Overview
- Salary figures for the three child leads were reported Monday by outlets citing The Sun, which claimed £500,000 each for season one.
- HBO has not confirmed the reported pay, and the publications say they have asked the network for comment.
- The first season adapts Philosopher’s Stone across eight episodes for a Christmas debut on HBO Max, following a teaser that drew about 277 million views in 48 hours last week.
- Dominic McLaughlin, 12, Alastair Stout, 12, and Arabella Stanton, 11, lead the cast, with John Lithgow as Dumbledore and Nick Frost as Hagrid.
- HBO chief Casey Bloys says season two is being written and that releases will not be annual to manage the show’s scale and the young actors’ growth.