{"id":131286,"date":"2025-09-12T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131286\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:53:08","slug":"cillian-murphy-denies-voldemort-rumors-in-harry-potter-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/131286\/","title":{"rendered":"Cillian Murphy Denies Voldemort Rumors In &#8216;Harry Potter&#8217; TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cillian-murphy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cillian-murphy\" data-tag=\"cillian-murphy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cillian Murphy<\/a> is shutting down rumors that he was being cast as Lord Voldemort in the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/harry-potter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-potter\" data-tag=\"harry-potter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter<\/a> television series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn a new interview, Murphy addressed rumblings that he would take on the role of the supervillain in the HBO adaptation of the JK Rowling book series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cNo, my kids show me it occasionally, but no, I don\u2019t know anything about that,\u201d Murphy said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XT3enUDkkYk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Happy Sad Confused<\/a> podcast. \u201cI mean, also, it\u2019s just really hard to follow anything Ralph Fiennes does. The man is an absolute acting legend. So, good luck to whoever is going to fill those shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRalph Fiennes played the role of Lord Voldemort in the film series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Harry Potter TV series stars Dominic McLaughlin (Harry Potter), Alastair Stout (Ron Weasley), and Arabella Stanton (Hermione Granger). Draco will be played in the series by Lox Pratt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tRELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/harry-potter-tv-series-max-release-date-cast-1235323284\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Harry Potter\u2019 TV Series Due To Hit HBO In 2027: Everything We Know About The Cast, Who\u2019s Creating It, What J.K. Rowling Says &amp; More<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOther casting includes John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, and Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid. Additionally, Bertie Carvel will play Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge, and Johnny Flynn will portray Draco\u2019s father, Lucius Malfoy. The Dursleys, Harry\u2019s aunt and uncle, will be brought to life by Bel Powley as Petunia and Daniel Rigby as her husband Vernon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWarwick Davis will <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/harry-potter-series-warwick-davis-professor-filius-flitwick-1236502767\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reprise his role of Professor Filius Flitwick<\/a>, which he originated in the films. Other actors who will also star in the TV series adaptation include Elijah Oshin as Dean Thomas, Finn Stephens as Vincent Crabbe, and William Nash as Gregory Goyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cillian Murphy is shutting down rumors that he was being cast as Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,24654,96,1635,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-131286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-cillian-murphy","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-harry-potter","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}