Potter in ‘Fargo’, Comic-Con & Poetry

Mar 21, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Actor Interviews, Fantastic Beasts Movie, Grint, HP Cast, Interviews, Isaacs, Lynch, News, Spall, Tennant, Thewlis

Harry Potter, Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts actors are up to all sorts these days. Evanna Lynch has been busy showing fans how to make vegan recipes, Emma Watson successfully awed fans in recreating the role of a Disney princess, Rupert Grint’s in Snatch, Ezra Miller’s in a band, Noma Dumezweni reads poetry beautifully and there are plenty of convention appearances coming up. Not only that, but actors continue to star in upcoming hit films and TV series. Find out more below!

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Timothy Spall (Peter Pettigrew) and Anthony Boyle (Cursed Child‘s Scorpius Malfoy) are set to star in the first episode of Amazon’s “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams”, according to Variety. The episode will be based on K. Dick’s short story “The Commuter”. Spall will reportedly play Ed Jacobson, and Boyle will portray Ed’s son, Sam. Jack Thorne (playwright of Cursed Child) is also working on the series, which will be a set of stand-alone. Variety reports:

“He will play Ed Jacobson, an unassuming employee at a train station who is alarmed to discover that a number of daily commuters are taking the train to a town that shouldn’t exist. When he investigates for himself, he comes face to face with an alternate reality that forces him to confront his own struggles around his relationship with his wife Mary (Rebecca Manley) and his very troubled son Sam (Anthony Boyle.)”

Read more here.

CTR_SAH_170317spallIn other Spall news, the actor has been spotted filming at a railway station in Woking (pictured above). The crew were present at the site for a few days.

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David Tennant (Harry Potter‘s Barty Crouch Jr.) and Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) will be at Montreal Comic-Con this July, much to fan’s delight! The guest list was announced on Monday, and the excitement is all too real:

A few other big names include Buffy the Vampire Slayers‘s James Marsters (Spike), John Rhys-Davis from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Lord of the RingsFirefly‘s Nathan Fillion (Captain Malcolm Reynolds) Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman.

The event takes place from July 7th – 9th, check out more details here!

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Did you catch a glimpse of David Thewlis (Remus Lupin) as V.M. Vargas in the teaser for the new season of Fargo?

The show returns to the US on April 19th, and will be back in the UK (on Channel 4) soon after.

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Ezra Miller (Credence in Fantastic Beasts) took part in an interview with the other members of his ‘genre queer’ band Sons of an Illustrious Father,  Josh Aubin and Lilah Larson.

Larson tells how the band started because they knew Ezra at high school, and Ezra shares a story of his long-time dream of starting a band with Lilah:

“When Lilah and I were in middle school together, I was obsessed with Lilah. And obsessed with the idea of being in a band with Lilah. And actually just remembered the other night when we in the band decided to listen to Nevermind for the first time in a long time. I just remembered that when I was 11 and wanted to be in a band with Lilah, I made an audition tape that no one ever heard of me singing Nirvana songs into like one of those old tape recorders.”

Read the full interview here to find out more about the band and its origins, along with some advice from Ezra.

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Finally, Cursed Child‘s Hermione Granger Noma Dumezweni featured on BBC News this spring equinox, reading Wordsworth’s infamous poem Daffodils (or I wandered lonely as a cloud) with grace:

Let us know if you’re going to be at any conventions with Harry Potter actors in appearance, and tell us what you think of Ezra Miller’s band and Noma’s poetry reading in the comments. No doubt the casts and crew will continue to impress us with their talents long into the future!





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