But one of the guys who designed the program told me the scale speed, which is the speed at which it would be if it was actually happening, is mph. It's absolutely fantastic. I'd always envisioned it from the ground when I read the books. I'd always imagined that your point of you would be from standing on the ground looking up, in other words. What they do is take you into the air as if you're one of the players, so you yourself, the audience themselves, is flying around at mph.
It's absolutely breathtaking. Did you get that? I wish I could type that fast. My life would be so much easier! Question from billm: Do you ride motocycles in real life? If so what kind? Robbie Coltrane: I do. It's very big and heavy, and was always known as the "Fat Boy. Robbie Coltrane: Well, they're terribly well-trained, those animals. Some of them have done more movies than I have. And what they do is.. Robbie Coltrane: Yeah, go on.
Dan Akroyd just walked into the room, he wants to take over. Question from Ashlynn: How do you feel about being a part of this movie? Question from Kaitlin: Have you actually read all the Harry Potter books?
If so, which one is your favorite? Robbie Coltrane: Before we started? I was a huge Harry Potter fan. I was recommended by friends. The big attraction about Harry Potter for us as parents is the Harry Potter books are something you can read to your children without dying of boredom because there is as much interesting stuff going on for adults as there is children, if you know what I mean. Robbie Coltrane: I've read them all, yeah. Actually, I haven't finished Book Four yet, I have to confess, because I've just been a bit busy, as you can imagine.
Question from Jamison: As a year-old American female who found the first book back in the 90's and is also sporting a golden snitch tattoo, I consider myself a huge fan.
What do you think it is about the books that touches all of us? Also what do you think of those in America who wish to ban the books? Robbie Coltrane: That's a huge question. A lot of people ask me that and I end up with a fairly dull answer, which is that I think it contains a lot of interests that parents and children share but don't really talk about. I do think children think about an awful lot of things that they don't tell their parents about. And vice versa.
Robbie Coltrane: A golden snitch tattoo sounds pretty cool to me. Did she mention where it was? Or am I too young to know? Question from Joshua: How do you feel about having an action figure toy? Robbie Coltrane: I don't like it because it doesn't look like me.
That's an ego thing, probably. I'd rather it looked like me but there are a lot of contractual problems with that. But I have to say in the case of this movie it deserves all the publicity and play it gets. Maybe I shouldn't say that because I'm in it, but I do think it deserves that. Crunching sound I'm munching on a Pringle. Try and put that on the Internet. Maybe a little "p" for Pringle-crunching. Robbie Coltrane: Oh yeah, well, there's no mystery about that.
Jo Rowling did an interview and she said that I was the only guy to play Hagrid. So that saved a lot of humble auditioning and being nice to people I don't like. I just had the part, really. The process after that was, to be honest, I was checking out the director and the producer to make sure they were going to make the right film.
Because for anyone who's a big fan of Harry Potter, the worst thing you can imagine is a bad Harry Potter movie. So I was going to check them out, but then we had a power breakfast in London I'm using that word ironically, obviously , and as soon as I spoke to David Heyman and Christopher Columbus, I realized they were absolutely the right guys for the job because they were complete Harry Potter fans and it was quite clear that what they wanted to do was put the book on the screen.
They weren't going to muck it about and make anybody cutesy. Besides me, obviously. Question from Kaitlin: How did you like working with an all-British cast compared to an American cast? Robbie Coltrane: I'm used to working with all British casts. It worries me sometimes that people go on about the Britishness of it. I think most of the qualities that the books have in common with all good literature, be it Russian, French, German, whatever, I think what they wanted was a unity of feel to it.
They wanted a sort of consistency of texture, as it were. Of course people were worried it would end up with the worst aspect of Hollywood, that it would all become dead cutesy.
So Rowling made all the selections there. She made sure it was all the right people. But it's certainly not exclusively British. It seems like this guy has a little bit of a drinking problem, and that's putting it lightly. How much would Hagrid need to actually consume in order to feel even a small buzz?
Remember, this is a dude that stands over 11 feet tall, and he's described as being the width of three men. He would literally need barrels of drink in order to get tipsy.
This wouldn't just be ruinously expensive, so it would be a logistical nightmare. Where is he storing all of this? How does he transport it to his hut? We're talking at least an entire barrel just for one drinking session. If you were super knowledgeable about the books, you would've probably noticed a big, Hagrid-shaped mistake when the movies came out.
He just wasn't tall enough! In the books, Hagrid is supposed to be about 11 feet tall - twice the height of person.
In the movies, he appears to be more around the realms of 8 feet tall. Logistically, it's easy to understand why they shortened the half-giant. Can you imagine how difficult the camera angles would have been? They were already pulling every trick in the book to make Hagrid look taller in the movies.
Adding three more feet to his height would have made all of his scenes a complete nightmare. Fans will know that Hagrid isn't just capable of enduring severe punishment - he can also dish it out. When you think about the things that Hagrid has done in the past, it's clear that this guy must be seriously ripped. He chucked a guy across the entire great hall like he was a rag doll. He tamed giants. With one hand, he bent a double-barreled shotgun like it was a piece of spaghetti. The list goes on and on.
This super strength is, of course, due to his half giant heritage. It's unknown whether or not this level of strength has a magical quality to it, or whether it's just a result of his impressive size. The amount of muscle needed to even move an 11 foot tall body would be insane. His strength could simply be down to the fact that he's just a really, really big guy. Speaking of his massive size, it should come as no surprise that Hagrid does not belong on a broomstick.
If he could manage to get airborne on that flimsy piece of wood, can you imagine the possibilities? Hagrid probably would have been the best Quidditch keeper the world had ever seen. He would just need to sit there in front of the hoops and laugh. Hagrid opts instead for something which is probably even cooler than a broomstick - a flying motorbike.
A lot of fans ask why he didn't just get a broomstick custom made for his larger body, but can we seriously doubt his decision here? Say all you like about Hagrid, but there's no denying that the man travels in style. We're not experts on how genetics work, but we're pretty sure a half giant should be way taller than Hagrid. Giants range anywhere from 20 to 25 feet tall, but let's assume that Hagrid's mother was average - say 23 feet tall.
Hagrid's father, on the other hand, was described as a " tiny feller" by Hagrid himself, so let's assume that he was about 5 feet tall. If we take the average between those two heights, we're left with a number closer to 15 feet tall. Match that up with Hagrid's height of only 8 feet in the movies, and we've got some serious discrepancies here.
Even in the novels, he's still 3 feet short of our estimated figure. Maybe the male genetics were dominan, but wouldn't it make more sense if the giant genes were dominant? In any case, Hagrid seems a little short for a guy who has half the DNA of a fully-fledged giant - especially in the movies. Robbie Coltrane has certainly does justice to this peculiar role, and being a comedian, he has added a tad bit of humor into an otherwise serious role.
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By the horrific world not enough he looked rounder and 6 foot ish still big but less tall. Cool voice good actor hope he gets help that will shorten his lifespan. I can't see him being that heavy. Mark 5'9. But I can see an argument for cm peak. I spotted him in Krull and he did not look much shorter than Neeson who many argue was just over 6ft4. I would have guessed cm if Liam was say cm. I think a guy like Robbie might have been losing height in his mid 40's compared to his early 20's.
Always was a big bulky guy, but that may well have accelerated earlier slightly losses. You may well make a B argument for him in the 70's and 80's.
Although I think he's lost height for sure by now. I knew he was 6ft1 from an episode of 'Cracker', a deadly serious, disturbing series which he brought comedy to and gave his character 'Cracker' the likeability factor in a way only he knows how.
If I am honest, I thought he was at least an inch or two taller. His large stature certainly didn't make him look shorter to me, as is so often the case! Looks huge next to Bob Hoskins! Oh my god I'm taller than hagrid! Looks can be decieving! Looks 6ft maybe range. If he was 6'1" in Brosnan is an easy legit 6'2".
Click Here Even Craig Ferguson is a questionable cm. He looks struggling to reach a flat 6' nowadays. I believe he's lost quite a lot of weight since the 90s but still looks odd. Just thought I'd share that. He can seem bigger because of his girth of course.
He's not actually a half-giant, you know. So he's not going to be 7 feet tall, or anything like that.
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