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Harry Potter star says ‘incredible actors’ are cast in HBO reboot | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV
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Harry Potter star says ‘incredible actors’ are cast in HBO reboot | TV & Radio | Showbiz & TV

Harry Potter's Jason Isaacs, who played Lucius Malfoy in the original film series, has teased that he knows some of the "incredible actors" being cast in the new HBO series.The highly anticipated show is set to premiere in 2026, with casting announcements expected in the coming months.Rumours are already swirling about potential big-name stars, including Oscar-winners Mark Rylance as Albus Dumbledore and Cillian Murphy as Lord Voldemort.In a recent interview for the upcoming third season of The White Lotus, Isaacs revealed that some of the cast has already been confirmed."Oh, I know who they're casting," he shared. "They're incredible actors."His co-star Patrick Schwarzenegger tried to pry more information from him, but Isaacs remained tight-lipped.However, if his update is accurate, Ha...
John Wayne was so ill on The Shootist the film was almost entirely cancelled | Films | Entertainment
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John Wayne was so ill on The Shootist the film was almost entirely cancelled | Films | Entertainment

Back in 1964, John Wayne had a cancerous lung and a few ribs removed, leaving him stricken with health problems for the rest of his life.Duke would struggle tenaciously through physical scenes in his movies, secretly relying on an oxygen mask that he was desperate to hide from the public, so as not to taint his strong cinematic image.Pushing on to make a string of movies over the next decade, including his Oscar win for True Grit, the Western legend's final film, The Shootist, hit cinemas in 1976, just three years before he died.It’s commonly believed that Wayne was living with the stomach cancer that killed him in 1979, when playing a cowboy living with the disease in The Shootist. However, this was not the case, as Duke had been cancer-free since 1969.According to Scott Ryman’s John W...