Shirley Henderson's Surprising Moaning Myrtle Audition

You definitely didn't realize that the actress playing Moaning Myrtle was actually thirty-six

years old during filming. Shirley Henderson just opened up about how awkward her

audition really was for the second Harry Potter movie. She was already an established adult

actress when the opportunity came up, and she honestly thought playing

a fourteen-year-old student was a joke. But the casting director told her to go for it on

one condition, which was to absolutely not tell anyone her real age. So she committed

to the bit. She showed up to the audition wearing a white shirt, black skirt,

and pigtails, standing there thinking she looked completely ridiculous. She did a little