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i'll have that 32 bob
can you hear me do you want to thump in
love
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hi
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they haven't got the goods to stand up
like me
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again
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the story of richard harris the
limerick-born film actor
has something of a fairytale touch in
that he has become one of the big names
in the industry
almost overnight richard what have you
got i i
uh i'm inclined to present that i'm in
on my eighth professional year
which one would you consider has been
overnight i think
ashdore skrivnoor skurahor
filler lure classy augustinian dustin
slavery
is meatloaf we seldom scar
egg richard harris he kept joking about
his drinking days
if whatever happened in that period he
says just have to write that off
and i apologize in advance
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golden globe mark august anemia the gore
oscar rinishie brush is shocked oh scan
on
augusta graf wheeler and spontaneous
i think some older actors like to be
imperious and kind of appear to be
senior
and i don't know none of that with him
he just like wanted to make me
laugh and make sure i was having a good
time when he came into the room i mean
the amount of presents the guy had
and uh it wasn't just his size there was
something magical about him
and he didn't mess with richard harris
you know you see he didn't mess with him
that's not that men's words he was a man
you know
he'd he'd knock your block off if you
were
a bit out of line you know
hugler vast or won
consensus
in law
good evening ladies and gentlemen and
you're all very welcome
to the seventh richard harris
international film festival
i think the legacy of richard harris is
incredibly important
and richard did give a hell of a lot
into this city
and and we see this as being part of it
you know
i'm a big fan of richard harris i love
his movies and i love that there's a
film festival
in his name and it's doing so well it's
an amazing festival and it's just nice
to know that you're
included with a bunch of other very very
talented prestigious filmmakers as well
so
it's really nice to be here the feeling
of camaraderie between all of the
filmmakers you don't get it
with hardly any other film festival in
the world
it's also very important that something
as prestigious as a harris festival
is uh in limerick obviously his hometown
but also it's outside of dublin like
i think it's important for limerick to
kind of embrace that legacy of richard
and i think it's really important that
we keep that legacy going
we courses commander richard harris
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so there was wealth in the family and uh
richard
as a young lad would have inherited that
sense of kind of entitlement that came
with that wealth
ivan the dad expected his sons to take
over that business
so he groomed them for that and it never
happened because
richard who worked for a while in the
storehouse
was just a dead loss i mean he was a
mouse catcher in the storehouse
this huge big big big big barns and
lofts and i ca
i spent my day going with a stick you
see
frightening the mice away from the
flower who's who's pushed because
anyway i thought that all these workers
and millers and all that were sort of
underpaid you know i thought even then i
thought that they weren't being paid
enough so i brought them all out and
strike
against my father and they paraded
outside with signs like your son
said we should have more money
i think the distinctive thing about the
harris family was the obsession with
sports i mean rugby
especially with the lads in the crescent
they were
jesuit educated in primary school and
secondary school
and there was a strong focus on monster
youth rugby and people used to talk
about you know the you passed
the harris household and all you ever
saw was the monster
colors floating on the clothesline
that is my monster schools jersey
that i wore in 1948
he did play rugby he said they were
playing for like the county championship
they had to go like a foot and a half to
keep
the thing going and they got defeated
because they went
a half a foot and they heard somebody
remember
[ __ ] it was a village priest
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georgetown scott hammer already i'm
sorry i'm laura
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he definitely had talent in the sense
that
he had the physical stamina and strength
he could have been great and then he was
struck down when he was
15 16 with tuberculosis i was three
years confined to bed
you know and that and then i began to
sort of study and read
and read an awful lot and devour
books and studied acting in stanislavski
in there
and i invented hundreds of people coming
in and talking and i was sitting in a i
was the king of england or i was
the pope or whatever the pope can you
imagine
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we were a bunch of students and we
came together and decided to take a
theater in kilkee
so we took the olympia for the summer it
turned out that tikki was our next door
neighbor
and when he heard that we were there he
became a fairly permanent
fixture where did you begin in the
theater
uh do you mean when i got my idea yeah
well i got my idea from a group of
people
the uh you were one of them at the time
went yeah one of the uh
university students who went to kill key
and uh did a season in kilkee and i was
friendly with you all i think undergone
very well and i thought
i'd pick it up from there dicky would
come into the
into the kitchen late at night and he
would do a performance of marlon brando
in on the waterfront
and we were mesmerized by this my
earliest memory of dickie harrison
kilkee would have been as a kid
and him at the cinema he was always in
the back row
with a girl on his arm on a couple of
occasions i've been present
at a place up here called the
amphitheater
and it's like an amphitheater cut out of
the cliff
and then there's a natural stone stage
he would get up and recite poetry and he
would do hamlet
and joyce and beckett and all this um
too much to the amusement of all the
teenagers that were there
you used to take over kilkee well you
did
i tried did you jump off the wall and
kill kevin did i watch jump off the wall
and keep it i kept chopping off a lot of
things
in my life and god knows where i landed
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i auditioned in central school and rada
and they both turned me down
my last chance was a place called lambda
and i got to the academy and some little
fellow was coming down the stairs quite
small
he said well look the academy is full so
i looked at him
pleadingly if you reject me and you
don't take me in
do you realize i'd be back in limit a
complete failure
i said you've got to you've got to give
me a shot and he called down another
chap it was the vice president and said
you've got to see this guy he said
you've got to see this he is so bad
he said he is so bad he said but his
story is so
pleading he said if he goes home to
limerick he'll be a failure
so we've got to take him in and they
took me in
his life she set up the theater workshop
in stratford in east london she was
making kind of radical plays and she was
looking for new talent and she was a
perfect psychological fit for
richard littlewood she strived
intentionally to find
real behavior on stage she tried to get
that
sense of reality of truthfulness holding
the mirror up to nature as
shakespeare said to make it like life
littlewood had a an actor drop out
of the role of mixer in brendan beans
the queer fella
and really she was in a corner the
character was supposed to be 50 years
old
and richard wasn't even 30 he was in his
20s
he basically said look i haven't slept
or eaten in days i look 50.
and he got the role so that started his
career with littlewood
i once went with the scottish play to
russia
yes and joan littlewood did not in fact
have understudies
and because i was so keenly enthusiastic
to learn my craft
i went to all the rehearsals they got to
russia
and the actor playing the lead
got a sore throat and he couldn't go on
so joan came to me and says you're wrong
i said joan i can't play macbeth
i don't know a line she says neither do
they
neither do they she said they're all
sitting out there they're russians they
won't have an idea
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you might take a look at this uh and
that's
yes certainly they're set on going to
america like all the rest
still a great country america a whole
page there are about 150 million
inhabitants in an area of approximately
3 million square
miles or to be a great change minnesota
shortly he was a
kind of visionary guy in some ways
because what was about to happen in
london at the end of the 50s was
the starchy dramas those kind of actors
who represented
that kind of class oriented british
culture they were about to be swept away
richard saw that coming and he came in
with that limerick and irish regional
accent and so he was piped for success
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foreign
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in a mask be a terrible beauty
in angela robert mitchum
you've had a reputation throughout your
career of uh occasionally
not getting on it's pretty mildly with
some of the people you've worked with
yeah very mildly in fact the first
important thing that i found at this was
was brando wasn't even in mutiny
on the bounty where you didn't seem to
get on at all did you well i know i
didn't
that captain's defeat not me
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he kept knocking brando but underneath
he respected brando
he knocked him but he he defended him
you know somebody sees you in a fist
fight once but they stood for 20 minutes
nobody made a move
in the fist fight so that gives a lot of
talk you know
when you see him in mutiny on their
bounty for instance with
brando he's having to go
you know i know about the method marlon
you know
would he do a scene with you and he'd
have like that's the camera there
say here and he would have beside the
camera a big board
and the lines would be on the board you
see and that's how he developed a
terrific look at that great brandonian
look
as he's talking to you in a scene and
suddenly he will do this
right that's because that's because he's
looking at the lines
he's reading the lines near kyle harris
uh archul reeve
few norwegian her fiance veron dbc nor
parkinson's pay
richard harris sean connery richard
burton
there was a whole plethora of what you
might call
very male masculine actors who were
working class for you know
in a sense because that's that's the
other thing that you didn't have to be
hoity-toity to
to to break into the hollywood
mainstream and that in itself
was a a great inspiration and if they
could do it we could do it
but we've got to try up with mitch we
can't stick it out here it's the only
chance we've got
what the hell can mix do for us now his
responsibility i warned him
i told him we should have hoofed it back
hours ago it's up to him now
now come on richard was a leading man
there was something quintessentially
irish about him
that just kicked through you know and
and in the sporting life i mean just the
brutality of the performance you're just
a great ape and a football field because
you want me to be like them
you want me to crawl about just like the
rest we'll just have a look at the rest
right good look at them
all right good look at the blue people
around here there's the bleeding man
amongst them
you're [ __ ] you're back from the
world crawls above you
because they haven't got their guts do
you understand that they haven't got the
goods to stand up with a walkabout like
me
stole
years ago small little film but he
shined in it
and uh it was a good film and that got
him going he kind of
then he went into all kinds of stuff
voight harrison graduated on ashtore
again
like this sporting
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i'd like to hear you say it i'd like to
hear you say all of it
you don't understand at all do you
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inanion governor annam nuka oscar
the this sporting life the kino dragon
the inner rail to hollywood the truer
goss
we need shaska three agus vida
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hope this sporting life rowan a doe a
dog in the gall corley
i think the interesting moment for
richard at the time of
this sporting life is the direction his
career would go in or where he would
choose to be
he wanted to do macbeth but he had made
the wreck of the married deer
at mgm with gary cooper and charlton
heston
and he wanted to go back and when heston
invited him back from major dundee
that really is the direction that he
went in i think
ultimately by the time of camelot in
1967
he had chosen the celebrity route over
the accomplishment route
and uh so he wanted to be king arthur
camelot
i know it gives a person pause
but in camelot camelot
those are the legal laws diary gohan
took the camelot
generic shade
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grammy
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i i just think that's a magnificent
brave
theatrical glorious piece of work even
after all these years i still don't
understand the lyrics
even after conducted for for harris
singing macarthur park
dozens and dozens of times i still don't
know what sounds about but what i do
know is a
magnificent piece of work
thank you mr phil
you will not be surprised to hear that
um i first encountered him in a bar
we we knew each other socially before
there was ever
any uh any professional engagement and
that came about
uh specifically um because of the song
my boy
i remember thinking harass now would be
a good contender for this
so initially it started off with a dft
student one one song and then that grew
into an album until
the my boy album with that album we did
a bunch of television stuff we toured
in the uk and i most particularly toured
the united states that was the major uh
that was well that was a that was an
odyssey that was
yeah i still have the marks on my back
from that tour
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he loved the agility and embraced it as
if he were a rock star
and whatever about uh being sober coming
on stage that
after hours anything meant anything but
there was some very hairy moments
afterwards which probably better draw a
veil over most of those
life
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marvelous love affairs i met the most
fantastic women
i i the greatest experiences i
i've been in jail in six six countries
who else can claim that
okay
so
and jean said oh yeah no we've met
before and and
and richard no no we have never met and
gene says yeah no we've we met before
and
he said no no never i never met not i'm
a great admirer of you but he says i've
never
uh but i've never met you he says yeah
we were in the hawaiians together
a picture called the hawaiians that came
out and they were in there
but they weren't in a lot of scenes
together he kept talking about his
drinking days he said i can't remember
he said whatever happened in that period
he says uh just i just have to write
that off
and i apologize in advance
we got drunk together years ago if you
remember dirty nellie's
a drink but he didn't indeed we did we
drank the shannon dry that over
put in here oh god i remember you well
as i was passing out onto the counter
you were still going strong
wonderful he said to me that he he he
he stopped having fun when he stopped
drinking he had more fun when he was
drinking but he had to stop for his
health and everything
he was a he was a wild boozer london in
london
elizabeth to buy a paper yes and i
bought it in dublin
she didn't realize that and and i was
gone for two weeks and my brother called
me this is a true story i swear to god
this is true
my brother called me and he said look
you better get back i think she's seen a
lawyer i said for what is something
wrong she said yeah she's going to
divorce you i said
never he said yes she's going to divorce
you you really better go back
so i thought oh my god okay i remember
standing outside the house
and i heard the footsteps coming down
the stairs i thought oh god what am i
going to say
and the door opened and there was this
really beautiful looking woman with
these amazingly blue eyes
staring humorless thoughtless
into mine like that
and she just looked and i looked her and
i said
why didn't you pay the ransom
i think certainly when he started making
movies for money
he drank to kind of muffle the pain of
that
he was at a stage when he was earning a
lot of money from making those movies
but he was operating so fast that
he was like he could go from a really
rubbishy script
like caprice christopher
you're rushing me i always wait at least
an hour after eating
a rubbishy kind of james bond ripoff
then to
doing you know a man called horse
i think a man called horse was one of
richard's
really truly great films but it seems to
me that you only live to heart your
buffalo
to fight the shoshone and to have your
women
i know you would say to me what else is
there
one day i will be a chief
that scene is he being strung up by his
arms or by his like chest under the skin
and he's just like i mean that
you know that's one of those scenes like
there are some films where
you watch an older movie and you watch
it forgetting that the technology that
exists now didn't exist then
and then that thought occurs to you it's
like how did you
do that back then i mean that's
something obviously it wasn't real
but i'm sure it wasn't comfortable that
weight is being taken somewhere
and even if it's not that if it's any
other party that's not going to be good
so uh
yeah well done well done for getting
through that one
he would rush on then to doing you know
some
junk or he wanted to be a director and
he did that bloomfield that israeli
movie
which was almost unwatchable the
premiere of the film they held it
in the savoy cinema in limerick and he
booked out
dramaale in castle and he had a whole
lot of his pals and
film star friends like lulu and morris
gibbs out at the bee gees
they were all staying in the hotel the
film was shown
and at the end of the film nobody
clapped
he was so disappointed film was it was
absolutely awful
koigan asparda via bloomfield ivan gamor
er harris of his niyani
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inaudible
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vienna enterprise the revenant
the leonardo dicaprio
99 and 44 over 100 dead
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i mean what are the odds you star in
your first movie
you get nominated for a golden globe and
you marry
a man you had a crush on decades earlier
what are the odds of that a billion to
one
richard whenever we were apart would
write
two letters with poetry and prose
explaining his love and if he didn't
have me he would want to sink into a
bottle of vodka and die and he did this
every time i was away he was an amazing
romantic
i think in the 70s he was aware that he
made some
movie choice misjudgments and he wasn't
transitioning
from the star system into independent
movie making the way robert redford was
and he wasn't catching up with the
emerging guys
de niro and duval people like that there
was a change of tone
in filmmaking and he was wondering and
suspecting that he wasn't keeping up
he realized that he had a little problem
in the movies at a certain point
and he no money so he bought the rates
the camelot and toured it
and he used to sell the raffle tickets
like you know he was like an
entrepreneur beyond belief like
that's he'd be at that level you know
what i mean he'd be
organizing the raffle and playing the
king
in camelot you know i think the great
triumph of richard's story is that
he managed having essentially
emotionally and intellectually retired
in the middle 70s or early 80s he
managed
to turn the whole thing around with the
field in 1990.
hello are you in there paul
can you hear me
can you hear me in that shame he was
eccentric
in many ways hard if you're directing
you know
like you know because he's just
[ __ ] wild and he'd do well things you
know
welcome back um dickie harris uh having
a fantastic year
the field yeah a lot of fun
extraordinary year
for me yeah yeah so real comeback
unbelievable and they said you were done
yeah they did it's true story when they
actually suggested that i played the
field
the hollywood studio said well is he
still alive
la linga noctody nirian harris agroska
nine
augustus knows
triumphs of a man called horse innade
octodog
richard as time went on got very
possessive and it became very very
hard to deal with i mean he was so much
better
when we weren't married dove deuteronomy
bahamas
he wasn't the first choice for the field
ray mcnally suggested to me that
we do the field after my left foot and
i just went off to write a script and i
showed it to ray and he didn't like it
richard read it and then really wanted
to do it you know it was all set to go
and then
rhaegar hill died uh and i think maybe
the film was going to go
by the ways at that stage and i think
harris had been offered the role of the
priest
so they sent it to me to play a
different part play the priest so i read
it
and i said look you know uh if i if
you're going to make a movie of macbeth
you don't ask me to play banquo i want
to make a movie of lear you don't ask me
to play
gloucester i play lear i play macbeth
so i either play the lead i don't finish
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off
things you know like when we were doing
the scene with the widow he had that big
stick and he kept changing it from one
hand to the other you know
uh take he's like what are you doing 20
takes i said because
now i have every combination when you
have that [ __ ] stick
i said i'll be able to [ __ ] cut it
whatever way i like
and he ran up the hill and took his coat
off and started shouting at me
so i was like oh man this is going to be
a tough one
i mean jim wasn't so sure and thought i
was to
hear this he thought i was too aesthetic
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that's a joke on itself you bring down
the palladium on that remark
but i had to convince him that i could
do it so i knew
the beginning i was going to play i mean
i started growing the beard right away
cared for richard harrison
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richard harris um more little other one
called
and have two or three points
do you not drink guitar yourself richard
did you ever drink it
it's been nine years to do
two days and 37 and a half minutes it
was
cheap thing
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you know when the horse and carrot comes
up and he says there's the field
he wanted to get off the horse and cart
and go there's the field i was like
nobody [ __ ] farmer will get off the
horse and cart picture
and like there'd be a two or
three-year-old arguments you know but
there was something going on you know
something
really odd like he was so deep in it one
day my father sensed a drop of
rain in the air
and the mother helped us bring in the
hay before it was too late
she was working on one corner of the
field and i was working in the other
but the third day i saw her fall back
kid over so to speak
i called my father i went to my father
knelt beside her in you
knew she was dying she did an act of
contraction into her ear and he asked
god to forgive her sins
and he looked at me and he said fetch a
priest
did you breathe and i said
this spring to him
he is monumental in the movie you know
when i think about it now you know it
doesn't feel like
a part that's structured it's not like
somebody's worked out how they're gonna
play it
it's just this [ __ ] lunatic turns up
and he's as mad as the character you
know
four shay anim new la hayek oscar assan
barter v
guest safield k-n-r-a regulation oscar
schinovoken
hosick hollywood echoed aard in aor air
agus guthuben the a leverage
i had this part in unforgiven and i
thought i'd i would like
to see if he would do it and he was
living down in the bahamas or somewhere
and uh i call this house and he comes on
the line
and he says who is this and i said this
clint
eastwood uh richard i said i'd love to
have you in this picture i'm doing
it says who is this now who is this
really and he says is this
joe or is this mike he thought it was
somebody playing a gag
on i said let me send you a script
and he says i don't need to script love
just count me in
little bill you will leave me at the
mercy of my enemies
enemies bob
you've been talking about the queen
again
on independence day
he said he said i want to start out and
i want to i want to play it like
the posh english and uh and then then
as as i i disintegrate i go into
a kind of a i don't know what you'd call
it a cockney
kind of accent so it was a brilliant
idea
and it was great in that scene where
he's riding out of town
on the coach and the girls are watching
him and he's
speaking at this cockney accent it's
great
you know a lot of savages that's what
you all are a bunch of bloody savages
i think he was a survivor and i think he
wanted to leave a meaningful
legacy and i think in his later years
like with
uh you know the second half of his
career i suppose
with the field and then unforgiven and i
worked for them again a phone call
much underrated film called trojan eddie
where have you been i had to drive mrs
cash home
what did you tell me you did with the
money again
gave it to kathleen his performance in
that film
was absolutely amazing you know we were
shooting this scene
one day in a bar where he he's a very
rough
rough traveling man and you're talking
about having had a fight with a man and
having
nearly murdered them you know you see
those rings
yeah they're my father's rings
i broke a fella's jaw
with that fish one night
it was utterly terrifying
and when he rolled his sleeve up
you know and he was showing me the art
and i realized that what he was doing
was just saying
i'm going to murder you and if you look
at it you see
i'm terrified i never saw a scene so
enlivened by the performance
being irish and if you want your
industry and there is a wonderful chance
here
then you then we we have to we who have
gone abroad and made it and if we can
give some credibility to a picture
you know or help a picture be fine i'm
sure we should do it because
i think we owe it and we've come to the
you know i mean we've come to the end of
our careers now we've had it all
we've had all the glories and the
laurels and all that and we should put
it back
i never met a man so generous with his
support
for the things that were happening there
was no sense of disgruntlement
but a younger generation coming through
he was absolutely supportive and
brilliant and loved and
you know
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in a mask the onstura hoard clue took
ridley scott
i suddenly thought about what happened
richard harris because he was so
i had this majestic dignity because he's
he's about six foot four built like a
god like
rugby player and discovered that he was
still
ticking and so i said i love to see him
and so i went to the savoy i look down
the corridor and it's a
long corridor and i see an old geezer
standing there in a night shirt
and bare feet we look at each other
and he said hail caesar
and uh that's how it began caesar
tell me again maximus why
are we here for the glory of the empire
sir
oh yeah oh yes i remember
it's tad fragile at that point
i think todd fragile through good living
i was a little concerned about it but
getting him on a horse is like
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but he's all right he's a real pro you
know
i really enjoyed working with him i will
empower you
to one end alone to give power
back to the people of rome and end
the corruption that has crippled it
you accept this great honor that i have
offered you
with all my heart now
maximus that is why
it must be you when the script was there
and the director was there he had the
intellectual chops to produce great
performances
down through the years you've made so
many movies 54 54 is it
out of those 54 i reckon that we're
about
eight great movies and the rest were
crap
he didn't want to be remembered for the
two harry potter films
because he was aware that that was kind
of cartoony kind of disney-esque
kind of creation that he did for ella
his granddaughter she wanted him
to play this role that he had turned
down dumbledore
he made a lot of jokes about the hat not
fitting um i think at one point he
like he like his dumbledore hat like
came off a little bit and somebody came
and put it back on he turned to me and
said
this was made for ian mckellen you see
then that was gonna be me but yes i
think he just wanted to make it
as fun for me as he could so the sorting
hat was right
i should be in slytherin it's true harry
you possess many of the qualities that
voldemort
himself praises determination
resourcefulness
and if i may say so a certain disregard
for the rules
why then did the sorting hat place you
in gryffindor
because i asked it too exactly harry
exactly
we had like an animatronic forks the
phoenix
um in one scene and because it was
animatronic he
thought it was a real bird the bird had
like a camera in its eyes so the guys
operating outside could see into the
room
and so richard would go up to it in
between takes and like do stuff to it
and then
the guys outside would respond and play
so it just became this
cycle where we were reinforced where
like nobody wanted i think nobody wanted
to tell him at the end we were like
don't tell him it's not a real bird
it's so weird he likes it too much can i
have your attention please
patience he must have had actually when
i think about it now it's like
we those massive great hall scenes we
filmed them for days
we filmed them for days the you know
trying to organize
350 kids every day to like sit down and
listen
but he would be able to like still
summon the theater projection and the
voice
and would be able to shut us up as soon
as he starts speaking
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before we begin the feast let us have a
round of applause
for professor sprout madame pumphrey
whose mandrake juice has been so
successfully administered
to all who had been petrified
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hodgkin's disease was uh diagnosed
i think just a month or so before he
died
him passing away was actually i think
the
first person i had known pretty much
that had passed away
i just remember my dad telling me and
and just being like
bawling my eyes out
you know that story of the survival you
heard that one did you
when he was very very ill he was being
taken to hospital and he was being
you know i think i don't know if he was
on a girl you're in a wheelchair but he
was being taken out
of the the hotel next to a long
queue the ambulance comes to pick him up
and they're taking him across the lobby
and he just
leans up on the on the stretcher and he
shouts to the
punters you know he says it's the salmon
don't eat the salmon
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that's funny well he was humorous and
clever till the end if i hadn't been
born i'd have been furious
with god yeah paris was a great idea
right
so it's an easy pf thing like you don't
regret anything right not
the slightest
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i think richard harris in a sense broke
a mold
he opened the doors to a whole new breed
of actor
i hate the cliche larger than life
thrown about
too easily a lot of the time but with
him
yeah one of the true greats definitely
dicky
did feel that at the end of his life
that he ticked all the boxes
i'd say he was very reconciled on this
deathbed
we'll never see his like again like
there's not that that generation of
actors was
was so special and unique they were the
the sort of
first generation of people who have
massive theater stars and massive movie
stars
that career blueprint is something that
i think the rest of us all
kind of aspire to now you know he was uh
he was a unique guy and a lot of fun i
must say i had a lot of laughs with him
the stockholm cheshire limnuchae reeve
in our era in an inchiness too agustin
winter courthouse
i adored him he was mad you know
what can i say they'll never be another
richard hart because
it was a different year it was a
different year the movies just don't
throw up those kind of characters
anymore
it wouldn't be allowed simple as that
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