LOS ANGELES — WB announced today that former MMA fighter and Star Wars actress Gina Carano has been cast in the role of Severus Snape for their upcoming Harry Potter TV series.
“It seemed like the perfect fit,” said casting director Michael Marshall, who has struggled to cast the show as JK Rowling’s transphobia turns actors away from the project. “Before Carano we had considered quite a few other actors but once they said no or told me to fuck off, I had to widen the search. In the end a Google search of transphobe + actor + out of work led me to Gina and we couldn’t be happier that she had space in her schedule for us.”
Carano, who was let go from a lucrative role in The Mandalorian that was meant to lead into a spin-off series about her character when she couldn’t stop posting transphobia and comparing treatment of Republicans to Jewish people during the Holocaust, didn’t have to give the offer much thought.
“When the call came through at first I was just amazed that the phone company hadn’t cut me off for unpaid bills,” said Carano during a break from filming a Daily Wire movie about Joseph Biden’s dog. “And then to be offered a real life TV show, I was like, Gina, you’re not eating cat food tonight!”
JK Rowling released a statement praising the casting choice and voicing her hopes for the show.
“There are over 700 characters in the Harry Potter novels,” wrote Rowling, who will executive produce the show and make at least one bullshit anti-Trans statement every day of its production. “And now that we’ve cast one of those characters, my hope is that other actors will follow. Ideally they won’t all be disgraced and shunned, but if that’s the way it goes, we’ll take whatever trash we can get and you Harry Potter loving idiots will eat whatever shit we put on your plate.”
The show will debut in 2026 with head of WB, David Zaslav planning to erase it and write it off for tax purposes by early 2027.
