Pottermore reveals first look at characters in “Cursed Child”
Pottermore revealed the first look at the cast for the upcoming play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is set nineteen years after the last chapter ofDeathly Hallows– not 19 years after the epilogue – and follows Harry, who is working
at the Ministry of Magic, and his youngest son Albus Severus Potter, who
is struggling with his family’s legacy.
Jamie
Parker will play Harry Potter. Paul Thornley will play Ron Weasley. Noma
Dumezweni will play Hermione Granger – the first canonical
interpretation of a black Hermione.
With these photos came the
official casting announcements for Ginny, Rose and Albus. Ginny Weasley
(now, Ginny Potter) will be played by “The Second Best Exotic Marigold
Hotel” actress Poppy Miller, while “The Musketeers” actor Sam Clemmett
will play Albus Potter. Rose Granger-Weasley will be played by “Danny
and the Human Zoo” actress Cherrelle Skeete.
Katrina Lindsay
designed the costumes, with Carole Hancock designing make-up. More
photos are available on Pottermore’s website, with Pottermore scheduled
to reveal two more photos of cast members tomorrow.
“Harry Potter
and the Cursed Child” is written by Jack Thorne in collaboration with
J.K. Rowling. It will be presented in two parts.
January 1st felt like a good day to draw again. We’re in Florida right now, so if I do any more this week, they’ll just be pencil and minimal digital shading; I don’t have my pen tablet and I loathe using a laptop trackpad! Happy New Year!
I’m here to talk about diversity. Diversity in the modern world is more than just skin colour. It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and - most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought. Because if you have genuine diversity of thought among people making TV & film, then you won’t accidentally shut out any of the groups I just mentioned.
To carry this feeling on his own – so much to tell and yet he couldn’t say a word. He needed to be stronger than this, more independent than this. Surrounded by friends and yet, the isolation never seemed bigger.
He tried to be perfect.
He wanted to be perfect.
Strong exterior came crumbling down, held together too long by the faintest of threads. Unstable. Fearful. Vulnerable – All masked by pride, arrogance and confidence. He sought praise, to meet standards…to finally be enough. Unconditional love – something he could never grasp.
Driving himself into insanity to earn his worth – his worth in his mother’s eyes. Injured, broken hearted and emotionally vulnerable, he watched as all praise and affection were showered upon his sisters. Could it be that he was the oldest? Could it be because of the immense expectations upon him? He could never figure out.
So he sought affection elsewhere, satisfaction elsewhere, praise elsewhere…and his worth elsewhere.
They were merely substitutes, never the real thing.
All he wanted was four words. “You’ve made me proud.”
When a white person says that PoC having subcategories to celebrate themselves creates a divide because there’s already a vast amount of awareness within the main category for the general public
Whoopi: “Let me ask you a question. What do you know about Black history?”
Paula: “I know…ah…wha…what I have learned in school and what I have taken upon myself.”
Whoopi: “What do you know aside from there were slaves? How much were you taught in school about Black history?”
Paula: “I was…I mean, what, what I know about Black history I was taught in school. I also took it upon myself to learn—”
