It has been over a decade since the Harry Potter film franchise wrapped, but Arthur Weasley actor Mark Williams still feels fiercely protective of his on-screen wizarding family.
While the 66-year-old actor is currently celebrating 12 seasons of playing the Cotswolds’ most efficient crime-solving Catholic priest in Father Brown, he recently shared a heart-warming update on his former co-stars, proudly declaring that he is now “technically a Weasley grandad.”
“They were my kids,” Mark explained to TV WEEK.
“You’re acting their father, so you might as well make a good job of it.
“When they were little there was quite a bit of ‘be quiet! everybody wants to go home’. But they were a joy, an absoltue joy.”
Despite having to keep them in line occasionally, Mark is the first person to recognise how tricky it can be for a child actor to make on-set magic happen, take after take.
“Like all actors, child actors are very hard working,” he says.
“You forget about what they did. The hours they did, and the lines they learnt and the discipline of standing in the same place and doing it again, exactly the same.”
Decades later, Mark says the Weasley kids are still part of his life, even if he only does see them every once in a while.
“I still see them, intermittently,” he says with a smile.
“Although, of course, they’ve mostly got their own kids now mostly. Technically, I’m a grandad — a Weasley grandad!”
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