Harry Potter’s Dudley Dursley is all grown up and looks VERY different now

Ann Lee 

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Dudley Dursley was Harry Potter’s spoiled brat of a cousin.
He was annoying, he was overweight, he was a real bully.
But now actor Harry Melling, 26, who played Dudley, is all grown up and he’s changed a lot.
The star has taken a different path to Harry Potter co-star Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.

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He’s shied away from blockbusters and chosen to act in theatre.
Today, he appeared on Lorraine to promote his new West End show Hand To God.
Melling plays a troubled American teen, who is a member of a puppet club run by a Texan Lutheran church in the show, which is running at the Vaudeville theatre.
Talking about his former Harry Potter co-stars to the Economist, he said: ‘I’m very happy they’re doing what they’re doing but I wouldn’t compare myself to them.

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‘I don’t feel jealousy or anything like that really, because they’re just different situations. I’m not one of “the three” [the trio of young actors who starred], so I’m not going to be in that position, but equally, that allows me to get on the Tube.
‘The thing with [having played] Dudley is that you get a call every now and again going, “We’re looking for a really fat, rattish guy.” And then my agent has to go, “Oh no, sorry, he’s changed.”

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‘And so I think that if my career was going to take off, it would take off in that sort of way.’
The role of Dudley was almost recast for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 because Melling had lost so much weight but he ended up filming with a fat suit.
Looking good, Harry!