Harry Potter's Harry Melling Looks Unrecognisable In New Film Role

Look, we get it: people grow up, and when they grow up they tend to end up looking a little different. But every now and then you get a transformation that's one step further and leaves someone almost unrecognisable - which is what's happened to Harry Melling, who you'll know as Harry Potter's bratty cousin, Dudley Dursley.

Back in the day, he was one of Harry's many enemies (mate, why does everyone hate you so much?!), having grown a bit of a reputation for being a whinging, slightly podgy mummy's boy.

But Melling's all grown up now, and has proven those days are far behind him with a role in the new Coen Brothers Netflix film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

In the six-part Western anthology film - which features a series of tales about the American frontier - Melling plays an artist called Harrison, who's a pretty dapper-looking dude.

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Melling has previously spoken out about his weight loss, telling the Telegraph in 2009 that he knew he had to make some changes if he wanted to forge a career in acting.

"I was just starting drama school, and found I was moving around a lot," he said.

"I also started to eat sensibly. The weight just dropped off. I went from 16st to 11st 5lb."

He added: "I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley."

And it seems like that career of his has been doing alright over the past decade or so, having not only landed the role in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, but also absolutely smashed it - with many people referring to his performance as 'perfect' or speculating it could well win him big awards.

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One person tweeted: "Harry Melling is the one who played Dudley in Harry Potter, Wow. Unexpectedly, he delivered one of the best performances of 2018 in #TheBalladOfBusterScruggs."

Another wrote: "Watching Harry Melling right now in #TheBalladofBusterScruggsOh my word, Dudley Dursley's gonna win an Emmy."

A third commented: "Is there a Twitter support group for people who can't recover from seeing Harry Melling's story in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs?"

Someone else also added, hilariously: "There's something deliciously perverse about Harry Melling/Dudley Dursley turning out to be the only Harry Potter alum who can act."

Buuuuuurn.

Topics: Harry Potter, Entertainment, TV and Film, Celebrity

Jess Hardiman

Jess is a journalist at LADbible who graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Film Studies, English Language and Linguistics - indecisiveness at its finest, right there. She also works for FOODbible and its sister page Seitanists, which are both a safe haven for her to channel a love for homemade pasta, fennel and everything else in between. You can contact Jess at [email protected].

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