Dame Emma Thompson shares surprising reality of her Harry Potter appearance
Dame Emma Thompson, who played Professor Trelawney in Harry Potter, has made a confession about the film that will leave Potterheads in tears.
The Harry Potter film franchise was a decade-long success that was jam-packed with almost every single British actor who was working at the time.
Fiona Shaw, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Robbie Coltrane, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, and Gary Oldman were among the many actors to grace the screen in the eight-part franchise.
One of the most beloved performances in the series came from Dame Emma Thompson, who played the Divination Professor, Sybil Trelawney.
The character was a loopy caricature of a somewhat fraudulent fortune-teller who predicted death in every lesson and came across as pretty darn bonkers – but harmless, making her a fan-favourite character in the franchise.
However, while the character may have played a key role in the films and be totally beloved by fans, Dame Emma, 66, confessed that Potter doesn't have a huge place in her heart.
The actress has had a long and impressive career outside of Potter (Picture: Anthony Harvey/REX/Shutterstock)
The actor made her debut in the franchise in 2003 in Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban (Picture: Murray Close/ Getty Images)
'It's not really an important part of my creative endeavours,' she confessed while at the Locarno Film Festival, where this year she was a guest of honour, as reported by Deadline.
'I'm really sorry,' added to any Potter fans in the audience.
'I don't mean to be rude to those of you who like Harry Potter, but you know, I came in, did a bit with glasses and a lot of hair, and then left having been quite well paid.'
The actress first appeared in the third Potter movie in the franchise, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
She later reprised the role in the fifth and eighth movies in the franchise; The Order of Phoenix and The Deathly Hallows Part 2.
Dame Emma's ex Sir Kenneth Branagh (R) starred in the second movie as Gilderoy Lockhart (Picture: Warner Bros)
The star's appearance in the film series was particularly notable as she joined the franchise after her ex-husband, Sir Kenneth Branagh, who played Gilderoy Lockhart in the second film, Chamber of Secrets.
The fifth film also saw Helena Bonham-Carter join the movies as Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange.
Dame Emma and Sir Kenneth's six-year marriage ended in 1995 as a result of the apparent unfaithfulness, which came after Sir Kenneth and Helena appeared together in 1994's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Helena Bonham Carter played Bellatrix Lestrange in the films (Picture: Murray Close/ Getty Images)
He publicly dated Helena until 1999 when the pair split after six years together.
In 2022, Dame Emma told the New Yorker: 'I was utterly, utterly blind to the fact that he had relationships with other women on set. What I learned was how easy it is to be blinded by your own desire to deceive yourself.'
She has been married for 27 years to her Sense and Sensibility co-star and now-husband Greg Wise.
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