I love the all British cast. I'm glad JKR made them keep it that way.

Me too ^^

I agree also. I love it. Plus I just really like the accent!

Although strictly speaking it's not an intirely English, or even British cast, (lots of Irish actors in the film - both Dumbledores, Moody, Luna, Seamus) But what I do like is the way that most characters stick with where they are supposed to be from, if its specified, it's better than trying to get a big name American actor to play a British kid or something?

they should make it multi-cultural so that everyone can audition

Harry Potter is about the only decent thing with British have, it's nice they have kept it quaint and authentic, if an american could pull off the accent tho, I would have no qualms about that!

Harry Potter is supposed to have the accent and everything so they should keep it that way.

It keeps it authentic seeing as HP is set in the UK...

yes othervise there would be some hating going on

Though I'm totally jealous of the British and their awesome accents...

British, not English.

Indeed Benji, English being a language...

i'm sure the producers wanted all british too. I've seen american kids act as different nationalities and it was awful. In the book it is set in England and the kids are British i.e. the kids must be british.

oh yeah and i hate the word quaint....i hate it when people use it...

it is set in england and so the accents/actors shd fit, it wouldnt work if it had actors like tom cruise as harry julia roberts as ron, and jessica alba as hermione but u can bet that this was prob in the offing! lol ok i may be exaggerating slightly but u knw wat i mean. i selected no nonetheless coz not all the cast are english! Richard Harris (dumbledore), Michael Gambon (dumbledore), Kenneth Brannagh (Gilderoy Lockhart), Shirley Henderson (moaning Myrtle), devon Murray (seamus Finnegan), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) are irish.

Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Katie Leung (cho Chang), David Tenant (bertie Crouch Jnr) are scottish.

Clémence Guichard (Fleur Delacour)is French.
Predrag Bjelac (Igor karkarof) is Serbian.
Stanislav Ianevski(Viktor Krum) is Bulgarian.

and im sure there are more...

I want to audition for it. And, no it's not a full english cast. The girl who plays Luna is Northern Irish.

Great post nickelhatton2, I knew there were tons of Irish actors in the film but couldn't remember them all in my post above! Oh and Sean Biggerstaff who played Oliver Wood is Scottish also.
Also Evanna Lynch who plays Luna is actually from Co. Louth which is in the Republic of Ireland, rather than Northern Ireland.

Except I really want to be in the movies!!

I don't think it really matters..but then they have the right accent/speech for it.

Ye i get what people are sayin but i think that they ment British and the people from scotland are british and the people who are from Ireland are from Northan ireland and that is in the Uk

There supposed to be that and it would be more natural, so much better than an unknown American, no matter what.

I think that the actors should play the characters the nationality that they are in the book. Like if there was an American character, an american actor would play it or the fact that luna and seamus are irish in the books they should be played by irish actors or they should put on an Irish accent.
does that make sense?

yes,yes it does

I think the main, talking cast should be English, but walk ons dont have to be, I would die to be a walk on

Well they're accent is awesome, I should say. I definitely agree but it's not all english, you know, Irish like Dumbledore and Luna. It's like they slur their tongue gracefully enough to keep that accent. For example if we (not British) say can, we say it with a long a sound. For them it's like short a but slurried. And like in car, it's almost like they say "cah", which is car with a silent r. Or water, that's a good example. They pronounce it like "wou-tah" or something. They silent off the r if pronounced as if it's in the end of a syllable. It doesn't entirely have to be the end of the word. Like Hermione, they pronounce it as "heh-moy-ny" or art, which they pronounce like "aht". It's good. My cousin has a language tutor, and my second cousin [which is British] taught my little brother how to say stuff in British.

the setting is london england so it makes sense for the cast to be english

It's better this way. JKR requested that they keep the cast British and Irish, it keeps the integrity of the books. If they had Americans it would be weird. Of course they'd make exceptions for the foreign wizards in GoF because that's just common sense. I get the whole thing about foreign extras, but that would be more expensive.

Really? I was sure Michael Gambon was American...

Cho was Asian.

Geography lesson--- Scotland, Ireland and England make up Britain, so anyone who lives here is British. Also Hagrids accent is Yorkshire not Scottish.

@Ginnyweasleyfan - yeah she was but she was Scottish born, so i suppose that counts as British.

All the characters are British, so it's good the actors are too. Unless there are foreigns with amazing British accents, because bad accents do somewhat ruin a movie,

Kevin Costner couldn't do a decent accent in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves so i reckon JK Rowling decided to save the franchise major embarrassment by making Warner Brothers stick to an all British cast... and lakota_spirit... Hagrid's accent is Cornish, not Yorkshire!