Miriam Margolyes has announced that it has a Wonder Role because they refused to pay her the million pounds she demanded.
The Harry Potter The actress did not back down when it came to her salary for the role of a witch in the upcoming Agatha television series with Kathryn Hahna spin-off of the TV miniseries WandaVision with Elizabeth Olsen And Paul Bettany.
In her new memoir, Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life, the British actress briefly recalled how she turned down a Marvel role before she opened up in an interview with news.com.au.
“They contacted me and said, ‘We’re doing a story about witches.’ I thought, ‘Oh God, not witches again, because I’ve already done that with Harry Potter,'” she said.
The Call the midwife The star added that the filming location also put her off. “I don’t like America and I didn’t want to be in Georgia for four months,” she said.
“So I just said, ‘Well, I want a million pounds,’ and they said, ‘You can have half a million,’ and I said, ‘No, I don’t want that,’ and that’s how it just stopped.”
The outspoken star added: “It’s actually more a story about my own greed than anything else.”
As for her reluctance to return to a role reminiscent of her Harry Potter character Professor Pomona Sprout, Miriam recently explained that she worried about the adults of the beloved wizarding world Franchise.”
“I’m worried about Harry Potter fans,” she admitted to New Zealand’s 1News, adding: “They should have gotten over that by now.”
During her recent cover interview with British VogueThe Bafta The winner also said that “Harry Potter wasn’t important to me,” adding: “I was very happy to get the role and I enjoyed being in it and meeting all the people, but it’s not Charles Dickens.”
It’s not just Marvel that turned the actress down, the actress recently spoke about the reason why she said no I am a celebrity.
“I have class, darling. I don’t do that,” she shared The podcast Dish by Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett.
During the interview, she also confessed that she “only wrote” her new memoirs “because they offered me a lot of money.”
