{"id":86705,"date":"2026-03-22T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=86705"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:15:03","slug":"paapa-essiedu-received-death-threats-after-harry-potter-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/22\/paapa-essiedu-received-death-threats-after-harry-potter-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Paapa Essiedu received death threats after Harry Potter casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/th?id=OVFT.QjRLQq7MYAokWqi3cmb4qy&amp;pid=News&amp;w=234&amp;h=132&amp;c=14&amp;rs=2&amp;qlt=90&amp;dpr=1.5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/harry-potter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\"><em>Harry Potter<\/em><\/a>\u00a0actor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/paapa-essiedu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Paapa Essiedu<\/a> has said he\u2019s received race-fuelled death threats following his casting as Professor Snape in the forthcoming HBO Max adaptation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/paapa-essiedu-received-death-threats-after-harry-potter-casting\/ar-AA1Z9IBP?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69bfa6e335fb4d0eb84227df631384ae&amp;cvpid=19b64095acac418a8f60d9ceb8660aa8&amp;ei=51\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; &nbsp; Harry Potter\u00a0actor\u00a0Paapa Essiedu has said he\u2019s received race-fuelled death threats following his casting as Professor Snape in the forthcoming HBO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/paapa-Essiedu.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86707,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86705\/revisions\/86707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}