Incoming Snape actor Paapa Essiedu has faced a number of racist death threats since he joined the blockbuster series adaptation of Harry Potter.
“I’ve been told, ‘Quit or I’ll murder you,’” he recalled of the targeted vitriol in a new interview with The Times U.K.
Taking up the wand from the late Alan Rickman as the morally gray potions professor Severus Snape, the I May Destroy You breakout will occupy the role for a decade, per Warner Bros. Television‘s aims for the serialized project.
“Yes, this is a big commitment,” he said. “I’ll be 45 by the time I finish and I know my life is going to change in a big way, but I have to just surrender to that. I could have children by the end of this.”
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Having grown up with J.K. Rowling‘s fantasy novels, Essiedu
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