the crazy evenings of excess of this star of the saga, “It was like a scene from Scarface”

These last years, several iconic actors from the films Harry Potter left us. In 2016, Alan Rickman, interpreter of Severus Snape, died of pancreatic cancer. Three years earlier, Richard Griffiths, who played Harry’s horrible uncle, Vernon Dursley, had breathed his last. This month of October 2022, it is Robbie Coltrane, the actor who lent his features to the famous Rubeus Hagrid, who died, to the chagrin of fans of the saga. But the first death to have marked the casting remains definitively that of Richard Harristhat we knew in the skin ofAlbus Dumbledore in the first two parts, disappeared in October 2002, aged 72.

Twenty years after his death, his three sons, Jamie, Damian and Jared, decided to pay tribute to him through a never-before-seen documentary titled “The Ghost of Richard Harris” and aired in November on UK channel Sky Arts. As reported by our colleagues from pure peoplethe latter make several amazing revelations about their father’s tumultuous past, which they describe as“unpredictable”. They notably mentioned his taste for parties and his crazy evenings punctuated by its significant consumption ofalcohol and his addiction to dope.

Richard Harris found his face ‘in the middle of a kilo of cocaine’

A scene has visibly marked the children of the actor. “I walked into his room and it was like a scene from scarface. He had dropped that kilo of cocaine that had burst on the mat, and his face was right in the middle.”, Jamie actually told in the documentary. For his part, Jared remembered a violent fight between Richard Harris and a stranger. “Dad hits the guy with a punch. He pretends to put his Guinness down, then jumps up and knocks the man out.”did he declare. “The guy was passed out on the floor and his girlfriend was like, ‘You killed my boyfriend!'”he continued, before revealing that his father had finally “threw his Guinness in the face” seeing that he was coming to his senses.