{"id":154245,"date":"2025-06-03T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154245\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:40:09","slug":"nick-frost-will-never-copy-robbie-coltranes-performance-as-hagrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154245\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Frost Will &#8216;Never&#8217; Copy Robbie Coltrane&#8217;s Performance as Hagrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/nick-frost\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nick-frost\" data-tag=\"nick-frost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nick Frost<\/a> will remain faithful to the performance of the late Robbie Coltrane when playing Rubeus Hagrid in the highly anticipated HBO \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/harry-potter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_harry-potter\" data-tag=\"harry-potter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Potter<\/a>\u201d series. But don\u2019t expect him to be an exact copy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/harry-potter-series-hagrid-details-nick-frost-robbie-coltrane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Collider<\/a>, Frost discussed how Coltrane, who played Hagrid across all eight of the original \u201cHarry Potter\u201d films, will influence his take on the Hogwarts groundskeeper in HBO\u2019s upcoming \u201cHarry Potter\u201d TV adaptation. Frost said he is \u201creally aware of what went before\u201d him in terms of Coltrane\u2019s \u201camazing performance,\u201d but made it clear he is \u201cnever\u201d going to copy his work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m going to try and do something, not \u2018different,\u2019 I think you have to be respectful to the subject matter, but within that, there\u2019s scope for minutia,\u201d Frost explained. \u201cI always read Hagrid as he\u2019s like a lovely, lost, violent, funny, warm child. I think the beauty of being able to do a book a season means I get to explore that a lot more, and I can\u2019t wait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOther <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/lists\/harry-potter-tv-show-cast-characters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cast members<\/a> for HBO\u2019s \u201cHarry Potter\u201d include Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell and Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFrancesca Gardiner serves as showrunner while Mark Mylod of \u201cSuccession\u201d serves as director. The series is executive produced by \u201cHarry Potter\u201d author J.K. Rowling, Neil Blair, Ruth Kenley-Letts of Bront\u00eb Film and TV and David Heyman of Heyday Films.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEach of the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/harry-potter-tv-series-cast-release-date-1236249623\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">series\u2019 seven books will make up an entire season<\/a> of the show, giving Mylod and Gardiner a chance to expand on the established stories without unraveling the source material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Frost will remain faithful to the performance of the late Robbie Coltrane when playing Rubeus Hagrid in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,8082,3943,65640,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-harry-potter","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-nick-frost","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114618304183887367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}