{"id":139442,"date":"2025-09-12T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139442\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:48:11","slug":"cillian-murphy-addresses-harry-potter-casting-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/139442\/","title":{"rendered":"Cillian Murphy Addresses Harry Potter Casting Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Will Cillian Murphy Play Voldemort in \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 Series? He Says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cillian_murphy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cillian Murphy<\/a> does not believe Harry Potter is his to finish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, amid the online chatter pushing for the Oppenheimer star to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/harry_potter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">cast as Voldemort in the upcoming HBO television adaptation<\/a>, he clarified that he has not been cast as the iconic villain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d he said of the possibility of his casting on the Sept. 11 episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XT3enUDkkYk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Happy, Sad Confused<\/a> podcast \u201cMy kids show me occasionally and I don\u2019t know anything about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the Peaky Blinders alum admitted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1417677\/ralph-fiennes-cast-in-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">that <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1417677\/ralph-fiennes-cast-in-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ralph Fiennes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1417677\/ralph-fiennes-cast-in-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u2019 interpretation<\/a> of the character is a particularly hard act to follow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to follow anything Ralph Fiennes does,\u201d he noted. \u201cHe\u2019s the man. An absolute acting legend. Good luck to whoever is going to fill those shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old also joked that he wasn\u2019t willing to lose his nose for the part, joking, \u201cI\u2019m very attached to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the new Harry Potter series, set to hit HBO in 2027, has announced some of its stars\u2014including the golden trio of Dominic McLaughlin as Harry, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley and Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger\u2014Cillian isn\u2019t the first actor to have to address rumors of his involvement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Cillian Murphy Play Voldemort in \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 Series? He Says&#8230; Cillian Murphy does not believe Harry Potter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-139442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}