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The actress was approached by the film's producers regarding the role, which she ended up accepting, but the original suggestion did not strike her as a compliment: "I read the book, and Umbridge is described as a short, ugly, toadlike woman," she laughed. "I thought, 'Oh, thanks very much.' "
She added that the role in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has been a lot more challenging than people give it credit for: "You may think that it's just a bunch of hand-waving, but there's a lot of proper acting going on."
The fifth Harry Potter film is due for release on July 13 of this year.
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