RAY WINSTONE - WINSTONE TURNED DOWN HARRY POTTER ROLE

British actor RAY WINSTONE turned down the chance to appear in the HARRY POTTER movies - because he was not offered enough money.
The Beowulf star admits he was offered a role in a big-screen adaptation of the boy wizard book series, but declined the part because the money he would have earned wouldn't have matched the workload.
He says, "I nearly did a (Potter) movie. They earn fortunes from those films but for the time that is involved in making one they don't want to pay you. I'm sorry, but I make movies to get a living.
"Besides, I would have made two films in the time it would have taken to make one Potter movie."