Jared Harris denies reprising his father's role in new HBO TV reboot of Harry Potter

Jared Harris has dominated himself out of taking part in the role first dropped at life by his father Richard Harris in a new Harry Potter TV collection.

The present, which is already proving divisive, will characteristic the identical characters however star new actors. Casting calls are actually open to play the three leads – Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

While Gary Oldman, who performed Sirius Black in the movie diversifications of JK Rowling’s best-selling novels, has thrown his identify in the ring to play Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, one actor who desires nothing to do with the venture is Mad Men and Foundation actor Harris.

Dumbledore was performed in the primary two Harry Potter movies – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – by Irish Oscar winner Richard Harris. The role was recast after his demise in October 2002.

Michael Gambon, who died in September 2023, performed Dumbledore in the rest of the movies.

In a new interview with The Independent collection Go to Bat, Harris was requested if he’d have an interest in taking part in Dumbledore in the HBO reboot, to which he replied: “No, thank you.”

Jared Harris ruled out the idea of playing Albus Dumbledore — Jared Harris dominated out the thought of taking part in Albus Dumbledore (Getty Images)

He added: “Also, I mean, why do it? I don’t understand. The films were fantastic – leave them alone.”

However, Harris did acknowledge that there was “a lot of storytelling” neglected of the movie franchise that the TV collection will be capable of discover.

In the interview, Harris recalled engaged on a 2016 documentary about his father’s life, titled The Ghost of Richard Harris, revealing that the Gladiator actor had “started to write his autobiography in the hospital when he was sick” however then “one of the nurses threw out all of his notes”.

Harris continued: “I don’t know how far he’d got with it. We just wanted something that gave you an idea of who he was and what he was like. You get close to it but it’s not the whole picture at all”.

Richard Harris as Album Dumbledore in the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise (Warner Bros Pictures)

Watch the entire interview with Harris above.

The actor can presently be seen in new movie Reawakening, co-starring Juliet Stevenson and Erin Doherty. The drama, written and directed by Virginia Gilbert, follows a married couple going through outdated tensions when their daughter reappears years after vanishing as a teen.

Reawakening is in cinemas now.