Harry Potter’s Miriam Margolyes Reveals Why She Turned Down Role in Marvel’s ‘Agatha’ Series

Harry Potter's Miriam Margolyes Reveals Why She Turned Down Role in Marvel's 'Agatha' Series

Miriam Margolyes is opening up about turning down the chance to star in a Marvel project.

In her new autobiography Oh Miriam!, the 82-year-old actress – who played Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter movies – revealed that she passed on a role in the WandaVision spinoff series, Agatha.

Keep reading to find out more…“They contacted me and said, ‘we’re doing a story about witches’. I thought, ‘oh god, not witches again, because I’ve done that with Harry Potter,” Miriam wrote, according to News Corp Australia.

“I don’t like America and I didn’t want to be in Georgia for four months,” Miriam continued. “So I just said, ‘well, I want a million pounds’ [which would be about $1.2 million in U.S. dollars] and they said, ‘you can have half a million’, and I said, ‘no, I don’t want to do it’, so it just stopped. Really it’s a story about my own greed rather than anything else.”

In a recent interview, Miriam shared why she’s “worried” about certain Harry Potter fans.

Oh Miriam! will be released on September 12.