Harry Potter Star Reveals She Rejected $600k For The MCU Role That Perfectly Suited Her

An outspoken Harry Potter actor revealed that she turned down a huge paycheck to join the MCU. The comments resurfaced when an interview from September 2023 went viral on X.com, revealing the kind of money Marvel Studios was offering to the cast of Agatha, the upcoming WandaVision spin-off that will finally arrive in late 2024.

Miriam Margolyes – who recently courted controversy by suggesting that adult fans of Harry Potter should “grow up” – spoke to Australian news outlet News.com.au while promoting her autobiography “Oh Miriam!”. In the book, she mentioned having turned down a Marvel role, explaining that the parties were unable to reach a financial agreement. She then followed up with more detail, revealing exactly why she rejected the opportunity:

“They contacted me and said, ‘we’re doing a story about witches’. I thought, ‘oh god, not witches again, because I’ve done that with Harry Potter… I don’t like America and I didn’t want to be in Georgia for four months. So I just said, ‘well, I want a million pounds ($1.2 million)’ and they said, ‘you can have half a million’, and I said, ‘no, I don’t want to do it’, so it just stopped. Really it’s a story about my own greed rather than anything else.”

It’s reasonable to suggest that Margolyes would have been up for the role of Marvel witch Lilia Calderu, which went to Patti LuPone. The two are just 8 years apart in age, and the rest of Agatha‘s cast fits a completely different profile.