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Robbie Coltrane dies aged 72 🪦

Very sad news - was always a delight to see his performances wherever they popped up. I had his incredulous "SAUSAAAAUUUUGE?!?!??!?!" bellow as a ringtone once :D

He also had a memorable role as Bob 'Oskins' slightly spivvy mate in Mona Lisa which we watched recently; we were wondered what and where he was up to lately and decided either health issues or Big Fat Harry Potter Pension.
 
Whether you like Harry Potter, or not, this was filmed last year and is quite touching.



I think he loved the role and apparently had a great relationship with the child actors. He nailed Hagrid too.

Great actor in most things I've seen including the ITV drama National Treasure.

Was genuinely sad to hear and there's not many "celebrities" I'd bat an eye lid at.
 
I met him and spent an evening with him by accident once. Was at the Mean Fiddler to interview Billy Bragg (when Levi Stubbs’ Tears was released). RC turned up and obviously expected BB to be available for socialising and kept interrupting us, so BB invited us both back to his flat. I suppose the idea was that the interview would continue and RC would be more contained and containable in a home setting than he had been in the bar. This idea failed quite spectacularly when RC set off into a gale of extemporised stories, rants and suddenly intense Q&A sessions with me (so young) being quizzed and schooled by RC. Somehow he wasn’t in the least bit intimidating, but I did really really want him to like me. Neither I nor BB could get much of a word in except whenever RC ran out of breath or booze, both of which left him sprawled back in his chair for a few moments while he rectified the situation.

Once when BB was out the room to fetch something RC was rude about him as only a friend can be, and made me laugh.

Despite failing to get the interview I wasn’t in the least annoyed, because I was so charmed and fascinated by the fantastic spinning top of energy and humour and pure intelligence on display. BB kept trying to steer the chat back to the interview but RC wasn’t having it and (I later realised) cleverly got BB onto the topic of politics so he’d join in a bit rather than being so po-faced.

Time ran out and we headed back to the venue and RC stayed to watch BB come on stage and then fucked off, giving me a big grin and an awkward barging half hug in the crowd as he left.

I‘ve always hoped I’d somehow magically bump into him somewhere and he’d remember meeting me and we’d have another round of drinks and stories. I feel genuinely sad that he’s no longer alive.

A proper good’un for sure. I hope his death was kind and peaceful.
 
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BristolEcho said:
Whether you like Harry Potter, or not, this was filmed last year and is quite touching.



I think he loved the role and apparently had a great relationship with the child actors. He nailed Hagrid too.

Great actor in most things I've seen including the ITV drama National Treasure.

Was genuinely sad to hear and there's not many "celebrities" I'd bat an eye lid at.
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Shame he defended her attitude towards transfolk
 
Orang Utan said:
Shame he defended her attitude towards transfolk
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For context, he 'defended' this tweet.

If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction. If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth.
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His 'defence' was this:

"I don't think what she said was offensive really," Coltrane said during an interview with the Radio Times. "I don't know why, but there's a whole Twitter generation of people who hang around waiting to be offended. They wouldn't have won the war, would they?"

He added: "That's me talking like a grumpy old man, but you just think: 'Oh, get over yourself. Wise up, stand up straight, and carry on.'"
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There have been tweets from people celebrating his death because he said the above. Shame such cunts exist.
 
Idris2002 said:
Was the role of Fitz written specially for him? Because no one else could have played that role.
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Watched two episodes of Cracker last night/today in his honour as we've not seen it for a while. I was enough of a wee slip of a thing to be banned from watching it when it first came out (and also hadn't seen anything else with Coltrane in it, not even Blackadder), so I missed most of the hype at the time. I got the box set a decade or so back given that I'd heard nowt but good things about it.

It's certainly difficult for me to imagine anyone else in the role but I think it's one of those rare and beautiful fusions between an actor and the part (my favourite example being Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes). Coltrane's helped hugely by some legitimately brilliant writing but the ease with which he moves from the kindly, understanding, almost overly sensitive psychologist in to the brash, self-destructive, self-loathing Fitz with little more than a slight change in intonation and body language is surely the sort of thing directors dream of. It's a perfect portrait of a man who's only too aware of how he's engineering his own destruction, along with anyone else he can drag down with him, and it still makes for electrifying viewing.
 
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