{"id":358,"date":"2025-02-28T19:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T19:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:54:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T21:54:25","slug":"john-lithgow-is-albus-dumbledore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"John Lithgow IS Albus Dumbledore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It\u2019s official! John Lithgow is our new Dumbledore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After speculation a couple of weeks ago, Lithgow confirmed his casting in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/harry-potter-show-john-lithgow-dumbledore-casting-confirmed\/\">ScreenRant<\/a>. The veteran actor is the first and only actor officially cast in the new Harry Potter series. As filming will begin this summer, we expect more announcements in the coming months. Perhaps Professor Snape and Lord Voldemort?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-20.png 450w, https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-20-300x241.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"> <sub> Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt20215234\/mediaviewer\/rm268858625\/?ref_=tt_ph_1_3\">IMDB<\/a><br>John Lithgow in Conclave <\/sub> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-21.png 450w, https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-21-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\"> <sub> Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrypotter.com\/fact-file\/characters-and-pets\/albus-dumbledore\">HarryPotter.com<\/a><br>Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore <\/sub> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Keep up with us for more casting news <a href=\"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/?tag=harry-potter-series\">HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It\u2019s official! John Lithgow is our new Dumbledore. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After speculation a couple of weeks ago, Lithgow confirmed his casting in an interview with ScreenRant. The veteran actor is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,165,164],"tags":[54,79,80,151,77,119,16,75,76,78],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-harry-potter-series","category-shows","tag-54","tag-79","tag-80","tag-albus-dumbledore","tag-casting","tag-dumbledore","tag-harry-potter-2","tag-harry-potter-series","tag-hbo","tag-max"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterspotter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}