Alan CummingTold ‘Harry Potter’ Producers to F-Off When Offered A Role In ‘The Chamber Of Secrets' Movie
Cumming was in the running for the role of Hogwarts’ Professor Gilderoy Lockhart in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." The actor recently got candid with The Telegraph about the role.
“I didn’t turn it down,” he rambunctiously told the publication without mincing words. “I told them to f*** off!”
“They wanted me and Rupert Everett to do a screen test," he revealed, but they offered different pay. “I had the same agent as Rupert, who of course, they were going to pay more."
“Blatantly lying, stupidly lying, as well. Like, if you’re going to lie, be clever about it.”The entire casting seemed quite sketchy, according to Cumming.
The role ended up going to Kenneth Branagh. "They f–king gave it to Kenneth Branagh, came out of the shadows,” Cumming frustratedly said.