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After Dan Radcliffe admitted to actually being intimidated by Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort, Ralph told Metro that he almost didn’t take the role that he played so convincingly!
Digital Spy reports:
“I took ages to be persuaded to do Harry Potter and I have no regrets at all. I didn’t know the books. I had seen the first Harry Potter film and I didn’t feel that sort of material was something that appealed to me.”
“But then my sister rang me up and said, ‘They’ve asked you to play Voldemort. Do you not realise how big this is?
“She has children who were reading Harry Potter, so suddenly I became aware.”
Fiennes has recently portrayed M in the iconic James Bond film series, and after Voldemort he says he’s done playing bad guys:
“I just didn’t want to play malign spirits. I’d had enough”
We all owe a huge thanks to Ralph’s sister, it seems! Read the full report here.
Ralph Fiennes appeared on the Graham Norton show (below), to speak about his previous role as Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, and as the new M in the James Bond franchise.
Ralph said he’d avoided roles that required wearing prosthetics since playing Voldemort, and had some interesting costume insights for us regarding Voldemort’s wardrobe choices – some handmade stockings and ‘fetching garters’ kept him looking elegant as ever:
“The tights would work their way down so the gusset was round my knees and I couldn’t walk as elegantly as I would like as Voldemort
“I asked the dresser to cut off the tights so for most of Harry Potter under the robes I had a very nice garter belt.”
True to character, Ralph checks his outfit still says ‘Dark Lord’ by making a child cry. He added he “knew the look was working” after walking past the script supervisor’s five year old child and “when [he] looked at him he just burst into tears.”
Watch the interview below!
Ralph Fiennes, the actor who played Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films, celebrates his 53rd birthday today!
In honor of his special day, here’s an AMC promotional video from 2011, where Fiennes describes the final battle between Harry and Voldemort in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II, and talks about his inspiration for portraying the lonely and tormented adult that Tom Riddle became.
From all of us here at Leaky, happy birthday, Ralph Fiennes, and thank you for making our favorite villain so terrifying on screen!
