Nick Frost's Journey from Trauma to Hagrid

0:00On March 29th, Nick Frost is stepping into the giant boots of Hagrid for the new Harry Potter HBO series, kicking off with Philosopher's Stone, this. Christmas. The cast is stacked with names like Warwick Davis and Papa Siedu, but Frost's backstory hits different, he grew up through some real heavy trauma. That's Shade Tim, big time. His sister, 8 years older, passed from an asthma attack at 18. That day, the TV was off, and young Nick linked it straight to death in the house. It stuck with him hard, turning into this deeper version to a silent screen ever since. Fast forward five years, he's 15, and his folks office furniture business tanks. They lose their comfy red bridge home, Jaguar in the drive, all that. End up crashing in one room next door, with the family and their huge outstation dog. Stress crushes his mom. She has a stroke right there, with Nick first on scene. He drops out of school to hustle and support them. Council relocates the family to a rough block of flats on a toughest state.

1:02That big dog? Only reason he wasn't messed with. From those lows, Frost built a career cracking us up in Sean of the Dead in Hot Fuzz. Now Hagrid, man's journey shows grit turns pain into power every time.