THE FUSE

Watching the casting of HBO’s forthcoming Harry Potter TV show has been a grueling experience. “Oh no, not John Lithgow!” we all cried. “Peter Serafinowicz, what are you doing?!” “Warwick Davis!” And so on. So it’s with quite some delight that I bring to you the unimprovable response of Black Mirror director Ally Pankiw (via The Hollywood Reporter) when she was asked if she was interested on working on the show: “Absolutely fucking not!” And that inspired fellow director Kate Herron (Loki, Sex Education) to join in, explaining that she’s had to tell the production “no” twice.