For a self-confessed huge Harry Potter fan like Margot Robbie, marrying one of the film series’ stars would have been a dream.
She didn’t quite get with Daniel Radcliffe but her husband Tom Ackerley surprisingly had a small role in the third HP outing, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Ackerley, now a successful producer, got his “big” break in cinema working as an extra on the 2004 film. He didn’t just dissolve into the background, though, and was given a quite prominent role for an extra: he was the sorry sod pushed by Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) as the worried Hogwarts students are being introduced to the haughty Buckbeak, Hagrid’s hippogriff.
Robbie revealed the surprise fact on The Graham Show last year. “My husband is in the Harry Potter movies,” she told the shocked host. “I know, I was like, ‘Had you told me sooner we would’ve been married very quickly.’ But he was an extra, when he was a little kid he was one of the Slytherin extras when Draco pushes some kids out of the way to see Buckbeak in the third book. He pushes my husband out of the way.”
The Aussie actress met Ackerley back in 2013 on the set of Suite Française. They then got hitched in Byron Bay in 2016. She probably wasn’t being hyperbolic when she said they’d have gotten married sooner. Robbie revealed to The Evening Standard that her hen party had a HP theme. “They hired a Harry Potter-themed stripper for me; he had all the Harry Potter phrases and innuendoes,” she said. “I was so touched, it was really such a thoughtful thing to do. They know me so well.”
Robbie also probably watched Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts this weekend. The special show is now available to stream on BINGE.
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