'Harry Potter' stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson pay tribute to Robbie Coltrane

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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 offered to Muricas News by a consultant, Daniel Radcliffe known as Coltrane, 72 – who performed Hagrid within the “Harry Potter” movie franchise – “one of many funniest folks I’ve met” and recalled how the actor “used to maintain us laughing continuously as youngsters on the set.”

“I’ve particularly fond reminiscences of him preserving our spirits up on ‘Prisoner of Azkaban,’ once we had 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 mentioned, making reference to the third movie. “I really feel extremely fortunate that I bought to fulfill and work with him and really unhappy that he’s handed. He was an unimaginable actor and a beautiful man.”

Emma Watson, who performed Hermione Granger within the franchise, additionally honored her late costar on Friday in an Instagram Story.

“Robbie was essentially 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 a large – he may fill ANY house along with his brilliance,” she later added. “Robbie, if I ever get to be so variety as you had 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, “Certainly one of my fondest reminiscences of filming Harry Potter was an evening shoot on the primary movie within the forbidden forest. I used to be 12. Robbie cared & taken care of everybody round of him. Effortlessly. And made them chortle. Effortlessly. He was a giant pleasant big on display screen however much more so In actual life.”

Coltrane, too, shared fond reminiscences of working with the movie’s younger stars in a current HBO Max particular, “Harry Potter twentieth Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts.” (Muricas News and HBO are each a part of Warner Bros. Discovery.)

“Watching them develop up was sort of like watching your individual youngsters rising up, you recognize? Since you had been form of defending them,” he mentioned. “I used to be at all times astonished at how fearless they had been.”

“Harry Potter” writer J.Okay. Rowling wrote on Twitter: “I’ll by no means know anybody remotely like Robbie once more. He was an unimaginable expertise, an entire 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 “at all times jovial” and “introduced heat, gentle and laughter to any set he walked on to.”