Corpse, thief and tramp: roles in which we do not recognize the actors of “Harry Potter”

Nearly 1,600 young actors were candidates for the role of the young wizard with the legendary scar, but according to director Chris Columbus, when Radcliffe arrived after months of searching for an audition, the whole team knew they had found it. their Harry Potter.

After the completion of “Potterian”, Daniel did not leave the film, but with the final take his new task was to step out of the image of the wizard. According to Potter fans, in the horror film The Woman in Black, the mystical thriller Horns and even the comedy Friendship. (And no sex)” they saw the image of a magician again with funny glasses, then Dan decided to shoot from the shoulder.

For the role of an FBI agent working undercover in a neo-Nazi gang, Radcliffe shaved his head, lost weight and bulked up. The film “Absolute Power”, by the way, based on real events, was released a year ago. And at the same time, the black comedy “Swiss Army Man” appears at the box office, where Daniel plays… the rotting corpse of a drowned man, with whom the film’s half-mad hero, played by Paul Dano, ” to be friends”. We admit that there is no trace of past magic.

The first steps of the actress after the “separation” with Hermione Granger were also timid. Emma played a minor role in the melodrama 7 Days and Nights with Marilyn and tried to play a bad girl in the youth drama It’s good to be quiet, but it didn’t turn out very convincing – as if the same Hermione had moved to a student campus and I decided to relax a bit after the session.

But in 2013, the sensational film “Elite Society” by Sofia Coppola was released, in which Emma reincarnated as a juvenile bandit, the leader of a gang of teenage thieves. That same year, Emma wielded an ax in the 2013 dark comedy End of the World: Hollywood Apocalypse.

Rupert wasn’t thinking about a film career until Warner Bros. announced the casting for one of the main roles in the film adaptation of the Harry Potter fairy tale. By this time, three books had already been written, Rupert was a fan of novels, and Ron Weasley was the boy’s favorite hero. Like Rupert himself, the hero of the book was afraid of spiders, and he also came from a large family. Admittedly, Rupert is the eldest of five children, so unlike Ron Weasley, he is more serious and responsible. And this seriousness of Rupert was fully manifested in the military drama “In White Captivity”, released the following year after the end of the franchise. Grint plays a downed English pilot who is forced to share shelter in the woods with German pilots.

In the comedy “Moon Scam”, Grint returned to the image of the scam, but not at all as sweet and harmless as Ron Weasley. His hero Johnny shoots amateur porn under the influence of illegal drugs…

Ironically, Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy’s worst enemies off set are like water. Tom Felton even wore a T-shirt with a declaration of love to Rupert Grint! In 2011, the guys starred together in an advertising campaign for the Band of Outsiders brand, and at the same time the horror film The Appearance was released, in which Felton played one of the main roles – there didn’t even have a trace of an evil boy. with platinum hair left at the actor.

But Felton surprised even more with the lead role in Émile Zola’s 2013 film adaptation of Thérèse Raquin. You’ve never seen Tom like this before.

In the Harry Potter films, Glisson had a cameo role as one of Ron Weasley’s older brothers, Bill, who married a French witch, Fleur Delacour. At the same time, having shot in the project, Gleason builds a career, almost unequivocally choosing successful projects. In 2012, he appeared in the successful film adaptation of the novel Anna Karenina as Konstantin Levin, then radically changed his image in the independent comedy Frank. “Frank”, released by an independent studio, had no publicity support and a huge budget, and yet the public remembered the tape. It’s not often that you see Michael Fassbender onscreen sporting a massive papier-mâché head throughout the film. Fassbender and Glisson played members of a strange rock band. Moreover, the actors performed live.

The real surprise for the actor’s fans was his role in the new Star Wars episode, where he plays a First Order general.

What really surprised everyone was the clumsy Neville Longbottom, or rather Matthew Lewis who played him. According to the contract, the guy was not allowed to change his appearance for the duration of filming, and although his colleagues were prettier, he remained the same nondescript mattress that only dreamed of parties with girls. It’s no surprise that the guy came loose for everyone immediately after the final double. Admittedly, Lewis’ acting career has stalled and the handsome man doesn’t have many notable roles, but he still managed to catch the attention of Potter fans. So, in the fall of 2016, Lewis appeared in the fifth season of the detective series Ripper Street, where he tried on fashionable late 19th century mustaches and sideburns. And in the series “Happy Valley” Matthew played a bottom alcoholic. What would Dumbledore say!