Thanks to Digital Spy we have videos of the full London press conference for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II which was held on July 6th. Watch below and enjoy, there is some strong language and spoilers.
Here is the first of 2 videos from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II premiere at Trafalgar Square in London on July 7th. In this video you will see Natalia Tena (Tonks), David Heyman (Producer), Alfie Enoch (Dean Thomas) and Devon Murray (Seamus Finnigan), Jim Broadbent (Horace Slughorn), Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort) and Ciaran Hinds (Aberforth Dumbledore). The second set of interviews will be online soon (I’m just waiting to be sent our Rupert footage) as well as tons of amazing photographs!
This footage is courtesy of jkrfan.com because my microphone decided to not work for the last half of the premiere.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I has been long-listed for a number of MTV Movie Awards. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, and Ralph Fiennes have also been nominated in a few categories. Use the links below to vote for them!
You can also add your own nomination if someone you want to win hasn’t been nominated. The MTV Movie Awards will take place in Los Angeles and air live on Sunday, June 5, 2011 at 9:00pm EST.
Best Film – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Intelligent Life has a new interview with Ralph Fiennes who plays Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films. The interview is mostly about his other projects, mainly Coriolanus, but he talks a about the Potter series VERY briefly. Read the full interview here.
In the autumn he spent nine weeks on the permanent “Harry Potter” set at Leavesden Studios, filming Part 1 of “The Deathly Hallows”, his fourth appearance as the evil Voldemort. “It’s quite fun. I’m looked after; it takes the pressure off the huge anxiety.” We had lunch in his trailer, Fiennes in full make-up, with a veined scalp, yellowy little teeth, and long stained nails emphasising his feminine fingers. I asked if anything was different in his life. “No,” he replied firmly, “I’m a single man and I intend to stay that way. I think, ‘shall I call up so-and-so?’ and then I decide I’m too tired.”
Today, aged 47, Fiennes is no longer considered A-list by Hollywood. “He’s not hot,” says one studio executive. “Someone like Liam Neeson has a far more commercial sensibility in the films he takes on. Fiennes is a thesp.” The occasional shot at the mass market has backfired on him: “I felt completely lost as that Cary Grant type in ‘Maid in Manhattan’,” he says. “I didn’t know what to do.” But in roles that call for a transformation Fiennes is superb—never more so than as the disconcertingly fleshy, sadistic SS officer in “Schindler’s List”. “It freed him,” says Peter Eyre, who played Polonius to Fiennes’s Hamlet. “He wasn’t a romantic lead: he had to find something else. Olivier was said to be a character actor in the body of a matinée idol, and the same may be true of Ralph.”
To watch Fiennes’s films back to back is to be struck by his range, whether as the tatterdemalion clergyman in “Oscar and Lucinda” or the murmuring vagrant in David Cronenberg’s “Spider”. In 2008 he was both a foul-mouthed East End villain (“In Bruges”) and an 18th-century duke in “The Duchess”—an unforgettable depiction of an aristocrat whose chilly reserve masked a core of compassion. In “Bernard and Doris” (2006), an HBO film little-known outside America, he was a transvestite, alcoholic Irish butler. It would have been easy to ham, but Fiennes gave Bernard a quiet dignity, edging to decadence in tentative gradations.
“Ralph has made very specific choices,” says Juliette Binoche, his co-star in his first film, “Wuthering Heights”, and again in “The English Patient”. “He’s not part of the system, he hasn’t moved to Hollywood. He’s decided to follow his soul.” That soul keeps leading Fiennes back to the theatre. “I wouldn’t have had it any other way,” he says. “Theatre gives you an arena for emoting that film ultimately can’t compete with—that sense of something connecting in the room.”
In a new interview with USA Today Ralph Fiennes talks about playing Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter films! Tom Felton, David Yates and Daniel Radcliffe also talk about Ralph.
“He’s really sort of the devil,” says Fiennes, 47. “He’s completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths.” “It’s about power with Voldemort,” he says. “It’s an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.” “Jo Rowling has always said that the thing that separates Harry from Voldemort is that Harry is not afraid of death,” Radcliffe says.
Director David Yates praises the actor’s ability to nail Voldemort’s mercurial menace. “Where he goes in his eyes is really haunting.”
And no matter the lights, cameras and presence of dozens of crewmembers, Radcliffe was consistently unsettled by Fiennes. “When Ralph’s doing his Voldemort stuff, he just really freaks me out.”
Tom Felton, who plays Draco Malfoy, says he also was unnerved. “Ralph is mesmerizing,” Felton says. “He never did two takes the same. … I had to keep reminding myself: ‘Stay in character. Don’t just sit there and watch his performance.’ He dominates scenes in the film, and it’s like that off the set as well,” Felton says. “He’s quite a charming guy. And when he opens his mouth, people listen. Let’s put it this way: No one talks over him.”
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