{"id":256972,"date":"2026-08-12T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/nicholas-hoult-joins-harry-potter-season-2-as-gilderoy-lockhart\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:30:10","slug":"nicholas-hoult-joins-harry-potter-season-2-as-gilderoy-lockhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/12\/nicholas-hoult-joins-harry-potter-season-2-as-gilderoy-lockhart\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Hoult Joins \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 Season 2 As Gilderoy Lockhart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">EXCLUSIVE: Nicholas Hoult is still in his villain era.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Superman&#8217; star has been tapped as a high-profile cast addition to the upcoming second season of HBO\u2019s &#8216;Harry Potter&#8217; series.<\/p>\n<p>He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, a major character in &#8216;Harry Potter and the Chamber of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pILG379iEz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/pILG379iEz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Deadline (@DEADLINE) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/2087289667997859911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicholas Hoult has been cast as Gilderoy Lockhart in the second season of HBO\u2019s Harry Potter series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DEADLINE\/status\/2087289667997859911?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/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\/132713412.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE: Nicholas Hoult is still in his villain era. The &#8216;Superman&#8217; star has been tapped as a high-profile cast addition to the upcoming second season of HBO\u2019s &#8216;Harry Potter&#8217; series. He will play Gilderoy Lockhart, a major character in &#8216;Harry Potter and the Chamber of\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/pILG379iEz \u2014 Deadline (@DEADLINE) August 11, 2026 Nicholas Hoult has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256972","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\/256972","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=256972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}