SnitchSeeker had the opportunity to interview Freddie Stroma at the premiere of his new play, Cinderella (where he plays Price Charming) in London. They have posted a new video interview with him from the event as well as some photos which can be viewed below.
Reelz Channel have sent over another new video from their Harry Potter coverage. This time it is an interview with the lovely Emma Watson where she discusses Hermione and her journey in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Hero Complex has posted a new interview with Tom Felton where he discusses what lies ahead for him now that the Potter series is over and much more.
“I love fans with passion, and I learned from the ‘Potter’ experience what it can be like to be part of something that gets people excited before they’ve even seen it,” Felton said. “It adds a certain pressure — it can turn into a love-and-hate thing too, because people are literally waiting for every screen-shot, every trailer and every new detail. They lean forward, and that’s what you want, that’s the way to lean.”
Felton said he marveled at the serendipity that put together a cast of young actors who meshed so well, and he said it was hard to say goodbye to the movie set where they grew up together. “It was a group that were picked, and we got on when we were 11, and we all got on when were 20, and that’s amazing to think about. The families had a lot to do with it, the people that did the casting had a lot to do with it, and then there was luck too.”
Steve Kloves even mentions what a great actor Tom is:
“Tom has been plying his craft for a very long time and even as a child was a particularly deft actor,” Kloves said. “As Draco transformed over the last two pictures from mere foil to a haunted, multi-dimensional young man, Tom’s skill has only become more evident. … [In the sixth film,] Draco is slowly crumbling from within due to the pressures imposed on him from outside forces of great power. Tom reveals the fissures slowly, so that over the course of the movie the hairline fracture he displays early on becomes, by the conclusion, a shattering of the soul. He’s respectful of the written word and applies his energies to interpretation, with often quiet but thrilling results. He’s a writer’s dream.”
In a new interview with The Guardian Julie Walters talks about a great many things and even mentions Harry Potter (below).
It is another Harry with whom she is more regularly associated, having played Ron Weasley’s mother for the past nine years. “It was a great big family. You can’t help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.” What does she make of Emma Watson’s new elfin haircut? “It’s fabulous. I think she wanted to get rid of it all, to have a fresh start.”
As someone who has carved out a niche playing strong, forthright women, Walters is a natural choice to host this week’s Sky 3D Women in Film and Television Awards. Do women in her industry still need to be recognised in a separate awards ceremony? “Yes, I think so. It’s getting better but men still earn more and there are more jobs for them. Ageism is a big thing. Parts for women disappear as you get older.”
In an interview with Reuters Daniel Radcliffe talks about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and 2. He mentions the infamous quote where he says Emma was an animal in the locket scene and how things you say come back at you really fast during promotional tours:
Q: So, to get this one out of the way, you were quoted as saying recently that (co-star) Emma Watson was “a bit of an animal” in your kissing scene together. What did she have to say about that?
A: “When you’re in this period of time when you do an interview and it’s aired the next day, your quotes come back at you so quickly. On (TV show) Daybreak the other day … Kate Garraway was interviewing me … and she said ‘Oh the kiss with Emma in this film, she’s a bit of an animal, isn’t she?’ and I said ‘yes’, and then it was like I’d said it. Emma hit me on the arm as soon as we came off the red carpet (at the film premiere) and said ‘What have you been saying to people about me?’.”
Q: Some people found the sixth Harry Potter film (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) a little confusing, and Harry Potter 7 (Deathly Hallows Part 1) more straightforward. Would you agree?
A: “I loved five, but six is a hard film to make. Even though I think it’s the most beautiful of all the films so far, it’s also a really hard film to make because it is basically just a colossal amount of exposition that sets up number seven. It is a tougher one to make accessible to everybody who hasn’t read the books, because you are just cramming in a huge amount of information.”
Q: Deathly Hallows Part 1 also seems slower-paced than some other Potter movies.
“In (Harry Potter) seven … people keep talking about ‘Oh it’s an action movie’ (but) … this is so sedate compared to what the next one is going to be like. The next film, because you’ve had all the plot set up already, you can just kind of enjoy the insanity of all the action.”
Q: Rupert Grint (who plays Harry’s friend Ron in the films) just described the final Potter film (to be released in July, 2011) as a war movie. Would you go that far?
A: “They’ve all stolen my line! My pitch (for Deathly Hallows 1 and 2) was that it’s a road movie that turns into a heist movie that turns into a war film. I was saying it to Rupert and Emma (Watson) the other day. Damn it!”
“The last movie is going to be really, really fast-paced and a load of action in it and it is like a war film. If we had done this book in one film, the stuff that would have got cut is most of this film. For me that is the most interesting part of the story, because it’s where the characters develop and change.
