Boath Too Busy For Potter

A young actor rejected a chance to land the role of the year in Harry Potter - to appear in The Mummy Returns. Freddie Boath was too busy filming the horror sequel alongside Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz to audition for the role of the child wizard - despite its being the most prominent young role in movies since Anakin Skywalker. Freddie admits, "Actually, I was going to go to the auditions but then I changed my mind. I didn't really want the part because I was doing this film and it was going to a long time to make the Harry Potter film."

The nine-year-old South London schoolboy plays Fraser's son in the follow-up to The Mummy - and adores the original so much that he knows every line. Brendan, who plays Rick O'Connell, confirms, "Freddie has seen The Mummy 58 times. "His mom has told me he watches it endlessly and I know that to be true because whenever we have a question about anything that happened in the first film, we asked Freddie. He knows all the lines, all the plot points, he remembers them chronologically and he can also describe the rooms."