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Here’s Why the ‘Harry Potter’ Movie Producers Rejected Robin Williams’ Request to Play Hagrid

Despite his desire to play the jovial gamekeeper and groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series, comedy legend Robin Williams wasn’t even offered an audition by the film’s makers — it was the biggest miscarriage of justice since they took Hagrid’s wand.

Anyone who has had the pleasure of watching Williams’ enchanting improvisation in Aladdin knows that Mork and magic are a match made in the wizarding world’s equivalent of heaven. The stand-up sensation’s evolution into beloved children’s entertainer was even smoother than Harry Potter writer J.K. Rowling’s transition from adored kids’ book writer to abhorred transphobe.

Sean Penn’s Angry Letter to Trey Parker and Matt Stone Post-’Team America’ Is Still Hilarious 20 Years Later

If Matt Damon could take his hilarious Team America: World Police portrayal on the slightly melted chin, then why couldn’t Sean Penn find a way to process his parody in the literal puppet show in a way that came across a little less high-strung?

When Trey Parker and Matt Stone set out to satirize American foreign policy and the discourse surrounding it in pop culture through the medium of marionettes, they successfully managed to offend every side of the War on Terror in their signature South Park-esque fashion. However, of all the many satire targets in Team America, no one got it nearly as rough as the self-important, sanctimonious Hollywood elite who use their platforms to preach their politics to the rabble.

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