All the hints finally paid off.
Bill Nighy has been cast in the next Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final installment of the popular books.
He'll play Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour in the movie, which is currently filming in the UK.
The actor has been dropping hints for years, once even suggesting that he was the only British actor who had not been in a Potter movie.
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