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mayoraasei...and you get irrational, bitchy fans.
In response for casting for Cho Chang (in case anyone needed reminding, Cho is the Asian girl that Harry falls in love with, but I think she liked Cedric, who is a really nice guy Harry's senior)
"...as the hopefuls shuffled through Pineapple Studios, it was stunning Katie Leung who put a spell on the casting panel and left them in no doubt - she was Cho Chang.
"...Despite being deliberately kept under wraps by Warner - without public appearances, interviews or official pictures - the slender and shy student has become a hate figure for obsessive Potter fans.
Scores of fake websites have sprung up, some apparently giving her thoughts and feelings in diary form. There are photographs purporting to be of Katie, and many are of obviously older, more experienced girls in revealing poses.
Most disturbing are several 'hate Katie' sites where youngsters are encouraged to explain in graphic detail why they loathe the dark-haired beauty. One site has e-mails with statements such as 'I hate Katie Leung till the end of time.'
Another states: 'I hate her because she is stupid, dumb, an idiot and gets to play Cho Chang, and oh...she gets to kiss Daniel Radcliffe [the Harry Potter actor].'
Other comments from fans in far-flung countries such as the Philippines and China attack her looks as 'ugly' and bizarrely too Eastern', poke fun at her Scottish background and mock her soft Scottish accent.
Ther are racist comments too crude to print, many using the coarsest language. Some come from angry fans of established Korean and Chinese actresses who failed to get an audition. This is because Potter creator J.K. Rowling insisted that the girl whose caress transforms the bespetacled Harry from boy to love-struck adolescent had to be a complete unknown."
Fans should respect that the casting was heavily influenced by Rowling, who wasn't looking for the most beautiful nor the most famous. She was looking for a girl like Cho Chang. Obviously Cho Chang isn't supposed to look like a megastar, because that was someone else's job...er, who was the girl who was supposed to be able to turn all heads? ==; Can't remember.
Anyway. Stupidness. Is all.
In response for casting for Cho Chang (in case anyone needed reminding, Cho is the Asian girl that Harry falls in love with, but I think she liked Cedric, who is a really nice guy Harry's senior)
"...as the hopefuls shuffled through Pineapple Studios, it was stunning Katie Leung who put a spell on the casting panel and left them in no doubt - she was Cho Chang.
"...Despite being deliberately kept under wraps by Warner - without public appearances, interviews or official pictures - the slender and shy student has become a hate figure for obsessive Potter fans.
Scores of fake websites have sprung up, some apparently giving her thoughts and feelings in diary form. There are photographs purporting to be of Katie, and many are of obviously older, more experienced girls in revealing poses.
Most disturbing are several 'hate Katie' sites where youngsters are encouraged to explain in graphic detail why they loathe the dark-haired beauty. One site has e-mails with statements such as 'I hate Katie Leung till the end of time.'
Another states: 'I hate her because she is stupid, dumb, an idiot and gets to play Cho Chang, and oh...she gets to kiss Daniel Radcliffe [the Harry Potter actor].'
Other comments from fans in far-flung countries such as the Philippines and China attack her looks as 'ugly' and bizarrely too Eastern', poke fun at her Scottish background and mock her soft Scottish accent.
Ther are racist comments too crude to print, many using the coarsest language. Some come from angry fans of established Korean and Chinese actresses who failed to get an audition. This is because Potter creator J.K. Rowling insisted that the girl whose caress transforms the bespetacled Harry from boy to love-struck adolescent had to be a complete unknown."
Fans should respect that the casting was heavily influenced by Rowling, who wasn't looking for the most beautiful nor the most famous. She was looking for a girl like Cho Chang. Obviously Cho Chang isn't supposed to look like a megastar, because that was someone else's job...er, who was the girl who was supposed to be able to turn all heads? ==; Can't remember.
Anyway. Stupidness. Is all.
