Harry Potter: Michael Cera Explains Why He Didn’t Want to Star in Spin-off Movie

Michael Cera has an mentation arsenic to why he turned down starring successful nan Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts spin-off movies.

Following nan 8 films successful nan main Harry Potter movie series, Warner Bros. Pictures released 3 Fantastic Beasts spin-off films: 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 2018’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and 2022’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.

The formed of nan movies includes Eddie Redmayne arsenic Newt Scamander, Katherine Waterston arsenic Tina Goldstein, Alison Sudol arsenic Queenie Goldstein, Dan Fogler arsenic Jacob Kowalski, Jude Law arsenic Albus Dumbledore, and more.

What did Michael Cera opportunity astir turning down a Fantastic Beasts role?

Appearing connected nan Louis Theroux Podcast, via IndieWire, Cera revealed that he was being considered for a domiciled successful Fantastic Beasts; however, he decided to move it down.

“I don’t moreover cognize if I was offered, I deliberation I conscionable declined to prosecute pinch it because I deliberation it would beryllium astir apt a six-year committedness aliases something. But also, I did benignant of make a conscientious prime to limit my vulnerability a small bit, aliases conscionable effort and beryllium a small much successful power of it,” he explained. “And I felt for illustration doing, particularly small kids’ movies, I had a large fearfulness of doing things that I would get excessively famous.

“…I deliberation I’ve outgrown that peculiar feeling, but I deliberation that’s what that was astatine that time. But if a franchise came on now and seemed interesting, I don’t deliberation connected nan grounds of it being a franchise I would large wind retired of nan agency aliases anything.”

All 3 Fantastic Beasts movies are presently disposable to watercourse connected Max, while HBO is besides successful nan process of making a caller Harry Potter tv show. Cera, meanwhile, now stars successful Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, which is presently playing successful United States theaters.

Originally reported by Brandon Schreur astatine SuperHeroHype.