E54: New Casting! Nicholas Hoult will be Gilderoy Lockhart

We got someone, and it is not Jon Snow, who voiced Gilderoy Lockhart in the full cast audiobooks, and there were rumors that he may take on the full role.

But we got someone who can definitely play kind of dumb and beautiful and evil, and it is Sir Nicholas Hoult.

I was thinking-

He wasn't a sir

...

Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington.

No, he's not a sir.

But he could be one day.

He could be knighted.

Um, he's a pretty big, he's a pretty big deal.

When we talk about they haven't really gotten a star since Lithgow.

Um, Nicholas Hoult is legitimate and, you know, on the younger side when it comes to all of this age range.

How old is he?

So w- what were your initial takeaways, Steven, on seeing this pop up?

I mean, I remember him most from Superman, and I liked him in Superman.

So then I, I went and looked up and he's, he's done a lot of evil, which I thought was interesting, 'cause Gilderoy I always thought of as more of kind of like a, a bumbling kind of idiot who's getting away with it.

But I would kind of like to see him as played a little bit more nefarious, a little more evil.

They, they kind of go hand-in-hand-

So I feel like there's potential for that

... 'cause he gets real evil at the end of the movie.

But even his, like, arrogance and his dunderheadedness and the manipulation at the beginning, I think it really clicked in my head when they announced it.

I was like, "I can really see this coming from him." And interestingly, his early roles that I saw him in, and that's not About a Boy.

He did About a Boy when he was very young, very cute kid.

But I think of, he was in Warm Bodies, which is like a zombie rom-com.

He was Beast in X-Men.