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Joshua Herdman he played Gregory Goyle, one of Draco Malfoy’s friends and a home student with Slytherin at Hogwarts, in Harry Potter movies when he was just 14; However, acting was not his passion, so he looked for a new activity to motivate him and found it in MMA, so he had a radical change in physics.
Nearly 20 years after he appeared in adaptations of JK Rowling’s works on the big screen, Herdman – 33 – confirmed that giving up acting to mixed martial arts was the best what you did.
“It’s raw, exciting and unpredictable“, he explained in 2016 to BBC about his radical change of profession.
In 2010 he ventured into jiu jitsu and later into MMA, where he had only two fights, which he won. He is currently dedicated to practicing and practicing mixed martial arts.
Herdman, 33, who can push two reps with a 200-pound continuous bar remembering fondly in the days when he shared the set with Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) and Alan Rickman (Severus Snape).
Despite playing one of the film’s antagonists, Herdman talked about the Slytherin house – where Goyle was placed by the sort hat – and mentioned that “It’s not everyone’s favorite, but it’s perfect for me. “
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