In a new interview with the LA Times, Daniel Radcliffe discusses his role in the upcoming film The Woman in Black. Some segments of the interview may be read below.
“Working is how I will best get through a very weird time,” Radcliffe said. “I know it’s the most constructive thing I can do because otherwise I’d be moping around and being a bit like, ‘Oh, I miss everyone … ’ So I’m quite pleased to go on to the next thing and the next challenge.”
“When I met first met James Watkins, our director, he told me about a quote of Stanley Kubrick’s, which was that all films about the afterlife or ghosts are innately consoling,” Radcliffe said. “I think there’s something about that that is very true to our story. While it is a horror story and it is very frightening, it’s also about loss and grief. I read it on a plane, and I don’t know what the people around me must have thought. I kept jumping and gasping…”
Radcliffe, who begins shooting the film this fall, will be on screen in almost every scene of the film, and it will be the first true test of his ability to carry a movie in which he doesn’t wave a wand. “People really have only ever seen my face with glasses on it … that’s going to change in this movie,” said Radcliffe, who’s also attached to a new version of “All Quiet on the Western Front” as well as “The Journey Is the Destination,” the story of slain photojournalist Dan Eldon.
Radcliffe says his preparations for “The Woman in Black” have helped him avoid the full emotional impact of leaving his decade-long role and costars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. Harry Potter Sorcerors stone “We, all three of us — me, Rupert and Emma — we just wept,” Radcliffe said of June 12, the final day on the set of the last “Potter” film.
On August 6th, Emma Thompson is scheduled to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!! Emma plays Professor Trelawney in the Harry Potter films!
Academy Award-winning actress Emma Thompson will receive the 2,415th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Aug. 6, two weeks before the release of her latest film, “Nanny McPhee Returns.’
Born April 15, 1959 in London to a father who was a theater director and writer and a mother who was an actress, Thompson made her television debut while still in college on the British Broadcasting Corp.’s “Friday Night, Saturday Morning.’
Thompson appeared frequently on both television and the stage in England in the 1980s. She made her feature film debut in the 1989 comedy “The Tall Guy,’ which starred Jeff Goldblum. Thompson co-starred with Kenneth Branagh — her husband from 1989-95 — in four films he also directed, “Henry V,’ “Dead Again,’ “Peter’s Friends’ and “Much Ado About Nothing.’ Thompson’s other film credits include “Last Chance Harry,’ “Stranger Than Fiction,’ “Junior,’ “Carrington,’ “The Winter Guest,’ “Primary Colors,’ “Imagining Argentina,’ and “Love Actually.’
Thompson also played professor Sybill Trelawney in 2004’s “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,’ and “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’ three years later. Thompson is writing a new film version of “My Fair Lady’ and starring with Alan Rickman in a BBC production of the poem “The Song of Lunch.’
If you recall, a few months ago I posted a review for a book called Harry Potter Power.
Australian Psychologist and Harry Potter Power author Dr J.A. Sykley has just released information to Magical-Menagerie that she has amost finished writing her sequel. The Harry Potter inspired sequel (its title is being kept under wraps at present), which is about 80% complete, focusses on compelling psychological secrets, messages, information, and conclusions suggested and contained in the final Harry Potter book “The Deathly Hallows”.
Given that the sequel, which seeks to enthrall and empower its readers, is not quite finished, the author would like to invite questions and queries from HP fans everywhere. If you have a burning question about any psychology-related topic or issue regarding The Deathly Hallows, the author welcomes your messages at her blogsite address below. The author will try to answer your questions in the book or on-line’ . Author’s Blogsite: http://harrypotterpoweroz.blogspot.com/
Thanks to IGN, we have a description of the Deathly Hallows footage shown at the San Diego Comic Con.
Potter’s nemesis sits at the head of a long table, joined by Snape, who then instructs Voldemort about Potter’s whereabouts. It is here that Voldemort says the chilling line: “We all agree that I must be the one to kill Harry Potter.”
Ron and Harry get into a shoving match and then its quick shots of those who have died protecting Harry, a shot with several Harry Potters standing around, as well as a glimpse of the forcefield surrounding Hogwarts burning away.
The footage also gave us a look at Bill Nighy in the role of Rufus Scrimgeour, the new Minister of Magic.
The last shot was a very dramatic, very slow-mo stand-off between Harry and Voldemort, aiming their wands at each other as their magics collide in the middle. Harry, knees inching toward the ground, looks like he is about to meet his match.
