Actor Tim Roth once sorely disappointed his two young sons - by turning down a role in the Harry Potter franchise.

Roth, 46, was offered the role of Severus Snape in the hit boy wizard series - but rejected it for a chance to work with filmmaker Tim Burton on the 2001 remake of Planet Of The Apes. And his children Cormac, 11, and Hunter, 12, were less than pleased with their father's choice.

He says, "My kids were pissed with me about that. If you're prepared for it, that's okay. But they were planning to fly me back and forth between Tim Burton's set and the Harry Potter set to film. Just the idea of that was silly. So I thought, 'Okay, I've always wanted to work with Tim.'"

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