“Dumbledore, he’s kind of this nuclear weapon.
He only goes off very, very occasionally.”
“You know, Dumbledore, he’s kind of this nuclear weapon,” Lithgow explained.

John Lithgow; Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore.Credit:Taylor Hill/FilmMagic; Murray Close/Warner Bros
“He only goes off very, very occasionally.
And I don’t think it’s gonna be that hard a job.”
He played Winston Churchill in the historical drama, filming in England for eight months and rarely returning home.

John Lithgow.Tommaso Boddi/Getty
Rowlingto prepare for the role.
“I seem to be behind everybody,” he said.
“I’m halfway through the second of these seven novels.”