Alfonso Cuarón has admitted that he almost passed on directing Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban before Guillermo del Toro changed his mind—by calling him “an arrogant a*****e”.
Speaking in an interview marking the 20th anniversary of the 2004 film, the third in the Harry Potter series, Cuarón spoke about his initial bemusement when he was offered the job, especially since he wasn’t at all familiar with the Wizarding World.
