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- Robbie Coltrane, who played Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, has away at the age of 72, and Robbie Grint will forever associate him with “the scent of stogies and facial hair stick.”
Rupert Grint will perpetually relate Harry Potter costar Robbie Coltrane with “the smell of stogies and facial hair stick” after fresh insight about the Hagrid star’s passing at age 72.
The entertainer, 34, who played Ron Weasley, is the most recent star in the establishment to honor Coltrane, sharing a photograph of his late costar playing the flute while in character as Hagrid, alongside certain words memorializing him.
“Sorrowful to hear that Robbie is gone,” he wrote in the Saturday subtitle. “I will always remember the smell of stogies, and facial hair stick a brilliant blend. No other person on this planet could [have] played Hagrid, just Robbie.”
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“Similarly, as Hagrid was in the books and movies, Robbie was life-warm, merciful, and clever. A monster-hearted man still paid special attention to us many years later. Sending affection to his loved ones. See you on the opposite side, Bobser,” Grint added.
Coltrane’s representative and companion Belinda Wright affirmed his passing to Individuals on Friday, recollecting that he as “a remarkable ability” and his exhibition as Hagrid bringing “euphoria to kids and grown-ups the exact from one side of the planet to the other, inciting a flood of fan letters consistently for north of 20 years.”
Albeit the entertainer’s cause for death was not quickly made accessibly, Cutoff time revealed that Coltrane “had been in weakness for the beyond two years” and passed on in an emergency clinic close to his Larbert, Scotland home.
Different stars from the Harry Potter establishment have honored Coltrane since his passing, including Bonnie Wright (who played Ron’s sister Ginny Weasley), James and Oliver Phelps (twins Fred and George Weasley), Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) and David Thewlis (Remus Lupin), as well as the books’ dubious writer J.K. Rowling.
Emma Watson, who played Ron’s companion and old flame Hermione Granger, said Coltrane was “profoundly mindful, and humane towards me” in her recognition, adding that “there could have been no more excellent Hagrid.”

“Robbie resembled the best time uncle I’ve at any point had; however, most he was profoundly mindful and caring towards me as a youngster and a grown-up,” she composed on her Instagram Story. “His ability was so enormous it checked out he played a goliath — he could occupy ANY space with his brightness.”
Daniel Radcliffe, the entertainer behind the nominal Harry Potter, said in an explanation got by Individuals that he was “unbelievably fortunate” to have worked with Coltrane, who he said, “was quite possibly of the most clever individual I’ve met and used to keep us chuckling continually as children on the set.”
“I’ve particularly affectionate recollections of him keeping our spirits up on (2004’s Harry Potter and the) Detainee of Azkaban when we were all stowing away from the heavy downpour for a long time in Hagrid’s cabin, and he was making stories and breaking wisecracks to keep resolve up,” Radcliffe added. “He was an extraordinary entertainer and an exquisite man.”