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Stars from the “Harry Potter” universe are paying tribute to Hogwart’s resident light half-giant, Robbie Coltrane, who died on Friday.
In an announcement supplied to CNN by a consultant, Daniel Radcliffe known as Coltrane, 72 – who performed Hagrid within the “Harry Potter” movie franchise – “one of many funniest individuals I’ve met” and recalled how the actor “used to maintain us laughing continually as children on the set.”
“I’ve particularly fond recollections of him maintaining our spirits up on ‘Prisoner of Azkaban,’ after we have been all hiding from the torrential rain for hours in Hagrid’s hut and he was telling tales and cracking jokes to maintain morale up,” Radcliffe stated, making reference to the third movie. “I really feel extremely fortunate that I bought to satisfy and work with him and really unhappy that he’s handed. He was an unimaginable actor and a stunning man.”
Emma Watson, who performed Hermione Granger within the franchise, additionally honored her late costar on Friday in an Instagram Story.
“Robbie was probably the most enjoyable uncle I’ve ever had,” she wrote, beneath a photograph of the pair. “His expertise was so immense it made sense he performed an enormous – he may fill ANY area along with his brilliance,” she later added. “Robbie, if I ever get to be so sort as you have been to me on a movie set I promise I’ll do it in your identify and reminiscence,” Watson continued, occurring to say how Coltrane “made us a household.”
Tom Felton, who famously portrayed Draco Malfoy within the “Harry Potter” films, additionally posted to Instagram in honor of Coltrane, writing on Friday, “Considered one of my fondest recollections of filming Harry Potter was an evening shoot on the primary movie within the forbidden forest. I used to be 12. Robbie cared & sorted everybody round of him. Effortlessly. And made them chortle. Effortlessly. He was a giant pleasant large on display screen however much more so In actual life.”
Coltrane, too, shared fond recollections of working with the movie’s younger stars in a latest HBO Max particular, “Harry Potter twentieth Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts.” (CNN and HBO are each a part of Warner Bros. Discovery.)
“Watching them develop up was type of like watching your personal children rising up, you already know? Since you have been form of defending them,” he stated. “I used to be all the time astonished at how fearless they have been.”
“Harry Potter” creator J.Ok. Rowling wrote on Twitter: “I’ll by no means know anybody remotely like Robbie once more. He was an unimaginable expertise, a whole one off, and I used to be past lucky to know him, work with him and chortle my head off with him. I ship my love and deepest condolences to his household, above all his youngsters.”
And Warwick Davis, who performed Professor Filius Flitwick and the goblin Griphook within the movies, remembered Coltrane as somebody who was “all the time jovial” and “introduced heat, mild and laughter to any set he walked on to.”