Bonnie Wright, who’s been playing Ron’s little sister Ginny since the age of 9, has relished in the opportunity, in Half-Blood Prince, to participate in things which she previously only got to watch the boys do – Quidditch. “It’s fun but it’s quite painful sometimes when they throw you about. It’s quite high up, it’s kind of ‘Oh my god, I’m really high up’ and you get that kind of sickening urge but yeah it was fun.”
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What, exactly, makes Quidditch stand out in this film? Rupert had a lot to say about it: “This one’s a little more light-hearted than the last one. The last one was really quite dark but this one’s got a few more lighter moments in it, and the Quidditch is quite fun because, for Ron, there are two sort of sides to it. There’s a side where he thinks he’s really good because he thinks he’s taken the potion. And there’s the other side where during tryouts he’s actually not really good. So I have to do a bit of both for this one.”
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Unlike Dan’s 30 takes for his first kissing scene in Harry Potter, Rupert’s were quite a bit less (although he did pop mints and gum to make sure he was April Fresh). “Mine was nothing like that. I think it was around eight [takes] because he [Yates] knew we were quite uncomfortable about it, and it was quite a nerve wracking scene, so he kept it to I think about eight, so it wasn’t too bad.”
