In a new interview Emma Watson talks about her role in My Week with Marilyn where she plays a character named Lucy.
“It’s amazing to play a role that’s in a different time period – the 50s are so much fun and I loved wearing the costumes,” she said. While she had a ball with the ladylike costumes, Emma reckons she wouldn’t like to wear them all the time. “I certainly felt more feminine – they were really about curves and a waist, and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice to be more womanly?'” she continued, adding: “I say that, but I was wearing a waspie, a 50s version of a corset, and I certainly wouldn’t last very long in one of those.”
Michelle Williams takes the title role in the Simon Curtis period drama, but most of Emma’s scenes were with Eddie Redmayne, who plays British writer-director Colin Clark. “Eddie was just such a delight to work with, such a generous actor,” she gushed. “It’s a great little role, I’m really thrilled to be a part of it. It was lovely to start with my new career and my new life really.”
She reckoned fans won’t be disappointed: “[Distributor] Harvey Weinstein showed me the trailer before I went off set, and it’s going to be good.”
In a new interview with the Sydney Herald, Tom Felton has talked about what it was like growing up in front of the cameras, what the future holds for him and more.
“We are relaxed,” Felton says. “Doing a talk show or talking to a newspaper journalist is a lot more relaxed and a lot more fun; it used to be much more of a nervous thing when we were kids. And by now we’ve learnt the right things and the wrong things to say, plus we’re genuinely passionate about the films, so it’s nice to talk about something you’re excited about sharing with people.”
“As the films have gone along, they have got darker,” Felton says. “But the humour has also gone up tenfold. It’s a unique type of humour. It’s British dry wit — there are no jokes, just awkward silences. In my opinion they’re not just scarier, they are also funnier.”
“It’s a strange experience and the gravity of what we’ve done together hasn’t really sunk in yet,” he says. “To have your puberty documented in a series of films is weird and even looking back at it now you can cringe at some of the early ones because of how young you look. It’s hard to come up with a sentence that explains it all but it’s been an incredible journey and we’ve got more and more excited each year.”
“As a youngster I wasn’t completely sure this is what I wanted to do with my life but being around so many fantastic actors has embedded a massive passion for filmmaking within me,” Felton says. He will star alongside James Franco in the Planet of the Apes prequel, Rise of the Apes, in 2011. “It’s far from plain sailing but it’s an exciting time for me because doors are open and I know I can convince people I can do more than Draco.”
As part of their Harry Potter coverage Reelz Channel have sent over another new video interview! This time it is with Daniel Radcliffe and he discusses how different how different Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. He also talks about how fun it was filming the Seven Potters scene. We also get some new behind the scenes shots in this video as well.
Thanks again to mavieenlair18, we have scans and a transcript of Evanna Lynch’s interview in Total Film Indonesia.
You’re the biggest fan on the set and the fans next summer are going to have to go through a horrible withdrawal next summer with no more films coming out. But you’ve had your withdrawal this summer. Any advice for the fans?
It will be a shock. It was a shock for me. I’ve been with everyone for so long. We’ve always had this question, what’s it going to be like when it ends. And then on the last day, I was, like, “Oh, what’s going to happen now?” But what I realized was that it did end but I was still talking to all my friends. I think that’s what they’ll realize, that yeah, sure, officially it’s ending but because you have all these friends who are passionate about the same thing you’ll still be alive and you’ll still talking about it. So, yeah, just enjoy it and don’t… I wouldn’t think about the end until it comes.
You can now look back at everything you’ve done with Harry Potter. So what kind of impact in particular has that had on you, in terms of values or how you think about life?
People say, “Oh, it hasn’t changed. I’m still with my friends and family.” In that sense, yes, you’re still you. But it’s definitely changed how I look at life and how I approach things now. Before Harry Potter, it was something out there. It was a dream, it was something I couldn’t touch… and those people, I had them on pedestals. And since I’ve been on this, and I’ve seen how it all happens, and I’ve seen how the magic happens. But anyway, it makes you realize, oh, I’m just another person, I can do that. They’re just people doing this. I’ve seen the way people, like fans… when I go to premieres, the way they treat me was the way I would’ve been then, but no, that’s an illusion. I used to think, like, “Oh, I would love to someday be a writer” and used to go, like, “that’s won’t happen”. But now I’m like, “No, that can”. You just take initiative and you just believe in yourself, and believe that you’re as good as anyone else and as able to do it as everyone else. So yeah, I hope people will see us, “Oh, she’s a normal girl. If she can do that, I can do that.”
Scans from a feature on Bonnie Wright in Total Film Indonesia are now online as well as a translation which can be read here. Some segments from the interview are below as well as the scans
You’ve shot the Epilogue. Have you gone through an aging process?
Yes, it was a very bizarre thing to go through, really, to be able to have that chance to be suddenly made up to look mid-thirties. It’s was an exciting day but bizarre. Obviously, for me, it almost felt like a real cycle, because I started on that same platform, at the same age that Lily Potter, the youngest daughter of Ginny and Harry was, so it’s almost literally like looking back at myself.
How does it feel to have three kids?
The three kids who played the children were just… they just epitomised all of us, when we were that age, so it was lovely to look back. They were so excited on the day, it was a massive dream come true, and they’d been through such a massive process of auditioning. I think it was probably the most auditions any person has been through to get a part in a film. In the auditioning process Dan and I sat down with different children and talked to them, because obviously the dynamic is incredibly important… to try and portray the idea that they are this family unit, that they’ve spent every living moment together, since they were babies in their hands to how they are now. It was challenging to get that warmth with someone you’ve barely met and some children don’t want to get close to someone they don’t know. But they understood it was incredibly important to make the scene work, so they were very giving to the situation.
Through your relationship with Jamie, you’ve seen the Twilight phenomenon. Do you think Harry Potter is better?
I think they’re two completely different sort of stories, really. I think the way that Jo Rowling has written it is incredible and personally, for me, it’s much richer than the stories of Twilight, because it’s from a much more mythological, historical element that’s just a bit deeper and I think they’ve got different elements.
