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Being Lord Voldemort

via BBC News:

It's reported John Malkovich has signed up to play a baddie in the next H@rry Potter movie.

He's said to be taking the role of Harry's arch enemy, evil Lord Voldemort, in 'H@rry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' - the fourth film in the series.

His young daughters, big Potter fans, apparently talked him into doing it.

But he'll share the role with a computerised puppet because at the start of the film Voldemort is so wasted by his own evil he is barely a skeleton.

He'll have a spectacular fight scene with Harry, played by Daniel Radcliffe, at the end of the film.

For the record, I don't believe this. I had been under the impression that JK Rowling and the H@rry Potter powers that be had made it clear at the start of the movies that the characters would all be played by British actors. Last I checked, John Malkovich is not British and according to his bio on IMDB, he was born in Illinois. In fact, I had read somewhere that Chris Columbus had desparately wanted to cast Haley Joel Osment as Harry in The Sorcerer's Stone but JKR nixed it since he is American. I guess time will tell whether this rumor is true.