Nick Frost has shared some new details about why he’s excited to play Hagrid in the Harry Potter HBO show.
HBO is currently developing a television series based on the popular Harry Potter books. The cast of the show so far includes Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter, Alastair Stout as Ron Weasley, Arabella Stanton as Hermione Granger, John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, Paul Whitehouse as Argus Filch, Luke Thallon as Quirinus Quirrell, and Frost as Rubeus Hagrid.
What did Nick Frost say about playing Hagrid in the Harry Potter HBO show?
Speaking with Collider, Frost commented on why he’s excited to play Hagrid in the show and why he won’t be “copying” Robbie Coltrane’s performance. Coltrane, who passed away in 2022, previously played Hagrid in the Harry Potter film series.
“You get cast because you’re going to bring something to that. While I’m really aware of what went before me in terms of Robbie [Coltrane]’s amazing performance, I’m never going to try and be Robbie,” Frost said. “I’m going to try and do something, not ‘different,’ I think you have to be respectful to the subject matter, but within that, there’s scope for minutia. I always read Hagrid as he’s like a lovely, lost, violent, funny, warm child. I think the beauty of being able to do a book a season means I get to explore that a lot more, and I can’t wait. He’s funny! I want it to be funny and cheeky and scared and protective and childlike. That’s what I’m planning on doing.”
A premiere date for the Harry Potter series has not yet been announced by HBO. Official plot details are under wraps, though the first season of the show is expected to adapt the first book in the series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
