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‘It was a hell of a lot of money’: James McAvoy auditioned for a role in Harry Potter years ago and was offered a huge sum of money. Why he ultimately turned it down

‘It was a hell of a lot of money’: James McAvoy auditioned for a role in Harry Potter years ago and was offered a huge sum of money. Why he ultimately turned it down

James McAvoy has a considerable body of work, which includes X-Men romantic movies and dramas like Atonement And Becoming JaneHe also explored horror with films like Divide And IT: Chapter 2. What he still has to address, however, is the Harry Potter The series, while many other British-born actors have done so. However, it turns out that McAvoy almost made it into the franchise and was offered a large sum of money to join. Today, he opens up about his theoretical role and why he turned it down.

The veteran actor recently spoke to Josh Horowitz about the Happy, sad, confused podcast, on which they discussed his Critically acclaimed horror film, Don’t say anything badand more. When asked if there was a genre or franchise he would like to be a part of, he didn’t have an answer but revealed that he almost played a key role in Harry Potter films towards the beginning of his acting career. It seems that he was courted to play a certain antagonist in one of the early entries in the series:

I almost did Harry Potter. Almost, yeah. I can probably say that one. The very first movie, I think it was… who’s the… is that Tom Riddle in the first one, yeah? But he’s in it for a flashback scene or something? And they had… I just remember it was very early in my career. I auditioned for it. I think they wanted to sign me, and they offered me something like… it was crazy, I had hardly worked. And me and maybe 10 other actors or something… they wanted to sign us so they could keep us and pick who it would be later.