If you recall, a few days ago I posted about James and Oliver Phelps being on the television show Blue Peter. According to a TLC reader:
Just seen Blue Peter where they showed a brief clip of Ron, Hermione, and Harry in the Weasley joke shop. It showed Hermione furtively putting a product back, and then Ron following the twins up the stairs with a product asking how much it was, the twins answered 5 galleons, and Ron quite peeved said I’m your brother and they looked at each other and turned to Ron and answered “10 galleons”. The shop was full of kids and products, it was off-the-wall to look at.
The twins built a mat that shot water up from it if you stood on it and got water sprayed at one of them … They weren’t bothered though. They said they played practical jokes mainly on the crew not really on Dan or the lead cast etc
MSN has some new footage and interviews they have with Matt Lewis, Tom Felton and James and Oliver Phelps at the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince prop tour in London, England. You can watch the video below, or over here.
James and Oliver Phelps are set to be on the Blue Peter on BBC this Tuesday, June 23. According to Radio Times, “the Weasley twins from the Harry Potter movie are in the studio to make a doormat with a difference.” The program airs on UK BBC 2 from 4:35 to 5:00 pm. I will post a video as soon as it is made available; if anyone can capture it, send it in!
In an interview with CBBC Newsround Matt Lewis, Tom Felton, and James & Oliver Phelps discussed their thoughts on Half-Blood Prince.
Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton said the new film is definitely much funnier. “There’s lots to look forward to,” he said. “I was laughing through the whole two hours.”
And it’s probably no surprise to fans of the Harry Potter books that Matthew thinks the story of the Half-Blood Prince isn’t that nice, in terms of what happens in it. “Every year, we always say ‘it’s much darker, this one’, but this one really is. It gets pretty heavy in parts,” he said. But the balance they’ve achieved with the comedy… the timing is wonderful. Jim Broadbent [Professor Slughorn] is superb, Rupert Grint [Ron Weasley] is on top form and it is very very funny.”
Meanwhile, away from Hogwarts, Fred and George Weasley have opened their own joke shop, but what was it like filming away from the famous school? “It was really cool because we got to work in probably the best set there,” said Oliver. “The set Fred and George have is so insane we weren’t disappointed to be away from Hogwarts at the time,” added James. “But when we saw the film I realised how much I missed the shoots in the Great Hall and on the quidditch pitch.”
Also, I asked Matthew Lewis yesterday if he had plans on going to the NYC premiere on July 9th and sadly his answer was, “I think I’m going straight off on a European tour with the film instead of NYC”. (Credit Lewis Lovers if this is reposted)
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