How did they film Hagrid so big?


How did they film Hagrid so big? They filmed with a really tall body double who puts on a giant head prop of Hagrid. - 2 different sets for Hagrid's hut. Miniature furniture when filming with Robbie Coltrane and oversized furniture when filming with the other actors. Your mind tricks you into thinking they are the same.


Was Hagrid too big to be allowed?

Description of Hagrid He was almost twice as tall as a normal man and at least five times as wide. He looked simply too big to be allowed, and so wild – long tangles of bushy black hair and beard hid most of his face, he has hands the size of dustbin lids and his feet in their leather boots were like baby dolphins.


Did Hagrid have a body double?

Since retirement, Bayfield has worked as a journalist, an after-dinner speaker, and has appeared in all of the Harry Potter films playing the half-giant Hagrid, as Robbie Coltrane's body and stunt double (he also appeared in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as a young Rubeus Hagrid).