Ghanian-English actor Paapa Essiedu — cast as Severus Snape — has been flooded with disturbing messages ever since joining the cast of the TV series last year.

Bosses for HBO's new Harry Potter series have beefed up security on set after actor Paapa Essiedu - who is playing Professor Severus Snape on the show - was hit by death threats

Harry Potter set has ‘serious security’ after death threats, says HBO boss - Paapa Essiedu, who is set to play Professor Snape, recently said he’d received messages telling him: ‘Quit or I’ll murder y

Harry Potter TV series recruits serious security amid death threats. For those unversed, British actor Paapa Essiedu recently confessed that he received death threats after he was cast as the iconic Professor Snape in the Harry Potter reboot.

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