Sally Hawkins on her "awful" Harry Potter audition: "I wasn’t right"
Exclusive: Sally Hawkins reveals she once aud💝itioneﷺd for Harry Potter – and it went "really bad"

It's hard to imagine two-time Oscar-nominee Sally Hawkins ever auditioning for a movie and then being rejected. Yet, as with ever🧔y jobbing actor, ther🍃e were a few rejections on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's most beloved actors.
Speaking to Total Film f💙or the new issue of the magazine, Hawkins revealed that she once auditioned for the Harry Potter movies, but – as history can a🌊ttest – did not land the part. Here's a snippet of the interview with Hawkins.
TF: You mainly appear in personal films like your latest, Eternal Beauty. How do you find starring in something like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Godzilla: King Of The Monsters?
I’m OK with that. But you feel a🔯wkward, in that you worry about what you’ve done. You don’t want to let anyone down. You’ve got millions of dollars at stake. You think, ‘Oh god, I can’t ask for another take; they’ll shoot me in the head.’ Because it’s not really about you on that film.
How come you’ve never appeared in a Harry Potter film? So many Brit actors did!
I auditioned for♓ one and I was awful in the audition, really bad.
That’s hard to believe...
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Oh bless, that&rsquo✱;s really kind. I think I was just nervous. [Pause] I wasn’t right, I think. I’m holding on to that &nda🎃sh; I wasn’t right. It was with a really, really good director, who I adore. The gentlest soul. But yes, I’d have been there like a shot.
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Unfortunately, Hawkins did not reveal anything more about the audition, so we can only speculate about which character she auditioned to play. Perhaps the villainous Bellatrix Lestrange, portrayed by Helena Bonham Carter? Lily Potter, Harry's mother who went on to be played by Geraldine Somerville? Or Sybill Trelawney, played by Emma Thompson? Either way, Hawkins could have another shot at a role in the series thanks to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fantastic Beasts 3...
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