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BBC News
a day ago
- Business
- BBC News
'How muscular dystrophy changed life on our Dufton farm'
A farmer living with a degenerative disease has shared how he adapted life on the farm to overcome the challenges of his Laidlow, 52, has muscular dystrophy - a progressive condition which causes muscles to sheep, climbing up and down a tractor and carrying out maintenance work at his farm in Dufton, near Appleby in Cumbria, may have become difficult tasks, but with support from his family and a few adaptations, he continues to run the business."I've got so much going for me in life at the minute and I live in such a beautiful place," he said. "You do get down thinking about the future from time to time, but really I've got such a good support." Mr Laidlow's condition means it is hard for him to handle sheep, but instead of giving up farming, they switched from textile sheep to Herdwicks, which are smaller and easier to handle for the rest of his family without his uses step ladders to get into his tractor and access to the farm has been changed to reduce trip hazards."When you're active all your life you don't want to stop, but you just need to adjust things," Mr Laidlow said."It's incredibly frustrating, you see something like a gap in a drystone wall, it used to take me half an hour to fix beforehand." 'Getting old quick' Speaking to BBC Radio Cumbria's Mike Zeller at Breakfast, the father-of-three said he first noticed his symptoms at the start of the coronavirus lockdown, when he found it hard to get into the tractor or climb the stairs at night."I know when you get tired and a bit achy at night sometimes all of those are difficult, but it just seemed to be too consistent," Mr Laidlow he thought it was a result of being unfit and overweight, so he tried to address that and attended appointments with chiropractors and was one of those professionals who suggested his problems might stem elsewhere, which kickstarted the process of receiving a diagnosis."It was a shock obviously, because when you start reading up about it - it's the beginning of a lifechanging thing," Mr Laidlow said."But in the same breath - and I know it sounds stupid - I was a bit relieved that I was diagnosed with something, because I was thinking 'I'm getting old too quickly, I can't continue doing what I'm doing for a living'." Accessible countryside With support from his family and careful planning, he has adapted farm life to work for him, but also for others who may struggle with their daughter Katie, 18, who also works on the farm, said they worked to make footpaths on their land more accessible."We tried our best to replace stiles with gates," she said."Just simple things like making sure they're wide enough to allow wheelchairs and pushchairs - it does affect everybody really."The teenager recently ran the Manchester marathon in aid of charity Muscular event day was the first time she ran on roads, having trained on the farm, fields and surrounding fells."Living here with a hill in every direction I go in, I do think it helped me massively for running the marathon - I think it improved my overall stamina and endurance," she said. Follow BBC Cumbria on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.


The Guardian
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Wicked, Mountainhead and Nicolas Cage's Surfer: what's new to streaming in Australia in June
TV, Australia, 2025 – out 6 June I wasn't a big fan of Jane Harper's murder mystery The Survivors: the characters never engaged me and it seemed obsessed with bridging a gap between past and present. Plus, its central metaphor – about the ocean dredging up old secrets – felt rather laboured. So I'm hesitant, albeit curious, about Tony Ayres' Netflix adaptation, which will surely deploy flashbacks aplenty, like the two previous Harper adaptations: The Dry and its sequel. The setting is the fictitious Evelyn Bay, which is upended after a young woman is murdered on the beach. Charlie Vickers plays Kieran Elliott, who has recently returned to the town with his partner, Mia (Yerin Ha), and their baby, still feeling profound guilt over a terrible event that occurred 15 years ago. Could the two events be connected? Film, USA, 2024 – out 26 June The most audacious thing about Wicked is the framing of Elphaba Thropp. Turns out the so-called Wicked Witch of the West is actually a good person, her reputation cruelly sullied by Emerald City's propaganda machine. In director Jon M. Chu's glossy blockbuster, she is played by Cynthia Erivo, who of course belts out a show-stopping number about defying gravity. My favourite part is a daffy but good-natured, symbolism-heavy side plot, about animals being targeted by a government that wants to lock them up and remove their ability to speak. Film, Australia/US, 2018 – out 28 June Leigh Whannell's low-budget but very slick and polished sci-fi is a lean, mean, thrillingly executed revenge movie. Based in the not-too-distant future, the plot rockets to life when its mechanic protagonist, Grey (Logan Marshall-Green), is attacked by transhuman criminals, who kill his wife and turn him into a quadriplegic. An experimental procedure gives him back the use of his body, with the condition that he must share it with a computer. Frenetic, frame-flipping action scenes show the computer taking control and making mince meat of any fool who stands in Grey's way. But maybe the AI has its own agenda. Whannell strikes a cracking balance, combining midnight movie thrills and spills with juicy ideas. Honourable mentions: Rumours (film, 5 June), Tires season 2 (TV, 5 June), K.O. (film, 6 June), Titan: The Oceangate Disaster (TV, 11 June), Fubar season 2 (TV, 12 June), The Pope's Exorcist (film, 15 June), Squid Game: season 3 (TV, 27 June). Film, Australia/Ireland, 2025 – out 15 June Want to know what Wake in Fright would look like with Nicolas Cage taking the lead? The Surfer is the closest you'll come to finding out. Cage plays a well-off businessperson who, after many years abroad, returns to the small Australian coastal town he grew up in, determined to buy his old family home. When he arrives at the local beach, however, he's accosted by a gang of hoodlums who steal his surfboard and repeatedly bark their mantra: 'Don't live here, don't surf here.' All-out war erupts, triggering a downward spiral for the protagonist and a familiar treat for the audience: watching Nic Cage go nuts. Before you know it, he's babbling like a madman and drinking beer from puddles. Director Lorcan Finnegan maintains an ironic touch, cutting to shampoo commercial visions of sand and surf. But the tone is ferociously surreal. TV, UK, 2025 – out 4 June Near the beginning of creator Stephen Butchard's BBC crime series, Sean Bean's character, Ronnie Phelan, wonders whether his margins 'could be better' and issues his right hand man Michael (James Nelson-Joyce) the following directive: 'Same gear, better price.' Ronnie is a crime boss with an eye on retirement, wanting to boost his coffers before slipping off into the sunset with his wife (Julie Graham). This creates a succession struggle, the top contenders being Michael and Ronnie's eldest son Jamie (Jack McMullen). There's nothing wildly original about any of this, but, going by the first episode, it's diligently made, with strong performances and downcast vibes. Film, Australia, 2025 – out 15 June 'At our beach, at our magic beach … ' If you're a parent there's a good chance those words have been emblazoned on to your psyche, thanks to the gorgeous writing and illustrations of Alison Lester. Separated into 10 chapters, each inspired by different pages and animated in a different style, Robert Connolly's adaptation – as I wrote in my review – is 'a beautifully imperfect production, shirking the straight lines, smooth curves and spit-polished surfaces so ubiquitous in mainstream kids' movies'. Honourable mentions: The Last Man on Earth seasons 1-4 (TV, 4 June), Coming 2 America (film, 7 June), Magic Mike (film, 8 June), Marie Antoinette (film, 15 June), The Kids Are Alright (film, 25 June). TV, Denmark/France/Sweden/Czech Republic/Belgium/Norway/Germany, 2024 – out 20 June This is the first TV series from director Thomas Vinterberg, whose previous film Another Round was a sharp, entertaining, and very boozy tale of a group of school teachers who attempt to remain neither sober nor drunk. The subject is grimmer this time around: Families Like Ours is set in a climate-devastated future where Denmark is evacuated due to rising sea levels. Property becomes worthless and much of the population become refugees. In the words of the Guardian's Lucy Mangan, 'Vinterberg takes what most of us treat as an existential threat, a problem too huge and frightening to think about, and puts it into a more manageable frame.' TV, Australia, 2025 – out 19 June Packaged in the form of six 10-minute episodes – though I recommend watching them all in one sitting – Moonbird is set on a remote Tasmanian island, exploring the relationship between a father (Kyle Morrison) who's teaching his son (Lennox Monaghan) about the Aboriginal tradition of muttonbirding, which involves the harvesting of mutton bird chicks. There are tensions: the boy says he doesn't 'believe in murdering innocent sea birds' while Dad insists that 'this is your culture'. The story is modest but hits its emotional beats, and the location is immersively captured by director, co-creator and co-writer Nathan Maynard. Honourable mentions: Two Hands (film, 1 June), The Last Samurai (film, 1 June), The Long Kiss Goodnight (film, 1 June), Paperback Hero (film, 6 June), La Storia (TV, 12 June), Lord of the Flies (film, 13 June), Black Daisies (TV, 26 June), Iris (TV, 26 June), Constantine (film, 27 June), Midsommar (film, 28 June), My Name Is Gulpilil (film, 30 June). TV, UK, 2025 – out 3 June How 'bout some good old-fashioned dinosaurs? The original Walking with Dinosaurs series premiered in 1999, generating big ratings. But, uh-oh, the remake didn't impress the Guardian's Jack Seale, who described it as nothing more than 'a decent dino documentary' that 'feels cheap and tired'. Sounds like (apologies) a dinosnore! Honourable mentions: Police Rescue (TV, 1 June), Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee season two (TV, 4 June), Bay of Fires season 2 (TV, 15 June), Little Disasters season 1 (TV, 15 June), Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius (TV, 16 June), Prime Suspect (TV, 29 June), The Gulf seasons 1-2 (TV, 20 June). Film, US, 2024 – out 3 June Nicole Kidman delivers one of her best and bravest performances in years as Romy Mathis, a robotics company CEO who engages in a very steamy and kinky affair with Samuel (Harris Dickinson), a much younger intern. As their relationship intensifies, one can sense things probably aren't going to end well, with plenty of intense 'no, don't do it!' moments. Kidman is unsettlingly good at layering a character turned on by danger and risk. Honourable mentions: Mr Robot seasons 1-4 (TV, 1 June), Deep Cover (film, 12 June), Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (film, 1 June), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (film, 1 June), The Twisters (film, 4 June), Ready Player One (film, 17 June), We Were Liars (TV, 18 June), Promising Young Woman (film, 19 June), Countdown (TV, 25 June), Heretic (film, 26 June), The Hunger Games (film, 30 June). Film, US, 2025 – out 1 June Four ultra-wealthy tech bros gather for a poker weekend in the mountains in the film directorial debut of Succession creator Jesse Armstrong. As they're there – gasbassing about apps, deals, and the need for 'digital milkshakes' and 'robot handjobs' – the wider world descends into chaos, largely due to technology their companies have rolled out. This is strikingly sharp and timely satire, with smugly entertaining performances from Steve Carell, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef and Jason Schwartzman. Film, US, 2025 – date TBC The sensationally popular Minecraft movie doesn't do a great job introducing its world to people, like me, who are largely ignorant of it, beyond some basic information and an appreciation of that blocky aesthetic. But I got the sense this was deliberate; one, as they say, for the fans – and by god there are lots of them. The story revolves around a bunch of people who are pulled into the 'Overworld' via a magical portal. The film is immensely boosted by Jack Black and Jason Momoa's highly entertaining performances – particularly the latter, who's dressed in an outrageously great pink leather jacket. Honourable mentions: The Mortician (TV, 2 June), The Expendables 1-3 (film, 14 June), Sherri Papini: Caught in the Lie (TV, 20 June), John Wick (film, 21 June), The Matrix (film, 21 June), The Matrix Reloaded (film, 21 June), The Matrix Revolutions (film, 21 June), Enigma (film, 25 June), My Mom Jayne (film, 28 June), When No One Sees Us (TV, 30 June). Film, UK, 2025 – out 8 June David Attenborough sure has a great work ethic – especially for someone who's almost 100. The new documentary from the legendary presenter and biologist is a deeply alarming assessment of the health of the world's oceans, which are in serious trouble due to overfishing. The film (co-directed by Colin Butfield, Toby Nowlan and Keith Scholey) carefully establishes that ocean life lives in a delicate balance, before examining the sheer ruination of the seas: a terribly sad state of affairs. The last act, as is common in activist documentaries, is more optimistic, offering some potential solutions. It's nicely shot and, of course, beautifully narrated by Atto. Honourable mentions: Mission: Impossible 1-6 (film, 1 June), Predator: Killer of Killers (film, 6 June), The Incredible Hulk (film, 20 June), Ironheart (TV, 25 June), The Bear season 4 (TV, 26 June). TV, US, 2025 – out 4 June Will Apple's new comedy-drama do for golf what Ted Lasso did for baseball? Probably not. But its appeal extends far beyond those who love whacking balls across well-maintained lawns. In large part because of Owen Wilson, who's just so damn likable as Pryce Cahill, a former professional golfer with a chequered relationship to the sport. He's convinced that a young talent (Peter Dager) can crack the big time, taking the (initially reluctant) kid under his wing. All of this fits comfortably within a familiar sports narrative format, at least going by the first two episodes. There's not the faintest desire to risk or innovate. But it's pleasant, moreish viewing. Honourable mentions: Echo Valley (film, 13 June), Smoke (film, 27 June).


The Guardian
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Walk on the wild side: Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs on their epic hiking movie The Salt Path
'I have played a lot of powerful, well-dressed women in my career,' says Gillian Anderson. They flash before your eyes: Margaret Thatcher (The Crown), Eleanor Roosevelt (The First Lady), Emily Maitlis (the Prince Andrew/Newsnight drama Scoop) – as well as the formidable sex therapist in the Netflix hit Sex Education, a role that led to her being inundated with dildos from over-enthusiastic fans. 'These are all women in control of themselves and their environment. Any time I have an opportunity to steer against that, particularly lately, it's of interest to me.' There is steering in another direction, and then there is the screeching handbrake turn represented by her role in The Salt Path, adapted from Raynor Winn's 2018 memoir of homelessness and hope along the coastline of England's south-west. Playing Winn, Anderson is shown making a single teabag stretch for several cuppas, withdrawing the final £1.38 from her bank account, and warming her blistered feet by a pub fire. A typical day begins with her peeing in the undergrowth. It's a far cry from Agent Scully in The X-Files. Winn's response to a double catastrophe in her life in 2013 was to embark on the lengthy South West Coast Path walk with her husband, Moth. The film's opening scene shows the couple's tent being flooded during a King Lear-level storm. A flashback then reveals how they ended up in this sorry, soggy state. A bad investment left them saddled with crippling debts and the couple lost the farm in Wales where they had brought up their now-adult children. While cowering in the hallway from bailiffs, Winn took inspiration from a cherished book glimpsed among their partly packed belongings: Five Hundred Mile Walkies, in which Mark Wallington recounts the trek he and his dog took around the south-west. He must have miscalculated the journey, however. It is in fact 630 miles, including many steep ascents and descents. And as if penury and homelessness were not challenging enough, Moth had recently been diagnosed with a rare brain disease, corticobasal syndrome, and advised by doctors to rest. Stairs, he was told, would be particularly problematic. Twelve years and those 630 miles later, Moth Winn is, miraculously, still alive. He is played in the film by Jason Isaacs, who sits beside his screen wife today in a London hotel room. Their contrasting body language is instantly revealing. The 56-year-old Anderson, friendly but with a casually authoritative aura, is perched side-saddle in her chair, one leg crossed away from me, so that she seems almost to be looking back over her shoulder in my direction as she speaks. Isaacs, 61, leans forward, elbows on knees, keen to get stuck in. It is as if they are still playing their parts from The Salt Path: Raynor Winn, with her patina of reserve and caution, and Moth, eager to make sure everyone else is comfortable, a people-pleaser even when the people aren't worth pleasing, as some of those they meet on their travels manifestly are not. A passerby berates them for wild camping, beating their tent with his stick. In a scene that hasn't made it from page to screen, Winn is humiliated by a woman who spots her scrambling on the ground for dropped coins and assumes she is drunk. Despite those flashes of conflict, Winn had doubts about how her story would work on screen. 'It's about two people and a path,' she tells me from the home she and Moth now share in Cornwall. 'I couldn't grasp how that could be a film.' But Marianne Elliott, the acclaimed stage director of War Horse, Angels in America, and Company, makes her screen directing debut here and tells me she always saw The Salt Path as inherently cinematic. 'Ray and Moth hardly talk on their walk,' she says. 'They are carrying their trauma on their back, but then they slowly calm down and start to look up and engage with the majestic landscapes. And they are changed by it. It felt like nature was playing with them, like a wild beast – sometimes giving them beauty and wonder, and sometimes battering them cruelly. They were reformed by the elements, if you like.' Playwright and screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz, who adapted The Salt Path for the screen, says she saw nature as the key to unlocking the film version. 'Any reservations were about the walking,' she says. 'You know: how do we make walking dynamic for that amount of time? It felt like we needed almost to take the weather and the landscape as a character. It needed to be a film with a lot of silence. It's not some chatty, walky comedy.' Watching Isaacs trudging across English landscapes, however magnificent, feels incongruous after all those scenes of him suffering existential despair in luxurious five-star surroundings in the Thailand-set third season of The White Lotus. I assume he will be heartily sick of talking about the series by now, but it is he who brings up the similarity between the characters he plays. 'They're both men who lose everything. And they react in very different ways, which is a measure of who they are.' His character in The White Lotus was prone to suicidal ideations. So, too, was the apparently upbeat Moth. 'He laughs all the time, even when he's describing the toll his disease has taken on him. But he felt suicidal on the walk. He and Ray were crippled with shame, and the future was this abyss for them. They hid that from one another. They constantly made each other laugh. Acting is a game of pretend, and that's what they were both doing.' What were Anderson's first impressions of Raynor? 'I was surprised at how guarded she was,' she says. 'Of course, it must be strange: you've got two relatively famous actors who are going to play you showing up at your house. But it was interesting to encounter a certain steeliness. It was informative for me to see that.' 'You can be quite steely,' Isaacs says. 'You've got that in you.' 'Oh, definitely,' she agrees. 'I know that about myself.' Having been surprised when her memoir was optioned, Winn says she was even more taken aback by the casting. 'I remember thinking, 'How is that going to work? How will someone so perfect and glamorous capture me in that raw state?'' Things got even more confusing when she told Moth the news. 'He thought I meant Pamela Anderson.' During the first meeting between the four of them, the Winns explained to the actors the details of how they packed, knowing that they couldn't take more than what could be carried on their backs. 'Then they put the tent up for us right there in the living room,' Isaacs says. 'I'm not sure if I'd … ever … camped … before,' says Anderson, stringing the words out as though anticipating derision. 'You'd never pitched a tent?' asks Isaacs in mild disbelief. 'Not as far as I can remember,' she says. 'I might have pitched one for my kids in the back garden.' Isaacs says he is 'all about climbing things, jumping off things, swimming through things. Canyons and stuff. I like extreme physical experiences. Even at my advanced age, I see something and I think, 'That'd be fun to climb up. Or slide down.' I'm still a 12-year-old boy trapped in a 100-year-old body.' As a child, he went wild camping with his family in Wales. 'We'd get woken by farmers. Or livestock.' Once, they parked in heavy fog on a small hill and pitched their tent. 'You couldn't see your hand in front of you. We woke up to find we'd camped on a roundabout.' Anderson gasps and claps her hands: 'That's such a good story!' The Salt Path began life as a diary that Winn kept on the walk, and which she later wrote up as a gift for Moth – and, more urgently, as a way of preserving the experience for him as his memory began to fade. That diary spawned a Big Issue article and then a book, nominated for the Costa prize in 2018. The judges called it 'an absolutely brilliant story that needs to be told about the human capacity to endure and keep putting one foot in front of another'. The picture will doubtless reignite interest in the South West Coast Path, and attract more walkers after a recent downturn. To anyone tempted to wonder whether walking is having 'a moment', what with the film of The Salt Path following David Nicholls's novel You Are Here (about a friendship that blooms on a 200-mile coast-to-coast hike across the north of England), it is as well to remember that what the Winns did was born out desperation. They found beauty and a kind of salvation, and the walk even seemed to help Moth to defy his doctors' prognosis, but it was often a ghastly, hardscrabble journey. 'They were desperate and lonely and scared,' says Isaacs. 'They wanted to avoid towns because they got treated badly there and they had no money to buy food. They were happier by themselves away from people. They experienced both sides of human nature: tremendous compassion and generosity but also abuse and neglect. They were frightened of the police and of anyone who would come along and dehumanise them just because they were homeless. Though the book itself was a love letter to Moth, there's a marked lack of sentimentality when they speak about what happened. They got all kinds of different benefits from the walk but they still wanted a warm roof over their heads.' One thing that is impossible to capture on screen, he says, is their persistent hunger. 'It colours everything. We do our best to tell the story but that's a physical ache. They would stand at cafe windows watching people eat.' Anderson is nodding along. 'Ray talks in the book about pretending to eat, and how the fantasy of eating, the act of moving the mouth, does half the job,' she says. Winn tells me that living below the breadline has altered her for ever. 'It changes how you feel about material things,' she says. 'Having let go of everything we had, possessions don't concern me in the same way they did before. Anything that doesn't enrich your life just gets in the way. The stuff we gather can easily start to control us.' Winn says her life is much as it ever was, though Moth now tires more easily, and requires extensive physiotherapy. 'Except without the worry of paying the rent.' As the author of several bestselling books, does she allow herself the occasional luxury these days? 'I do,' she sighs. 'Sometimes it's nice to have the whole pasty instead of just half.' The Salt Path is in UK and Irish cinemas from 30 May.


Time Out
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The Peninsula Hong Kong is reimagining Bizet's ‘Carmen' opera
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the legendary Carmen from French composer George Bizet, one of the world's best-known operas, The Peninsula Hong Kong is presenting a brand-new adaptation of this 1875 opera – but the catch is that it's set in a Hong Kong bar in the 60s and 70s instead of 1800s Seville. The story of the famous femme fatale Carmen is set against a distinctly Hong Kong style and features a cast of superb vocalists, including tenor Chen Yong, mezzo-soprano Ashley Chui, soprano Etta Fung, and baritone Isaac Droscha. And where else should Les Amours de Carmen Wong be held but within The Peninsula Hong Kong's beautiful fine dining spaces? Two performances will be held in their top-floor restaurant Felix and one in the legendary French dining destination Gaddi's. To make the three evenings even more special, each performance will be accompanied by culinary offerings specially created for the occasion. On the Saturdays of May 31 and September 20, head to Felix for the opera performance and to enjoy chef de cuisine Aurélie Altemaire's French duck foie gras terrine with strawberries, basil, and brioche feuille; French Baerii caviar with ricotta spinach ravioli and a warm lemon mayonnaise; along with an appetiser and a choice of mains. Of course, the meal is fittingly wrapped up with Felix Opera, a dessert made with coffee cream, chocolate ganache, and cardamom ice cream. In between the two performances at Felix, the fine-dining restaurant Gaddi's will also host a night of Les Amours de Carmen Wong on Monday, July 21. This one-off event will be accompanied by a four-course menu by chef de cuisine Anne-Sophie Nicolas, which features mains such as wild sea bass with Beluga caviar, vegetable medley, and bouillabaisse sauce, or Miéral pigeon with green peas à la Française, Girolle mushrooms, pearl onions, and rocket. The extremely limited Les Amours de Carmen Wong opera and dinner experience is priced at $4,800 per person, and is available by reservation only.
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Harry Potter Actress Arabella Stanton's Age Explained
Arabella Stanton's age has become a topic of curiosity among fans. The interest follows her casting as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter reboot series. Moreover, fans have reacted positively to the announcement of Stanton's casting as Granger. Viewers are describing the upcoming HBO production as an authentic adaptation of the Harry Potter series. It will cover all the books written by J.K. Rowling. Max recently unveiled the actors who would portray the Golden Trio in the Harry Potter reboot series. The three actors Dominic McLaughlin, Alastair Stout, and Arabella Stanton are all set to appear on screen as Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Following this, Stanton's age has stirred discussions on social media. Stanton is a young actress who hails from Britain and is 11 years old. The actress is set to step into the shoes of Emma Watson, famous for playing Granger in the film series. According to a report by Screen Rant, Watson was 10 years old when she joined the cast of the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in 2001. Thus, Stanton is a year older than Watson was when she was first cast as Granger. As per a report by Forbes, Stanton is already an experienced actress. Her most popular role is that of Matilda Wormwood from Matilda the Musical, which played from 2023 to 2024 at London's West End. Additionally, she has worked in another play named Starlight Express by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The actress also has her own Instagram account named arabellastantonofficial. She reshared the casting announcement that was made by Max in a post. The caption read, 'Please welcome Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, and Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley to the HBO Original Series Harry Potter.' Originally reported by Ishita Verma on ComingSoon. The post Harry Potter Actress Arabella Stanton's Age Explained appeared first on Mandatory.