Nicholas Hoult cast as Gilderoy Lockhart in HBO Harry Potter season 2
crushed to learn Nicholas Hoult exploded on the set of SUPERMAN and died and is now dead. deadline.com/2026/08/nich...
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉291all future appearances will be made by longtime Hoult impersonator Aloysius "Gator" Galette
death before detransition159All British actors will knife you in an alleyway for a few bucks is what I'm learning recently! God dammit!
Joe Flynn136Nicholas Hoult's Lex Luthor bald cap caught fire on the Superman set and burned his entire head like that time the Dothraki poured molten gold on the Targaryen bro in season 1 of Game of Thrones. Rest in peace, Nicholas Hoult.
TheKonamiMan 🇵🇷🍉76I was about to use the Nick Frost from Hot Fuzz "Shame" gif but then I remembered he is in this bullshit too.
Benjamin Franklinstein43So, are there actually children who enjoy HP stuff these days, or is the entire fanbase just Potter Adults?
Tiernan Blanchard35Tragic, he was so talented. The curse claims another.
Crystal Frasier44Whelp… there goes any interest I had in the renewed DC cinematic universe. Rot in Hell, Hoult.
Molly McQueen 🏳️⚧️☯️☭🍓14I'm done liking any celebrity. Fuck 'em all.
Shan Wolf10RIP Nicholas Hoult. Superman was dope.
bimbo baggins9glad to learn the name of the guy i hate because his mouth looks like an anus
Mike 🍁8He actually passed away on the set of of Mad Max after insisting on 100% realism while filming his final scenes
Matt G. ♾️7*sigh ..Do you really think I have to explain this. -_- bsky.app/profile/scum...
Ryan Wilson6New dead to me celebrity…
paul6imagine standing up in public and proudly announcing you're joining the transphobia fund raiser
Ed Lynch4God damn it, no. Fuck. I really wanted to see Man of Tomorrow.
Ted Anderson - Trans Rights - BLM - ACAB4*sighing, looking outside at the giant GOOD BRITISH ACTORS REMAINING sign* *counter slowly ticks down by 1*
Bad news babe Nicholas Hoult is dead to us now. Yeah that guy you liked from Skins. He's in a Harry Potter now. No, its not the movies, its on HBO. Like a tv show. Yeah they color graded it like a Danish prestige murder drama for some reason. Looks like complete shit.
Blue sky nice ghost19Imagine God giving you Nick Hoult's face and wasting it like this
marlo18not the danish prestige murder drama colour grading joke 💀
Gwiggs11Serious question, does anyone think this show is actually going to get 7 seasons? Even if JKR weren't a hideous bigot, seems like a huge commitment to assume people are going to sign up for 7 years of a shitty story theyve already seen before
andrew11shit i just re-watched fury road and was like “that nicholas hoult, nice young man and talented actor”
Armak for the Resistance ⚜️9Skins?!? That’s what he’s known for? He’s Lex Luthor! He’s Renfield! He brought the world “WITNESS ME!!” (also he’s Toni Collette’s cutie from ABOUT A BOY who whispers Juvenile lyrics in the hallway)
Andrew: weird and loud5Tragic that he's only being a method actor for *part* of Lex Luthor's character arc :(
This isn't even like burning down your reputation to play Snape or Dumbledore or something. This is like "I'm sorry about the trans people but I just couldn't pass up the chance to portray Nien Numb."
Nash154"Oh what are you gonna do not watch the next Superman film" motherfucker I've been not watching Superman films since 2013 and with one exception I've gotten really good at it.
Gojiragon36I'm legit starting to think that after this, J.K. is blackmailing British actors into starring in her shit show with threats of lawsuits or some other financial hit.
Couchman13Nah man, this is *worse* than Nien Nub.
LibrarianWriterGeek12This show is for actors what the Riyadh Comedy Festival was for comedians: A big way to tell your fans that, regardless of your stated values, you do have a price.
Jeremy Adler9Shame he really seems to have become Lex Luthor.
Patrick Stuart Sutcliffe6Why did Nien Nunb catch a stray?
✨CHELLE D☯GGO✨(she/they)37people with no moral compass rushing to HBO studios to play unimportant one-off character Blumbus Bimbus in Harry Potter
Cezary Jan Strusiewicz13Another one goes into the garbage can. Too bad, I liked him as Luthor. But rules are rules.
Socks the Plushy ✡️12You weren't supposed to ACTUALLY be Lex Luthor
Mao Mao!11Destroying any goodwill you built up to play fucking Lockhart is like damn. It's not even like "oh it's a challenging role" like you're playing Dipshit the Clown here.
Alexis Sara8Every single actor attached to this is dead to me and I think we should ignore their films and treat them like dirt.
Aurora6Goddammit bro Lex was a ROLE not a SUGGESTION
Strain42 but on Bluesky5More like Nicholas DOLT! …got ‘em
The Swampert Stan4Damn. DC wasn’t paying him enough.
Jirachibi! 🏳️⚧️3Bro agreed to transphobic shit to play a character that shows up in Season 2 and then has a small cameo in Season 5. At least with Snape and Dumbledore and Voldemort you can argue those are big name characters that are in cultural lexicon or whatever.
Winning the Harry Potter intellectual property in an Infowars style lawsuit and instantly putting gender affirming magic into the lore. Ollivanders started selling magic pussies out the back.
Chris Person112They put a guy’s face on the back of another guy’s head it just seems like this would be child’s play in-universe
The Wizard12You cant tell me there isnt a black market for that people-changing juice they used like 4 times. Transform into anyone if you can get their DNA? And entire economy of wards on hair brushes to keep thieves from stealing a couple hairs.
Ruby Quail5Tbh, the fandom already sort of tried to do that, not legally, but culturally (I think they tried to head cannon Snape as trans, which is not the kind of inclusion we’re looking for tbh), like it needs to be obnoxious trans inclusion enough to make the whole thing unconsumable as anything else
Kirsten3Gonna light some very special candles for this tonight
kat2girl who was ur transmuter? im doing consults rn
Nicholas Hoult has been cast as Gilderoy Lockhart in Season 2 of the ‘HARRY POTTER’ TV series. (Source: Deadline)
Jake48They keep falling for it. Buddy, you can do most anything. Why this?
King Bigfoot12Just another greedy celeb, willing to take a fat paycheck even though he doesn’t need it no matter the consequences to people he probably doesn’t even think about.
Onemariobro9And like that, everyone fucking hates you
istolethecarradio.bsky.social3Oh, I forgot this show existed. I'll go back to forgetting now
Enemy of the world3That's the guy from the menu, right? He should be killed and cannibalized.
Fenny1Hate this shit. Fuck him and HP bullshit.
Livvy✨🚀🪨141.) fucking BOOOOOOO 2.) Rhys Darby is the most obvious casting choice for Lockhart, and thank the SWEET BABY JESUS he isn’t in it 🙏
vera (spicy mode)8sorry but brits have got to be the most spiritually cucked group of people in the world
T. Bishop Navarro 🐑4girls, I can't take much more of this.
Amanda Bryana4Another one for the trash pile 🙄
clark kent de calcinha do abc paulista3eu esperava isso de todo mundo menos de vc nick
Stellan (they/he)3GODDAMNIT, NICHOLAS. Shame on you.
rich10473I've enjoyed his work in the past. I won't be seeing anything he does in the future. Fuck you, Nicholas.
klia 🌻2So disappointing. I've been following his career since About a Boy. Another actor who doesn't seem to have a problem making money for that transphobic POS.
Norm Harper2Man, if WB thought Supergirl underperformed, wait until they see the Man of Tomorrow numbers.
Corinne2Not another good actor making this shit decision 😣
remembering robert pattinson was also in the harry potter cinematic universe,
Down the Spiral20Somebody get these Potterheads out of here!
wong7at least he made the inarguably hilarious decision to hold his wand like a gun because he thought it would look cool
Caitlin 🐈🐈⬛5He got in at the right time to be noticed by casting agents and then got out so no one remembers it.
Tiger Lily 🐅 🏳️⚧️5😬 Maybe it was before most people knew how bad she was
Hilarie Ashton4Emma Thompson and Miriam Margolyes too, but it was before anyone knew about JK's hideous transphobia. Both are strong trans advocates!
Andrew Nelson1Somehow extremely on brand for him that his one character who isn’t kind of a hot mess was in the franchise whose creator and fans take hot mess to previously unimagined heights.
A great comparison: Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series. It’s been on for 3 years now. No one really talks about it. Apparently it costs about 60 million dollars an episode. This is quite possibly the fate of the HBO Harry Potter redux
Alan Grofield3The chuds tried a little whining about Rings of Power being woke but then everyone forgot about it entirely. This one is gonna have huge political discourse about it, so it won’t be no impact, but I don’t think being a right wing cause will help.
Craig1i hope so, but there's a crucial difference in that the lotr movies didn't create anywhere near as many readers as the potter series did. the lotr movies were almost a self-contained event relative to potter, which had the books coming out as the movies were made
Ilan Muskat1I don't want HBO to hit an iceberg on a, you know, general level, but in this particular case I would be fine with it
Erren1Warner Bros also doesn't have access to infinite money like Rings of Power does.
Imagine having the world at your feet as an actor and then mulching your career into TERF swill like this: deadline.com/2026/08/nich...
Tom De Ville21He didn't need the fucking money, I can tell you that much.
Ronnie B7Some ppl have literally no principles or ability to self reflect except when something maybe affects them personally
🖤 Blinded by Delight🖤4This cast list is just becoming a great big obituary because everyone on it is dead to me.
your fairy saltmother 🧂3I hope they all get heartworm
Alex Franqueira ✨🇱🇧3he is a fantastic actor and this is the dumbest thing he’s ever done.
What losing Batman does to a motherfucker. Aaron Taylor-Johnson does Kraven. Nicholas Hoult does throws his lot in with Harry Potter. And Armie Hammer does literal sex crimes. Robert Pattinson really broke these dudes fr.
Andy Mayer8Fitting that Lex Luthor would work with someone who's as much of a smug, bigoted narcissist who goes out of their way to ruin the lives of people they hate as he is. HEYO!
Matt G. ♾️4Congratulations Nicholas. You embarrassed yourself.
SJWJamesBond3You know what? He got his ass handed to him by a superpowered dog anyway, that's what I think of this news.
Sam, the Geeky Citizen2He already has job security playing Lex Luthor. Is that not enough? Did he really need a one season gig playing one of the most pathetic characters in that dang series?
Andy Mayer15Honestly, this makes perfect sense. Luthor and Rowling are both smug, bigoted narcissists who will go out of their way to use their money to ruin the lives of everyone they hate.
SJWJamesBond14You know what? Hoult played an evil billionaire who gets his ass handed to him by a superpowered dog, that's catharsis anyway.
Adam Bednarczyk5Can people just not watch Season 1 first so the show will get hilariously cancelled?
The Gil-Monster4"Witness me"; fuck you with that shit, Nicky
