{"id":99512,"date":"2025-08-28T21:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99512\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:55:07","slug":"it-almost-destroyed-me-sophie-turner-issues-stark-warning-to-harry-potter-reboot-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/99512\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It almost destroyed me&#8217;: Sophie Turner issues stark warning to Harry Potter reboot cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Turner, best known for her turn as Sansa Stark on the hit fantasy show, opened up about growing up in the spotlight and the pressures of social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The actress said being raised famous had a &#8220;profound&#8221; impact on her mental health as she issued a warning to the young cast of the upcoming Harry Potter series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;Social media was just really becoming a big thing after I started on Game of Thrones, so I got a couple of years of peace and quiet and then I had to adjust,&#8221; Turner said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment\/oasis-show-chaos-footage-concert-brawl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more: Oasis show descends into chaos as footage of concert brawl emerges<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;It had such a profound impact on my mental health, like more than I could tell you. It almost destroyed me on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;I look at the kids who are about to be in the new Harry Potter and I just want to give them a hug,&#8221; she continued, before sharing the advice she&#8217;d give them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;I&#8217;d say, &#8216;Look, it&#8217;s going to be okay but don&#8217;t go anywhere near [social media]. Stay friends with your home friends, keep living at home with your family, make sure your parents are your chaperones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;It&#8217;s so important to have that grounding adjacent to the big, crazy stuff that you do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The three lead child stars for the Harry Potter TV series were revealed earlier this year after months of speculation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Dominic McLaughlin will play the lead role of Harry Potter, while Arabella Stanton will star as Hermione Granger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Alastair Stout has been cast as the third member of the iconic trio &#8211; Ron Weasley.Praising the newcomers, producers Francesca Gardiner and Mark Mylod hailed their &#8220;wonderful&#8221; and &#8220;unique&#8221; talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">They said: &#8220;After an extraordinary search led by casting directors Lucy Bevan and Emily Brockmann, we are delighted to announce we have found our Harry, Hermione, and Ron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">&#8220;The talent of these three unique actors is wonderful to behold, and we cannot wait for the world to witness their magic together onscreen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The group were picked from a collection of more than 32,000 audition tapes from across the UK and Ireland.They are set to star alongside John Lithgow as Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Paapa Essiedu, who has previously played Doctor Who, will play Severus Snape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The show, made by HBO TV, will reportedly cost \u00a375million an episode to make and could air as early as 2026 on HBO Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turner, best known for her turn as Sansa Stark on the hit fantasy show, opened up about growing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-99512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99512","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=99512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}