The Today Show has posted a video from this morning’s show featuring Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Felton and Robbie Coltrane. All three actors are in town to promote The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley, which as we posted this morning will be opening on July 8th.
The Guardian has posted a new interview with Helena Bonham Carter, who played Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films. She doesn’t discuss Potter in the interview, but Helena is attending this week’s media preview, which we are at. Of acting, she said:
“I always wanted to be a character actor, even when I was stuck inside a corset playing innocent girls,” she explains. “I always thought that they were so passive, which I now see as unfair. They weren’t passive, they were these amazing, dynamic women from the [EM Forster] novels. But I’m afraid that’s how I saw it.”
“It’s hard to be high profile and young,” she shrugs. “I wasn’t very confident; I was cripplingly shy. And, at the age of 19, you are all too aware of how people are perceiving you. I remember reading the first profile of me that was printed in a magazine and thinking: ‘Oh good, now I’m going to find out what I’m really like.'” She cackles at her naivety: “But no. That’s not the best way of judging yourself.”
Magical Menagerie was just at a press conference where Thierry Coup (Senior Vice President, Universal Creative), Matthew Lewis, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps and Evanna Lynch announced that Diagon Alley will be opening on July 8th!
We will have a full video of the announcement later tonight!
Update: Universal released a new commercial which can be seen here.
When they were last in Diagon Alley, James and Oliver Phelps along with Bonnie Wright tested out the new interactive wands in Diagon Alley. Watch a quick video of the experience below:
Playbill reports that Rupert Grint will be making his Broadway debut alongside Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Megan Mullally and Stockard Channing in It’s Only a Play. “I’m thrilled to be making my Broadway debut alongside this amazing cast and creative team,” Grint said in a statement.
In It’s Only a Play, according to producers, “it’s opening night of Peter Austin’s (Broderick) new play as he anxiously awaits to see if his show is a hit. With his career on the line, he shares his big First Night with his best friend, a television star (Lane), his fledgling producer (Mullally), his erratic leading lady (Channing), his wunderkind director (Grint), an infamous drama critic, and a wide-eyed coat check attendant on his first night in Manhattan. It’s alternately raucous, ridiculous and tender — reminding audiences why there’s no business like show business. Thank God!”
Tickets for It’s Only a Play are available by visiting Telecharge.com. For groups of 20 or more, call (855) 329-2932.
All this week Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show are in Orlando for the Diagon Alley press event. During last night’s episode he shared a clip of himself and Higgins shopping for their wands at the new Ollivander’s in Diagon Alley. Keep watching each night for more clips (hopefully) from the expansion! We aren’t sure what else they will be sharing, so there’s no guarantee it will be more Harry Potter.
Parents: There is some suggestive language in the clip, so beware.
