The Harry Potter TV Show Casting Is Getting Messy

Photo: Warner Bros./Everett Collection Earlier this April, Max announced the first wave of cast members joining its big-budget television adaptation of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, including John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Nick Frost as Hagrid, and Paapa Essiedu as Snape. The draw of the series, which will reiterate the events of books and movies that came out not that long ago, is that it is purportedly committed to "being authentic to the original books." (That better mean we get Ludo Bagman in the Goblet of Fire season.) While no one is balking at Lithgow, an American actor, . . .