In addition to being responsible for making household names from Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, the “Harry Potter” franchise was a British talent treasure that wandered or tried to invade the Hogwarts school rooms for witchcraft and medal. And yet, many actors refused the “Harry Potter” franchise. A major name that has never exceeded the doors was the Scottish star, Tilda Swinton. During the selection of the stellar distribution that would teach these heroes in the world, the name of Swinton was taken into account for the role of divination teacher Sybill Trelawney, who made his debut in “Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban” (aka the best “Harry Potter” in the franchise), which is in place in Emma Thompson. Swinton, however, refused the role of a very valid and personal reason.
Talk to Scottish magazineSwinton revealed that she was against a central element of the franchise – the school to which Potter and his magic friends attended – after spending a large part of his childhood in a boarding school. “This is why I don’t like films like” Harry Potter “that tend to romanianize such places,” she said. “I think it is a very cruel setting to grow and I don’t think children benefit from this type of education.” As a result, Swinton never broke a wand in the franchise that would make billions. But while this emblematic role was transmitted to someone else, there was another than Swinton would take a few years later in a magical world that she would regret having taken.
Tilda Swinton refused Harry Potter and should have done the same for Doctor Strange
After transmitting Potter, Tilda Swinton would finally connect to join a different deductible from a billion dollars, the Marvel cinematographic universe. Unfortunately, she would have hosted a much more heated reaction. In 2016, “Doctor Strange”, Swinton played the role of the old one, a revered and powerful figure of the Marvel universe which helped Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) to become the heroic master of the magic that we know. The only problem with the character is that in the comics, the former was an Asian man of 500 years, and the fans naturally talked about the cast of Swinton.
The public did not leave the whitening lime of such an important character in the story of Strange is not controlled, and he was later Swinton herself Variety She should have reconsidered the catch on the part. “I remember at the time having had a question mark in my mind, and having been attended by the response of the public to the idea that a Scottish woman will play this character, and being aware that there was not at all resistance – there was a welcome very welcome – which changed to a certain point, for very good reasons with which I had a huge amount of sympathy.” Fortunately, Marvel made a conscious effort internally to rethink the major characters in the future, with Kevin Feige admitting that it was a bad idea. Now, the old is nothing more than a faux pas from the past than the power of the comic strip film, and Swinton, do not plan to repeat.
