“I was nearly in Harry Potter.
McAvoy recalled the story in an interview on theHappy Sad Confused podcastrecently.
“I was nearly in Harry Potter.
Almost,” he said.
“They wanted to put me on a retainer.
They offered me something.
I’d hardly done any work [at that time].
“It was a really strange thing.
They offered quite a lot of money for me at the time.
It was a ton of money.
It was like 40,000 pounds or something like that.
I’d done very little work.”
I said to my agent, ‘What do you think?'”
“She was like, ‘Absolutely not.
Don’t do that.'”
McAvoy said he had no regrets about passing on Harry Potter, though.
“It was part of the making of me,” he said.
Warner Bros. is producing anew Harry Potter TV series, so might McAvoy look to come back for that?
Don’t count on it.
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