The LA Times has posted a new interview withBonnie Wright.
DM: Do you remember how you felt when you read “The Half-Blood Prince”? BW: I wasn’t fully expecting what happened. Ginny had grown up so much in the sixth book, and what happens between her and Harry? I just couldn’t have imagined that would happen. She started out so shy and young, and in this book she’s gotten so much more confident and noticed. She finds herself and it’s the first time you realize why she becomes the person who ends up with Harry.
DM: Has it hit you yet that the films are coming to an end? BW: Yeah, you really cherish being on set even more. I’ve got a while yet. It probably won’t really hit me until the last few months of filming. It’s been so long for us all but I think it will be sad when we finish. I had a similar experience reading the last book. I was quite sad. I’ll miss being on set with all the people, and that energy. It’s such a big crew and big cast, so many characters. The energy is just amazing on set. And we’ve all gotten to work with so many of the greats. In terms of British film, you’ve probably got half of the great actors, and cameramen, and crew. Everyone is the top of their field on the film. “Sorcerer’s Stone” was the first film I ever did, so I definitely jumped in on the deep end.
DM: Have you made post-Potter plans? BW: I still want to continue acting. I start going to university in September and I’m studying film and television and acting. So, not just acting, but also directing and producing and how it all complements each other in the industry. I want to study the big picture.
There is a new interview online with Bellatrix Lestrange actres Helena Bonham Carter.
This summer, Helena’s back and bad as Bellatrix Lestrange, the Voldemort-loving scourge of Harry Potter. When she first read the script for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, she was disappointed to see she only had a few scenes with Daniel Radcliffe and Ralph Fiennes, who plays Voldemort. But Harry Potter’s author stepped in to reassure her that the role would get better, and bigger.
“When I showed some reluctance in playing a tiny part, J.K. Rowling said Bellatrix’s role was going to be significant in the last film,” she said. “But significant could mean a lot of things. That could just mean a significant plot point. It doesn’t necessarily equal a big part.” Returning to the role of the gothic witch meant fitting Helena with a skyhigh hairstyle and a set of false teeth.
“You have to keep them in so you get used to them,” she said. “But you forget they’re in and if you then eat something, they break. That’s very expensive.” To complete the look of the only female Death Eater in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Helena sports a gothic corset and a pair of impressive boobs. “I have chicken fillets,” she explained. So when she finally got a chance to choose her cleavage, her first instinct was to go for chicken fillets that were turkey-sized. She said: “I thought it was my chance to have the boobs I’ve always wanted. But my assistant said, ‘You look like a porn star.’ And that was not the image I was going for.”
For Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Helena also helped Emma Watson by inviting the actress to her house to talk through a scene where Bellatrix becomes Hermione after taking a magic potion. Helena wanted to know everything about Hermione in order to get the transformation right, but she also reassured Emma that being a young actress didn’t mean she had to worry about her image all the time. “I’m top of Heat’s Worst Dressed list,” she told Emma. “Who cares?” Beastly Bellatrix will be the second time Helena has turned rotten this summer.
Some new articles about the Half-Blood Prince London Press Conference are now online as well as some videos, one can seen below and the others here! You can read the articles here and here!
Bill Nighy has revealed that he will be playing Scrimgeour in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!
“I am in the next Harry Potter,” he told reporters. “I will be Rufus Scrimgeour, who is the Minister of Magic and he is a very very important man.”
Bill Nighy, who played Davy Jones in the Pirates films, added: “I am no longer the only English actor not to be in Harry Potter and I am very pleased.”
Thanks to SS we have 25 new photos from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince! We get to see Harry, Ron, and Hermione on Hogwarts snowy grounds; teen Tom Riddle and a fellow classmate; Draco by the Hogwarts Express; Harry in Ron’s room; numerous shots of the Gryffindors in the Great Hall and hospital wing; Hermione and Ginny at the twins’ shop, and more.
