{"id":125282,"date":"2024-09-15T12:06:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T12:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/james-mcavoy-reveals-he-was-nearly-cast-as-tom-riddle-in-harry-potter\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T12:06:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T12:06:33","slug":"james-mcavoy-reveals-he-was-nearly-cast-as-tom-riddle-in-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/15\/james-mcavoy-reveals-he-was-nearly-cast-as-tom-riddle-in-harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"James McAvoy reveals he was nearly cast as Tom Riddle in Harry Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Enemies of the heir beware. James McAvoy reveals he was nearly cast as Tom Riddle in &#8216;Harry Potter&#8217;: &#8216;They offered quite a lot of money.&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uiiCDJJQFr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/uiiCDJJQFr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Entertainment Weekly (@EW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EW\/status\/1834925145896476906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the advice of his agent, James McAvoy dropped out of consideration for the role of Tom Riddle in Harry Potter despite the fact that he&#8217;d be making bank. McAvoy explained that remaining in contention would have kept him out of work for seven whole months.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;I was nearly in Harry Potter.I remember it was right at the beginning of my career. I auditioned for it and I think they wanted to put me on a retainer. I&#8217;d hardly done any work and me and I think ten other actors, they wanted to put us in a retainer so that they could hold us and keep us to choose later. It was a really strange thing. And they offered quite a lot of money. For me at that time, it was a ton of money. It was like 40 thousand pounds or something like that. I\u2019d done very little work and I wouldn\u2019t be able to do any work for about seven months, I think.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>McAvoy ended up doing a play.<br \/><i>&#8220;I got booed by a homophobic gentleman. I did that instead and got paid I think 275 pounds a week. But hey, no regrets. It was part of the making of me. I was actually learning and doing all that.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EW\/status\/1834925145896476906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/129183396.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enemies of the heir beware. James McAvoy reveals he was nearly cast as Tom Riddle in &#8216;Harry Potter&#8217;: &#8216;They offered quite a lot of money.&#8217; https:\/\/t.co\/uiiCDJJQFr \u2014 Entertainment Weekly (@EW) September 14, 2024 On the advice of his agent, James McAvoy dropped out of consideration for the role of Tom Riddle in Harry Potter despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-125282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}