I Told ‘Harry Potter’ Producers to ‘F- Off’ When Approached

Alan Cumming was nearly forged as Gilderoy Lockhart within the first “Harry Potter” sequel. That is, till he advised the producers to “f— off.”

“I didn’t turn it down,” Cumming stated in an interview with The Telegraph. “I told them to f— off!”

According to Cumming, he and “Another Country” star Rupert Everett had been each up for the a part of the useless and bumbling professor in 2002’s “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” Cumming stated he dropped out of the operating after negotiations over pay fell via.

“They wanted me and Rupert Everett to do a screen test, and they said they couldn’t pay me more than a certain sum, they just didn’t have any more money in the budget,” he stated.

Everett and Cumming shared the identical agent, so Cumming stated he knew Everett was being provided more cash. “Blatantly lying, stupidly lying, as well,” he stated. “Like, if you’re going to lie, be clever about it.”

The half ultimately went to Kenneth Branagh, who, as Cumming described it, “came out of the shadows.”

The “Harry Potter” movie franchise ran for eight movies between 2001 and 2011. In celebration of the upcoming 20th anniversary of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” WarnerMedia is ready to debut a quiz-style sport present and retrospective particular on HBO Max, Cartoon Network and TBS later this 12 months. The firm has denied stories of a possible scripted sequence within the works on the streaming service.