In a new interview with The London Evening Standard, Bonnie Wright talks about her career, visiting music festivals, Harry Potter and even her beau. Next month she will be starring in The Sea, the film adaptation of John Banville’s novel. She is also finishing two films she directed, and acting in another that has not been revealed yet.
In the interview they talk about the recent breakfast Bonnie hosted with her mother to raise money for Oxfam’s Mother Appeal which raises money to help mothers worldwide lift themselves and their families out of poverty. Oxfam asked her to become an ambassador after a visit to Senegal in 2012 and they hosted a breakfast earlier this month to raise money and awareness.
Events like [the breakfast], supported by the Government, “are good because life can be quite solo”. She mentions community again, “people miss getting together”. “And Government support makes people go ‘wow’, we have to support it. What’s important is it shows the government’s respect for those who are trying to raise money even in a time where things are financially difficult for people.”
A video that Oxfam uploaded to YouTube from her breakfast may be watched below:
She also talks a little about her start in Harry Potter, which is all thanks to her brother:
It was her older brother Louis, now a 26-year-old fine artist, who started her career. “He told me I remind him of Ginny. You believe everything your older brother says. We asked my mum and she didn’t know how to go about getting me an audition but being a driven mother she called up Bloomsbury, who gave her the number for the casting director.”
Harry Potter is “10 years of good memories”. “I know any step I go on to now is thanks to that and I’ll never forget it’s been part of my foundation.” She even kissed Daniel Radcliffe — “It was unusual. We’d known each other eight years. I was 17 so it wasn’t my first kiss. It becomes mechanical in front of lots of people but it’s better than it being a stranger, someone you’ve never met.” Radcliffe is: “an incredibly hard working guy who never does anything by halves or loosely”.
And as for the recent remarks from J?K Rowling that Harry should have ended up with Hermione, she says: “Ginny would have dealt with it. She’s a capable, independent woman.”
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