Paul Bettany shuts down Voldemort rumours: "Nobody has called me up about it"

Once again, we're in the dark about who will be playing the iconic main antagonist of the Harry Potter TV series.
Text: Ben Lyons
Published 2026-03-14

Seemingly it won't be too long until the Harry Potter TV series makes its arrival on HBO Max, as the show has been shooting its first season for some time and will seemingly be locked into a production schedule for the next decade or so to ensure the project completes as the young cast steadily grow up.

One of the biggest mysteries surrounding the project relates to the casting of Lord Voldemort, as the dark wizard is the main antagonist in the Harry Potter series, with key narrative threads that stretch throughout the entire story, even if Voldemort doesn't really appear until the end of the fourth year at Hogwarts (which you'd expect would equate to the end of the fourth season of the show). It's because of this that casting the role isn't immensely paramount to sort today, even if interest in hearing who will play Voldemort is incredibly high.

For some time, it seemed like Cillian Murphy might take over from his 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple star Ralph Fiennes, but this was

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