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Try Walking In My Shoes - We Examine Recasting From Batman To Bond
David Bax , May 27th, 2009 09:12

All change! All change! David Bax of Battleship Pretension examines some roles that are bigger than any one actor.

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Dumbledore

No jokes to be made here. Richard Harris was nearly iconic in the first two Harry Potter films as the kindly and mysterious old headmaster, and the series took a mighty blow when he died. It might not have recovered had Michael Gambon not stepped in, making the role his own but keeping it unquestionably Dumbledore.