The Sun has posted a new interview with Daniel Radcliffe where he talks about all things Potter, including the costume designers; he also briefly mentions his upcoming Broadway show!
In the scene Harry’s friends transform themselves into replica versions of him so that his enemies can’t work out who the real Potter is. Hermione is one of those friends – and so we see Harry in her bra. Daniel says: “It was better than if I had worn stockings and a corset, that’s for sure – and they were considering that option. I was not pleased about that, so the bra was just fine. I found it quite funny and everybody is talking about it and it has given everybody a laugh, so that makes me happy.”
He says: “I’m grateful that we split it into two films so that we could really flesh out the material and the story. It was fantastic, but I have to say, we had our work cut out for us. There was lots of running around, especially in the forest scene, and it made it even more strenuous because Emma is extremely competitive and always tried to see who could run faster. I definitely was faster, but she’ll give you another answer, saying that she was faster. I think she’s good at short distances, but I outran her every time. The chasing scenes and all of the action scenes were very exciting, but exhilarating is only a state that you can keep up for so long. We were shooting for 18 months, so had we spent the whole time being exhilarated, I suppose I might have collapsed at some point and would have never finished the shoot – which thank goodness, I didn’t.”
In a new interview with the San Fransisco Chronicle, Production Designer for the Potter films, Stuart Craig, talks about set designs for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
“In the earliest movies, we consulted J.K. Rowling pretty regularly,” says production designer Stuart Craig, 68, a three-time Oscar winner. “Actually, very first thing, she gave me a map of Hogwarts: The lake, the forest, the station, the road, how it went through the village. So she very carefully set it up – in broad strokes, obviously – and set us on the road, literally, to the correct geography. Inevitably, the book has to be so condensed. There’s been a great deal of tolerance on the part of the public – at least I think so. I could be proved wrong, still.”
“One thing I like to do, and I hope it’s served the movies well, is to find a really convincing logic for these magical people in these magical spaces that have a real kind of credibility – and I’m thinking of the Ministry of Magic, which features very strongly in ‘Part 1,’ ” he says. “This is an underground world; this is a ministry, so we went to the real ministries, the muggle ministries – Whitehall, in London – and decided that our magical ministry was kind of a parallel universe to these real ministries.”
“The Weasley house, you may remember, was very badly burned at the end of ‘The Half-Blood Prince’ (2009). So Arthur Weasley has rebuilt his house pretty much in the same form as it was before,” Craig says of the site of the wedding of Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour. “The wedding tent, where the reception is held, rather than make it an extension of the house, which is rather eccentric, homemade, we decided to make it rather elegant. In fact, to make it very French. Since the tradition is the father of the bride paid for the wedding, it was quite feasible that Mr. Delacour would have paid for this and insisted on some French elegance and some French style. It’s lined with silk and beautiful, floating candelabra. So it’s a nice contrast with the house.”
A new clip from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has aired as part of ABC Family’s Harry Potter weekend. In this clip Kreacher tells the trio what has become of the real locket horcrux. Watch below and credit if taken!
TV Guide has emailed the following clips from their ‘Big Movie Premiere: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ special! The special will air on Wednesday November 17th at midnight. they will also air it on Friday, November 19 at 9/8c and Sunday, November 21st airing at 8/7c. You can view two interview clips with Dan and Emma over at their site here.
Experience the magical world of Harry Potter and the gang from Hogwarts with up close interviews with stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the film and “set secrets” from the art director, as well as all the excitement from the red carpet at the world premiere in London. Plus, TV Network takes viewers on a tour through the famed Wizarding World in Orlando and the Harry Potter Exhibition in Seattle.
TV Guide also sent over 2 preview clips from the special that you can watch below:
Hero Complex has been updated with a new interview they had with James and Oliver Phelps. In the interview they talk about the fate of the Weasley twins, their home/normal life and much more. There are major spoilers, as with most of the stories I’ve been posting these days, so heed with caution if you haven’t read the books.
Fans may have lamented the loss of Fred Weasley’s life and George Weasley’s ear when they read “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” but James and Oliver Phelps, who play the mischievous Weasley twins in the “Potter” movies, were excited for the gore. “To be honest with you, I think ever since we started these movies, not specifically this character, but I’vealways wanted to die on screen,” James said. “So I guess that was something ticked off the box.”
Though he was anxious to portray the “shocking” moment as readers had imagined it, he said, dying wasn’t all that difficult. “I just had to lie there,” he said. “I guess that was quite easy.” Losing an ear also proved pain-free for Oliver. “It was amazing how comfortable it was, losing an ear,” he said. “I’ve always wanted a bit of a gory effect, really, in any of the films, so to get to do something like this was really cool.” Less exciting for Oliver was having to play the part of a brother who survives his twin.
“I had to get myself into that mindset of what it would be like and try to make it feel as real as possible,” Oliver said. “There’s a scene where he’s laid out in the Great Hall, and to look at that, that was really surreal, actually, because they pale him up and everything. For me, it was really quite an odd scene to film, especially because I was supposed to be crying my eyes out, and to do it with the whole Great Hall full of people, as well. It was a different day of filming from anything we’d done before.”
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