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Jason Isaacs reveals he was ‘fanboy’ of Robbie Coltrane as he pays unique tribute to late Harry Potter co-star: ‘He thrilled and delighted me’
Jason Isaacs has paid a unique tribute to his Harry Potter co-star Robbie Coltrane following the star’s death on Friday aged 72.The Lucius Malfoy actor said he found it ‘unbelievable’ that the beloved Scottish performer even knew his name after looking up to him when he was younger.Taking to Instagram, he uploaded a photo of his two daughters smiling and posing next to a strikingly lifelike rubber prosthetic head of Coltrane’s, fashioned to look like his character, Hogwarts groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid.‘Rubber Robbie thrilling and delighting my girls almost as much as the real thing did me,’ the 59-year-old wrote.Talking about his lifelong fandom of Coltrane, Jason added: ‘That Robbie Coltrane even knew my name was unbelievable to the boy who’d laughed at and leant into everything he’d ever done for years.‘To pretend myself a colleague, to share gossip and gags, to be invited for a cuppa into his personally customized Silver Bullet Airstream was to experience a fanboy’s complete bliss.’‘RIP you lovely man,’ he added in his sign-off of the post.Coltrane appeared as Hagrid in all eight of the Harry Potter films, while Jason joined for the second film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, in 2002.Skipping the third film in the franchise, he then returned for Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and both parts of the Deathly Hallows.Several of Coltrane’s other Harry Potter colleagues also joined in sharing kind words about the late GoldenEye star, with author JK Rowling branding him ‘a complete one-off’.Daniel Radcliffe spoke of his ‘fond memories’ from set with Coltrane and called him ‘one of the funniest people I’ve met’.‘I feel incredibly lucky that I got to meet and work with him and very sad that