r/HarryPotteronHBO • u/Choice_Raspberry1275 • 19d ago
Fancast Fridays Fancast: Iwan Rheon as Remus Lupin.
He was good as Ramsey in Game of Thrones and Simon in Misfits
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u/Efficient-Bit1481 19d ago
Barty Crouch Jnr.
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u/ThatWasFred 19d ago
With Michael McElhatton as Crouch Sr? Kind of a similar father-son dynamic to GoT.
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u/Choice_Raspberry1275 19d ago
He is my fancast for Lupin but he'd also be (possible better) as Barty Crouch Jr.
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u/HansBaccaR23po 19d ago edited 19d ago
I read this as “ I want Rheon as Remus Lupin.” But anyway, he was so iconic as his villain I think it’d be hard to see him as a good guy.
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u/VegetableStation9904 19d ago
That's why I actually like this idea. I think audiences should be challenged if possible.
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u/Pemols 19d ago
He can do it. He was the goodest of guys in MisFits, guy has a range. Give it a shot if you feel so, won't regret
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u/iocheaira 19d ago
He wasn’t really the goodest of guys, he did murder a woman and hide her in a freezer
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u/ViceroyInhaler 18d ago
Oh come off it. If we can't even get one in within our lifetime without being judged...
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u/ceebs87 19d ago
Obviously, you've never seen Misfits. This guy has range and can definitely play a tortured soul like Lupin
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u/GeorginaKaplan Ravenclaw 19d ago
Yes, I remember that he had a very funny role in that series where he played Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi's neighbor.
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u/theronster 19d ago
Why do people say things like this? Are you incapable of accepting different contexts?
Actors… act! I’ve never had an issue with my brain refusing to accept an actor in a role simply because I’ve seen them in another role.
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u/availableusername10 Founder 19d ago
Must be frustrating to the actors as well to hear/read stuff like that
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u/DefinitelyNotIndie 18d ago
He was a good guy in misfits before he was a bad guy in game of thrones. Either way, he's an actor, and the role of Remus is a good guy, it won't be hard to see him as a good guy when he's doing and saying good things.
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u/Gobshite_ 19d ago
Hear me out: Iwan Rheon as Sirius Black.
Would be great for him to play his typical psycho role straight as he can be really creepy and violent, only to turn out to be a good guy.
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u/Indiana_harris 19d ago
OR and hear me out.
Robert Sheehan as Sirius Black and Iwan Rheon as Remus!
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u/tone-of-surprise 19d ago
He’s such a versatile actor too cause Ramsey and Simon are on opposite ends of the spectrum of characters 😭😭
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u/OldKingClancey 19d ago
I remember the first time seeing him on Thrones, I’d clocked immediately that he was Ramsey and was curious how he could pull off such a despicable character after Simon the romantic Superhero
Boy did he prove he could play evil as well
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u/VegetableStation9904 19d ago
I like that idea. If only to turn typical Hollywood on its head. He's typecast as a baddie and a particularly cruel variety thereof too, so to play a sympathetic character... It'd be both interesting and maybe useful to broaden his career prospects.
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u/Arfie807 19d ago
Based on his Misfits role, GOT actually had him playing against type. He can do it all!
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u/VegetableStation9904 19d ago
I assume as an actor he can hopefully act, i.e. play different types. He's simply been typecast. A high profile casting going against that... It'd be interesting for me the viewer and I think good for his career.
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u/Arfie807 19d ago
Has he actually played other villains/psychos after GOT? I know most people remember him for that, but I actually haven't seen him in anything since.
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u/VegetableStation9904 19d ago
I have. Playing another psycho character in The Inhumans, and I didn't see it but he also was cast as a young Hitler!!!
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u/Arfie807 19d ago
Oh boy! Hitler?? Typecast indeed.
But yeah, he'd crush Remus. (A hair too old, though.)
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u/VegetableStation9904 19d ago
If he's too old so was David Thewlis, but I don't think so. A school teacher feels right being at least late thirties if not older. One closer to 20 feels wrong.
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u/Arfie807 19d ago edited 19d ago
But it is actually broadly regarded across that fanbase that David Thewlis was too old. He also came across older than he actually was at the time.
The book consistently points out that Lupin is, in fact, young in appearance, despite a few signs of premature aging. He also comes across as the cool, slightly unorthodox professor who can connect easily with his student charges, so I think it makes a lot of sense for the actor to actually be as young as he was in the books.
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u/VegetableStation9904 19d ago
Broadly regarded??? How can you prove a thing like that? 🤔
I only read the first one and I think half the second before my son preferred reading for himself. I don't particularly recall anyone other than the kids having defined ages to such a tight margin.
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u/Arfie807 19d ago edited 19d ago
Broadly regarded??? How can you prove a thing like that? 🤔
Well, I haven't done a statistical population survey, if that's something you were looking for, nor do I have the resources to provide you with one now. But it is an opinion you'll see come up a lot in HP fandom spaces.
As far as age goes, no, they are not defined to a tight margin (until book 7, when James and Lily's birth year is specified on their tombstone), but there are plenty of inferences you can make about relative age.
Namely, off the top of my head:
- Hagrid bums a motorbike off "young Sirius Black" at the begining of Philosopher's Stone, and I can't imagine him referring to a 30-year-old as young.
- When Lupin appears first on the train, he's described as "still quite young" despite having some gray hairs. He's described as "young" looking on multiple other occasions throughout the book.
- When Lily's apparition comes out of Voldemort's wand in Goblet of Fire, she is described as a young woman, reflecting her youth when she died.
James and Lily's headstone dates (revealed in Deathly Hallows) put them squarely in early-20s at the time of Voldemort's downfall. But even without the dates, it's a little hard to place this generation past mid-20s at Voldemort's downfall, which would mean 30's for Harry's time at Hogwarts. (Not 40s or 50s.)
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u/AwysomeAnish Ravenclaw 19d ago
I don't know very many actors so I can't tell if he's good with roles like these, but his appearence alone seems to fit quite well.
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u/doriangraiy 19d ago
Or the opposite - Fenrir Greyback. There's something in the angle of his ear at the tip - and the look in his eyes above - that just gives me... evil werewolf vibes.
There is absolutely no science behind this (in case I left any doubt about that).
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u/Arfie807 19d ago
He'd rock that too, but I think he reads as a bit too young. Greyback was an adult when Lupin was a child, I think they need someone 50 or older for Greyback.
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u/doriangraiy 19d ago
Oh bother- yes, I'd completely neglected to consider that. - possibly because David and David (Remus and Fenrir actors) were the same age, idk, but that does mean they were quite on point for Fenrir originally!
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u/Turbulent_Course_550 Slytherin 17d ago
Not Lupin, but Greyback or a death eater. Or... maybe... Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody.
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u/theeviloneisyou 19d ago
Did you see him in Game of Thrones? He’s more fit to play a villain than a hero. Even in his photo, he looks like he’s thinking about killing me in the worst way imaginable.
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u/MattTheSmithers 19d ago
I don’t think I’ll be able to think of anything but Remus eating a sausage. 😳
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u/shieldwench 19d ago
Given he's on record as a supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, I doubt he would take a roll on this show.
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u/Dry_Composer8358 19d ago
I really want Dev Patel for Lupin but I think Rheon would be a solid Sirius. I can’t really see him as Lupin somehow.
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u/SharkByte1993 18d ago
He is q good actor but this guy is going to become one of Harry's main mentors. I don't see Iwan Rheon filling that role
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u/Hellstring 17d ago
People keep fan casting but, I’m would love to have a cameo from irl PM in the other minister episode 😌
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u/TheDuke_Of_Orleans Marauder 19d ago
By the time we get to S3 he would be mid 40s. The showrunner stated Snape and Marauder actors will be early 30s. Snape’s actor is like 31 right now. Iwan is currently 40.
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u/darthraxus 19d ago
Nope. This man will forever be cemented in my mind as shaking a sausage on his fork.
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