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VERY INTERESTING!!! Just goes to show it is a mark of a great writer when even the director of the movies had it wrong! Although I could totally have seen a gay Lupin too…. :)

Cuaron got it wrong?? How can that be? He’s so…artistic….And was so right on with the shrunken head and the Hitler Flitwick thing!

(heavy sarcasm laced with humor there if you wondered…)

I love David’s impersonation of Alfonso Cuarón. Thewlis rocks.

I LOVE LUPIN!!!!!!!

lol ‘gay junkie’ hehehe with a Mexican accent XD I gotta start saying that now! GO LUPIN!

Oh my god, this interview made me grin so much. He’s adorable.

sigh…I love Lupin and David Thewlis.

Getting married and having a child with his fag hag hanger-onner who won’t give up doesn’t make Lupin any less gay. Devastated from the loss of the love of his life, he gave in to Tonks one time and then tried to leave her after she revealed she was pregnant, but then Harry badgered him to go back to her. Poor Lupin, he’s the most tragic figure of the series. An outcast in so many ways.

Cuaron trying to portray Lupin as a “gay junkie” is just another reason why he should most definately not direct Deathly Hallows.

This is sort of delightful.

Also, I now have a secret wish for lots of HP actors to be all “but I thought my character was the gay one.”

I love how he just trails off like “he marries tonks… and has… children..” and then the interview ends. Love it!

AHHH I LOVE HIM. Absolutely amazing.

I wonder if Jo knew Cuaron’s thoughts on Lupin (because he was actually quite vocal about it when the movie came out) why she didn’t correct him like she corrected Kloves and Yates about Dumbledore. Maybe Lupin’s just open for interpretation. Getting hastily married and having a child doesn’t necessarily make him completely straight.

@Melynda: Well, Jo surely most know that there’s a huge chunk of the fandom who has thought all along (and still thinks!) that Lupin is gay. My guess is that she probably never intended him to be but has still graciously left some room for interpretation. But who knows?

Aaah, I love Thewlis (even though he’s not exactly how I picture Lupin)...he’s always a class act. This was a funny little clip and his impersonation of Alfonso was hilarious.

Oh no, the Remus/Sirius shippers WILL NOT REST! lol. I can see Remus/Sirius myself, but I really love Lupin and Tonks together as a couple.

Maybe Lupin is bi…? Haha, I don’t think that he would’ve bi in the books, but a lot of people in fandom have made him that way. Nothing wrong with that, at all.

Can this simple news post mentioning Cuaron’s name not devolve into the same tired insults about his version of Azkaban, please? Isn’t possible that he just used the “gay junkie” label to describe Lupin in a symbolic sense. In other words, “your character Lupin is kind of like a gay junkie because as a werewolf he’s often discriminated against like gay people can be and he is dependent on his wolfsbane potion.” I doubt he actually meant “Despite the fact that Jo doesn’t mention it in the books, Remus Lupin is gay.”

He could always be bisexual…

Why does no one ever consider that? Haha.

I did think the Sirius/Remus subtext was played up from the book (which I didn’t mind, despite hating most of the movie and thinking it the worst of the bunch). Now I know why.

GingerLibby: No offense, but I think your interpretation is a big stretch. I might think of it if I bent over backwards and twisted the statement 360 while standing on my head. I don’t see why him being described as a gay junkie would mean anything but that Cauron thinks he’s gay.

I don’t mean to be off topic. I thought to let you know that Bonnie Wright did an voiceover for Disney’s The Replacements in the episode London Calling. She played the villian. The show will be replayed tonight around 11pm (US central time).

ROTFLMAO! That was great. I agree with Racheline. Slash fans, rejoice!