In an interview with MTV, actor Kenneth Branagh chats about the character he played in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Professor Gilderoy Lockhart. Branagh joked that he would have liked to have seen Lockhart make an appearance in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and expressed some disappointment that Lockhart was cut from the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

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"It would have been nice to have been in [Phoenix]. He was quite a popular character, Lockhart. There was no one quite like him," Branagh said. "[But they never called] to my deep disappointment."

Branagh also noted that there was, at one point, suggestion that he may take on directing duties on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. That job ultimately went to Alfonso Cuaron.

"I was in the running to direct the one that Alfonso Cuaron did ["Prisoner of Azkaban"]. It was while I was working on the second one," he revealed. "They all felt for a minute, maybe it’d be great if Ken did one. It didn’t work out. It would have been interesting."