I`ve got a filthy sense of humour, says Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes

London: Miriam Margolyes, who portrays the role of Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films, has confessed that she shocks her ‘Coming Of Age’ co-stars with her ‘filthy sense of humour’.

The 68-year-old, who plays a randy old pensioner in the BBC Three comedy about an outrageous group of sixth form students living in Abingdon, also said that she gets on well with her young co-stars. "I`ve got a filthy sense of humour and that hasn`t changed as I`ve got older and I think it gives them a sort of a buzz to see an old lady saying disgusting things," a news daily quoted Miriam as saying. "It`s just funny and fun, so I think the age gap worked in our favour and I think it`s very good to have an older person in a young person`s comedy because young people have got to know that there are old people in the world, they`ve got to face up to that fact," she added. The actress also revealed that she gets a thrill out of some of the shocking humour in the show. "I don`t think the scenes make me flinch, I think they shock me and then they delight me because we all like being shocked, it`s like a horror film, we all love being scared, well I love being shocked," she said. ANI