
Former English rugby player and actor Martin Bayfield
spoke about his participation in the
Harry Potter series, in which he doubles for Robbie Coltrane's character, Hagrid:
Quote:
How did you end up acting in the Harry Potter movies?
I got a call from someone at Warner Brothers who had seen me speaking at a lunch. He said they were looking for a Robbie Coltrane double. I gave him a hard time at first because I thought he was a wind-up merchant. I’ve been in five films so far and we are about to start filming the last one. It was great to meet the late Richard Harris on set because he was such a huge rugby fan.