David Thewlis
David Thewlis
David Thewlis is an English actor. His most commercially successful role to date has been that of Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter film series. Other notable performances include the films Naked, Dragonheart, Kingdom of Heaven, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Theory of Everything, Black Beauty and Macbeth, in which he played King Duncan. He has also done voice work in the films James and the Giant Peach, The Miracle Makerand Anomalisa. He is also known for the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth20 March 1963
CityBlackpool, England
He'd been let down so often His brow was on the floor But then they found A small hole in the ground And let him down some more
When you do something well, this is the best job in the world.
Alfonso Cuarón, in the rehearsals, without J.K. Rowling's knowledge, told me that [my character] was, in fact, gay. So I'd been playing a part like a gay man for quite a long time. Until it turned out that I indeed got married to Tonks. I changed my whole performance after that. Just saw it as a phase he went through.
I felt an enormous responsibility because internationally there's a real passion among kiddies for these books.
I'm in the fifth one, so I'm reading the book now. You know he's not a werewolf don't you? He's actually a cat!
Not really, although I kind of went into a few chat rooms to research the character and a lot of the kids were very abrasive about me playing the character, because they didn't know me, they wanted Jude Law, or Ewan McGregor or someone more handsome basically.
It was actually the thing that I've put my heart into the most, in terms of research and everything, because I was a great admirer of Rimbaud's work.
You can say at least once in your career you've done the whole werewolf transformation thing. But it wasn't fun to do.
The element of time-travel is handled far more intelligent in Harry Potter.
It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not read the third book, by the time I came to do it.
Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath.
Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.
It's certainly not easy having to spend a lot of time apart, and having a five-year-old child who's got to be at school. So we need to learn how to organize our time really well because for months we will be in two different countries.
I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.