Daniel Radcliffe was interviewed recently and he talks about a myriad of different things relating to the Potter movies.
At this point in the saga how do you feel with the rest the cast? Are they still professionals first, or rather is a kind of family?
When you live together more than seven years with them they become a part of you. Professionally, you can refresh each time.
Wouldn’t it bother you when all the Harry Potter movies are finished that you cannot be removed of the character?
I don’t believe it. I am playing other roles that I have been offered and I am anxious to carry out, reading scripts. Until they no longer see me as Harry Potter.
Will you not miss being Harry Potter?
I will be a little sad. Not just being Harry Potter, but to all the ones that participated in the movie.
From the film: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Bonnie Wright, Tom Felton, director David Yates and producers David Heyman and David Barron. Other celebrity guests to be announced shortly.
There is another person you all know attending the premiere, but I don’t know if I can say yet, I need to ask permission 😉
UPDATE: I can say who else is going, ME! I’ll be on the red carpet! woot!
Guardian.co.uk has a new article about Harry Potter that includes a new photo from the Half-Blood Prince filming. The article shows us a behind the scenes view of Harry Potter filming. The article has interviews with Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright, Jim Broadbent, David Yates, David Heyman, and David Barron. See the photo here in the gallery.
It is indeed fascinating to watch the young cast grow up on screen – have a look at early interviews on YouTube and you’ll notice their feet dangling above the ground – and Yates has also got around the potential problem of being lumbered with an existing cast by giving cameos to older actors with whom he’s previously worked. One of the best things about the Potter films has always been the appearance of national acting treasures such as Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis and, in The Half-Blood Prince, Jim Broadbent.
I ask Broadbent about his experience of playing Horace Slughorn, Potions Master and head of Slytherin House at Hogwarts, and it seems that he, too, has been bitten by the Harry bug. “It was an extraordinary thing to be part of. The main sets feel so permanent, having been there since the start, which means it’s very easy to get drawn into the world of Hogwarts. It was rather daunting turning up on set with all these young actors; it could so easily have been a nightmare, given that the five films have had such huge success. But the kids turned out to be terrific. There was no brattish behaviour or starry, Fame Academy behaviour; they just get on with it.”
And perhaps this is the key to the success of the films: producers David Heyman and David Barron have created what the latter describes as “our reality”. The young cast have never been allowed to develop attitude. Each new director has had to stay within the perimeters of the world so carefully set up at Leavesden; accordingly, there’s no room for an individual director to take off on a flight of fancy. And the continuity of cast and crew is impressive, too; although Radcliffe initially signed on for the first two films and seriously debated doing three and four, he did finally sign up till the end.
In a new interview with the Daily Record Dan talks about what he would want to see on the Deathly Hallows soundtrack. Head over to the TrioNetwork gallery to see the scan!
Multi-millionaire Daniel said: “If you asked people what band they associated with Harry Potter, Radiohead wouldn’t be the first that sprang to mind, but funnily enough Radiohead’s albums could soundtrack the films. They’re so appropriate to the movies and to Harry’s emotions that it’s almost uncanny. Harry’s darkness is a very specific type of darkness and it’s Radiohead’s OK Computer or Amnesiac, and it’s Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible and Hope of the States, The Lost Riots and it’s stuff like that. It’s kind of angry and epic. It’s angry in the sense that your life is beyond your control and you are in the middle of this maelstrom of politics and power. You have no control over that, and that’s where part of Harry’s anger comes from.”
“They [Sigur Rós] would be great, wouldn’t they? It’s so right, it’s got the amount of grandeur and majesty. It’s epic and it’s magical and it’s playing the guitar with the violin bow and… ah God, it would be great.”
In a new Half-Blood Prince video game demo, Tom Felton guides us and Dan Radcliffe, Bonnie Wright, Emma Watson, Kelvin Tuite (Art Director), Jonathan Bunney (Executive Producer) and Chris Roberts (Lead Designer) talk about it.
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson are scheduled to appear on Australia’s Rove Sunday, July 5, 2009. It is not known if they will be in the studio or talk via satellite.
If anyone is able to capture the show please send it in! Thanks to SS!
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