Harry Potter Reboot Actor Reveals How He Landed His Position As Hagrid

Nick Frost revealed the quirky steps he went by way of to land the position of Rubeus Hagrid in HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter TV reboot.

Frost defined in an interview with The Guardian that previous to his audition, he watched all eight of the unique Harry Potter movies together with his household each Christmas. Whereas watching the supply materials many instances and being a fan of the franchise is not very stunning, judging by Harry Potter’s large following, Frost took it to a brand new stage. He revealed that he additionally wrote Hagrid’s identify round 7,000 instances.

The actor stated that the rationale behind writing the character’s identify so many instances was that his associate really urged it. The evening earlier than his audition, he determined to “manifest” himself by getting the position into the universe. So, he wrote Hagrid 1000’s of instances whereas rewatching the unique movies, and it labored. Granted, the actor’s expertise was almost definitely what landed him the position, however his backstory makes him all of the extra fascinating.

I’ve seen all of the movies. We undergo all of them as a household throughout Christmas yearly. We begin on 20 December and end every week and a half later. Earlier than I used to be forged as Hagrid, my associate urged making an attempt to manifest it. So final Christmas, I watched all of the movies again to again on the Sky Harry Potter channel, whereas writing out the phrase “Hagrid” 7,000 instances.

Though Frost received over the folks in control of casting for HBO’s reboot, a number of folks had been skeptical, together with the director of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and techniques, Chris Columbus. The filmmaker expressed combined feelings concerning the upcoming sequence throughout an look on The Relaxation Is Leisurepodcast. He agreed that the actor positively regarded the half, however he was puzzled as to why the community was even bothering to reboot Harry Potter if that’s the case many issues had been going to remain the identical.

Though many followers disregarded Columbus’ feedback, he did make a reasonably good level relating to the present as a complete and never its actors. HBO’s Harry Potter remake will maintain a variety of the identical components, together with hiring Warwick Davis to reprise his position as Professor Flitwick. Whereas not inherently a foul factor, Columbus acknowledged that every one these similarities do defeat the aim of a remake, which is meant to be one thing new and provides audiences one thing that they have not seen but. Nevertheless, he did make it completely clear that he was nonetheless very excited concerning the reboot, and this was actually only a one-off grievance.

So, I’m seeing these pictures and [Nick Frost is] carrying the very same costume that we designed for Hagrid. A part of me was like: What’s the purpose? I assumed the costumes and every part was going to be totally different, however it’s extra of the identical. It’s all going to be the identical. It’s very flattering for me, as a result of I’m like, that’s precisely the Hagrid costume that we designed. So, a part of it’s actually thrilling, so I’m excited to see what they’re going to do with it. A part of it’s kind of deja vu over again.

The director admitted that one of many explanation why he may be so conflicted was due to how shut he was to the unique Hagrid actor, the late Robbie Coltrane. In an interview with The Normal, Columbus revealed that he did encounter Frost after his preliminary feedback, and he defined to him why he felt the way in which he did.

I stated, ‘That is very surreal for me — you must perceive, Robbie Coltrane and I had been so shut.’ So it’s simply bizarre, weird.