{"id":146554,"date":"2025-05-31T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146554\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:23:08","slug":"hbo-harry-potter-what-was-it-like-auditioning-to-be-part-of-the-new-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146554\/","title":{"rendered":"HBO Harry Potter: What was it like auditioning to be part of the new TV series?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While details of the casting decisions for HBO&#8217;s show remain mostly under wraps, Flick Miles, who played Emma Watson&#8217;s body double in the first three films, says she imagines the process would have been &#8220;relatively similar&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When I was cast there was such an importance around duty of care and everyone right to the top was focused on ensuring we had a good support system and were happy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stars of the TV show will be thrust fully into the spotlight when it airs &#8211; it is expected to start in 2026 or 27, and carry on for a decade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Miles tells me that while she has fond memories of her time on the film sets, the new cast will have a more intense experience than the original children did in the early 2000s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We could just live in a bubble without knowing what was being said about us, but now with social media it&#8217;s totally different. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am sure the team will try so hard to preserve their innocence and childhood. But it will be really hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to several children who tried out for the TV show, none regret applying, and it seems they are happy to have tasted a small part of the Harry Potter magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While details of the casting decisions for HBO&#8217;s show remain mostly under wraps, Flick Miles, who played Emma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-146554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114601958409717373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}