Clips from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows are featured on the collector’s edition of the LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 video game and now we have a blurry video of the footage, when a clearer version comes online I will post it. There is also a second video that shows behind the scenes clips from the first four Harry Potter films.
In a new interview with MTV, Tom Felton discusses Draco Malfoy, his Potter alter-ego.
“From my character’s point of view, a lot has been left to interpretation,” Felton said, pinpointing an important-yet-subtle moment from the final film, in which Draco is tasked with the painful decision of whether to help or hinder his nemesis’ progress. “[There is] one take where you want to help Harry. The books, I think, kind of left it up to the interpretation of the reader, really, so one way you internally want to help him, the other side where you’re just confused, so I’m intrigued to see which bits David [Yates] cuts out of it.”
“Jo always talked about him as being vulnerable,” Felton said. “Most bullies are. They’re actually hugely insecure and have their own problems, and he has the worst parental guidance of any child I’ve ever seen in my life.”
“Harry has these great influences, even though his parents have passed,” Felton said. “Draco, he’s damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t, really. He’s kind of stuck.”
In a new interview, Martin Scorsese mentions how he thinks Rupert Grint’s career will pan out.
“I thought he was a great actor in the Harry Potter movies. In a lot of scenes, the boy stole the show. He will always have respect for the movies that gave him such a huge break, but at his age it’s important he doesn’t become typecast. He has to do something really out of his comfort zone in the next few years – play a gangster, play a dirty cop, play a kid with learning difficulties. I would be interested in working with him. I would have no issues in casting him as a gangster, he is a very talented young man.”Scorsese even compares Rupert with his protege LEONARDO DiCAPRIO. He said: “When Leo was in Titanic and Romeo And Juliet, nobody saw him becoming a bad ass in movies like The Departed. But he has become one of the greatest actors of all time. The very same could be true for Rupert.”
WB has opened up a Harry Potter store on the popular website, Zazzle! The store is now open and there are tons of Potter products to buy! You can search by movie, house and a few other categories! They have shirts, keychains, pins, posters and tons more!
In a new interview with Digital Spy, Bill Nighy talks about filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bill will be playing Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, in the final films.
“Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person,” he told Premiere. “And Daniel was charming. And Rupert I’d already worked with [in Wild Target], so it was nice to work with him again. And they were really welcoming a nice to me.”
Nighy also predicted a future in acting for the three stars. “I think they will all go on and make other movies. The audience that grew up with them will be happy to see them in other things. They are all good young actors and I should think they will continue to make movies and the audience will grow with them and follow them wherever they go, I would think.
“They are such popular performers now and they are part of people’s lives. They’ve grown up together, and that audience will stay with them, I would think.”
In a new interview with MTV, Harry Potter actor Warwick Davis talks about his last day filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Warwick plays both Professor Flitwick (aka the Choir Conductor) and Griphook in the final films. You can read part of the interview and watch it below.
“I shot my last day on ‘Harry Potter’ last Saturday. It was a very sad, very emotional day,” actor Warwick Davis told MTV News recently at the grand opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park. “I never really get upset finishing a film. I’m normally glad that it’s over, that I won’t have to wear the makeup anymore — but I was actually really quite choked up about it. Ten years’ worth of work finished, and on Sunday, it was worse. I woke up Sunday morning thinking, ‘No more Harry Potter. That’s it.’ ”
Davis, who plays Hogwarts’ residential Charms expert Professor Flitwick, recalled the emotional final day of shooting. “I was filming with the second unit, and then I went over to the first unit where they were doing the last shot with Dan [Radcliffe], Rupert [Grint] and Emma [Watson]. The first assistant director didn’t shout, ‘It’s a wrap.’ He didn’t say that. He said, ‘Come over to the screens over here. I have a lot of video to show you.’ He set up the video: a piece of film that they’d shot every day with what’s called the golden boards. It would be a special guest that day or an actor who was finishing up the film, or whatever. If something unusual was happening, they’d be the person holding the golden board. Twenty minutes’ worth to summarize the last year and a half that we’d been working on the movie. It was really very sad.”
Although Davis couldn’t divulge the final scene that was shot for “Deathly Hallows,” he confirmed that the last shot involved Radcliffe, Grint and Watson. “It was them, as it should be,” he said. “The three of them. I was lucky to be there for the last day. I think I was the only other cast member in on it.”
