Did you know that fans petitioned Fernanda Montenegro to participate in Harry Potter?

This Monday, October 16th, Fernanda Montenegroturns 94 years old. To honor the actress, who has a long career in theater, cinema and television, as well as a nomination for the Oscar, the biggest film award in the world, the Rolling Stone Braziland the CinemaBuzz recall a curious episode in these many years of performance: when fans of Harry Potter they petitioned for her to participate in the franchise created by J.K. Rowling.

In November 2019, when it was confirmed that some scenes from Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secretsthird film in spin off in Harry Potterwould take place in Brazil – although the cast never came to the country to record them, as we now know -, fans of the boy wizard’s saga created a petition so that Fernanda Montenegro participated in the film as Vicencia Santosthe Minister of Magic of Brazil.

“This is a manifesto of the will of all Brazilian fans of Harry Potterso that there are no inconveniences from actors of other nationalities playing Brazilians”said the description of the petition. “Here is a recommendation from a wonderful Brazilian actress, who worked on major national works such as The Auto da Compadecida, Central Brazil, Mother’s Sweet and who has already been nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress.”

Despite the insistence of fans, who managed to collect almost 100 thousand signatures before the petition reached Fernanda Montenegrothe actress kindly declined to participate before an invitation could even be made: “Thank you for your kindness, it’s up to me to let you know that I have a full schedule in 2020. Big hug for the initiative of so many friends”, shared on his Instagram. Check it out below:

With the refusal to Fernanda Montenegrothe role of Vicencia Santos ended up with Maria Fernanda Cândidowho has a small but symbolic participation in the film. Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets premiered in theaters in April 2022 and ended up becoming a box office failure, grossing just over US$400 million during its time on the big screen, the lowest amount among all the films in the saga Harry Potter.

Two sequels were still in Warner Bros. plans. Pictures, which would end the story of Fantastic Beasts in a pentalogy, but nothing has been confirmed since. Well, it looks like Fernanda Montenegro You got rid of a robbery, right?