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Gregory Goyle Actor Josh Herdman on Harry Potter Co-Stars, Auditioning | Corpus Christi Comic Con 25
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Jul 13, 2025
🐍 Josh Herdman (Gregory Goyle) talks about working with Draco and Crabbe and all things Harry Potter at Corpus Christi Comic Con!
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My name is Josh Herdman
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and this is my five question interview.
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Uh, what do you remember about working
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with Tom Felton and Jamie Whit?
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Me and Jamie Waylet had a turbulent
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relationship. We didn't see eye to eye.
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We clashed massively, especially in the
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early movies. Um but as we as we matured
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and we grew up uh
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we both calmed down and we ended up
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liking each other by the end of it but
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then sadly he got fired. Um Tom Fel what
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I remember about Tom Felton I just
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really uh admired him and respected him
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and uh I found him quite an inspiring
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character
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and he was very cool. He was a very cool
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dude. I mean, he was one of the first
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people I ever saw to wear a Wuang
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hoodie,
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you know, and that was before I even
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knew what Wuang was. Uh, and he was
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always on his skateboard, skating around
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set and stuff. And he was just a cool
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dude. Um, and very a professional, you
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know. Uh, so I was I was um
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I was sort of like not mimicking him,
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but I was seeing him as a as a as like a
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guide of of how to uh behave on set and
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stuff like that. And I basically kind of
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tried to replicate that because he was
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very experienced. He'd been he' done
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Anna and the King, the Borrowers. He'
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done a bunch of bunch of stuff. At 13,
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you became Gregory Goyle in Harry
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Potter. What do you most remember from
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that audition? Well, I originally
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auditioned for Dudley Dersley. Um, I had
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maybe four or five auditions for Dudley,
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screen tests. Um, and I got down to the
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last two actors for Dudley. But then the
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producers decided to go in a different
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direction
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for Dudley's look and they uh me and the
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other kid didn't get didn't get the job
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and then they went uh started the whole
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casting process again where they found
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Harry Meling who you know as Dudley
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today. Uh but luckily they called me
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back 3 weeks later cuz obviously they
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said I didn't get the part. I was
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heartbroken. They called my agent 3
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weeks later and said we really liked him
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so will he come back and try for Goyle.
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So I did and uh the rest is history. Uh,
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what do your kids think about your role
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as Gregory in Harry Potter? Uh,
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they they're proud. They're proud of
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their dad being in Harry Potter and uh
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they're not actually into Harry Potter
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themselves, but yeah, they're very proud
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and uh they like it and they love coming
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to the Comic Con. I bring them to the
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Comic Cons often. Uh, and they they they
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think it's pretty cool. They like to
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tell their friends about it, that's for
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sure. Your family includes actors and
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athletes. How did your father, Martin
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Herman, influence your path in both
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fields? He's the reason I I did either
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of those things. Uh my dad got me into
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got me into acting when I was seven. Um,
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and as I was growing up, like my dad was
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like a local celebrity sort of and you
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know he was always in the local paper
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for his various sporting achievements
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and stuff. So he would make he would
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have scrapbooks of his articles and I
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grew up as a kid looking through his
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scrapbooks, fascinated. So yeah, it's
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thanks to my dad that uh I I I did uh
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martial arts, MMA and and acting. It's
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down to me dad. So yeah,
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thanks Martin.
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Um, when signing autographs, what quote
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do fans ask for most?
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You know what? I don't actually get many
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quote requests.
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They kind I'd say nine times out of 10,
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the fans kind of leave that up to you to
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think of something. And I have like a
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catalog of different quotes I use.
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Actually, not like not quotes that Goyle
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said because Goyle didn't actually say
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that much, but I have a bunch of various
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things uh cataloged in my head which
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like go-to answers.
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Thanks, guys. Slytherin for life. atom.