Somebody get that woman a wand!
“Meryl Streep,” IsaacstoldVariety.
“She can do anything, that woman.
Jason Isaacs at the Berlin International Film Festival and in ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’.Credit:Gerald Matzka/Getty; Warner Bros.
There’s literally no limit to what she can do.”
All she needs now is a wand and some green accessories.
Afteryears of rumblings, HBO’s parent company Warner Bros. Discoveryconfirmed in 2023thatJ.K.
Meryl Streep.Laurent KOFFEL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty
So far onlyJohn Lithgowhas beenconfirmed to starin the upcoming series, as beloved Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore.
“I wouldn’t have any advice at all,” he toldVariety.
“Why would I bother?
Jason Isaacs and Tom Felton in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1’.Warner Bros.
I know some of the people they’re casting already.
They’re brilliant actors.
Earlier this year, Isaacs confessed that filming theHarry Pottermovies wasn’t the dream experience that fans might assume.
“They weren’t that much fun to make,” hesaid on BBC’sThe One Show.
“It’s quite boring making big special effects films; however, the pleasures all come afterward.
Some people say their lives were saved by it, and I believe it.”
Rowling is an executive producer as well, which has sparked significant controversy due to her persistentanti-trans remarks.
Isaacs has largely avoided the debate, aside from offering a statement in 2022.
“There’s a bunch of stuff about Jo.
You know, I play complicated people, I’m interested in complicated people,” he toldThe Telegraph.
She has her opinions, I have mine.
They differ in many different areas.”
