#but it's not like 'casting call' and 'audition' are mutually exclusive afaik?

[amorremanet]

Personally I don't think the young actors will have much screen time in Fantastic Beasts. Young Gellert, Albus, Newt & Leta are all heavily loaded characters, so Warner Bros is not going to cast someone with no prior acting experience and give them a big role in the film(s). If Rowling had gone into detail with the characters' past, I'm sure there'd have been an audition, not a casting call. Now all you have to do is submit your photo and they'll call you back if you look like the

characters enough. Perhaps the young actors will appear in short flashbacks (like the Marauders and Lily) or on photographs only. What do you think?

*shrugs* I haven’t actually thought about it in near as much detail as you have, nonny. I saw a question about why Toby Regbo and Jamie Campbell-Bower might not get asked back (it popped up on my dash while I was taking a chill break from working, because I still track the Grindeldore tag), and chimed in to suggest that:

a. they might be busy, since both of them already have their careers and don’t really need bit parts in Harry Potter stuff anymore,

and b. they’re probably too old to play teenagers, especially since they’d have to do so as counterparts to Jude Law and The Thing That Should Not Be Anywhere Near Harry Potter Anything (though if he just never worked again, ever, that would be cool, too)

—all of which took about five minutes to type up, and less time to think of, since it’s all pretty generic surface-level stuff

Personally, I’m probably not even going to see Fantastic Beasts 2 unless I get some kind of definite confirmation that they’re not jerking me around and, at the very least, Albus is for sure definitely gay. Not, “oh, it’s kind of implied, you could totally read it that way,” not, “oh, he made eye contact with a dude in some dance scene and fawned all over a straight dudebro (I say, pointedly looking askance at the live-action Beauty and the Beast),” not, “Jude Law worked it into how he played Albus, even if it’s not actually said out loud” (while I would appreciate the work on his part, it’s 2017 and I’ve still seen people try to go, “Well it wasn’t in the books, so Dumbledore doesn’t need to be gay,” and I don’t want them to have any room to keep doing that), and not, “well, JKR confirmed it at Carnegie Hall in 2007, what more do you want from her” (idk, some actual in-text representation before she tries to grub for Good Ally Cookies™? that would be a start)

—because, I mean. I haven’t even seen the first one yet (like, it looked like it could be interesting and I thought about it, but then it turned out that He Who I Refuse to Name Not Out Of Fear But Out Of Loathing was not just in the movie, he was also playing Gellert, so there went my desire to go watch Colin Farrell apparently do a pretty good job, only to be superseded in the end by I Only Hate Him So Much Because I Used To Love Him And Then Learned What A Shitty Person He Is Over A Period Of Several Years, Through Myriad Incidents, And Yeah No, I’m Done With Him), and unless Albus being gay is actually going to be in the movie……… eh.

Basically, while I am grateful to JKR for a lot of things and can say that her books (and their fandom) saved my life more than once, I’m also pretty fed up with her consistent casual homophobia and don’t think I can really be bothered to care that much about Fantastic Beasts 2 unless she does the barest of all possible minimums and has actual in-text acknowledgment of Albus as a gay man