Poor Bob Hoskins. He really is turning into the lame duck British actor. It's becoming increasingly likely that despite an impoverished plea to J.K. Rowling during a UK chat show in which they both appeared, he will also become the only British actor in history not to be cast in a Harry Potter movie.
The latest actor who HAS been cast in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince however, is top British character actor Jim Broadbent. According to an interview at Dark Horizons, Broadbent confirms that he has been cast as Horace Slughorn, the new Potions teacher at Hogwarts.
Broadbent says; "He's called Horace Slughorn. He's a retired teacher of magic who's drawn back out of retirement because he's got some secrets they need in the battle against the Deatheaters and he's quite star struck as a teacher and he's drawn back into the fold because he likes to notch up celebrity students, and he's drawn back by Harry."
For those of you who aren't savvy, Broadbent is probably best recognized as playing the crazy owner of Moulin Rouge and has a cameo in the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as an academic colleague of Herr Jones.
This is more great casting news but honestly Warner Brothers, put Bob out of his misery and set a role aside for him now, lest the old man has a nervous breakdown.
