Various Harry Potter stars have doodled on tambourines for Sound It Out! It is a charity that “develop and delivers music based programmes of work across a diversity of communities, ages, ethnicities and genres. Sound It Out works in four key sectors – Wellbeing, Children and Young People, Cohesion and Professional Development, with a focus on working with marginalised individuals and communities.”
They asked stars to tamper with our tambourines to create a tamperine and a few Potter stars participated
As we posted last month, Emma Thompson received a star on the Walk of Fame today.
Oscar-winning English actress and screenwriter Emma Thompson, who received the 2,416th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, said she found its location in front of the Pig ‘n Whistle pub particularly fitting. “It’s so appropriate this is outside of a pub,’ Thompson said of her star on Hollywood Boulevard. “It’s the last thing you step on before you get your first drink and the last thing you step on when you reel out.’
Actor Hugh Laurie, who dated Thompson when both attended England’s University of Cambridge, said her talent is enormous. “She was the most obnoxiously talented person — and still is — that I’ve ever come across,’ said Laurie, star of the Fox Broadcasting medical drama ‘House.’ Everything she did just oozed talent,’ he said. “She said talented things, she wore talented clothes, she rode a talented bicycle, she made talented spaghetti. She is a truly remarkable person, a very good friend, and I could not be prouder.’
Maggie Gyllenhaal, who stars with Thompson in Nanny McPhee Returns, which will be released Aug. 20, said “Emma is undeniably grateful and good. I’ve never seen Emma when she hasn’t given me a present and a present for my daughter,” Gyllenhaal said at the late-morning ceremony. “She knows the name of every single person on the crew and their children and their wives’ names. She’s cooked me roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, while acting and writing and producing a huge, multimillion-dollar studio movie. This comes through in all of the things she writes and the movies she acts in.’
Thompson, 51, dedicated her star to her late father, Eric Thompson, an actor, writer and director. “He was a wonderful man and a great inspiration to me,’ Thompson said. “He inspired me to write for children without writing for children.’ Thompson recalled him taking her to the Walk of Fame when he was in Los Angeles in the 1970s to direct a production of “The Norman Conquests’ at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. “We looked at all the stars and I remember being really fascinated by this, thinking, `What a lovely thing to do, put people’s names in the pavement where everyone walks about all the time,’ Thompson said. “I was thrilled by that.’
On August 6th, Emma Thompson is scheduled to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!! Emma plays Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter films!
Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson will receive the 2,415th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Aug. 6, two weeks before the release of her latest film, “Nanny McPhee Returns.’
Born April 15, 1959 in London to a father who was a theater director and writer and a mother who was an actress, Thompson made her television debut while still in college on the British Broadcasting Corp.’s “Friday Night, Saturday Morning.’
Thompson appeared frequently on both television and the stage in England in the 1980s. She made her feature film debut in the 1989 comedy “The Tall Guy,’ which starred Jeff Goldblum. Thompson co-starred with Kenneth Branagh — her husband from 1989-95 — in four films he also directed, “Henry V,’ “Dead Again,’ “Peter’s Friends’ and “Much Ado About Nothing.’ Thompson’s other film credits include “Last Chance Harry,’ “Stranger Than Fiction,’ “Junior,’ “Carrington,’ “The Winter Guest,’ “Primary Colors,’ “Imagining Argentina,’ and “Love Actually.’
Thompson also played professor Sybill Trelawney in 2004’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,’ and “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ three years later. Thompson is writing a new film version of “My Fair Lady’ and starring with Alan Rickman in a BBC production of the poem “The Song of Lunch.’
Some very interesting reports are going around the internet today, first we have a report from RGN stating that the Deathly Hallows epilogue is filming! Sad, but awesome! “I wandered down to King’s Cross Station this fine May morning, in the hope that Warner Brothers are not aware of the level of interest in their little film, and that the public would be casually able to stop and watch Rupert Grint and fellow cast members filming the Deathly Hallows epilogue. It was not a huge surprise to find out that Warner Brothers are cleverer than I am, and that they have taken steps to prevent passing passersby from discovering just how gorgeous a thirty-seven year old Auror is. Despite the utter failure of my secret mission, it is worth letting you know that epilogue filming is underway, and should continue all week, because I am sure that you all want to know that this amazing decade long cinematic journey is nearly over.”
Also, there are some photos of the trio leaving their hotel with their faces covered; prosthetics for the epilogue perhaps? But they are wearing the same clothes from an earlier scene in the movie so who knows? See the photos in the gallery!
Gentle Giant has just announced some new Harry Potter busts that they will be releasing in! Professor Trelawney will be released in February 2011 and Professor Snape in November of 2010!
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