Today I made a Matt Lewis fanlisting because Maura convinced me!  It isnt listed on TFL because there is already one there but hopefully this one grows to be nice and large! So please go and join!

Thanks to TLC we have news of some Deathly Hallows casting!

Ministry of Magic worker Mafalda Hopkins has been recast and is now going to be played by actress Sophie Thompson, Emma Thompson’s sister (Prof Trelawney).

Ron’s Auntie Muriel will reportedly be played by Matyelok Gibbs.

Tom Felton was be a guest star on the UK show 8 Out of 10 Cats. The video is now online and Tom talks about his role in Half-Blood Prince.  There is a lot of strong language (not from Tom), so parents beware.

Thanks MuggleNet

Tomorrow, June 27th, is Matthew Lewis’ 20th birthday! As it is midnight in Leeds where Matt lives, I am posting this now! Matthew plays Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter films!

For all your Matt news head over to Lewis Lovers, the best and most updated source for Matt!

Times Online has posted their interview with Emma that I posted about earlier!

Inside, however, I reckon little has changed since a small, determined nine-year-old went to audition. “You wouldn’t believe how much I was compelled to play Hermione. I knew I was right to play her, even when my parents were trying to convince me not to. I made it my life for three or four months, just getting through those auditions.” Now Watson is equally determined to bury acting for three years. With four As at A level, having studied obsessively between takes, she is taking up a place in September to study English and art at a university in yet another undisclosed location. She wants to be a civilian again, “like Jodie Foster when she went to Yale,” says Watson. “And I want to forget about hair and make-up.”

On the Potter set, “it takes an hour to get ready every day. They call us at 7.30am.” Watson leans forward across the trailer’s Formica table to show me the extensions plaited into her backcombed light brown hair to give it Hermione Granger’s messy curls. Plus there are fake scars – “They must have rubbed off – I just took a nap” – and plenty of slap to make her lightly freckled skin matt and witchy. The heavy eyebrows are for real, though.

The LA Times has another interview today with Stuart Craig.

JP: When dealing with CGI, do you suddenly see some things and think ‘that would be better computer-generated?’ Or do you just design everything as if you will physically have to build it?

SC: A lot of that has to do with physical limitations.  Obviously the actors would prefer a physically real set to react to and respond to as directed.  The CG effects encourage you to be bigger and more ambitious and scale things up, so what we try to do is build a physical set — which is always limited by the soundstage it’s on or the corner of the soundstage you have available — and then the CG extension becomes hugely important.  Most of our sets when we began “Harry Potter” were real or were fully realized prototypical sets, and now most of them are part built with a bigger part that’s a CG extension and then occasionally and increasingly, some sets are almost totally computer-generated.  We just build the floor that actors stand on.