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Inside HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Sorting Hat: Casting Directors Narrow Search Down For Harry, Hermione & Ron
Harry Potter casting for Harry, Ron, Hermione is reaching final stages before the HBO adaptation of the JK Rowling novels starts filming at Leavesden.
The process to find the Boy Who Lived and his two best friends had been running for months prior to Gardiner’s revelation, following a much-publicized open callout published by the show’s casting director Lucy Bevan, which asked for children aged between nine and 11 as of April 2025 who are residents of the UK and Ireland. The diversity of the three eventual victors has been a major talking point given the post-publication scrutiny Rowling has faced down the years over representation in the books, and given that Hermione was played by a Black actor in Jack Thorne’s theater adaptation The Cursed Child. Way back then, Figgis says she placed child welfare front and center, making a “huge effort” to ensure the kids felt “part of a group” and more than a cog in a movie machine as they progressed through the audition rounds.
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