How did they make Hagrid look so tall?

Green Screen Another method used to make Hagrid look so big was to film him in front of a green screen. They could then take footage of just his body and superimpose it into other scenes – but scaled up, of course, to look larger. Hagrid looking much taller than Coltrane really was!

Is Hagrid really tall in real life?

Robbie Coltrane: In real life, I’m 6’1″ — each way pretty well, north and south and east and west, unfortunately. Question from billm: How big are you in the movie? The book sounded like 9 or 10 feet tall. Robbie Coltrane: In the movie, the official height is 8’6″.

Is Robbie Coltrane really that tall?

1.85 m
Robbie Coltrane/Height

How tall is Rubeus Hagrid in Harry Potter?

We all know and love Rubeus Hagrid: Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts, lover of strange magical creatures, and fierce supporter of Harry, Ron, and Hermione. With half of his genes coming from a giant, this is no small man. In the books he is said to be almost 12 feet tall, and in the movies he appears around 8 feet tall.

How tall is the actor who plays Hagrid?

There are certainly no 8-foot-tall actors in Great Britain, so how did they make Hagrid so tall? Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid Robbie Coltrane is the actor who played Hagrid in all 8 Harry Potter movies. As he unfortunately does not have magical giant genes, he measures only 6-feet 1-inch tall, a good 2 feet shorter than Hagrid appears.

How tall is Robbie Coltrane in the movie Hagrid?

In the movie, the official height [of Hagrid] is 8’6″. And I asked Jo Rowling why not 9 feet and she said “Well, I think 8 foot 6 is a more interesting height.” And I think she’s right, in a funny way. — MSNBC.com chat, 2004

Where does the name Rubeus Hagrid come from?

Also, Hagrid’s first name, “Rubeus,” comes from the Latin “rubinius,” or “red.” “Albus” (as in Albus Dumbledore) comes from “ alba ” meaning “white.” As Rowling as said, “Rubeus (red) Hagrid and Albus (white) Dumbledore…both hugely important to Harry, seem to me to represent two sides of the ideal father figure he seeks;