Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Legs Barnes is pleasantly aware that he is on the Internet No. 1 to play Sirius Black in Harry Potter restart.
“You wouldn’t believe the amount.” Harry Potter Books I signed or scarves. I got as gifts, ”Barnes said Us every week While promoting his debut album, Where the light enters. “The amount of fans, which I was very enthusiastic, is incredible.”
Fancasts in which online fan communities choose actors who hope to display their favorite book characters on the screen are not a new phenomenon. However, such buzzing usually does not last for decades, as for Barnesis. It has become so predominant that one of the best designs that appears when entering his name to Google is “who plays Ben Ben Ben Harry Potter? ”
“It has been happening for 20 years that people very kindly say they would love me if I played the young version of the character Sirius Black in Harry PotterBut now it takes so long that I am now the age of the real character in the books, ”said the actor, now 43.
Many Harry Potter Fans have long applied for spinoff after Marauders, Harry’s parents and their friends as students in Hogwarts. In the mid -1920s Barnes was a popular choice for young Sirius, often next to Andrew Garfield Like Remus Lupine and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Like James Potter. When Potterheads began to ask him to sign his Gryffindor Equipment, he thought the confusing franchise. After all, he played Prince Kaspian Narnia chronic films.
“Now I understand it was this group Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Andrew Garfield, and I was just very excited to be these characters when they came out,” Barnes shared, noting that he was a “massive” fan Gary Oldmanwho actually played Sirius Black in the films and enjoyed books.
The reputations of the cast did not come up with Garfield (who recently told reporters that would “Consider any role offered“In HBO.” Harry Potter Reboot) or Taylor-Johnson. “I have known them a bit over the years, but they have never managed to talk to them,” he said Our.
@BenBarnes
He also did not speak to Warner Broso. Upcoming TV show Begins to adapt to Azkaban prisoner. “These are books I love, and at least half of my career was based on the literary adaptations I loved,” he said. “And I see no reason why it would be different, but I haven’t talked about it yet.”
Barnes certainly does not mind that fans have enthusiasm, explains: “I consider it very flattering, but it is quite strange to be praised for something you have never done.”
Many fans who are pulling for him to play Sirius also fill in musical places when Barnes Tours with their debut album that dropped this month. The Shadow & Bone Kamenec, who is completing his main tour, admitted that the transition from other people’s words to singing his own was intimidating.
“I think many actors are actors because they like to tell other people’s stories and become someone else for some time, and they can, if they don’t cover, will certainly explore life and look at it through someone else’s lens,” Barnes. ” You are on stage. “You sing the things you wrote about your life. To come to people and support it, and I found that the music community is very loving and supportive in this way. They are like:” Yes , I will play the song with you.
That was not his only encouragement. After released his first few songs, Barnes saw fans to follow his leadership and do what they love.
“Watching people who are worried or dancing in their kitchen or doing small coils that hug their best friends on songs or dancing on a pole or anything they do with songs – terrible dance poles, I don’t know where it comes from – but It was so great to see people took the cue from me, ”Barnes said Our. “If I can do popular music as a man at the age of 40, then people can do what they want.” And I’m talking about that a little bit, but watching people as they do it in real time, and they really pick up the cloak and just get off and do things they love for the soundtrack I did was incredibly beneficial. ”
Barnes plays New York City on Saturday 1 February in New York before heading to Great Britain and Europe. Tickets are Available here.
