Actor and producer Hero Fiennes-Tiffin is ready to go back to Hogwarts.
“I would 100 percent be open to coming back as any character in the HBO Harry Potter series,” Fiennes-Tiffin, 27, exclusively told Us Weekly on Wednesday, March 5, while attending the premiere of Picture This at Neuehouse Madison Square in New York City.
“Listen, tell them to,” he continued, before making a “call me” gesture with his hand.
Fiennes-Tiffin, who played a young Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, said that if he is asked to return to the franchise in the highly anticipated reboot, he can’t imagine he’d be “anyone else” but He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named.
“I don’t think I could be anyone else,” he explained. “I’m not just Team Tom Riddle, I’m Team Slytherin as well. So if it is anyone else, I think it’s gotta be Team Slytherin. I’ve picked my name out of the hat, and I’m Slytherin ‘till I die.”
In April 2023, during a Warner Bros. Discovery presentation, the network revealed it was moving forward with a TV reboot of J.K. Rowling’s iconic novels-turned-movie franchise for its streaming service, Max. The “decade-long series,” the network said, will feature an entirely new cast.
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“Max’s commitment to preserving the integrity of my books is important to me, and I’m looking forward to being part of this new adaptation which will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long form television series,” Rowling, who has found herself in hot water over the years due to her repeated transphobic comments, said in a statement at the time.
When looking back on his time filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Fiennes-Tiffin says his “coolest memory” is simply “chilling with Michael Gambon.”
“I was so lucky to work with him, and he’s just such a cool guy,” Fiennes-Tiffin told Us. “I’m like 9 or 10 at the time and we’d just be making jokes all the time. Also, he has massive hands. I don’t know if anyone had noticed, but his hands are just huge. So I think as a kid, it’s stupid things like that [that you remember].”
The actor and producer went on to share that working with Gambon, who played Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore, was “a real dream,” adding that Gambon was also “so good with kids.”
“I’m sure a lot of the actors, directors, producers, everyone, they’re used to working with kids,” he continued. “I think I turned 11 — I was 10 years old, turned 11 — while we were shooting. They just know how to keep the fun and make it not feel like work, and Michael Gambon was extremely good at that. So I’ll always be very grateful for sharing the screen with him.”
In February, John Lithgow confirmed reports that he will step in Gambon’s shoes and play Albus Dumbledore in the upcoming Max series.
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“Well, it came as a total surprise to me,” Lithgow, 79, said in an interview with ScreenRant at the time. “I just got the phone call up at the Sundance Film Festival for yet another film, and it was not an easy decision because it’s going to define me for the last chapter of my life, I’m afraid.”
Like Lithgow, Fiennes-Tiffin is also considering his projection as an actor, telling Us that he has loved “all the roles I’ve done,” particularly his character in Picture This.
“I think it’s the first out-and-out rom-com that I’ve done,” he explained. “It’s been an absolute pleasure. But for me, I’m always quite excited to do something different from the last. So I don’t think I’m itching to do a rom-com immediately, but I’m sure in two, three jobs time, I will be missing it and will want to do another rom-com again.”
Reporting by Antonio Ferme
