Yes it is nontraditional–but it makes me wonder. Knowing the tradition, they could easily have done something along these lines to let Colin play the role (blonde with grey touches wig, no guyliner, have him seated so we don’t see the limp…shave him clean 😆 .)
That they bothered to cast someone else, even knowing they had to scale back Colin’s scenes this year, rather than letting him have a go at this–makes me wonder. Do they plan a bigger arc for George Darling…..Maybe running the Home Office?
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?” -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass