A teaser trailer for the second Nanny McPhee film is now online! Emma Thompson plays Nanny McPhee and is also the one of the producers and writer of the movie. For that reason she was not able to return to film Deathly Hallows, which is a disappointment to all Potter fans as she was the PERFECT Trelawney. Other Potter stars are also in the film: Ralph Fiennes will be playing Lord Gray and Maggie Smith will play Mrs. Docherty, finally, Rhys Ifans is playing Uncle Phil.
The Wireless Theatre Company, an online audio theatre group, has confirmed that Hazel Douglas will be playing Bathilda Bagshot in Deathly Hallows on her profile page.
Today, October 11th, is Dawn French’s 52th birthday! Dawn plays the Fat Lady in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Also, it is my 21st birthday today! YAYYYY!!!!!!!! My mommy is going to make me have a drink…(yes I know it is odd that I don’t drink, it just isn’t appetizing since I’m a picky eater…)
SS has confirmed that Angelica Mandy from the Potter series is now on Twitter. You may follow her by going to @angelicajmandy!
Follow all of the official Potter Star Twitter accounts at once by going to this link, I will update this as more stars come into the twitterverse. Here is the full list of Potter stars on Twitter now.
In a new interview Dame Maggie Smith has discussed Harry Potter and her battle with breast cancer among other things.
She filmed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince mid-treatment. “I was hairless. I had no problem getting the wig on. I was like a boiled egg.”
Smith says that she accepted the possibility of dying. “I was relieved to be the age I was, because by now you feel like it’s all over anyway. That’s why I hated seeing young people receiving treatment [at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London]. I couldn’t bear that, it didn’t seem fair. To be honest, you feel so ghastly you wouldn’t mind dying a lot of the time.”
She struggles for words. “I felt . . . I was just . . . It leaves you so flattened. I’m not sure I could go back to theatre work, although film work is more tiring. I’m frightened to work in theatre now. I feel very uncertain. I haven’t done it for a while [her last stage role was in The Lady from Dubuque in 2007]. I’m not quite sure if it’s like getting back on a horse or a bike. Not that I’d do either, I’d fall off. It’s one of those things you ought to keep on doing and I haven’t for a bit. I would love to be able to because I do love it, but I feel a great lack of confidence. Being unwell and having withdrawn . . . I haven’t been in London for so long, it’s quite scary up here.” Smith is clinking the ice absently in her mineral water. It will seem unimaginable to many that she is talking about giving up theatre, I say. “Well, there’s a limit to what you can do. I’m not into that argument there aren’t any parts for older women, though. Anyway, why should there be? If there’s work I’ll do it and if there isn’t . . . I’ve still got to stagger through the last Potter.”
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My mommy is going to make me have a drink…(yes I know it is odd that I don’t drink, it just isn’t appetizing since I’m a picky eater…)
