Jamie Campbell Bower, who played villain Vecna in a Netflix series, told the story in a podcast
the English actor Jamie Campbell Bowerwho played the villain Vecna in the series Netflix ‘Stranger Things’ stated that he lost a role in Harry Potter due to a “dirty joke” he made when auditioning for the cast of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”, the franchise’s first film to worldwide success.
The statement was released in an interview with a podcast called Happy Sad Confused. According to Bower, he went to meet director Chris Columbus for the audition, which took place in London, and was asked to come up with an ice-breaking joke.
“And I had just heard a joke about a fairy. Something like ‘why is there always a fairy at the top of the Christmas tree?’ And it’s a very, very bad joke about a Christmas tree stuck in someone’s ass. And I told this joke during the audition, then there was an awkward silence afterwards. And then I thought, ‘well, I think I screwed everything up,’ “the artist said.
As he recalls, this happened when Bower was between the ages of 10 and 11 and the “infamous” joke was told.
Despite losing his job, whose character has not been revealed, the Brit nevertheless managed to participate in the franchise as the young Gellert Grindelwald, in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1’, in 2010, and also appeared. in ‘Fantastic Beasts’. : The Crimes of Grindelwald, 2018.
Source: Terra
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