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
David Thewlis quotes about
The very best thing about doing it is seeing the reaction on kid's faces when you tell them you've done it.
I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.
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.
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.
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.
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!