Bill Nighy confirms Scrimgeour role in Deathly Hallows
 

We reported last week that actor Bill Nighy had been cast in Deathly Hallows. He revealed this weekend at the Oxfam Bookfest that he will indeed be playing Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour in the seventh installment of the Harry Potter series.

A new photo of Bill at the book festival can be seen here:

http://www.snitchseeker.com/gallery/...rs-for-001.jpg

Cool, awesome.:D

Well, everyone figured since that was the only part available.

Aah, wasn't that the guy someone said ages ago that they thought it would be him? Or is it someone who looks similar??

Awesome news wewt :D Tho at times I kinda wish they just kept Fudge for DH, I think his death would of made more of an impact seeing that Scrimagour was cut from HBP, but anyways Yay! :D

Those are great news :D I'm sure he'll be fabulous ^^

sweet I can totally see him playing Rufus Scrimgeour, and playing a vampire again to, cool!!!:D

Great! Not a surprise, really :)

Yeah!!!!!!!! i love him!!!!

That's great news! He'll be great!

Cool! I think he'll make a nice Scrimgeouer.

I love Bill Nighy, i think he'll be a great Scrimgeouer. He was great in POTC!

YESYESYESYESYES!!!!!

ohhhh emmm geeeee

As you can see... I am extremely happy about this arrangement :D Bill Nighy is one of my favourite, if not my very favourite. This put a smile on my face. :D

Yay!

Yayy ! I'm happy he's playing Scrimgeour.

Cool. Loved him in 'Pirates', he was cool as Davy Jones.

ok, great!

Argh he did GREAT as Davy Jones!!!! :) Cant wait to see him in DH!!!!

YAY! I wish his role was bigger like Aberforth!

So does that mean WB is beefing up Scrimgeour's role since he gets killed so early on?

wow!! i always wanted him to be in the harry potter movies and yay he's scrimegour

SWEET! Fantastic news.

cool :pfd:

HAhaahahaah!

Nailed it, EmmaRiddle! *high fives*



Ooo, I wonder if this means they've decided to add other scenes that were originally cut as well.

Did the just tell us this the other day?

Kool. I think he'll be good as Scrimgeour

that is cool!!! I love his quote about no longer being "the last British actor not in Harry Potter!" LOL

Aha! I knew it!

A little scrawny and old for the character, but make-up and such can make miracles. We'll se.

i cant totally see him playing the new minister of magic he is a pretty amazing guy

I laughed so much at his reference to no longer being the only English actor in Harry Potter

I don't know why, but yeah, I kind of pictured him unconsciously as Scrimgeour as well. Jo described him as looking like an old lion, and it was Bill Nighy's face I pictured right away...don't ask how. I guess I'd say he has a "lion-esque" facial structure.

But Minister of Magic aside, Rufus Scrimgeour is not a 'good guy'. He's not evil, but after his introduction in HBP, all he's done was attempt to persuade Harry to be the Ministry's poster boy and withold Gryffindor's sword from the trio despite it stating in Dumbledore's will clearly that it was meant for them.

That was the last thing before he died too, so despite him not being a nasty piece of work like Umbridge, I'm still not particularly a fan of Scrimgeour, no.

I love what he said about not being the only English actor not to be in the HP films anymore. haha.

oh yes! i knew it had to be for Scrimgeour! he's perfect for the part!

OMG!!
Davy Jones!!:dunce: :pirate2:
LOL never thought this day would come:xd:
And,yeah,I think he's actually right..He is definitely one of the few Brit actors that still haven't played in HP

Davy Jones? Awesome!

That's great news!

i wish he was Dumbledore right from the onstart :(, but hey, i'll take whatever Bill Nighy i could get in this Potter franchise.

David Yates wanted him two years ago.

They've cast the one who replaces Scrimgeour so I can't imagine it'll be too inflated.


He didn't say who he was cast as.

Great! They may need to give him the lion-like hair that is such a dominant feature of Scrimgeour. :)

Great!