In a new interview with Digital Spy, Bill Nighy talks about filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Bill will be playing Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgeour, in the final films.
“Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person,” he told Premiere. “And Daniel was charming. And Rupert I’d already worked with [in Wild Target], so it was nice to work with him again. And they were really welcoming a nice to me.”
Nighy also predicted a future in acting for the three stars. “I think they will all go on and make other movies. The audience that grew up with them will be happy to see them in other things. They are all good young actors and I should think they will continue to make movies and the audience will grow with them and follow them wherever they go, I would think.
“They are such popular performers now and they are part of people’s lives. They’ve grown up together, and that audience will stay with them, I would think.”
In a new interview with MTV, Harry Potter actor Warwick Davis talks about his last day filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Warwick plays both Professor Flitwick (aka the Choir Conductor) and Griphook in the final films. You can read part of the interview and watch it below.
“I shot my last day on ‘Harry Potter’ last Saturday. It was a very sad, very emotional day,” actor Warwick Davis told MTV News recently at the grand opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park. “I never really get upset finishing a film. I’m normally glad that it’s over, that I won’t have to wear the makeup anymore — but I was actually really quite choked up about it. Ten years’ worth of work finished, and on Sunday, it was worse. I woke up Sunday morning thinking, ‘No more Harry Potter. That’s it.’ ”
Davis, who plays Hogwarts’ residential Charms expert Professor Flitwick, recalled the emotional final day of shooting. “I was filming with the second unit, and then I went over to the first unit where they were doing the last shot with Dan [Radcliffe], Rupert [Grint] and Emma [Watson]. The first assistant director didn’t shout, ‘It’s a wrap.’ He didn’t say that. He said, ‘Come over to the screens over here. I have a lot of video to show you.’ He set up the video: a piece of film that they’d shot every day with what’s called the golden boards. It would be a special guest that day or an actor who was finishing up the film, or whatever. If something unusual was happening, they’d be the person holding the golden board. Twenty minutes’ worth to summarize the last year and a half that we’d been working on the movie. It was really very sad.”
Although Davis couldn’t divulge the final scene that was shot for “Deathly Hallows,” he confirmed that the last shot involved Radcliffe, Grint and Watson. “It was them, as it should be,” he said. “The three of them. I was lucky to be there for the last day. I think I was the only other cast member in on it.”
Well it is finally here! Warner Bros. have emailed us links to view the Official Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer! You can watch it in a couple different resolutions so choose the one that is best for you! Enjoy!! Only 143 days left until Part I is released!
If you haven’t seen the screencaps from the trailer that were released earlier today you can see them in the gallery or High Resolution here (You can also catch this on tv if you watch ABC Family’s premiere of HUGE at 9pm tonight (check your listings to be sure of the time)
Yahoo Movies has posted three new photos from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Those photos may be seen in our galleries!
Additionally, WB has emailed High Resolution versions of a bunch of the photos that were released earlier today! So check those out in the high resolution album!
Rupert Grint is going to appear on the TV series Top Gear on July 11th. Rupert is set to be a celebrity guest on episode 3 of Season 15. Top Gear airs on BBC 2 and BBC American on Mondays at 9pm.
“Top Gear” takes extraordinary and ordinary cars to the limit and beyond to find out if they’re half as good as manufacturers claim. Full of extreme stunts, challenges, celebrity appearances and weekly features, “Top Gear” is far more than a car show; you’ll find no boring stats or impenetrable conversations about camshafts here. It’s the sharp wit of hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May that make it more than just a motor show.
Thanks to The Telegraph we have a 16 more photos from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. You can see the photos in the gallery! The photos show a myriad of things some being: the dragon, the final battle, Harry and Voldemort, Bellatrix, Ron, Hermione, and tons more! There is also an article in the Daily Mail that features the photos and has some text to go along with them:
The fairytale is definitely over. If these scenes are anything to go by, the next Harry Potter movie will be a rather grown-up affair. The scenes, from the trailer of the first part of the adaptation of the final book, look more like a disturbing thriller than a children’s fantasy tale. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint all star in what is being hailed as the darkest Potter film yet.
UPDATE: One more of Ron added thanks to USA Today. They also have an interview with Producer David Heyman:
The new movie focuses heavily on Harry’s tangles with the evil Lord Voldemort. “Harry and Voldemort go wand to wand in the courtyard,” says longtime producer David Heyman.
In one scene, Voldemort grabs Harry’s face and malevolently hisses “Why do you live?” And brave Harry responds, “Because I have something to live for.”
These last two films will be the first to be shown in IMAX 3-D.
“The technology has developed and offers great possibilities,” Heyman says. “We won’t be going for that ‘wow, things always jumping out at you’ effect. I think the best 3-D doesn’t have to be aggressive. We’ll be pushing back from the screen. We’re going for an organic, truthful 3-D.”
But what about 3-D fatigue among audiences? “Those people who aren’t keen to embrace the 3-D of it all will have plenty of opportunities to watch it in 2-D,” he says. Technical advances have leaped forward over the course of the series. “A lot of the stuff we do in this film, we couldn’t have done on the first film,” says Heyman. “The quality of the visual effects is so much better. (House elves) Kreacher and Dobby will be so much better realized than in the previous films since we have new technology to better capture their faces.
“What I love about these films is the blend of old and new technology.”
