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
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Yeah he's a kind of very kindly, very nurturing teacher with a little dark secret that I am supposed not to mention, but its one of the best selling books in the world, so I turn into a werewolf.
Well, The Island of Dr Moreau wasn't very good, was it? I remember the day Brando turned round to me and said this was the craziest thing he'd ever been involved in.
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.
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!
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.
The element of time-travel is handled far more intelligent in Harry Potter.
You can say at least once in your career you've done the whole werewolf transformation thing. But it wasn't fun to do.