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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
As told to Catherine Shoard

Mark Williams: ‘I browsed tractor magazines with Robbie Coltrane on the set of Harry Potter’

Mark Williams in the recreated Weasley home
‘We need to put maglev trains in the post office tunnels under London’ … Mark Williams visits the Harry Potter Studio Tour in London. Photograph: Michael Leckie/PinPep

What were the best and worst moments shooting the Harry Potter films? bumble1
The worst part was being away from home and the long hours. The best bit was the work and talking to the other actors. I look back with great fondness on that. I remember saying to Alan Rickman that the collective noun for actors is an anecdote.

Michael Gambon was the king of stories. He’d start a joke and you never knew where he was going. But he’d hone them; they were finely crafted – some of his best work was backstage. Richard Griffiths was also a great raconteur. His stories were brilliant, and completely unpublishable.

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