Today we have some news about the France and Taiwan premieres for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
James and Oliver Phelps will be in Taipei, Taiwan from November 15-18. They will be at the Taiwanese Premiere on the 16th November and will take a tour of the 2010 Taipei International Flora Exposition on the 17th.
A number of Potter stars will be at the French premiere of “Deathly Hallows: Part 1” in Tours, James and Oliver Phelps as well as Mark Williams (Arthur Weasley), Clémence Poésy (Fleur Delacour), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) and Warwick Davis (Filius Flitwick) will be there. That premiere will be on November 22nd.
The Leaky Cauldron has posted up their red carpet interviews from last night’s premiere! They interviewed Emma Watson, David Heyman, David Yates, Jason Isaacs, Matt Lewis, Katie Leung, Evanna Lynch, and Jo Rowling.
I will hopefully have our footage of the event up tonight!
In another new interview with Independent.ie, Evanna Lynch talks about her final days filming Deathly Hallows, school possibilities and more.
“It was a big crowd scene that we had started in January, but had to re-film because Emma (Watson, who plays Hermione) was away in college. All the cast was there for it, so it was lovely. I’d always hoped my last scene would be one like that rather than just a shot of my hand or something. They took a huge photo of the whole cast and crew. It didn’t really hit me until I was going into the producers to say goodbye and thank them that I felt this big rush of emotion. I couldn’t contain it. But I felt like it had come full circle: my first encounter with Harry Potter was going into the producers’ office to introduce myself and explain why I was suited for the role.”
“My best memories from all four movies are ones that involve the young cast,” she said. “It’s like school, though they’re probably not the people I’d sit with in school. They’d be way too cool for me, and I’d be one of the weird people.” But those scenes are just so much fun. We played jokes all the time. Like in the Hogwarts train scenes, they have this odd food that looks nice but tastes horrible. We’d convince new actors on set to try it — one girl drank this tomato juice thing that had been out on the set for about three weeks. She spat it all over the place. You forget you’re on a job and it’s just fun.”
Although the series author JK Rowling had no say in casting, she later praised Lynch as being perfect for the role of Luna. However, the multi-millionaire writer stayed clear of the set during filming on the final movies. “She trusts the film-makers,” Lynch explained. “If they change any little thing in the script, they send it out to her for her approval, so she doesn’t need to be there. I think she’s busy. I write to her now and then, and she’ll say, ‘I’ve been writing’ but she won’t tell me what. It’s cool for her because she can come to the premiere and see what people have made of her books. Besides, when she was on set, she couldn’t stay long because she was too distracting. Everyone was looking for autographs. It was like the Queen coming to visit.”
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.
A bunch of new clip from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is now online along with a report from Matthew Lewis and Evanna Lynch at the fan event in Helsinki and may be viewed below thanks to SS! There is also a new TV spot for the IMAX showings.
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