| masterofmystery | 04-16-2010 03:18 AM |
Ciarán Hinds talks Alan Rickman & meeting Miriam Margolyes on Deathly Hallows set
Before the start of tomorrow's Belfast Film Festival, actor Ciarán Hinds joked in a new interview about his upcoming role as Aberforth Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Ciarán was asked how he would have done as Severus Snape - played by Alan Rickman - instead of Aberforth, how he wished he was cast earlier in the series, and what costar Miriam Margolyes (Professor Sprout) said when she first saw him in costume as the owner of the Hog's Head. Quote:
One wonders what other dark characters Hinds might have been well-suited for in his career, but his next big role as the brother of Professor Dumbledore in the final two Harry Potter films offers up the possibility that he could have played quite a wonderful Severus Snape.
“Oh yeah!” he laughs, adding quickly, “But Alan Rickman's great as him.”
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“It would have been nice to be asked earlier — I would have been a few bob richer!” he laughs.
As it is he will be buried under layers of prosthetic make-up to play the eminent Hogwarts headmaster's younger brother Aberforth.
“I disappeared, as I was unrecognisable,” he says.
“I won't have any trouble in the street doing my shopping as usual because no-one knows who was in there because of the amazing make-up job that they did.
“I went up to introduce myself to the actress Miriam Margolyes on-set and she looked at me in this costume and make-up and said: “Well, anybody could have played your part!”
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released on November 19, 2010 and July 15, 2011. | 