{"id":495469,"date":"2026-03-26T00:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495469\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:51:12","slug":"katherine-parkinson-on-entering-wizarding-world-of-harry-potter-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/495469\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Parkinson on entering wizarding world of Harry Potter | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/katherine-parkinson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katherine Parkinson<\/a> has said that \u201cevery moment is a pinch-me experience\u201d as she opened up on her new role of Molly Weasley in the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/harry-potter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/harry-potter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter<\/a> HBO series.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Independent at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards on Tuesday (24 March), the actor said that it was \u201ca lovely feeling\u201d to see the world she had imagined in the books come to life in front of her.<\/p>\n<p>\u200a\u200a\u201cIt&#8217;s a testament to the writing,\u201d Parkinson added.<\/p>\n<p>The Bafta winner, known for the likes of The IT Crowd and Rivals, is taking over the role of Ron Weasley\u2019s mother from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/julie-walters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Walters<\/a>, who played the character for ten years across the eight Warner Bros. films adapted from the book series written by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jk-rowling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JK Rowling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katherine Parkinson has said that \u201cevery moment is a pinch-me experience\u201d as she opened up on her new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-495469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495469","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=495469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}