Bonnie Wright, who’s been playing Ron’s little sister Ginny since the age of 9, has relished in the opportunity, in Half-Blood Prince, to participate in things which she previously only got to watch the boys do – Quidditch. “It’s fun but it’s quite painful sometimes when they throw you about. It’s quite high up, it’s kind of ‘Oh my god, I’m really high up’ and you get that kind of sickening urge but yeah it was fun.”
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What, exactly, makes Quidditch stand out in this film? Rupert had a lot to say about it: “This one’s a little more light-hearted than the last one. The last one was really quite dark but this one’s got a few more lighter moments in it, and the Quidditch is quite fun because, for Ron, there are two sort of sides to it. There’s a side where he thinks he’s really good because he thinks he’s taken the potion. And there’s the other side where during tryouts he’s actually not really good. So I have to do a bit of both for this one.”
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Unlike Dan’s 30 takes for his first kissing scene in Harry Potter, Rupert’s were quite a bit less (although he did pop mints and gum to make sure he was April Fresh). “Mine was nothing like that. I think it was around eight [takes] because he [Yates] knew we were quite uncomfortable about it, and it was quite a nerve wracking scene, so he kept it to I think about eight, so it wasn’t too bad.”
There are two new high res Half-Blood Prince promos online thanks to Warner Bros. They show Harry and Dumbledore in his office and the astronomy tower. The photos were first seen in an Entertainment Weekly article.
Thanks to UHP we have some more filming photos that you can see HERE! And also thanks to Leaky there is a set report online as well!
After a few more takes of this sequence the crew moves onto the very corner of Piccadilly Circus, where the road is temporarily blocked, and the trio take to the center of the road, as a London double-decker bus drives straight at them, stopping in the nick of time. One can only assume that this is the actual Apparition sequence, and that instead of the Tottenham Court Road setting of the book the movie makers have made this into a much bigger sequence, setting it in the instantly recognisable Piccadilly Circus (which makes more sense anyway given that it’s the first place Hermione is supposed to think of and TCR always seemed a strange choice)
So all in all, the second night of shooting seemed to pick up where the first left off – lots of walking up and down Shaftesbury avenue, just this time with the additional shots of the apparition sequence for fans to really sink their teeth into (either complaining that “That’s not what happens in the book!?!?” as I heard someone say, or “No…but it does sort of make more sense this way” as another said.) whatever your outlook, as has been mentioned above, the real star tonight was Emma Watson, who, despite only acting for all of 5seconds the whole night did honestly make you believe in those Five seconds that she was scared.
Two Deathly Hallows casting updates for you all today!
First, thanks to my friend Maura over at JessieCave.com (which as you know I used to run), has found out through Jessie’s agency site that she will be returning for Deathly Hallows.
Second, thanks to Snitchseeker, we know that Andy Linden will be playing Mundungus Fletcher in the film.
