‘Westworld’ star Ben Barnes on those ‘Harry Potter’ Sirius rumors — and if he’d join the TV show

nypost.com:

“Shadow and Bone” and “The Chronicles of Narnia” — but he can’t escape fans coming up to him about Harry Potter despite never appearing in any of the films. “[The way] that started, it was about doing a prequel,” Barnes told The Post in a recent interview, while promoting his debut album, “Where the Light Gets In.” For many years, it was popular among Harry Potter devotees to “fan cast” a prequel series about Harry’s dad and his friends during their school days, aka “The Marauders.”“[Fans] had myself and Andrew Garfield and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

They wanted to do this prequel idea. I knew nothing about it … It went on for years before I had any idea what was happening,” explained Barnes.

A prequel series about Harry’s father and his friends doesn’t exist — the only “Potter” prequel is the “Fantastic Beasts” movies about young Dumbledore.

Nevertheless, that didn’t stop the internet. Barnes was the go-to cast choice to play a younger version of Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black, who was played by Gary Oldman in the movies.