Scans from a feature on Bonnie Wright in Total Film Indonesia are now online as well as a translation which can be read here. Some segments from the interview are below as well as the scans
You’ve shot the Epilogue. Have you gone through an aging process?
Yes, it was a very bizarre thing to go through, really, to be able to have that chance to be suddenly made up to look mid-thirties. It’s was an exciting day but bizarre. Obviously, for me, it almost felt like a real cycle, because I started on that same platform, at the same age that Lily Potter, the youngest daughter of Ginny and Harry was, so it’s almost literally like looking back at myself.
How does it feel to have three kids?
The three kids who played the children were just… they just epitomised all of us, when we were that age, so it was lovely to look back. They were so excited on the day, it was a massive dream come true, and they’d been through such a massive process of auditioning. I think it was probably the most auditions any person has been through to get a part in a film. In the auditioning process Dan and I sat down with different children and talked to them, because obviously the dynamic is incredibly important… to try and portray the idea that they are this family unit, that they’ve spent every living moment together, since they were babies in their hands to how they are now. It was challenging to get that warmth with someone you’ve barely met and some children don’t want to get close to someone they don’t know. But they understood it was incredibly important to make the scene work, so they were very giving to the situation.
Through your relationship with Jamie, you’ve seen the Twilight phenomenon. Do you think Harry Potter is better?
I think they’re two completely different sort of stories, really. I think the way that Jo Rowling has written it is incredible and personally, for me, it’s much richer than the stories of Twilight, because it’s from a much more mythological, historical element that’s just a bit deeper and I think they’ve got different elements.
SnitchSeeker had the opportunity to interview Freddie Stroma at the premiere of his new play, Cinderella (where he plays Price Charming) in London. They have posted a new video interview with him from the event as well as some photos which can be viewed below.
Reelz Channel have sent over another new video from their Harry Potter coverage. This time it is an interview with the lovely Emma Watson where she discusses Hermione and her journey in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Hero Complex has posted a new interview with Tom Felton where he discusses what lies ahead for him now that the Potter series is over and much more.
“I love fans with passion, and I learned from the ‘Potter’ experience what it can be like to be part of something that gets people excited before they’ve even seen it,” Felton said. “It adds a certain pressure — it can turn into a love-and-hate thing too, because people are literally waiting for every screen-shot, every trailer and every new detail. They lean forward, and that’s what you want, that’s the way to lean.”
Felton said he marveled at the serendipity that put together a cast of young actors who meshed so well, and he said it was hard to say goodbye to the movie set where they grew up together. “It was a group that were picked, and we got on when we were 11, and we all got on when were 20, and that’s amazing to think about. The families had a lot to do with it, the people that did the casting had a lot to do with it, and then there was luck too.”
Steve Kloves even mentions what a great actor Tom is:
“Tom has been plying his craft for a very long time and even as a child was a particularly deft actor,” Kloves said. “As Draco transformed over the last two pictures from mere foil to a haunted, multi-dimensional young man, Tom’s skill has only become more evident. … [In the sixth film,] Draco is slowly crumbling from within due to the pressures imposed on him from outside forces of great power. Tom reveals the fissures slowly, so that over the course of the movie the hairline fracture he displays early on becomes, by the conclusion, a shattering of the soul. He’s respectful of the written word and applies his energies to interpretation, with often quiet but thrilling results. He’s a writer’s dream.”
In a new interview with The Guardian Julie Walters talks about a great many things and even mentions Harry Potter (below).
It is another Harry with whom she is more regularly associated, having played Ron Weasley’s mother for the past nine years. “It was a great big family. You can’t help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.” What does she make of Emma Watson’s new elfin haircut? “It’s fabulous. I think she wanted to get rid of it all, to have a fresh start.”
As someone who has carved out a niche playing strong, forthright women, Walters is a natural choice to host this week’s Sky 3D Women in Film and Television Awards. Do women in her industry still need to be recognised in a separate awards ceremony? “Yes, I think so. It’s getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.”
