Draco Malfoy Actor in ‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series Details Major Change for Character in New Show<\/p>\n
Paapa Essiedu is opening up about a troubling reality.<\/p>\n
The Shakespearean stage actor\u2014who was announced to play Severus Snape (previously played by\u00a0Alan Rickman<\/a>)\u00a0in the upcoming Harry Potter TV series<\/a>\u2014opened up about the racism he\u2019s endured since joining the HBO show\u2019s cast.<\/p>\n \u201cIt really matters,\u201d he told The Times of London<\/a> in an interview published March 21. \u201cThe reality is that if I look at Instagram I will see somebody saying, \u2018I\u2019m going to come to your house and kill you.\u2019 So, while I\u2019m pretty sure I\u2019m not going to be murdered\u2014that could age badly!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut, yes, while I hope I\u2019ll be OK, nobody should have to encounter this for doing their job,\u201d he said of receiving online criticism for being cast in the series. \u201cMany people put their lives on the line in their work. I\u2019m playing a wizard in Harry Potter<\/a>. And I\u2019d be lying if I said it doesn\u2019t affect me emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n But as hurtful as the comments are, Paapa noted how staying offline isn\u2019t a viable option for escaping the hateful remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draco Malfoy Actor in ‘Harry Potter’ HBO Series Details Major Change for Character in New Show Paapa Essiedu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-539523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}