‘Harry Potter’s Miriam Margolyes Believes Grown-Up Fans “Should Be Over” The Franchise By Now: “It’s For Children”

Grown-up Harry Potter fans just got roasted by none other than one of the film series’ cast members.

Miriam Margolyes, the actress behind Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, opened up to New Zealand’s 1News about her reaction to older fans of the famed franchise, per The AV Club.

“I worry about Harry Potter fans,” she shared, “because they should be over that by now. You know, I mean, it was 25 years ago, and it’s for children. I think it’s for children. But they get stuck in it.”

As if that burn didn’t sting enough, Margolyes revealed that she sells Cameos and is sometimes asked to create videos for fans getting married.

“People say, ‘I’m having a Harry Potter-themed wedding.’ And I think, ‘Gosh, what’s their first night of fun going to be?'” she said. “I can’t even think about it.”

Still, she praised the films as “wonderful” and claimed that she’s “very grateful” to have been a part of them, but reiterated that “it’s over.”

“That’s what I think,” she concluded.

Explaining to The Guardian last September that “Harry Potter dominated quite a lot of [her] life latterly,” she revealed that she’s “never read any of the books or seen the films,” and admitted that she “fell asleep when [she] went to the premiere of the two [Harry Potter films she] was in.”

“I’m just not interested in fantasy,” she said. “I’m bored by it. But I think JK Rowling’s a bloody good writer. If you read the detective stories, they’re fabulous.”

The actress hasn’t been afraid to speak her mind in the past. In her memoir titled Oh Miriam!: Stories From An Extraordinary Life, she slammed her Little Shop of Horrors co-star Steve Martin as being “horrid” to her while shooting, claiming that “during [her] only musical number (‘Dentist!’) [she] was hit all day by doors opening in [her] face; repeatedly punched, slapped and knocked down by an unlovely and unapologetic Steve Martin.”

Both Martin and director Frank Oz rejected the claims in statements shared with Decider.