Feature documentary “The Ghost of Richard Harris,” which premieres Sunday at the Venice Film Festival, looks to answer the question: “Who was Richard Harris?” The film also contains the…
, looks to answer the question: “Who was Richard Harris?” The film also contains the revelation that Harris was offered the role of Gandalf in Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” movies, but chose to take the part of Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter” franchise instead.– a distinguished actor himself, and one of the originators of the project – about how the documentary came to be made.
Sadly, the collaboration was not to happen as Harris died in 2002, before it could proceed, but, Sibley says: “The engagement was fascinating, and he got into my head.” The director had made films about a range of showbiz figures, such as Baz Luhrmann and Dino De Laurentiis, but it was Steve Martin who came to mind when sizing up Harris, because “he’s definitely not who he says he is either, in many ways, and has complexity.
The film covers his ground-breaking stage work with collaborators like Joan Littlewood and Lindsay Anderson, followed by his breakthrough performance in Anderson’s film “This Sporting Life.” “Richard was this very powerful physical actor, and had hit the West End with huge impact,” Sibley says. “But he also was looking to fuck people over, and had that affair with Princess Margaret.
Nevertheless, Richard Harris continued to promote himself as a hellraiser because he felt it would sell newspapers and magazines, generate bigger audiences for chat-shows, and so help sell more tickets for his stage shows and films, and prolong his career.
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