Last month we reported that Harry Melling (along with another Potter alum, Isabellla Laughland) was staring in King Lear. Harry is playing Fool in the play while Isabella is Cordelia. Today we can announce that Harry will be doing a live Q&A on Twitter next Tuesday, 26th November, from 1:00-1:30pm.

To ask Harry your question just need to tweet them to @chichesterFT and us the hashtag #askharrym. You can also send your questions in advance and Harry will answer as many as he can when he takes over the Twitter feed.

The play is running until November 30th, ticket prices are as follows with full booking information available here.

Evenings/Matinees: £32

Aged 18-25? An allocation of tickets priced at just £8.50 for all performances in both theatres will be released one month before each production opens. Find out more.

Harry Potter stars Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley) and Isabella Laughland (Leanne) will be starring in the Minerva Theatre production of King Lear starting October 31st until November 30th.  Harry will be starring as “Fool” and Isabella will be Cordelia. A synopsis of the well known play is as follows:

The legendary American stage and screen actor Frank Langella plays Lear as Chichester Festival Theatre’s Associate Director, Angus Jackson, brings Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy to the intimacy of the Minerva Theatre for 32 performances only.

The ageing Lear decides to divide his kingdom between his three daughters, giving the biggest piece to the one who claims to love him most. When Cordelia, the youngest, refuses to match the false flattery of her sisters, she is banished from the kingdom.

Having relinquished his power to Regan and Goneril, and tormented by his misjudgement, the increasingly frail Lear descends into grief-fuelled madness.

Ticket prices are as follows with full booking information available here.

Evenings/Matinees: £32

Aged 18-25? An allocation of tickets priced at just £8.50 for all performances in both theatres will be released one month before each production opens. Find out more.

Harry Melling, who played Dudley Dursley in the Potter films, was interviewed by The Daily Mail and he discussed his dramatic weight loss since completing filming for Potter. He is currently in a new play, The Hothouse, by Harold Pinter which is running on the West End until August 3rd.

Although his weight always fluctuated it was when he was 15 and playing a fat old man in a play at the National Youth Theatre that he decided to lose it for good. ‘I was fat because I got bored easily and when I was bored I would eat,’ he says.

‘I was an active kid, I used to dance – yes, really – and I was sporty. But I liked eating. It was when I was playing this old fat dad I realised I didn’t want play those roles for the rest of my life. So I started running; I suppose you could say it was a Forrest Gump moment, I just didn’t stop.

I also started eating healthily and going to the gym.’ Now, apart from at Harry Potter events, he walks about largely unrecognised and couldn’t be happier. ‘It’s a godsend,’ he sighs. ‘No one recognises me on the Tube.’

He briefly mentioned his on-screen father, Richard Griffiths in the interview. Fans will recall that Richard passed away after a surgery a couple months ago. ‘It’s so sad he’s gone,’ Harry says quietly. ‘The thing I remember most about him was he never stopped talking; he could talk for England. He was a tremendous man – and he was someone who didn’t want “fat roles”, just good roles.’

Harry Melling, known for playing Dudley Dursley in the Potter films, has been cast in the new play I am a Camera.  He will be portraying the title character Christopher Isherwood, an English-American novelist. I am a Camera is based on Isherwood’s memoirs Goodbbye to Berlin which documents his experiences during pre-Nazi Germany and the people he met. A synopsis of the play may be read below.

Based on Christopher Isherwood’s memoirs ‘Goodbye to Berlin’, and the inspiration for the musical ‘Cabaret’, I am a Camera is part glamorous whirlwind of Berlin Bohemia, part harrowing depiction of the Nazi’s rise to power.

I am a Camera’s title is a quote taken from Isherwood’s first page – “I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking”. The play’s Broadway premiere in 1951 was a triumph for Julie Harris as the insouciant Sally Bowles, winning her the first of her four Tony Awards for Best Leading Actress in a play. A subsequent 1955 film adaptation was also called ‘I Am a Camera’. With a screenplay by John Collier and music by Malcolm Arnold, it starred Julie Harris, Laurence Harvey and Shelley Winters. The play and film in turn went on to inspire the musical ‘Cabaret’ in 1966 by John Kander and Fred Ebb and the1972 film ‘Cabaret’ with Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey and Michael York.

The play will run for three weeks at The Vault at Southwark Playhouse, from Wednesday September 5 – Saturday September 22. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit the Southwark Playhouse website.

Today we have our video footage from the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter Grand Opening which was held at the studio s on March 31st! We caught up with Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright, Harry Melling, Evanna Lynch, David Barron, David Yates, David Heyman, David Bradley, and Nick Moran. I apologize for the sound, it was very windy so sometimes the sound cuts out.  You can also view our photos from the even in the gallery.

Make sure to visit wbstudiotour.co.uk today to book your visit to the studios! Prices range from £21 for a child to £28 for an adult for the basic package and £30.95 (child to £39.95 (adult) for the complete package which includes the souvenir guidebook and digital guide.

Since we will not have our actual photos and videos up for a few days I thought I would let everyone know what is coming from the Grand Opening of Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter. Myself, Feltbeats and Harry Potters Page worked together to get photos and interviews with the stars.

We interviewed Tom Felton, Rupert Grint, Bonnie Wright, Harry Melling, Nick Moran, David Bradley, Nick Dudman, Mike Newell, Director David Yates, and Producers David Heyman, and David Barron. We also have footage of Alfonso Cuaron, Evanna Lynch, George Harris and a few others. In addition to interviews we also spotted David Thewlis, Natalia Tena, Warwick Davis, Alfie Enoch, Helen McCrory, Chris Rankin.

Just as a teaser we asked Harry Melling (Dudley) what it was like moving from playing a muggle in Harry Potter to a wizard in the last series of Merlin!

Photos and video will be up as soon as possible when I get home! We will also have a video from the press conference held last Thursday when WB sends it over! So make sure to stay tuned!