Robbie Coltrane famous for playing "Hagrid" passes away at 72

Goodbye, Hagrid.

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00:00I've played gangsters, prostitutes, murderers, everything you can imagine.

00:05It's the first time I've ever played a man who is thoroughly good.

00:18What are you going to miss most about playing Hagrid and being part of these films?

00:22Oh my goodness, well the journey between being a man of 50 and 60

00:27is very different from being 10 and 20, can I just say that?

00:34The great thing about playing Hagrid I guess was that Hagrid was a thoroughly

00:38good man and I think it's probably the first time in my entire career I've ever played a

00:42thoroughly good man. I've played gangsters, prostitutes, murderers, everything you can

00:49imagine. It's the first time I've ever played a man who was thoroughly good,

00:54and a thoroughly good man for 10 years. One of the characters that all the young

01:00people completely trusted, I mean totally trusted, because he was a good chap.

01:06So that was a bit of an eye-opener for me, you can imagine how much acting was required there.

01:15I really enjoyed every minute of it, I have to say, and we were having a laugh the other

01:20day about School's Out Forever, you know that song, and you know some people think well school's

01:29out, that's fine, we can go and do what we like. There's also parts of you that think well school's

01:34out and something strange and wonderful has kind of gone, to be honest. Am I being terribly sentimental?