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Celeb News: 20 Harry Potter cast members talk HP's impact on their lives
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20 Harry Potter cast members talk HP's impact on their lives
'New interviews with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Bonnie Wright, Matthew Lewis, Tom Felton, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen McCrory, Jason Isaacs, Timothy Spall, John Hurt (Ollivander), Rhys Ifans (Xenophilius Lovegood), Robbie Coltrane, Maggie Smith, Gary Oldman, Richard Griffiths (Vernon Dursley), Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory), Pam Ferris (Aunt Marge), Zoe Wanamaker (Madam Hooch), and David Tennant (Barty Crouch, Jnr) were featured, where they discussed how much they enjoyed working with their fellow actors, how much they learned and interacted with the overall cast, and what they took from the series and their work for future films.'
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Daniel Radcliffe - (Harry Potter)
“It’s very rare that something happens on a film set that I don’t know how to react to because I’ve been on them since I was young, I have seen so many situations unfold and I’ve taken it all in. But in the real world, there’s stuff that trips me up.
“I dont take the Tube, because it can go a bit nuts, and if it goes nuts in a small space that can be a bit weird - so I don’t know how to use an Oyster card. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix there’s a shot of me and Mark Williams [Mr Weasley] going through the gates at a Tube station and I try to put my Oyster card through the machine like it’s a ticket, rather than swiping it. And it’s in the film! It makes total sense because of the character of Harry, but that was really by fluke. So I’m more likely to get tripped up by something like that, which to everyone else is totally normal.
”In terms of acting, I had to learn as i went along. I think there there is a certain amount of scepticism about my acting ability. But the advice my dad gave me was: if you can do the thing that people don’t expect you to do, and do it better than they expect you to do it, you’ll always have a career. Thats, for me, is absolutely true. So I’m looking forward to proving those people wrong. If I do manage to succeed in future projects, it’ll be testament to hard work rather than to any natural ability that I have.
”The thing that gives me confidence is that people want to work with me, although I know some just want to work with me because my name is one that attracts a lot of attention at the moment.
“Can I imagine life without Harry? I think it would have been a bit rubbish, to be honest. But without a doubt, what’s nice is that these ten years will be the hardest. Its only going to get easier. I’m never going to be as famous as I am today. Or as I was a few years ago. That’s all going to go away, and I’ll be able to just get on with being an actor”
Emma Watson - (Hermione Granger)
“Right after Daniel, Rupert and I were told we had got the parts, we stayed in a fancy hotel for the press conference. We were so small they had to put three or four pillows on our seats so we could actually get above the table so they could see us. It’s amazing because nowadays, Dan and I do most of the talking and Rupert makes the jokes, but back then Dan and I could hardly string a sentence together and Rupert held the press conference. I was too young to realise back then, though obviously I was terrified.
”Every now and again I have moments I wish things were slightly simpler, but it doesn’t seem right to complain too much. The Harry Potter set has been like my home, My school, my family…. it’s been everything. I’m sad to leave so many people I care about behind. Although I have a funny feeling the three of us will become closer when all this is over, because we’ve shared this experience. I think we’ll spend more time together now than we did during filming.”
Rupert Grint - (Ron Weasley)
“It’s only in the last couple of years that I’ve realised how amazing the cast is. In the early days,I just through of them as a load of old people - mostly friendly, sometimes intimidating. I was terrified of Alan Rickman [Severus Snape] because he stayed in character all the time. My Faveourite scenes were those with all the weasleys and my surrogate mum, Julie Walters.
“I felt a little lost when we finished filming a year ago. It took a while to get used to Harry Potter not being in my life any more. I’ve spent TEN instense years with the same people, on the same set.
”When I occasionally went back to school, I found it hard to adjust because the studio was my classroom and my playground. It’s where all my friends were. To suddenly not have that routine felt very weird. The last day was quite emotional. To be honest, I don’t think it will properly sink in until the film is out in the cinema”.
Rolanda Hooch (Zoe Wanamaker)
“I became aware of Harry Potter on the set of My Family, when Gabriel Thomson [who played her son],sat with his nose in the book and couldn’t be prised away. I’ve always loved magical stories, so I started to read it as well.
”The books were phenomenally imaginative and very visual,so they were always going to translate brilliantly onto film,and when I was asked to play Rolanda Hooch I knew exactly who she was. I based her on an eagle: she’s strong and mother- like and I could imagine her fiercely protecting her chicks. That is where the contact lenses I wore came from,
”Walking onto the set at Alnwick Castle (above) to see the kids dressed up with their broomsticks was wonderful - just how imagined it.”
Vernon Dursley (Richard Griffiths)
“Mr Dursley, how do you feel now the excitement is all over? ‘Over the moon, Bob, over the moon. Us Dursleys have been stuck with Potter since he was a baby. You couldn’t take him anywhere! He let a snake out at the zoo, filled the house with a blizzard of letters,flying cakes,ballooning aunties and we had vampire things attacking us.. then to cap it all,we’ve had to abandon the house. It’s been a nightmare on Privet Drive! So when you ask how I feel now it’s all over, I say, over the moon, Bob, over the…. Bob? Hello?’
”Richard Griffiths, who played Vernon, when asked how he felt about the ending of Harry Potter, said,’Don’t ask’ and closed the door of the darkened room from which he refuses to emerge.”
Rubeus Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane)
“When they announced they were turning the Harry Potter books into films, I had read them all up to that time, to my boy, who was about nine then. I loved reading them to him and found that the wee one had fallen asleep and I’d be thinking, ‘Oh, what happens next?’ So I’d always be some four chapters ahead of him.
”So when JK Rowling said that she wanted me to play the part of Hagrid he was incredibly excited and told all his wee pals. All of a sudden I had a whole new audience of little doe-eyed children. That was quite odd, at my age, for that to happen so late in life. And I’m really lucky that Rickman in airports - but I don’t get any of that. They see me buying frozen fish out of a cabinet, and say, ‘No he’s not…. he’s not big enough, he’s not tall enough…”
”My son’s 18 now but he and his girlfriend still sit and watch the Potter films. There was a place in his development where being a Harry Potter fan was bit uncool and he left it for a while, but then they all come back to it.
”An actor’s life is all about letting things go and finding something new, but Harry Potter’s been extraordinary, unlike anything else in my professional life, and I’m sure unlike anything that’s likely to happen to me again. I think we all felt that, Really.”
Minerva McGonagall (Maggie Smith)
“I am deeply grateful for Harry Potter but I did so little in it that I got to the point of thinking they could make do with just the hat. I was forever doing reaction shot
”Now that we’ve finished filming, the odd thing is that you think of those young actors who have spent half of their lives doing it - we are talking really small kids who were nine and ten and now I don’t know what they are going to do. And,God, they worked hard. Daniel Radcliffe was so lovely to work with. I’m so glad I insisted they see him for the part”.
Sirius Black (Gary Oldman)
“I get up in the morning and, with no disrespect to anyone, I don’t have to dig a hole in the road. There could be many worse things that I might have to do than appear in these films that have a real pedigree, and that so many people get pleasure from. A car picks me up, and I go to work, and I’m in Harry Potter. So it’s not bad.
“When you’re in a bit of a slump, maybe sometimes the thought of going weights heavy. But I’d always find that once I walked through the door and I was on the set, it was fine. In lots of ways, it was a nice thing.
”When you’re working with young actors, you have to be something of a role model, and I think that was one of the responsibilities I had with Harry Potter. They do look up to you, as I think Daniel Radcliffe did. And knowing that, to then be cynical about it - whether about the film or about acting in general- it’s not good.
”You’ve got to be there, you’ve got to be on time, you’ve got to know your lines, you’ve got to know what you’re doing, you need to set an example. You have to deliver, and with Harry Potter I always made sure I delivered.”
Mr Ollivander (John Hurt)
“I have to be honest and say the main reason I originally played Mr Ollivander was because my children ( 11 and 8 at the time) would never have spoken to me again if I hadn’t! They came to the set - as a suprise, they had no idea where they were going - and their excitement and increduality was wonderful.
”I have now, of course, watched many other children and young people have that same experience. At the last premiere I attended, a huge cheer went up from the crowd, people screaming and applauding - John Lennon must have returned, I thought, but no, It was Alan Rickman..”
Pam Ferris - (Marge Dursley)
“In order to play Aunt Marge in The Prisoner Of Azkaban I had to learn how to inflate myself and float up into the sky like a helium balloon. This has really changed my life - I am now offering scenic flights along the south coast.”
Tom Felton - (Draco Malfoy)
“I was head over heels when I got the part of Draco, but I never imagined in a million years we’d be here 11 years later still talking about it. At that age, you don’t really grasp what you’re getting yourself into! I didn’t know who Gary Oldman or Michael Gambon were. I think I actually met Gary Oldman two times before realising that he’s an actor. I thought he was taking people on studio tours!”
Jason Isaacs -(Lucius Malfoy)
”Most of the time I like to try and disappear into work. I don’t care how many people watch something or how well it goes down. I just want to make the thing feel fulfilling for me. But with the potter film it’s different. Everywhere you go in the world people know what they are. They’ve seen them and loved them; they’re thrilled to meet you. The buzz and excitement that goes through kids when you sign something and they have it laminated and keeps it under their pillow has been the gift that keeps on giving”.
Timothy Spall - Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail)
Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange)
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It's good to see David and Robert were included.
I wanna read Rob's though, I bet he praised HP to the highest level and dragged Twilight for the filth.
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Okay then, Rob.
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I found this, I'll put it in the OP:
Daniel Radcliffe - (Harry Potter)
“It’s very rare that something happens on a film set that I don’t know how to react to because I’ve been on them since I was young, I have seen so many situations unfold and I’ve taken it all in. But in the real world, there’s stuff that trips me up.
“I dont take the Tube, because it can go a bit nuts, and if it goes nuts in a small space that can be a bit weird - so I don’t know how to use an Oyster card. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix there’s a shot of me and Mark Williams [Mr Weasley] going through the gates at a Tube station and I try to put my Oyster card through the machine like it’s a ticket, rather than swiping it. And it’s in the film! It makes total sense because of the character of Harry, but that was really by fluke. So I’m more likely to get tripped up by something like that, which to everyone else is totally normal.
”In terms of acting, I had to learn as i went along. I think there there is a certain amount of scepticism about my acting ability. But the advice my dad gave me was: if you can do the thing that people don’t expect you to do, and do it better than they expect you to do it, you’ll always have a career. Thats, for me, is absolutely true. So I’m looking forward to proving those people wrong. If I do manage to succeed in future projects, it’ll be testament to hard work rather than to any natural ability that I have.
”The thing that gives me confidence is that people want to work with me, although I know some just want to work with me because my name is one that attracts a lot of attention at the moment.
“Can I imagine life without Harry? I think it would have been a bit rubbish, to be honest. But without a doubt, what’s nice is that these ten years will be the hardest. Its only going to get easier. I’m never going to be as famous as I am today. Or as I was a few years ago. That’s all going to go away, and I’ll be able to just get on with being an actor”
Emma Watson - (Hermione Granger)
“Right after Daniel, Rupert and I were told we had got the parts, we stayed in a fancy hotel for the press conference. We were so small they had to put three or four pillows on our seats so we could actually get above the table so they could see us. It’s amazing because nowadays, Dan and I do most of the talking and Rupert makes the jokes, but back then Dan and I could hardly string a sentence together and Rupert held the press conference. I was too young to realise back then, though obviously I was terrified.
”Every now and again I have moments I wish things were slightly simpler, but it doesn’t seem right to complain too much. The Harry Potter set has been like my home, My school, my family…. it’s been everything. I’m sad to leave so many people I care about behind. Although I have a funny feeling the three of us will become closer when all this is over, because we’ve shared this experience. I think we’ll spend more time together now than we did during filming.”
Rupert Grint - (Ron Weasley)
“It’s only in the last couple of years that I’ve realised how amazing the cast is. In the early days,I just through of them as a load of old people - mostly friendly, sometimes intimidating. I was terrified of Alan Rickman [Severus Snape] because he stayed in character all the time. My Faveourite scenes were those with all the weasleys and my surrogate mum, Julie Walters.
“I felt a little lost when we finished filming a year ago. It took a while to get used to Harry Potter not being in my life any more. I’ve spent TEN instense years with the same people, on the same set.
”When I occasionally went back to school, I found it hard to adjust because the studio was my classroom and my playground. It’s where all my friends were. To suddenly not have that routine felt very weird. The last day was quite emotional. To be honest, I don’t think it will properly sink in until the film is out in the cinema”.
Rolanda Hooch (Zoe Wanamaker)
“I became aware of Harry Potter on the set of My Family, when Gabriel Thomson [who played her son],sat with his nose in the book and couldn’t be prised away. I’ve always loved magical stories, so I started to read it as well.
”The books were phenomenally imaginative and very visual,so they were always going to translate brilliantly onto film,and when I was asked to play Rolanda Hooch I knew exactly who she was. I based her on an eagle: she’s strong and mother- like and I could imagine her fiercely protecting her chicks. That is where the contact lenses I wore came from,
”Walking onto the set at Alnwick Castle (above) to see the kids dressed up with their broomsticks was wonderful - just how imagined it.”
Vernon Dursley (Richard Griffiths)
“Mr Dursley, how do you feel now the excitement is all over? ‘Over the moon, Bob, over the moon. Us Dursleys have been stuck with Potter since he was a baby. You couldn’t take him anywhere! He let a snake out at the zoo, filled the house with a blizzard of letters,flying cakes,ballooning aunties and we had vampire things attacking us.. then to cap it all,we’ve had to abandon the house. It’s been a nightmare on Privet Drive! So when you ask how I feel now it’s all over, I say, over the moon, Bob, over the…. Bob? Hello?’
”Richard Griffiths, who played Vernon, when asked how he felt about the ending of Harry Potter, said,’Don’t ask’ and closed the door of the darkened room from which he refuses to emerge.”
Rubeus Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane)
“When they announced they were turning the Harry Potter books into films, I had read them all up to that time, to my boy, who was about nine then. I loved reading them to him and found that the wee one had fallen asleep and I’d be thinking, ‘Oh, what happens next?’ So I’d always be some four chapters ahead of him.
”So when JK Rowling said that she wanted me to play the part of Hagrid he was incredibly excited and told all his wee pals. All of a sudden I had a whole new audience of little doe-eyed children. That was quite odd, at my age, for that to happen so late in life. And I’m really lucky that Rickman in airports - but I don’t get any of that. They see me buying frozen fish out of a cabinet, and say, ‘No he’s not…. he’s not big enough, he’s not tall enough…”
”My son’s 18 now but he and his girlfriend still sit and watch the Potter films. There was a place in his development where being a Harry Potter fan was bit uncool and he left it for a while, but then they all come back to it.
”An actor’s life is all about letting things go and finding something new, but Harry Potter’s been extraordinary, unlike anything else in my professional life, and I’m sure unlike anything that’s likely to happen to me again. I think we all felt that, Really.”
Minerva McGonagall (Maggie Smith)
“I am deeply grateful for Harry Potter but I did so little in it that I got to the point of thinking they could make do with just the hat. I was forever doing reaction shot
”Now that we’ve finished filming, the odd thing is that you think of those young actors who have spent half of their lives doing it - we are talking really small kids who were nine and ten and now I don’t know what they are going to do. And,God, they worked hard. Daniel Radcliffe was so lovely to work with. I’m so glad I insisted they see him for the part”.
Sirius Black (Gary Oldman)
“I get up in the morning and, with no disrespect to anyone, I don’t have to dig a hole in the road. There could be many worse things that I might have to do than appear in these films that have a real pedigree, and that so many people get pleasure from. A car picks me up, and I go to work, and I’m in Harry Potter. So it’s not bad.
“When you’re in a bit of a slump, maybe sometimes the thought of going weights heavy. But I’d always find that once I walked through the door and I was on the set, it was fine. In lots of ways, it was a nice thing.
”When you’re working with young actors, you have to be something of a role model, and I think that was one of the responsibilities I had with Harry Potter. They do look up to you, as I think Daniel Radcliffe did. And knowing that, to then be cynical about it - whether about the film or about acting in general- it’s not good.
”You’ve got to be there, you’ve got to be on time, you’ve got to know your lines, you’ve got to know what you’re doing, you need to set an example. You have to deliver, and with Harry Potter I always made sure I delivered.”
Mr Ollivander (John Hurt)
“I have to be honest and say the main reason I originally played Mr Ollivander was because my children ( 11 and 8 at the time) would never have spoken to me again if I hadn’t! They came to the set - as a suprise, they had no idea where they were going - and their excitement and increduality was wonderful.
”I have now, of course, watched many other children and young people have that same experience. At the last premiere I attended, a huge cheer went up from the crowd, people screaming and applauding - John Lennon must have returned, I thought, but no, It was Alan Rickman..”
Pam Ferris - (Marge Dursley)
“In order to play Aunt Marge in The Prisoner Of Azkaban I had to learn how to inflate myself and float up into the sky like a helium balloon. This has really changed my life - I am now offering scenic flights along the south coast.”
Tom Felton - (Draco Malfoy)
“I was head over heels when I got the part of Draco, but I never imagined in a million years we’d be here 11 years later still talking about it. At that age, you don’t really grasp what you’re getting yourself into! I didn’t know who Gary Oldman or Michael Gambon were. I think I actually met Gary Oldman two times before realising that he’s an actor. I thought he was taking people on studio tours!”
Jason Isaacs -(Lucius Malfoy)
”Most of the time I like to try and disappear into work. I don’t care how many people watch something or how well it goes down. I just want to make the thing feel fulfilling for me. But with the potter film it’s different. Everywhere you go in the world people know what they are. They’ve seen them and loved them; they’re thrilled to meet you. The buzz and excitement that goes through kids when you sign something and they have it laminated and keeps it under their pillow has been the gift that keeps on giving”.
Timothy Spall - Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail)
Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange)
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nice! 
how I wish they could have interviewed the entire cast though 
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I wanna read Helena!
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"I love the number of children I meet who are captivated by it, all of whom think I'm terrifying because I play Bellatrix. How amazing of JK Rowling to have captured their imagination. I actually thought of turning down The King's Speech - although I loved it and the story was worth telling - beacuse I was also doing Harry Potter and didn't want to work 24/7, which is what was required. As it turned out, Bellatrix was a nice contrast to the Queen Mother."
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