Robbie Coltrane says he’s not looking forward to finishing up forever on the “Harry Potter” movies.
The Scottish actor says that the last day of filming on the final “Harry Potter” movie, “The Deathly Hallows”, is going to be a hard day for everyone. “We were all going “Yeah, it’s gonna be tough on the kids…”” he said in an interview with the Radio Times. “Then eventually we were all saying, “Yeah, it’s gonna be tough for me too”,” he admits.
He says one thing he won’t miss about his role as gentle giant Hagrid is the fake beard he has to wear for the part. “It’s all horrible”, he says, though he confesses there is an upside even to that. “At the end of the day, they take it off and then two girls come to my trailer with a pot of hot oil, they dissolve the beard, rub my face with oil,” he says gleefully, noting he rather enjoys pointing that fact out to co-star Michael Gambon, who plays Hogwarts head Dumbledore. “Oh Michael, the girls are just going to hot oil me,” he chuckles.
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, the final book in the phenomenally successful series, is being split into two films for theatrical release. The first installment will be out next year, with the final ever “Harry Potter” movie currently scheduled for release in 2011. The atmosphere on the set of the final films has already been described as “electric” by actor Matthew Lewis, who plays student Neville Longbottom.
