{"id":112,"date":"2006-09-27T20:20:31","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T03:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/27\/harry-potter-casting\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T01:10:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T06:10:09","slug":"harry-potter-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/harry-potter-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14966267\/site\/newsweek\/\">I hope Emma Watson doesn&#8217;t leave the Harry Potter films!<\/a>  I understand if she wants to consider other options than acting, and I understand that she may be reluctant to commit four more years of her life to the Potter films, but&#8230;for the sake of the films, I hope she decides to stay.  It&#8217;s interesting that she&#8217;s reconsidering acting as a career, while both Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint seem to be trying to stick with acting (they both have indie films out, as well&#8230;Emma doesn&#8217;t).  Reason being, she&#8217;s a much better actor than either of them, IMHO.  If she wanted it, she could easily have a future acting career.  And I want to see every bit of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope Emma Watson doesn&#8217;t leave the Harry Potter films! I understand if she wants to consider other options than acting, and I understand that she may be reluctant to commit four more years of her life to the Potter films, but&#8230;for the sake of the films, I hope she decides to stay. It&#8217;s interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[556,71],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":377,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/harry-potter-5-trailer-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":112,"position":0},"title":"Harry Potter 5 Trailer!","author":"Jandy","date":"April 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yay! It looks really, really good. Also really, really dark. But then, I remember reading Order of the Phoenix and thinking, wow, this is really getting dark. So there you go. The boys cut their hair, which is a very good thing. And Hermione embracing her rule-breaking side! Awesome. I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":920,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/best-of-2007-or-yay-more-lists\/","url_meta":{"origin":112,"position":1},"title":"Best of 2007; or, Yay More Lists!","author":"Jandy","date":"January 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it's that time of year. And while most critics seem to be bemoaning to one degree or another the expectation that they compile year-end top ten lists, I still relish list-making, even though any list I might make is going to woefully incomplete. 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These are films which the studios decided would do better without the critics lambasting them on opening weekend. The studios were right about the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3238,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/featured-video-apricot\/","url_meta":{"origin":112,"position":5},"title":"Featured Video: Apricot","author":"Jandy","date":"March 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I've tended to use the Featured Video space for music videos and the occasional trailer lately, but highlighting quality short films and stuff like that was my initial thought when I created it. 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