Breaking news: Naomi “I looooove evil” Watts!

We at CHHQ apologize (a little) for the constant Harry Potter chatter around these parts–we’d planned a Hairspray-themed post for today, if you must know–but this is just too good to pass up.
Turns out that despite the studio’s desire to maintain an all-British cast for the Harry Potter films, they’ve made an exception in the name of awesomeness: news broke today that Naomi Watts (born British but generally considered Australian) has signed on to play Narcissa Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Now that’s making up for Helena Bonham Carter.
The big question remains: Will Watts’s Malfoy upstage Nicole Kidman’s Mrs. Coulter in the Battle of the Evil Blondes? We’ll see.
Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Narcissa Malfoy, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, Mrs. Coulter, The Golden Compass, Evil Blondes
July 29th, 2007 at 2:41 am
She’ll be perfect (MUCH better than Helena!!)…and I’m quite excited about her being cast since it means there will actually BE a Narcissa. They haven’t even really mentioned her in the films and I was pretty terrified they were just going to cut her all together and have Bellatrix do the Unbreakable Vow scene. This would have been soooooo not cool for me