Inside HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Sorting Hat: Casting Directors Narrow Search Down For Harry, Hermione & Ron
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: There was an audible gasp during this month’s Max Showcase in London when Francesca Gardiner, the new Harry Potter showrunner, let slip that a whopping 32,000 people had auditioned for what might well be the biggest three acting gigs of the decade.
Playing Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in HBO‘s sparkly new TV series adaptation of the JK Rowling franchise will be totally transformative for a trio of young British up-and-comers.
Just ask Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint or Emma Watson, all of whom became household names virtually overnight and are now wholly synonymous with the Potter franchise, warts and all.
The process to find the Boy Who Lived and his two best friends had been running for months prior to Gardiner’s revelation, following a much-publicized open callout published by the show’s casting director Lucy Bevan, which asked for children aged between nine and 11 as of April 2025 who are residents of the UK and Ireland.
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