![]() ![]() “But she never spoke because you know the rule was if you’re not British, you can’t speak.” “She worked about 80 days,” Columbus said about his daughter’s role. ![]() in Talks for Harry Potter TV Series at HBO Max Bones is one of the first students to put on the sorting hat in “Sorcerer’s Stone.” ![]() Speaking to Insider this week, Columbus remembered how his daughter was allowed to star in the small role of Susan Bones but was not allowed to speak in the film because she was not British. One American that did happen to land a part in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” was Eleanor Columbus, daughter of director Chris Columbus. The “Brits only” rule famously resulted in Robin Williams being rejected from the film. As casting director Janet Hirshenson once told HuffPo, “The ‘only British’ rule was so important that Robin Williams was even turned down to play Hagrid…Robin had called because he really wanted to be in the movie, but it was a British-only edict, and once he said no to Robin, he wasn’t going to say yes to anybody else, that’s for sure. Rowling’s mandate that only British actors star in the big-budget fantasy adaptation. When Chris Columbus signed on to direct “ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” he agreed to adhere to J.K. ![]()
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