As I reported a while ago, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II were nominated for Best Feature Film in the Children’s BAFTA awards. The awards were held tonight and the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II wonBest Feature Film and the Kid’s Vote for Best Film! The BAFTA Kid’s Vote is where children aged 7-11 voted. Warwick Davis (Griphook) was set to attend the event, it is unknown if any other Potter stars attended, that information should be available soon.
Tonight our correspondent, Patrick, attended the awards in London, I will hopefully have some photos and maybe even a video interview later on! We shall see.
Update: The BAFTA website has been updated with a photo of Warwick Davis, who accepted both of Potter’s awards. Harry Potter won the kid’s vote with more than 400,000 votes! Click the photo to enlarge.
James and Oliver Phelps chatted with WA Today over breakfast while in Sydney, Australia last week. Some snippets from the interview may be read below.
How did you feel about going ginger? James: I didn’t think anything of it until I walked into school one day with red hair and everyone looked at me differently. It was weird. People do treat you differently; they’re almost a bit [ruder]. It’s odd.
Did it make you the coolest kids at school? James: No, no one seemed to be that bothered by the hype; our mates don’t realise how big it is because none of our friends are in the industry. Film and TV was nothing I’d ever dreamt of going into. In fact, about two months before we had the audition, there were auditions for the school play and the head drama teacher, in the first round of auditions, was like, ”Nah, you’re never going to go anywhere in acting, don’t bother,” so it was great walking back in there on the first day of the next term and saying, ‘I got a contract with …”
Oliver: The drama department was just really unhelpful towards the whole acting thing, to a point where the head drama teacher said, ”Your priorities need to shift if you’re going to continue with acting so can’t you film Harry Potter on a Saturday?” He thought we should have been at school doing his class rather than making these films that were watched worldwide.
What’s next for you both? Oliver: Yeah, there was [something we went for], actually. I won’t say the film but there was a film that had twins in it; we read for it and it looked rosy but Harry Potter was filming at the same time so we missed out. But we have different things coming up; we’ve got two individual projects in the new year and then another film together in May in the States and I’m also going to do a little documentary program as well, which will be quite cool.
Daniel Radcliffe and the cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really performed ‘Brotherhood of Man’ at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. A clear video of the performance is now online and may be viewed below.
If you have yet to see the play I highly recommend it, its great! Daniel finishes his run before the New Year so be sure to see it before he leaves! Nick Jonas and Darren Criss will be taking over for him; Darren in January and Nick after that.
Today we have some more behind the scenes footage from Ron and Hermione’s long awaited kiss! In the video David Yates, David Heyman, Rupert and Emma talk about the kiss and we also see a new angle of the shot.
Fans have unlocked another video from Harry Potter: The Quest. This one is called A Tribute to Dobby: The Beloved House-Elf. In the video various cast and crew members talk about one of our favorite house elves.
In honor of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II DVD and BluRay in the UK next week, Warner Bros. have sent over a deleted scene featuring the trio! You may watch it below. The DVD/BluRay will be released on December 2nd. Be sure to check out the official Harry Potter Facebook page to keep updated on all things Potter! Also, don’t forget about the special Signing at Harrods on December 1st featuring Jessie Cave, the Phelps Twins and Warwick Davis, more information is in this post!
