The spectacular transformation of Harry Melling, Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter movies

Dudley Dursley has gone from locking his cousins ​​in stairwell closets to blackmailing talking polar bears. ANDActor Harry Melling, who played Harry Potter’s annoying and selfish cousin in JK Rowling’s wizarding world movies, surprised His Dark Materials viewers with his transformation. when he appeared in the last episode of the fantastic television saga, a little older… And a little thinner.

The series, based on the book trilogy by Philip Pullman, is first broadcast in the UK on Sundays via the BBC. before hitting American television screens on HBO. So Brits have already been able to gaze in awe at how far Melling has come since his Harry Potter days. In the fourth episode of the first series, “Armour”, Melling, now 30, appears as Sysselman, the manager of the port city of Trollesund, through which Lyra and company must travel to reach the north.

He is also one of the townspeople who tricked the panserbjørn known as Iorek Byrnison (voiced by Joe Tandberg) by supplying him with spirits and stealing his armor. To the panserbjørn, his armor is as precious as a human’s demon. Without his, Iorek was forced by the people to work iron. In the grand scheme of things, Sysselman is just a puppet of the Magisterium. It was Mrs. Coulter’s (Ruth Wilson) idea to remove Iorek as a power play to control the panserbjørn kingdom of Svalberd, which currently holds Lord Asriel (James McAvoy) as a prisoner. The episode also featured the debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda as Texan balloonist Lee Scoresby.

Since Harry Potter, Melling has appeared in roles for The Lost City of Z, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, the BBC series The Musketeers and the most recent BBC miniseries The War of the Worlds.