Rupert Grint made an appearance on BBC’s The Dermot O’Leary show. The interview is about an hour into the show; go here to listen on BBC Radio2! You can also listen below:
Total Sci-Fi has a new feature with Harry Potter actor Warwick Davis where he talks about his new book and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
You’re working on the new Harry Potter movies at the moment, is that right?
Yes, I’m working on the seventh Harry Potter until June. It’s really exciting, I play two different characters in those films. Harry Potter has been ongoing for the past few years. It’ll be sad to see the end of that. It’s something you almost take for granted each year – to have no more will be a bit strange and sad.
This week I’m doing something that everyone needs and can use! A Harry Potter calendar, this one is the 2010 Desk (or Day by Day) calendar.
About: The base for this, and the other Potter Desk calendars, is a simple stand and above the calendar there is a “magical image,” basically a moving 3D photo of Ron and Harry with the logo. Each page has a photo from one of the first 6 Potter films, a caption for the photo and the date. They also have designed a fun border to go with the page. They tear off easily and, if you are crazy like me, you can store them in the box the calendar comes in when the day is over.
Value: The retail price of the item is $16.99, but you can find it much cheaper now. As we all know, calendars are everywhere, so these aren’t worth very much right now. But I have a feeling that if you keep a calendar from each year in mint condition and have a nice collection of Potter calendars they could be worth something in the future.
Buy it:Harry Potter 2010 Desk Calendar You can probably still find this in stores since we are in the early stages of 2010 😉
Rating: 8/10 It’s not too exciting, but everyone can use a calendar!
Rupert Grint has reviewed the first 3D digital camera for the Daily Mail that you can read here! Here are some segments:
The camera uses two lenses, and the LCD screen is constructed so as to send a separate image to each eye, which creates the 3D e ffect. If you don’t look at the monitor straight on, you won’t get the illusion of depth.
You can use the Fujifilm W1 for regular 2D photos and video. When in this setting, the camera uses only one of its two lenses (although there are some clever options that let you take simultaneous 2D photographs with di fferent settings for each lens – ie, one can be full colour and one monochrome).
But switching over to the 3D mode opens up a whole new world. Shooting 3D video was the most impressive aspect of it; this really showed off what the camera is capable of. You are free to move with the camera and try more ambitious shots. I experimented, trying to capture objects moving towards you, and seemingly coming at you out of the screen when played back. I was impressed; it worked surprisingly well.
Taking 3D photos only really works for quite a specific kind of shot: you need to have a decent depth of field in the picture, so close-ups or distance shots don’t do it justice. If everything is more or less the same distance from the camera you don’t need 3D at all, and using it can make the image look slightly confused.
When you do get a good 3D shot though, it’s very impressive. As with the video, if you find the right angle and the right subject matter you can take some really stunning photos.
In a new interview with This is London, Rupert Grint discusses his life and other fun facts!
What are you most afraid of?
Spiders have a real physical effect on me – I lock up and go all shaky. I can’t go near them. I’m so bad at killing them, I always seem to miss and then they crawl on me and it’s all quite dramatic. My entire family has this phobia.
What would be on your tombstone?
‘Rupert Grint – THE END’ with engraved credits in order of appearance of everyone who has appeared in my life.
What’s your life philosophy?
Laugh at yourself.
What animal would you most like to be and why?
A seagull: you can fly, live by the sea and eat human food. I think that would suit me.
What makes you laugh and why?
People falling over always gets me. Obviously if it’s really serious and they’re really badly hurt then I will stop laughing. It’s also not so funny when you do it.
What makes you cry and why?
I saw Up recently which really got me.
What are you up to at the moment?
We’re in the middle of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows out in Watford in a studio in a disused airport. It’s going really well. We started February last year so it’s been quite a long one. It’s going to be really weird when it’s over. Obviously there have been the same people involved in it for about 11 years and then suddenly it’s all going to stop. We finish in June so there are a few more months left. I think it’s a very different film from the others. There’s not much Hogwarts and we’re all living rough with beards and messy hair.
In a new interview with the Belfast Times, Ciarán Hinds (Aberforth Dumbledore) talks about his time filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Ciarán will be in attendance at the Belfast Film Festival for the premiere of his movie The Eclipse on April 23rd, you can get tickets to it here.
One wonders what other dark characters Hinds might have been well-suited for in his career, but his next big role as the brother of Professor Dumbledore in the final two Harry Potter films offers up the possibility that he could have played quite a wonderful Severus Snape. “Oh yeah!” he laughs, adding quickly, “But Alan Rickman’s great as him.”
He will be joining a veritable who’s-who of British and Irish acting talent in the cast list of the movies, which are due for release this year and next year. And he jokingly wishes he had been approached sooner in the hugely successful series. “It would have been nice to be asked earlier — I would have been a few bob richer!” he laughs.
As it is he will be buried under layers of prosthetic make-up to play the eminent Hogwarts headmaster’s younger brother Aberforth. “I disappeared, as I was unrecognisable,” he says. “I won’t have any trouble in the street doing my shopping as usual because no-one knows who was in there because of the amazing make-up job that they did. I went up to introduce myself to the actress Miriam Margolyes on-set and she looked at me in this costume and make-up and said: “Well, anybody could have played your part!”
You can probably still find this in stores since we are in the early stages of 2010 😉