Top 10 ODDEST Casting Calls In Harry Potter Movies 

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The weirdest casting call was Hermione as Ron...in many scenes.

Fenrir Greyback: The directors keep giving all my material to another actor! Ron: First time, huh?

"I have a question: is lavender brown like two separate colors, or is lavender describing what shade of brown we're dealing, like it's a lavendery-brown" Ben asking the important questions here loll

Love how Bem just appears and talks about death and then disappears. Man is a mood.

Honestly when I watched prisoner I thought that Tom was a completely different character. It never clicked until this video that that was supposed to be Tom the bar man... I thought he was just some buffoon assistant to the minister that they added in for poor comic relief.

Question for the brothers. If harry would be kiss by a dementor, would Harry's soul just be taken leaving Voldemort to take over harry body, or could Voldemort soul be taken out of harry (aka Destroying the horcrux), or do you think both soul would be ripped out?

Harry's parents being so old in all the scenes where they are grownups really bothered me, I mean they were 21 when they were killed. Also Harry's dad looking nothing like him except for the glasses. I mean Harry was supposed to be his spitting image. Come on.

The whole issue with Christian Coulson being “too old” to play teenage Tom again isn’t a good enough reason for me. I mean, Shirley Henderson who played Moaning Myrtle was in her mid-thirties at the time of filming Plus, with the amount of editing in Slughorn’s memories, they could have EASILY softened any “fine lines” or “wrinkles” Christian would have had at 29 My theory is that the casting directors didn’t want such an attractive teenage dark lord, cause Christian? 👌🏼💯 (No slight to Frank Dillane, of course) because they wanted people to root for the good guys Cause let’s be honest, Christian as teenage Voldy was the superior Voldy. Charming, handsome, and charismatic, as depicted in the books? ✅ ✅ ✅

Meanwhile, I'm still salty that they didn't add peeves so that we could have the "it goes the other way" chandelier scene.

Does anyone ever talk about how for the first two movies the wands were just bland sticks (besides Ron's) and how stylized wands weren't a thing until Prisoner of Azkaban

I like the headcanon that flitwick used a spell that went wrong which is why he was aged up for a few years, but then the spell wears off and he’s back to his normal super cool looking self. 👍

The thing with Flitwick, is I didn't know it was the same actor throughout until recently. But I always assumed it was Flitwick, it was the same movie that recast Dumbledore and gave him a drastic redesign.

I personally felt like Peeves and Ludo Bagman could've been cast better. Like at all

I mean, Daniel could come back as James. That would be an amazing Easter egg

I’m not sure if it’s the high school pictures of J and Ben, all the glow ups from the cast, or the fact I was laughing through half the video but this is one of my favorite SCB videos

When I was little, I asked my mom why Flitwick changed looks and she said it was because he was the charms teacher and could just magically alter his appearance. For whatever reason.

Bem also switched houses between movies, he's later seen as a Ravenclaw

My mom has only ever watched the movies and to this day she still doesn't fully understand what Voldemort was trying to do or what is going on at all in year six .

I have only watched the movies and I can say I thought there was so much random stuff happening in the movie that I feel was never explained. Things like Harry and Ginny's relationship came so suddenly, and as mentioned in the beginning of the video I have/had no idea Voldemort had logic in choosing the horocrux items they just seemed completely random. There are more stuff I just did not understand after having watched the movies but I'm watching tons of these videos now which has made me realise how much I missed.

Actually Goyle replaced Crabbe because Jamie Waylett was arrested for growing pot. The London riots took place after The Deathly Hallows Part two was released.

Chamber of Secrets Tom really could sell turning to the dark side lol

“Now let me explain to you how to do the darkest magic I’ve ever heard of” had me cackling

Man, an HBO harry potter series where each book is 5-10 hour long episodes, and each season faithfully follows the books and only adds to it rather than taking away for budget or time constraints would be super RAD

The whole thing regarding Flitwick I always found super weird and to this day, even though they openly acknowledge that this new, darker haired made over Warwick Davis is Flitwick it always makes me second guess myself. But the teaching choir didn't actually bother me nearly as much because in one of the very first scenes we meet him in, he's going on about the importance of proper pronunciation and that just feels like a super on brand thing for a choir director to do.

The irony with Colin Creevey is that the actor who played him literally played the voice role and provided the appearance of Colin Creevey in the video game for Order of the Phoenix, as well as several other of the actors. Just strange that they didn't have him in the films again.

I miss original flitwick. Warwick Davis is awesome! Also the Weasley twins. James and Oliver Phelps are incarnates. Perfect casting. Fond memories of the interview where they said they met at the audition for the first time.

SCB: impressed by HP casting HP casting: - all the adults are too old for their roles - Lily and James are too old for when they died - Harry and Lily do not have the same eyes - Snape is waaaaay too attractive

It always bothers me when an actor is cast who bluntly admits that they 1) didn't read the source material, 2) not even after they were cast, 3) and won't read it. We adore actors who go all-out researching and putting so much effort into showing how devoted they are to a role (turnip earrings!!!) but then... when they unashamedly disregard hundreds of pages of characterization and reasoning and huge cues ("he said calmly", anyone?) it really rubs me the wrong way. So ya, that's one recasting that could've gone better :/

i always joke that bem is my favorite character cause its just so random that hes there and its hilarious but now that i know his name i might upgrade him to actually being my favorite

I always thought that the dubbing of voices while polyjuiced was simply to keep the viewers straight on who is oh, like “oh yeah this is Hermione as Bellatrix, not Bellatrix herself”

I really, REALLY wish they had kept the original Flitwick design. It was just too perfect.

I checked my phone brightness about a dozen times during the clips of half-blood and deathly hallows certain it had dropped down automatically

today I learned that character in prisoner is meant to be tom the barkeep

This is a topic I have never considered, but now I'm intrigued. Then again, SCB could make anything interesting.

Tbh the time has come for a tv show.... I'm ready. I read the books, I queued outside book stores at midnight to get the newest, I loved the films but as a 30yr old, I dont really enjoy the films anymore. I'm ready for a tv show which can dive deeper into the story:)

Possibly controversially I enjoyed Michael Gambon being cast as Dumbledore, while I loved Richard Harris in the first two, Gambon was just more of a grounded version that was needed for the later movies when we learn Dumbledore is more flawed than first appeared and I actually think going from this wise old perfect grandfather to a flawed elder with a poor temper works better than people give credit for

"Dobby died but Crabbe destroyed a Horcrux." LOL

The lady playing Mafalda Hopkirk in Deathly Hallows is Emma Thompson's (Trelawney's) sister. I do like the howler letter voice, Jessica Hynes, too.

When Richard Harris passed, they should have dragged Hugh Laurie in, kicking and screaming: clever, nuanced, tall, frosty blue eyes. I immediately thought Gambon was too low-energy, too reticent.

I have always said my favorite casting difference is the twins and Ron. I can’t imagine them getting them getting the same administration or amount of swag they bring as two short, stocky guys. Can you imagine them talking up to Ron eventually?

I didn't realise the re-design was still Flitwick until Harry addressed him by name in a later movie, so I'm with you on not recognising that it was Davis lol

I'd always thought that the character you call "Bem" ("Ben"?) was Earnie McMillan. Incidentally, Collin was not seventeen when he was killed. Either Neville or Oliver state that Collin must have snuck back. Also, an earlier piece of dialogue has Professor Mcgonagall telling him and Jimmy Peakes that they can't stay because they aren't of age.

Verne Troyer (Mini-Me from Austin Powers) originally portrayed Griphook in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, when Griphook took Harry to his vault for the first time.

Definitely hitting like to bring back Jay's mop.

"Nice one James" hits me in the feels every time I hear it

As a movie only watcher A) yes, the horcruxes item selection seemed like random macguffins out of nowhere. B) I'm sorry, but I don't care what the credits say, that's not Tom the bar man. I don't know who that is cracking peanuts for Harry.

I love how passionate Ben and J get with their videos 😂

I feel like a lot of the changes we got from PoA were because of the director's vision of the "Wizarding world". I remember Cuaron mentions in the behind the scenes interviews a lot of aspects he would expect to be in a magical world, that aren't in the books. Also, total stylistic change to the layout of Hogwarts grounds (i.e. having to walk down a massive hill to Hagrids).

When I started watching, I was like 'Flitwick better be on this list' and was very satisfied he was No.1

I really like the actor for sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle in Half Blood Prince, but I think the director showed him the wrong scene as reference for how to play the character. With his quiet voice, emotionless smile, and robotic mannerisms, it seems like he was told to act the way Voldemort acts in the Hepzibah Smith memory, not the way Tom Riddle acts in the Slughorn memory.

I love Bem and his random spookyness

The delivery of Bem’s lines are utterly hilarious to me for some reason.

I think a Harry Potter animated series might work perfectly; easier to recreate magic and no one’s really upset over casting decisions as long as they sound good enough

In the third movie, I seriously just thought that the creepy guy was one of Fudge's minions or something.

I swear, I LOVE it when Sirius calls harry James, it gives me chills, its just so sweeeeet !!!

Fun fact, for griphook, in the first movie verne troyer actually played the character but they dubbed warwick davis’s voice over his for the lines

I thought to this day that Bem was Dean, and now I know that he's a seperate character

The theater kids all tuned in like: "wait, you have the original casting calls?" Before realizing he meant weirdest casting decisions.

I think the recasting of Dumbledore was great. The first Dumbledore didn't portray the amount of energy required for the role in later books/movies

I have thoughts on all of these, but all I can think to say is HOLY COW after seeing what grown up teen Riddle looks like now *i need a fan* Also, I might be in the minority, but I prefer the later Flitwick. His original look was more what I had pictured Binns looking like so the new look just made more sense to me :)

Is there any punch left???? That line was pure gold Ben :-) been awhile since we have gotten a solo Ben video and you killed it!

Mini-Me (Verne Troyer) was the first Griphook. There's a bonus recast for you.

I love how Ben didn't waste an opportunity to show a picture of J in high school. Truly peak little sibling energy

I thought Tom in 3 was like a random employee of the bar

If there would be a show that re tells it, I would love for every chapter to be an episode and every book be a season. That way, if an episode comes out once a day, you could read a chapter then watch it every day. I want that

Here’s a weird thing: Daniel Radcliffe has dyspraxia and has talked about his struggles tying his shoes. So that’s probably why Ginny ties his shoes in the movies.

Draco was a ball sniffing monster. Crab was left traumatized after the ferret incident, so taking away his character moment is all the more sad.

Can we also give an honorable mention to Dumbledore, Yes the circumstances are very different but it was still a change that I feel should've been mentioned

the goblet of fire hair Ben: what happened to their hair Me: they predicted 2020 duh

i'm surprised that there was no mention of Michael Gambon in here. i think every single one of us can agree that Richard Harris was a muuuuuuch better Dumbledore! yes i know he died midway thru the filming, and yes i know Gambon majorly redeemed himself in HBP (most notably in "The Cave" scene), but i feel like it definitely had to be mentioned at the very least!

bruh, the two scene with ginny (tying the shoes and feeding cookies) were my two favorite scenes from the movies

The emo hair on Ben and J and everyone in Goblet of Fire. I'm Dead.

Oh, there's an actual purpose for why each horcrux was chosen? .. maybe it's time to finally read the books..

The easiest for me to let slide is Lavender because we didn’t get a proper description of her until later which prompted the casting change

I don't know why, but when Ben suggested Daniel Radcliffe play Snape, I got shivers

I initially thought this title meant casting calls as in the "casting call" they put out for specific types of actors like "old white haired man" for Dumbledore or something... Def wouldn't have had 10 interesting ones lol

The hard thing with casting children in a series is that you never know what the child actor will grow into so even if they fit the character description early on they might look completely different from the character later on. While I love the casting choices that were made for the major characters most of them were poor fits for their characters from the book by the end of the story. Emma Watson, who will forever be Hermione, never fit the book description of Hermione. Rupert Grint was just a normal guy instead of the tall gangly Ron from the books. Harry Potter himself was about a foot too short to match his book counterpart. None of that is their fault. That's just what happens when you adapt written material to the screen and do so across a large timespan. It's much more odd what they did with Professor Flitwick and Lavendar Brown. To completely redesign the character of Flitwick the way they did was just silly. I have no problem with them using several different actresses to play Lavendar Brown in the early films when she was a non-speaking background character, but when they got to the film where she took on a role they should have cast a black actress to at least maintain continuity of who they'd had as the background character in the previous films. There are some recastings that you can't do anything about. The role of Dumbledore had to be recast because Richard Harris died. Michael Gambon's interpretation of Dumbledore was very different than Harris' and much less like the book version of Dumbldore, but the role was too crucial to the story to remove so it had to be recast. Creating characters that didn't exist previously like Nigel is mind boggling. There are so many characters in the 7 novels that the need for the filmmakers to insert new characters is nonexistent.

At the beginning Ben said have you every wanted a Harry Potter tv show closer to the book, I was literally thinking about this like 2 hours before this video was posted what do SCB what do🤯

Correction on the guy who played Crabbe. London riots as you said was in 2011, more specifically July 2011, exact same time that Part II was released. The actor never returned to film which was filmed a year before in 2010. The reason why was because he was growing cannabis and was charged. I think he had community service. The producers didn’t want someone with that reputation in the films so opted not to bring him back.

Dude Ben is on POINT with the humor in this one. Best video of his to date, I think 💪👍

It’s 1:18am but can’t stop that SCB grind

I’m having a really, really bad mental health day, and the video starts with an ad for therapy. I think it’s a sign

Whaaaat, I didn't now that creepy dude was a barman from the first film! You blew my mind right away!

Warwick Davis has incredible range! He also plays the bank goblin, wicket from the ewok movies, the leprechaun, him and Alan Rickman both played Marvin in Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy! And nikabrik in Narnia and ofc willow! He's one of my favorite actors 💖

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The Tom riddle change was the most disappointing for sure.

Flitwick had some work done between years two and three. He went to the rejuvenation clinic and got an all-natural overhaul. They took out some wrinkles, did a hair repair, changed the blood, added a good 30 to 40 years to his life. They also replaced his spleen and colon.

my jaw DROPPED when i saw grown up bem

I’ve always said, if they redo the movies it must be animated and be a show with each season is a book and cover the entire books. Hey

Warwick Davis also plays the goblin who takes hagrid and Harry down to the vaults. The one who says "lamp please"... "key please"

Idk if it’s been addressed, but based on the novel dialogue (and I believe movie dialogue) Griphook was the one who escorted HP to his vault. Which means Vern Troyer was the original Griphook. Which also means Warwick Davis played the Gargoyle bank manager, Griphook, and Flitwick.

It’s always bothered me that Daniel Radcliffe wasn’t cast to play James potter in the flashbacks.

Okay you're talking about the hair in GoF and I've been writing a dissertation for a decade about how whomever was in charge of Draco's hair in movies 1, 2, and 4 committed crimes against humanity.

13:32 this part had me laughing hard to the point of tears, I just enjoyed how J just reacted the way he did

I love how excited Ben looks right before the intro, he so happy

I would’ve said Ginny as a questionable casting. Despite the actress being impressive she doesn’t embody what the books made me imagine Ginny to be. She doesn’t act like the popular, good looking girl that the books portrayed, instead she’s timid and reserved

It would be cool if there was a tv show I would love if all episodes were a chapter

I hope that they do some side series/movies with the Harry Potter universe. Like a series about snape as a kid, or one with regulus and maybe(?) Sirius. Even a series about McGonagal growing up would be really cool

Love the quiet late to the party joke about punch, that was so low key that it really worked for me and i want to make sure it gets the recognition i think it deserves! Nice one Ben!