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Alan Rickman was the absolute perfect casting for Snape. Nobody else could have brought him to life so well and so true to the books.
Of the entire film cast I think everyone could have been replaced except for Snape, therefore it does make sense to be bold and try something different in his casting for the new show.
Maybe but putting a black man in the wizard KKK rubs me wrong. It’d make more sense to make Harry himself black, heck Harry himself has a Black godfather. If we’re doing away with the whole wizard KKK vibe too, making Sirius and Bellatrix black would be funny.
Edit: But like half black with a white dad imo. Because James was old money English.
Clayton Bigsby walked so Severus Snape could run.
Alan Rickman was way to old though. He was supposed to be young. He isn't "young" but I think Paul Dano could have played a decent fit. (Parents should have been what 19? And snape around 30 when the movies/books started ?)
Perhaps it wasn't true the books then, but movie Snape was a believable age to have been at school at the same time as Harry's parents. It's just for whatever reason the author made the parents ridiculously young
The parents died at 21 apparently. So they graduated school at 17/18, entered the work force, entered a war and had a kid by 21. That's not ridiculously young. Most of the reasons many people don't have kids at 21 these days are tied to things they can obtain easily. Food scarcity, housing, and job hunting don't seem like much of an issue. The mother can transfigure a flower into a "fish" and the father was also gifted in magic. They could build a house over the weekend with their family money.
Snape being the same age should have put him at 32 when the first book started. Rickman was about 20 years older than that.