrophobic.'

Did those scenes require a sacrifice of vanity on his part? 'Well that is always the first to go, vanity. Can't hang on to vanity as an actor. It's one of the paradoxes, really, that to be an actor you have to have a big enough ego to want people to look at you, but ultimately you can't be vain. I reckon I did remember when my father died at home after a year-long illness when he was about the age I am now 58 I was touring around the North in my first job and was able to get home at weekends and was at home when he actually died I remember watching him and'

Silence.

And? 'And so I brought some of that to the role.'

Did he find it painful, reliving those moments with his dying father? He blinks. Tears are welling up in his eyes, tears that catch the light, eyes that still stare at shoes. 'I found it upsetting to read the book, and the script, that was when it all came back to me. But not as much not so much when I was doing it. You just try and remember how it was.'

Did he have any unfinished business with his own father, things that needed to be said, as Blake does in the book? 'I was quite young, 23, I think, so there was an awful lot I hadn't worked out. Ten years later there would have been a lot I wanted to ask him talk about.'

I ask if his father had worried about him becoming an actor â€“ it's not the most secure profession in the world, after all. 'No, he was encouraging. He had huge confidence. In fact, it had been him who had suggested I go to drama school in the first.'

Broadbent had attended Leighton Park, a Quaker school in Reading, before taking a place at art school. He left that to transfer to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. A tutor at his college described him as strange-looking and predicted that he wouldn't find work until he was in his forties. Following his graduation in 1972, he worked as an assistant stage manager at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, and while he was waiting for acting work to come, he joined the Ugly modelling agency (although he never landed a job because, as he puts it, 'Perhaps I wasn't ugly enough'). After that he co-founded the brilliant and eccentric National Theatre of Brent, a two-man troupe. Then came work with the (real) National Theatre and, finally, film stardom in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game and Mike Leigh's Life is Sweet.

advertisementDoes it make him sad to think that his father never knew how successful his son went on to become? 'I think he was quite the doting father. Unlike Blake's father, mine would praise me constantly, unwarrantedly. He did say as he was dying that he regretted not knowing how it would end for us, what was going to happen to us all.' His eyes well up with tears again and he blinks them away. 'It was an unfinished narrative. He didn't mind his own story ending But'

I ask whether tears come easily to him when he is acting. 'Actually no. I'm always impressed when women can summon up real tears. I can never do that. I have to use that fake stuff.'

Away from acting, does he find it easy to cry? 'I don't know when I last cried but I do choke up easily. Usually documentaries about bravery get to me. I can be choked up on a cheesy documentary, not even a good one, one where my emotions are being deliberately manipulated.'

His mother died of Alzheimer's in 1995. 'Mmm, mmm, much later than my father. I was around for that, too. A few hours before and a few hours after. It was 18 months of deterioration. A year in a nursing home. She was older, so it wasn't as heartbreaking as it might have been. Some people die of Alzheimer's quite young.'

It was this experience that coloured his Oscar-winning performance in Iris. He relived his mother's death for that; now he is reliving his father's in his latest film: why does he suppose he is drawn to roles that evoke painful memories? 'I'm not sure I suppose with Iris it was partly about wanting to draw public attention to this little-understood disease. The film was appreciated by the Alzheimer's charities. When my mother died there was much less information about it. I remember when my mother got it we were searching for information and help and couldn't find any really.'

Do his parents still cast a shadow on his life? 'I had exactly twice as much time with my mother as my father, so it was spread out? so I didn't have a feeling of being orphaned It is not like when both your parents go together and you are suddenly on your own. With Alzheimer's, as well, the person becomes a stranger before they die: that separation happens earlier. The person you know goes quite early on in the course of the disease. You lose the shared memories and the conversations you normally have in a relationship.'

Some men find it almost liberating when their father, the moral arbiter of their formative years, dies. Was that the case with him? Did he, say, get an urge to appear in Hair fully naked? He gives the gentle chuckle. 'No, he would have been up for all that. I'd never felt constrained by him. My father was "small l" liberal.'

Are they temperamentally similar, father and son? 'Not really, personality wise I do think about him a lot, probably as you get older and get closer to the age it all becomes a bit more relevant than it was when I was 23. I sometimes catch his reflection in the mirror, especially when the hair goes. The driving mirror. The corner of the face. The glasses. A little bit of that. Some of his qualities I wish I had. Others I'm pleased I didn't have.'

Silence again, followed by a chuckle. Qualities such as? 'Wouldn't know really. Quite contradictory. Someone once told me I was waif-like. Can't see it myself. Perhaps when I was younger. I don't think about myself too much. Not that interested. I think I'm quite boring.'

Surely when he was younger he must have been curious about himself? 'A little bit, I would ask: What am I about? What am I going to be? But I'm not so bothered now. It's set. No need to fret about it.'

Given his obvious shyness, for him to have chosen a profession where he would get on stage and draw attention to himself does seem a little perverse. 'Yes, I don't understand it. There is a split in my personality because sometimes I can be loud in person as well as on stage.'

He believes he may have taken on the personality of his twin sister, who died at birth. Her personality sits alongside his own, he reckons, giving him a split one. And this explains why he can be anxious one day and a risk-taker the next. It also explains how he can be an extrovert as an actor â€“ veering between caricature and naturalism, between strength and vulnerability â€“ and yet still be an introvert in his private life.

advertisementI wonder whether this split might also have helped him cope with rejection early on in his career. 'I gave myself a 10-year plan. I thought that after drama school, if it didn't seem to be going anywhere after 10 years, I would rethink it. It does make you insecure, acting. There were some really talented people with wit and style at drama school who couldn't hack the insecurity from the word go. But if you stay with it for a few years you learn to handle the insecurity and the rejection. You can't be too fragile. You have to be a bit tough about it

'When people ask my advice and say, "My son or daughter is thinking about going into acting but can't make up his or her mind", I say, "If you have any doubts don't do it." You have to be completely driven and have no option. It is a form of madness, actually.'

For all his seriousness as an actor now â€“ and the demand for him in Hollywood; he will be appearing in the latest Indiana Jones movie next â€“ he started out as a comic actor. 'I think what I was trying to do was spread the net wide. Different directors see me in different ways. Anyway, a lot of that stuff in theatre, the National Theatre of Brent stuff, mostly went unnoticed because not many people go to the theatre compared with television.'

I ask whether, when he was at drama school, he ever saw himself as the handsome lead in Hollywood films. 'Every actor would think that at some stage. It's part of the wanting to do the job. I wasn't one of dozens of handsome young men after the one role for the handsome young man, though. I was never up for that. I was always part of an odder group of character actors. I wasn't impatient.'

He never considered himself good-looking. 'Not really, no probably quite a poor self-image actually, until I got used to myself Yeah,? wouldn't have thought?#x0027;

He says that he doesn't see the films he appears in more than he has to. 'If I haven't seen a film for a long time, though, and it's a comedy, and I'm being funny, I do laugh at what I'm doing, as if it's another person up there'

He has written his own screenplays, most notably the black comedy A Sense of History, directed by Mike Leigh. What about an autobiography? Is he planning one? 'I've got my title for it, but I'll never write it.'

Silence.

And that title is? 'My Grandmother was a Snowball.'

Er, right. Yep. Good title. 'That was her maiden name.'

Has he kept a diary? 'No, but er' The wheezy laugh. 'I get so bored. What I did I'm too self-conscious. I would always assume I wouldthat people would read it one day and I couldn't bear that because I would think it was so badly written.'

So he does have a certain vanity, after all, I say. Intellectual vanity. He glances up from his shoes and gives a grin that is shy, lopsided, apologetic. 'I'm a contradiction.'

'I suppose I am very aware that I am not academic at all, that university was never an option. I suppose I've got a what's the word thing.'

Complex? 'Complex about not being intellectual.'

So how did he overcome that complex to play an intellectual in Iris? 'I think I might be intelligent but not clever. I didn't have the A-levels.'

He was expelled for drinking, he adds in his monotonal way. 'But only after A-levels. I was told I had to leave immediately after sitting my A-levels, which wasn't a great hardship. Except I didn't get to do the leavers' play.'

I'm sure that he has been asked back to his school as the conquering hero many times since. 'No, I haven't actually. I must be down on the list: Expelled.'

On the wall of shame, I suggest, with a skull and crossbones by his name. The foggy chuckle again. I ask what the Quaker element of his school meant to him.

'It was semi-progressive. No corporal punishment or cadet corps, because it was pacifist. Very little uniform. There was a blazer if you wanted one. There was no dogma or hierarchy. ?And we had Quaker meetings in the school hall where you sat in silence.'

It occurs to me that the silences he drifts into to this day may have taken root at school and that he carries them around with him like a comfort blanket. Could that be it? 'I don't mind silence And they were very nice people, the Quakers. If I was ever to go back to religion I would likely go to the Quakers first. I never did have it, really, though. I was at that school because my parents were pacifists, not Quakers.'

So what does he think happens to you when you die?

'Absolutely nothing. I'm with Arthur Morrison on that one.'

Does the prospect of his own inevitable death frighten him? 'I don't think it does. I don't fret about it. I think it was partly to do with seeing my father go. It didn't frighten him. Upset him a bit but not I think if you are an atheist, what's there to be frightened of? But I don't want to die yet.'

What about his own death-bed scene (many years from now, I hope)? Will he want his two stepsons there? 'Yes, I think so. I am as a father to them. Twenty-five years now.'

In 1983 he met Anastasia Lewis, a theatre designer and textile artist who was mother to two sons. The couple married five years later. Did he ever wonder what it would be like having his own biological children? 'My wife didn't want to go down that route and for various reasons that was fine by me. I wasn't going to say, all right, I'm off, I'll find someone else. It was obviously never of driving importance to me because on some level I would seek out someone who would provide that but I'm terribly close to my stepsons and their young ones.'

Another legacy of his having to sit in silence at school may be his patience on set. With his mild manner, the opposite of temperamental, he has a reputation for being easy to work with. The tedium of film sets, meanwhile, the sitting around for hours waiting for your next scene, never bothers him. He retreats into himself. He whittles gargoyles from wood; his hobby.

He likes working with directors such as Mike Leigh and Woody Allen (he starred in Bullets over Broadway) who don't go in for much shouting. 'Good directors like actors and enjoy what actors bring in terms of improvisation,' he says. 'Woody and Mike are different in that with Mike you do all the improvisation in the rehearsal before the script is finalised, whereas with Woody he asks you to improvise away from the finished script. Make it sound natural and real. But there are more similarities than not between them.'

Both directors are known for their melancholy; is that something he can identify with? 'Melancholic is as far as it goes. I don't get depressed. Enjoyable melancholy. I don't know what real depression is.'

In terms of his career, Broadbent doesn't have much to be depressed about. He is one of Britain's most recognisable actors and has won more awards and critical acclaim than seems decent. He was offered an OBE a few years ago but turned it down. Such is his diffidence. (Although that was also partly on the grounds that he didn't think the militarism of the British Empire was something that should be celebrated â€“ his father's pacifism coming out.)

Given all these achievements, all these laurels to rest on, what motivates him to keep going? 'I live in London but I've had a cottage in Lincolnshire for 17 years and we've just got a slightly bigger place there. So it would be nice to get that right. And I can imagine taking a sabbatical for a year and then just extending it.

'I don't like to do work that doesn't appeal to me. I'm often cast as people older than myself so I'm sure there will always be work. But in not wanting to repeat myself I find there are more and more jobs I don't want to do.'

He takes another bite of his shortbread biscuit and crunches on it slowly. 'And that's about it really.'

There seems to be something in my eye
Seven father/son screen moments that will have you reaching for the tissues

Field of Dreams Kevin Costner plays a farmer who builds a baseball pitch in his cornfields to help the ghosts of a disgraced 1919 team find peace. The scene in which Costner's dead father emerges from the corn for a game of catch gets you every time.

Inspector Morse Just the final scene of the final episode, in which Lewis, standing alone in the funeral parlour, says a few words over the coffin of Morse, his father figure. Crushing.

The Remains of The Day Especially the scenes showing the repressed butler, played by Anthony Hopkins, trying and failing to preserve the dignity of his ailing father, the under-butler, played by Peter Vaughan. A real choker.

The Railway Children Jenny Agutter doesn't count as a son, but the bit where she runs through the smoke to be reunited with her father has to be included in this list. Admit it. You felt the hairs on your neck go up just then.

Life is Beautiful Guido (Roberto Benigni) turns the horrific reality of Auschwitz into a fantasy to shield his young son from the truth. The lump-in-the-throat moment comes when Guido play-acts at being a soldier in an attempt to escape, and is then shot in front of his son.

The Champ Jon Voight is an ageing boxer whose eight-year-old son calls him 'The Champ'. Voight takes on a fight to justify the boy's confidence in him. Apparently, when the tearful son tries to wake his dying father, he isn't acting: the director made him cry before shooting the scene. Those were the days...

Kramer vs Kramer After his wife leaves him, Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is left looking after their son, until Mrs Kramer returns to reclaim him. The boy's tears when the father explains that he has to leave him are devastating.

'And When Did You Last See Your Father?' is out next month

Kirssy · Geplaatst: Za Sep 29, 2007 11:22

Shirley. schreef:

Kirssy schreef:

Hij lijkt mij perfect voor de rol =D Ook ik heb Moulin Rouge! natuurlijk gezien, en ik denk dat hij dit heel goed kan. Hij moet toch ook iets lievigs uitstralen? Slughorn is volgens mij niet zo heel slim, maar niet verkeerd. Hij houdt er alleen erg van om met 'belangrijke mensen' om te gaan. Ik denk echt dat Jim dit wel kan ^^ Ik vond Slughorn ook eigenlijk niet zo'n echte Slytherin in de boeken. Maar dat is mijn mening en berust waarschijnlijk op een huge vooroordeel. Ik zie hem een beetje als een oude, lievige man, en Jim Broadbent heeft wel iets.

Slughorn is misschien niet het 'stereotype Slytherin' maar ik vond Slughorn toch wel veel Slytherin dingen hebben. Zoals dat hij heel ambiteus is. En best wel achterbaks, omdat hij via andere beroemde mensen hogerop wil komen. Hij doet er zelf niks voor, alleen maar met mensen omgaan die zelf al iets voorstellen.
En hij lijkt me ook wel een beetje laf, zo komt hij op mij wel over in boek 6. Hij wil graag iedereen te vriend houden en waait dus met alle winden mee. Dus ik vind hem echt wel iets hebben van Slyth.

Oke, misschien heeft hij toch wel iets van een Slyth [a] Maar ik vind hem nog steeds een beetje gemoedelijk, echt zo'n oude man die geniet van de kleine dingetjes in het leven, en zijn leven zo plezierig mogelijk inricht, voor zichzelf.
Ik denk dat Jim die rol perfect kan spelen, en ik dan ook erg benieuwd naar zijn rol in HBP, ik hoop dat ze niet te veel stukjes met hem weg laten. Maar ik vrees dat ze stukjes als bij hem thuis eruit halen, zodat Harry hem het eerst ontmoet op Hogwarts ofzoiets.