In a new interview with Hero Complex, Evanna Lynch talks about playing Luna Lovegood and being in the Harry Potter films. Some segments from the interview may be read below.
“I just felt that if anyone was to play her, it should be me,” Lynch said. “It was like studying for a math exam. I studied to be her. I really, really like her. I think that parts of me are like [Luna], but I am different. I had to be in the audition. I said ‘I know that you may have ideas of who Luna is, but here is how I see her.’ “
In “Deathly Hallows,” Luna’s famously positive attitude and demeanor is tested, but she remains steadfast in her optimism and detached calmness even while imprisoned in the dungeon-like gloom of the Malfoy Mansion basement. ”I don’t think Luna changes. The thing about her is that she’s so relaxed about herself. She has to be a bit more serious than normal [in “Deathly Hallows”] and has to accept that times are dark. She always sees the positive and has a spirituality about herself. She doesn’t think that death is the end.”
In a new interview Emma Watson talks about her role in My Week with Marilyn where she plays a character named Lucy.
“It’s amazing to play a role that’s in a different time period – the 50s are so much fun and I loved wearing the costumes,” she said. While she had a ball with the ladylike costumes, Emma reckons she wouldn’t like to wear them all the time. “I certainly felt more feminine – they were really about curves and a waist, and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice to be more womanly?'” she continued, adding: “I say that, but I was wearing a waspie, a 50s version of a corset, and I certainly wouldn’t last very long in one of those.”
Michelle Williams takes the title role in the Simon Curtis period drama, but most of Emma’s scenes were with Eddie Redmayne, who plays British writer-director Colin Clark. “Eddie was just such a delight to work with, such a generous actor,” she gushed. “It’s a great little role, I’m really thrilled to be a part of it. It was lovely to start with my new career and my new life really.”
She reckoned fans won’t be disappointed: “[Distributor] Harvey Weinstein showed me the trailer before I went off set, and it’s going to be good.”
In a new interview with the Sydney Herald, Tom Felton has talked about what it was like growing up in front of the cameras, what the future holds for him and more.
“We are relaxed,” Felton says. “Doing a talk show or talking to a newspaper journalist is a lot more relaxed and a lot more fun; it used to be much more of a nervous thing when we were kids. And by now we’ve learnt the right things and the wrong things to say, plus we’re genuinely passionate about the films, so it’s nice to talk about something you’re excited about sharing with people.”
“As the films have gone along, they have got darker,” Felton says. “But the humour has also gone up tenfold. It’s a unique type of humour. It’s British dry wit — there are no jokes, just awkward silences. In my opinion they’re not just scarier, they are also funnier.”
“It’s a strange experience and the gravity of what we’ve done together hasn’t really sunk in yet,” he says. “To have your puberty documented in a series of films is weird and even looking back at it now you can cringe at some of the early ones because of how young you look. It’s hard to come up with a sentence that explains it all but it’s been an incredible journey and we’ve got more and more excited each year.”
“As a youngster I wasn’t completely sure this is what I wanted to do with my life but being around so many fantastic actors has embedded a massive passion for filmmaking within me,” Felton says. He will star alongside James Franco in the Planet of the Apes prequel, Rise of the Apes, in 2011. “It’s far from plain sailing but it’s an exciting time for me because doors are open and I know I can convince people I can do more than Draco.”
As part of their Harry Potter coverage Reelz Channel have sent over another new video interview! This time it is with Daniel Radcliffe and he discusses how different how different Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. He also talks about how fun it was filming the Seven Potters scene. We also get some new behind the scenes shots in this video as well.
Thanks again to mavieenlair18, we have scans and a transcript of Evanna Lynch’s interview in Total Film Indonesia.
You’re the biggest fan on the set and the fans next summer are going to have to go through a horrible withdrawal next summer with no more films coming out. But you’ve had your withdrawal this summer. Any advice for the fans?
It will be a shock. It was a shock for me. I’ve been with everyone for so long. We’ve always had this question, what’s it going to be like when it ends. And then on the last day, I was, like, “Oh, what’s going to happen now?” But what I realized was that it did end but I was still talking to all my friends. I think that’s what they’ll realize, that yeah, sure, officially it’s ending but because you have all these friends who are passionate about the same thing you’ll still be alive and you’ll still talking about it. So, yeah, just enjoy it and don’t… I wouldn’t think about the end until it comes.
You can now look back at everything you’ve done with Harry Potter. So what kind of impact in particular has that had on you, in terms of values or how you think about life?
People say, “Oh, it hasn’t changed. I’m still with my friends and family.” In that sense, yes, you’re still you. But it’s definitely changed how I look at life and how I approach things now. Before Harry Potter, it was something out there. It was a dream, it was something I couldn’t touch… and those people, I had them on pedestals. And since I’ve been on this, and I’ve seen how it all happens, and I’ve seen how the magic happens. But anyway, it makes you realize, oh, I’m just another person, I can do that. They’re just people doing this. I’ve seen the way people, like fans… when I go to premieres, the way they treat me was the way I would’ve been then, but no, that’s an illusion. I used to think, like, “Oh, I would love to someday be a writer” and used to go, like, “that’s won’t happen”. But now I’m like, “No, that can”. You just take initiative and you just believe in yourself, and believe that you’re as good as anyone else and as able to do it as everyone else. So yeah, I hope people will see us, “Oh, she’s a normal girl. If she can do that, I can do that.”
