{"id":748622,"date":"2026-08-24T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748622\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:36:12","slug":"harry-potter-recasts-kit-harington-as-gilderoy-lockhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/748622\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter Recasts Kit Harington as Gilderoy Lockhart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A casting switcharoo has occurred at Hogwarts: <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/nicholas-hoult\/target=\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Hoult<\/a> has exited the second season of HBO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/harry-potter\/target=\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Potter<\/a> series (likely to be entitled Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, following the title of the book being adapted). Instead, the role of Gilderoy Lockhart will be played by another brunette actor, as Game of Thrones and Industry alum <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/kit-harington\/target=\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Kit Harington<\/a> has come on board to fill the role.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/kit-harington-harry-potter-gilderoy-lockhart-nicholas-hoult-1237048935\/target=\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">According to Deadline<\/a>, the official cause for Hoult\u2019s departure is scheduling reasons. However, this does mean the Superman actor won\u2019t be pushed on future red carpets and junkets about working on the controversial series, which has drawn criticism thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/02\/john-lithgow-jk-rowling-harry-potter\/target=\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">the anti-trans activism<\/a> of author\/executive producer <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/tag\/j-k-rowling\/target=\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">J.K. Rowling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harington has already played the role of Gilderoy Lockhart for the recent full-cast audio Harry Potter adaptations. TBD on whether he\u2019ll wear a wig, dye his hair, or play a brown-haired version of the professor when he makes his screen debut.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>The second season of Harry Potter is set to begin production now. Season 1 will premiere Christmas Day 2026 on HBO and HBO Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A casting switcharoo has occurred at Hogwarts: Nicholas Hoult has exited the second season of HBO\u2019s Harry Potter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-748622","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\/748622","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=748622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}