J.K. Rowling has been awarded the DQ Entertainment‘s Lifetime Achievement award! This is the second time the award has been given out. According to our source:
The award is presented to ‘artists who during their lifetime have made creative contribution of outstanding significance to entertainment that goes beyond cultural, linguistic and other boundaries’. The decision of who to award the honour to is made by ‘leading broadcasters, producers & senior journalists from the media & entertainment industry.’
The decision to award the prize this year to J.K. Rowling was said to be ‘almost unanimous’. A ceremony was held at Hotel Martinez in Cannes, France, yesterday, where Josh Berger, President and MD of Warner Brothers Entertainment UK, received the award on Jo’s behalf.
Half-Blood Prince, the movie, has won a Digital Spy award for Family Film! There is a video online of Matthew and Evanna accepting the award at the balloon release on September 24th. You can also view a photo of the two, here in the Lewis Lovers gallery! And view the video in the LL Video Archive.
In a new interview Dame Maggie Smith has discussed Harry Potter and her battle with breast cancer among other things.
She filmed Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince mid-treatment. “I was hairless. I had no problem getting the wig on. I was like a boiled egg.”
Smith says that she accepted the possibility of dying. “I was relieved to be the age I was, because by now you feel like it’s all over anyway. That’s why I hated seeing young people receiving treatment [at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London]. I couldn’t bear that, it didn’t seem fair. To be honest, you feel so ghastly you wouldn’t mind dying a lot of the time.”
She struggles for words. “I felt . . . I was just . . . It leaves you so flattened. I’m not sure I could go back to theatre work, although film work is more tiring. I’m frightened to work in theatre now. I feel very uncertain. I haven’t done it for a while [her last stage role was in The Lady from Dubuque in 2007]. I’m not quite sure if it’s like getting back on a horse or a bike. Not that I’d do either, I’d fall off. It’s one of those things you ought to keep on doing and I haven’t for a bit. I would love to be able to because I do love it, but I feel a great lack of confidence. Being unwell and having withdrawn . . . I haven’t been in London for so long, it’s quite scary up here.” Smith is clinking the ice absently in her mineral water. It will seem unimaginable to many that she is talking about giving up theatre, I say. “Well, there’s a limit to what you can do. I’m not into that argument there aren’t any parts for older women, though. Anyway, why should there be? If there’s work I’ll do it and if there isn’t . . . I’ve still got to stagger through the last Potter.”
If you remember, last week I posted about Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone being on the Disney Channel. You still have a chance to watch Sorcerer’s Stone as it is on again today, Sunday, at 12pm!
Sorry I forgot to remind you all last night, I’m at my aunts house so I haven’t been on my computer too much 😉 Anyway, enjoy!
More photos of Evanna Lynch’s photoshoot for Ciaran Sweeney have been released at Ciaran Sweeney’s official FaceBook page, They are from the photoshoot Evanna Lynch did in Ireland (there was also one in Paris), and you can see the gorgeous photos here!
