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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Gary Oldman Makes a Bold Prediction About the Quality of the Harry Potter TV Show Compared to the Original Movies He Starred In as Sirius Black · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: The first adaptation of any popular book series is often
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Speaker 2: seen as the best by the fans, sure, right? But
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Speaker 2: Gary Oldman, who starred as Sirius Black in the Harry
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Speaker 2: Potter movies, actually thinks the upcoming TV series will only
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Speaker 2: improve upon what they pulled off.
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Speaker 3: And that's due in part to Gary thinking Sirius didn't
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Speaker 3: get enough screen time in the originals, not because of
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Speaker 3: his ego, but because the character is so pivotal in
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Speaker 3: the books. Though his main reason is because the longer
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Speaker 3: format of TV will actually allow deeper exploration of every
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Speaker 3: facet of the books.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he actually tells EW that they had to cut
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Speaker 1: a ton of the story out, even though the movies
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Speaker 1: were long, at least three hours a pop. And this
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Speaker 1: new show will bring the books to life almost word
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Speaker 1: for word, which he predicts will be a lot more
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Speaker 1: satisfying for viewers.
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Speaker 2: But he's still immensely proud of the work, and he
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Speaker 2: and his peers did on their interpretation and grateful to
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Speaker 2: be part of something that's such a global cultural phenomenon.
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Speaker 2: The new Harry Potter TV show debuts on HBO Christmas Day.
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Speaker 3: That's direct from Hollywood.