HBO Cast The RIGHT Snape And NOBODY Is Talking About It

Paapa Essiedu will be a better Severus Snape than Alan Rickman — not more beloved, not more iconic, but better for the role J.K. Rowling actually wrote. Here is the proof. Subscribe for more → @PotterFiles TIMESTAMPS 0:00 — Alan Rickman was perfect. So why will Essiedu be better. 0:45 — The number J.K. Rowling put in the books that nobody talks about 1:10 — What Alan Rickman gave us and what it cost 2:25 — That is not a role for gravitas. That is a role for damage. 2:59 — Reason one and why it changes everything 3:24 — Hamlet and the Royal Shakespeare Company 3:52 — Edmund in King Lear and why it matters for Snape 4:51 — He is Edmund. He is Hamlet. He is both. 5:17 — I May Destroy You and what it proves 5:58 — Chapter thirty three. The Prince's Tale. 6:47 — The scene Rickman was handed in his final film 7:18 — What Steve Kloves cut and why 7:37 — The damage is the point 7:50 — Why the HBO format changes everything 8:26 — The fifth reason and the most important one 8:54 — That is who Snape is. That is who HBO has cast. 9:02 — The HBO Harry Potter series Alan Rickman's performance as Severus Snape across all eight Warner Bros Harry Potter films is one of the greatest in blockbuster cinema history. But Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling is thirty five years old. Alan Rickman was fifty five when he filmed his first scene in two thousand and one. That gap changed everything about how Snape was portrayed on screen. Paapa Essiedu, the Emmy-nominated actor and first Black actor to play Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company in two thousand and sixteen, is exactly thirty five years old in two thousand and twenty six. His stage work as Hamlet and Edmund in King Lear for the Royal Shakespeare Company, combined with his performance as Kwame in I May Destroy You written by Michaela Coel, proves he already knows exactly who Severus Snape is. The HBO Harry Potter series premieres Christmas Day twenty twenty six, produced by David Heyman who produced all eight original Warner Bros films, written by Emmy Award-winning Succession writer Francesca Gardiner, directed by Mark Mylod of Succession and Game of Thrones, with J.K. Rowling as executive producer. The cast includes Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, Nick Frost as Rubeus Hagrid, and Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall. Screenwriter Steve Kloves wrote seven of the eight original Warner Bros screenplays. Chapter thirty three of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, The Prince's Tale, is the most important Snape chapter ever written. ▶ Watch next: 5 Ways HBO Could RUIN Harry Potter 5 Things The HBO Series MUST Get Right Severus Snape ALWAYS — What The Films Cut