Sophie Bryant - Blog Posts

I have a Marauders fancast opinion that may or may not rustle some jimmies: now don’t get me wrong, Andrew Garfield as Remus, Aaron Taylor Johnson as James, Evan Peters as…Evan etc are good fancasts on their own. Sofia Bryant as Mary, Beabadoobee as Marlene, Filah Lah Lah as Dorcas etc. are also very good fancasts on their own, but am I the only one who finds it kind of weird when they’re all part of the same fancast? for example the fandom can’t be like “oh Karen Gillan/Sophie Skelton are too old to play Lily anymore, gotta find a younger one” but somehow at the same time still be fine with currently 35-45 year old men.

I definitely do think that's weird, I don't understand why people have the need to hate on others for their fancast aside from when it's problematic. For example, Dane Dehaan and Jamie Bell as Peter. You can't excuse the fact that Peter is CANONICALLY PLUS SIZE! Due to a headcanon that "Peter only got fat because of the stress of being Voldemort's mole", or because of the "stress of the war" when he was described as plump in his youth.

As for the age differences it's really not that weird if you really think about it. Most often we see fancasts in edits, and in those edits they usually us scenes of Aaron Taylor Johnson in Nowhere Boy, and Ben Barnes as Dorian Gray, and Andrew Garfield in The Amazing Spiderman. During the times those films came out ATJ was 18, Ben Barnes was 28, and Andrew Garfield was 29.

Sofia Bryant is 23, so is Beatrice Laus (Beabadoobee), and Filah Lah Lah is 24. So in the grand scheme of all these fancasts the age difference isn't really that big. The largest difference is between ATJ and Andrew Garfield and that's only 11 years.

So I definitely do understand where you're coming from but if you take into account when they're being fancast it really makes so much more sense.

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Sophie Bryant as Mary-Ann Kate MacDonald