5 actors who spoke to Harry Potter before Daniel Radcliffe got the role

The most painful part of Hollywood is all almost crushes. For every actor who got his big break, there are dozens of actors who almost But I don’t have it, but often for arbitrary reason outside of your control. It has to be bad enough if this happens for a random film, let alone one of the greatest film series of all time. For the emerging actors who missed Harry Potter’s playing, they had to see themselves Daniel Radcliffe enjoys what seemed like the time of his life For the next ten years.

The good news is that if they were good enough almost Get the role of Harry Potter, you were good enough to get other roles. This was certainly the case for at least five of the children who were addressed for Harry. How do you feel about it and where are you now? Here is a brief overview.

It may hardly seem to be believed because he did not against Draco Malfoy against the Smarmy, but Tom Felton originally spoke about for both Harry and Ron. The casting directors even let him dye his hair brown and then red to achieve the appearance of every character better. Felton lost both roles, but there was still hope: he was the leader who played Draco. They just had to dye their hair again and test it next to bike cliffs and Rupert Grint.

Felton seems to be quite satisfied with the result. “I am very grateful that I am in the film at all, but even more grateful that I have the character of Draco,” said Felton in one 2011 MTV interviewAnd added: “I think Rupert and Dan, there is no question in my head, there is no one in the world that a) could have played the character better, but b) would have done the pressure behind the scenes of these boys can handle in the last decade.

Since then he has written an entire book about experience and has nothing but friendly words about his fellow human beings “Harry Potter”. Talk about wheel cliffs in Another interview from 2011He said: “Daniel and I commented on each other that we probably don’t get any further chance of working together in another film, but if we do it, we will be, but if we do it, but when we do it , we will probably not get a chance to work in another film, but if we do it, we will, but if we do it, we will probably not get a chance, but if we do it we will we do it will probably not get any further chance He would be the evil and I would be the good one. “

Before Hoult was Main role in films such as “Nosferatu”, He tried to roles from Harry and Draco. “I think I got to the point where I (Columbus) spoke out,” he said In a recently called interview. “He didn’t remember it, it wasn’t even a memorable audition. I think I said: ‘Hey, I spoke out for Harry Potter. I’m still waiting to listen back … I think I’ll agree somehow Leave away soon.

“I remember that I did a few auditions and then hit him and maybe had false glasses for the audition. Not to get the role of Harry and then maybe come back and (you) like” how “Will you audition for Malfoy? ‘ I don’t think I understood that too, and then (I) only (I) gradually spoke about for every role in Harry Potter until they said, ‘NO. ‘”

Similar to Felton, it helps that Hoult did pretty well afterwards. He got his groundbreaking role in the comedy “About a boy” from 2002 and then played in the British hit show “Skins”. Quite soon he played beast in the “X -Men” films, Nux in “Mad Max: Fury Road”, and in “Mad Max: Fury Road” and ” He played as the worst date ever in 2022. The menu. And although it is clear that he never needed the “Potter” franchise to become a star with the news of the recent restart, he is joked that he is again playing for the role. “I think I can probably still play 11” junky.

Hoult also noticed that Christopher Columbus, who led the first two “Harry Potter” films, was also a producer at “Nosferatu”. He explained: “So I had to spend time with him … it is as strange as you somehow meet people that was fun and was exciting to spend time with him.

Liam Aiken is perhaps the best known for his role as Klaus in the adaptation of “a series of unfortunate events”, in which he played a suppressed orphan boy with dark, messy hair. It is a role that “Harry Potter” fans seems to be terribly familiar, especially since this film also adapted the first book in a multi -part children’s series. Ok, it is not a perfect comparison -this film combined three books and it tragically never got a sequel -but it still made it clear that Aiken could probably have captured the Harry role.

Unfortunately, he also missed because of his American origins. As a New York magazine reported At that time, “director Chris Columbus was relied on him. But Rowling recorded that only a thoroughbred brit could play Harry.”

The good news is that Aiken seemed to be a good sport about the whole thing: “I think I felt that it wouldn’t work”, Aiken said on the subject. “But it was okay. I hadn’t done much and I would have been Harry Potter from then on.” Instead, he enjoyed the freedom that goes hand in hand with the fact that he was not bound to a certain role. While Radcliffe played Harry in the 2000s, Aiken had to play in “Road to Perdition” and several “Law & Order” pisodes. He would also appear briefly in season 6 of “Mad Men” and play a bad teenager who is beaten up.

“I was ready for Harry Potter Way, but I don’t quite fit the bill,” I think, “Mosely noticed in an interview from 2008. But like Aiken in front of him, Mosely was determined to play in another child -friendly adaptation of the book series: “The Chronicles of Narnia”. He played as Peter, the oldest and chillest of the Pevensie siblings, first in “The Lion, The Witch and the Cloakroom” in 2005, again in “Prince Caspian” in 2008 and finally in “Voyage of the Dawn Traderer” im Year 2010.

“It would have been fun,” he said about his missed “Potter” role, “but I thought the other day, if I could have chosen a part for myself, I would have selected Peter every time. Is it a dream come? True to play a role that is so heroic and something that is successful that people like.

Since his “Narnia” days, he played the main roles in the British television drama “The Royals” in 2015 and briefly appeared as a “Italian” in the film “Artemis Fowl” 2020. (That was Another adaptation of a children’s book seriesOne who is often compared to “Harry Potter” due to his protagonist, who is supposed to grow up with the reader.) For the most part, Mosely has not been a big project in recent years, but these Narnia films (especially this first) are (especially this first) Still popular re -references.

Another actor who did not quite do it when Harry Jamie Campbell Bower was remembered in one 2022 interview How he had made a dirty joke during the audition that blew his chances. As he explained:

“I had just heard this joke about a fairy, like the reason why the fairy is sitting on the Christmas tree. And it’s really like dirty joke, because it is about the Christmas tree from someone. And I said that in an audition , and there was again this kind of silence after I said it.

However, Bower would achieve his shot in the franchise. In “Deathly Hallows: Part 1” he briefly played as a Young Grindelwald, a dark magician from Dumbledore’s younger days. He would not only repeat this role in the film “Fantastic Beasts”, but he would also play the vampire Caius in the “Twilight” series and Jace in “The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones”. He may have missed his shot on Harry, but his instinct to play for the role was not wrong; This type was determined to play in young adult filman adaptations.

Finally you will find Bower playing Villure Henry Creel/Vecna ​​in season 4 by “Stranger Things”, And he is expected to return with the excited season 5. In other words, Bower’s has had an impressive career so far, even if he never had to be the boy who lived. And although he might be too old to play Harry, he was always able to audition for Harry’s father’s role The upcoming TV adaptation.