Cillian Murphy does not believe Harry Potter is his to finish.

Indee d, amid the online chatter pushing fo r the Oppenheimer star to be cast as Voldemort in the upcoming HBO television adaptation , he clarified that he has not been cast as the iconic villain.

“No,” he said of the possibility of his casting o n the Sept. 11 episode of the Happy, Sad Confused podcast “My kids show me occasionally and I don’t know anything about that.”

And the Peaky Blinders alum admitted that Ralph Fiennes ’ interpretation of the character is a particularly hard act to follow.

“It’s really hard to follow anything Ralph Fiennes does,” he noted. “He’s the man. An absolute acting legend. Good luck to whoever is going to fill those shoes.”

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