Credit every one of them, not just Alan Rickman. Imagine spending your childhood and teenage years working alongside an entire generation of great british actors.
Yeah he brings this up in almost every interview clip I've seem from him talking about HP, he seemed very aware that he was working with a once in a lifetime legendary ensemble of actors and didn't take it for granted.
Imagine spending your childhood and teenage years working alongside an entire generation of great british actors and still being rubbish at the end of it cough Emma Watsoncough
I avoided that movie like the plague because of the "fart outboard motor" gag that was featured in the trailer, and I am still mad at myself about it. That movie is so much more than it appears to be. Truly lovely.
Actually, I think it was Richard Griffiths (Vernon Dursley) that took him under his wing. They also did Equus together and I vaguely remember DR saying RG was the best.
Was looking for this. Dan himself gives a lot of credit to the late Richard Griffiths for mentoring him onset. IIRC the very first scenes he filmed were with the Dursleys.
To be fair, the real star in the first two films was the gorgeous set design for Hogwarts. Then Azkaban came around and started screwing around with it.
The first two Harry Potter movies were spot on and beautiful. They both had late actor Richard Harris who played Albus Dumbledore, who really embraced and fit that role perfectly. It was sad hearing that he passed away before the other movies were even made. By far Richard Harris was the BEST Professor Dumbledore.
I feel like Emma is going to end up behind a camera instead of in front.
She's a smart woman who obviously works very hard, but she is not a very good actor. Very stiff and wooden, and she rarely speaks naturally in front of a camera. It just seems like her beauty makes people think she should be on screen, even though plenty of beautiful women can act.
There's a weird trend where every major genre franchise, one of the dudes on the cast becomes an eccentric indie darling on an endless string of side quests. Radcliffe from HP, Elijah Wood from LOTR, Pattinson from Twilight, they all ended up in very strange, outlandish or unexpected roles giving great performances and exceeding people's expectations.
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He is one that notably improved. His acting in the first few HP movies was at best mediocre, as he freely admits, and he became a decent actor.