WB has released thirteen new interviews with the cast of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Bill Nighy, Tom Felton, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Isaacs, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Imelda Staunton, David Yates, David Heyman, and David Barron are interviewed. Watch them all in a playlist below:
Comcast TV subscribers can watch a new feature on their televisions that goes over old and new characters in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. For those of us who can’t watch there you may watch the video below:
In a new interview with The Independent, Matthew Lewis, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps and Evanna Lynch talk Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Read some segments below and the full interviews here!
Their [James and Oliver] natural humour and teasing banter lends James and Oliver a very Weasley-ish whiff when I meet them out of wizard robes in a London hotel. They tell me that the capacious Weasley family, all with red hair, became a bit like a real family during the extensive filming. “When we’re all together it’s like a big ginger fun zone,” James says. “Julie Walters (Molly Weasley) and Mark Williams (Arthur Weasley) are just so funny. We once did a whole rehearsal in broad Brummie. All the Americans on set didn’t have a clue what we were on about.”“In the film there wasn’t really time to put in all the prophecy stuff,” he said. “But I found it interesting that Neville could have been very much like Harry, except that he wasn’t under such pressure. My character didn’t have to mature until the seventh book when Harry leaves Hogwarts. It’s almost because Harry is absent that Neville can form a sort of French resistance to the Death Eaters and really find his strength. David [Yates] and I talked about his defining moment during the Battle of Hogwarts,” he says. “Neville is very adrenalised (sic). He’s just running in head first and putting his life on the line. But as the death toll mounts, there are a couple of scenes where he starts to look really tired and realisation hits that the battle is almost lost.”
The Phelps twins, Lewis and Lynch all express their deep sadness that after a decade of attending wizard school they’re being booted out into the real world. But it also sounds like a bit of a relief. “There are two sides to it,” Lynch explains. “On the one hand I love it and don’t want it to end. But then again you’re tied to it. It’s a contract. Yeah you can try and do other things at the same time, but Harry Potter has to come first.”The four actors have all expressed a desire to stay in the film business. Lewis has been acting since he was five years old (“It’s all I know”), the Phelps twins would like to try a Bond film (“I’d be the evil twin,” Oliver says. “Just like real life,” James adds) and Lynch says she’d happily drop her studies for another year for the right role.
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