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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Kit Harrington Has Joined the Cast of the Harry Potter TV Show Playing a Role He Knows Very Well · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Kit Harington has already starred in one of HBO's most
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  Speaker 2: successful fantasy shows, Game of Thrones, as the heroic Jon Snow.
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  Speaker 2: He's now set to do it again.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Kit has officially joined the cast of the upcoming
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  Speaker 3: Harry Potter TV series for its second season.
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  Speaker 4: Except this time, he'll be playing a villain, Gilderoy Lockhart,
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  Speaker 4: who's one of the main baddies in the Potter book,
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  Speaker 4: Chamber of Secrets.
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  Speaker 2: And a character Kit is actually already familiar with, having
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  Speaker 2: voiced him for Audible's audiobook rendition of Chamber of Secrets
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  Speaker 2: only last year.
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  Speaker 3: And at the time when he signed that deal with Audible,
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  Speaker 3: Kit expressed how he grew up on the Potter books.
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  Speaker 3: So I imagine getting to play Gilderoy twice is a
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  Speaker 3: dream come true.
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  Speaker 2: Kit is expected to begin shooting season two this fall.
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  Speaker 2: The first season of Harry Potter will premiere on HBO
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  Speaker 2: and HBO Max Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.