Jamie Campbell Bower revealed a NSFW joke that price him the title function within the "Harry Potter" franchise.
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It was no laughing matter.
“Stranger Issues” star Jamie Campbell Bower, who performs lord of the “upside-down” Vecna within the Netflix collection, has come a good distance since he bombed his audition for the hero function of the “Harry Potter” franchise — if solely his penchant for naughty jokes hadn’t gotten one of the best of him.
The 33-year-old actor revealed the blunder whereas showing on Josh Horowitz’s “Joyful Unhappy Confused” podcast.
As Bower tells it, the younger actor had a gathering with the movie’s first director, Chris Columbus, for which he was requested to organize a joke.
“I had simply heard this joke a few fairy,” recalled Bower.
“Like, the explanation why the fairy sits on high of the Christmas tree. And it’s a very, like, soiled joke, as a result of it’s in regards to the Christmas tree up any person’s backside.”
The “Twilight” franchise star continued to explain how awkward issues acquired after the punchline flopped.
“And I instructed this joke within the audition, and there was once more, this type of air of silence after I stated it. And I used to be like, ‘Nicely, f – – ked that up,’ ” joked Bower.
Despite the fact that he misplaced the title function to Daniel Radcliffe, Bower nonetheless managed to seem within the franchise as a younger Gellert Grindelwald in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Half 1” and once more within the spinoff “Unbelievable Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.”
Apparently, he’d cleaned up his act by the point he landed his function because the darkish wizard.
“Simon stated, ‘Nicely, Jamie [is] now, you understand, correctly working, and isn't telling too many impolite jokes anymore,” joked the actor.
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