The New Zealand Herald has a new interview with Daniel Radcliffe.
“There’s loads of darkness and not many laughs there, so David said it was best to give the audience as much comedy as we can while we can. There are huge opportunities for comedy in the sixth film and we use all of them, even though my natural inclination is not towards that. I love watching comedy but doing it is something else.”
“I’m very happy that the seventh book is being made as two films,” notes Radcliffe, “because I was worried they would have to cut important scenes. For example in the fourth film you could cut out the house elf sub-plot and it doesn’t affect the main story in any way. In the second film they cut out the Nearly Headless Nick Death Day Party. In fact that whole character has fallen by the wayside. The problem with doing that with the final book is that there is nothing that doesn’t relate to the main story or drive it forward. There’s not much you could cut. So we’ve given ourselves the room and opportunity to do it justice.”
Radcliffe was more than ready for the romance. “By the time I made this film I’d done a nude scene on stage and a few kissing scenes, so I was totally blase,” he says. “Poor Bonnie was very nervous. I hadn’t factored that in. I’d taken it for granted that she’d be fine too. She’d never had to do that so I had to be calming with her and she did very well. Then of course you have Rupert and the carnal delights of his relationship with Lavender, which is very entertaining,” he laughs.
The LA Times has a new interview with Rupert Grint.
“I was thinking about what it’s going to be like when we’re done, after the last movie,” Grint said. “It is going to be really weird, actually. At the moment it seems quite far away. I don’t know what I’m going to do, really. I’m going to miss it, I think, because it’s been my whole life for a long time. I really enjoy it as well, every year we’ve come back and done it. All of this, this is what I know…”
“Dan is the one who is very driven; he’s ambitious and he’s knows there’s quite a few things down the road. I am a little bit more laid back. And Emma, I mean, she’s really cool. We all get on really well; she’s just a really good mate. A great person.”
Grint said Watson is “like a sister,” which made for some awkward scenes in “Half-Blood Prince.” A major component part of the film is young romance, in particular the pained love triangle involving Grint’s Ron, Watson’s Hermione and newcomer Jessie Cave as the smitten Lavender Brown. That provides a lot of this installment’s surge in humor, as does Ron’s bid to become a Quidditch player.
Evanna Lynch was interviewed about Half-Blood Prince and its romantic and dark themes, the evolution of her character, Luna Lovegood, and her future after Potter. It is dubbed in Italian but you can read the translation, here.
I have found a few new Half-Blood Prince photos. One is of Lavender Brown, another of Luna Lovegood and the other of Tom Felton (as Draco) and David Yates behind the scenes. See the photos, here in the gallery.
MySpace has posted an exclusive new clip from Half-Blood Prince. I didn’t watch the whole thing, because I don’t want to be too spoiled when I see the movie, but the clip is the scene they added at the Burrow with Bellatrix Lestrange. Enjoy!
