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Glamour UK interviewed Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) when she appeared at Fashion Week in London, sitting in the front row of a few of the shows.  The Harry Potter star mentioned what she has been doing now that all eight film adaptations of the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling are completed.

“I just shot a film a month ago that should be coming out next summer, The Philosophers, it’s an American independent film. 

“And then I’m directing a film and also acting in another one in January. It’s a period piece set in the 1800s so that will be fun. That one’s called Want Of A Wife, it’s a British film.”

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Source:  The Leaky Cauldron

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On their site,  Interview Magazine posted a conversation with Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) about the last days of shooting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (including the fateful encounter with “Bellatrix Lestrange), her experience in being part of a long-running franchise, her future plans in the industry, and an upcoming school project.  Here is an excerpt:

 

ALEXANDRIA SYMONDS: You’ve been playing Ginny for 10 years now, right?

BONNIE WRIGHT:  Yeah, that’s right—it’s been a whole decade.

SYMONDS: What’s that like, to do one character for your entire adolescence? What sort of effect do you think it’s had on you?

WRIGHT: I think it has a big effect. We started when we were very young, especially me. I didn’t know anything about the film industry, so it definitely has taught me a great deal, in terms of something I wouldn’t have learned about. It’s completely inspired me to become a part of, you know, for my career—not just something I did when I was younger. I think when you’re younger, you need to socialize and be with people your own age. Whereas when we started, we were working with people with a complete mix of ages. The generation gap made us all mature much quicker, and become very used to talking to older people and being a bit more socially aware. . .

. . .SYMONDS: What was it like the last day on set? How do you deal with the end of all of that—is there a lot of crying?

WRIGHT: It was much more emotional than anyone anticipated. I think what was bizarre about it was we were so used to that environment of the studios, sets, and people you are with, that it became almost like a second home to us. For that to suddenly finish was the weirdest thing for us. This thing that had become such a norm for us was suddenly going to be just terminated. I think it takes a long time, I think it did for everyone. The next six months afterwards, and even now, because the last film hasn’t come out—that feeling of it settling in, slowly but surely, that it’s finally going to be the end when the last film comes out. It was a big thing for us all, but I think it was a very proud moment for everyone, as well. It was a time to celebrate the amount of work people had put into it, and how much of a success it has been. . .

. . .SYMONDS: In the new movie, one of the sort of fan-favorite moments from the book involves your character and Mrs. Weasley—when Mrs. Weasley curses at Bellatrix Lestrange. When you were doing that moment on set, what was that like?

WRIGHT: It was in the Great Hall, and it’s an amazing moment for Mrs. Weasley—Julie Walters is the actor. She finally gets to show us what she’s made of, and obviously Mrs. Weasley is protecting Ginny and protecting her family. It’s just a great moment to show what family is, and the alliance that they have, and how strong a unit they are. . .

. . .SYMONDS: You mentioned before that being thrust into this situation so young made you and the other younger cast members mature quickly and learn how to speak to older people. Did you get any memorable acting advice from the film legends that you were working with?

WRIGHT: Yeah, definitely. We were surrounded by a mixture of so much amazing talent and such long careers. Their knowledge and charisma was difficult to escape, you know! [laughs] On set, you could definitely feel that you were in the presence of someone who has acted in amazing films and has performed incredibly. They were all very open to us, and talked to us, but it wasn’t until the films went on, when we grew older, that they really began to relate to us and talk to us more. When we were younger, everything was a bit more divided, because we had school to get on with and different things. I think as we got older and we had many more scenes with them, that relationship did build much more in terms of the idea of talking about what was happening in the scene and sharing ideas. We did a bit more collaborating together. . .

…SYMONDS: I know you have a couple of film projects coming up—are you set on continuing to act? Have you thought about college, or doing something else? Or is this definitely what you want to do?

WRIGHT: Yeah, I’ve got a new movie coming that I’m off to shoot in a week and a half, but I’m also just finishing my second year of college at the moment. In America you have four years, but we just have three years, so I’ll be graduating next year.

SYMONDS: What’s your concentration?

WRIGHT: I’m studying film and television in London. So that’s very interesting. I kind of went towards that: the idea of writing, storytelling, all the different things that go behind film; and I always wanted to go to art school, and it’s one of the big art schools of London, so that was a dream that I completed.

SYMONDS: Did you end up writing any screenplays?

WRIGHT: I’m actually in the process of writing a short screenplay for a film that I’m going to be directing in our final year. That will be very exciting.

SYMONDS: That’s fantastic! Can you tell me what it’s about?

WRIGHT: It’s quite new, but it’s basically about a relationship between a mother and daughter, and it’s set in an area in England, in East Sussex, called Romney Marsh, which is a very interesting environment that I always went to as a child and grew up with, so it’s very much about the location. It’s a very bleak, quite bizarre area. So it’s a film, basically, about that area of England. . .

Click here to read the complete interview which included three fascinating images of Wright.  Click here to see them in the photo gallery.

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Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) was interviewed by Total Film Indonesia.  In the article, she talks about how, in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,  her character Ginny,  Luna Lovegood (Evanna Lynch), and Neville Longbottom (Matt Lewis) fight in the resistance, the Epilogue, the film’s split, and more.  You can see the scans in our gallery starting here.

Here are some excerpts:

So Ginny, Luna and Neville are leading a resistance against the Death Eaters’ tyranny at Hogwarts. What was that like to play?
It clearly takes courage. This is the thing those three characters step up to, beginning in the fifth film, with the Ministry of Magic and Dumbledore’s Army, and they really take on the responsibility. They’re the only ones left continuing this resistance. Obviously Hogwarts becomes a completely different place, it becomes incredibly threatening and stands for everything it didn’t stand for before, such safety, and everything we had there is completely gone. Because we have new headmasters and all these new rules.

Are they going to succeed?
There’s an amazing scene in the second part, where obviously Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts, and the other three have made this kind of hideout and haven, continuing Dumbledore’s Army in their own little way. I think that their dedication is pretty amazing, to keep that going, and I think that’s why people kind of love the three of those characters, really.

You’ve shot the Epilogue. Have you gone through an aging process?
Yes, it was a very bizarre thing to go through, really, to be able to have that chance to be suddenly made up to look mid-thirties. It’s was an exciting day but bizarre. Obviously, for me, it almost felt like a real cycle, because I started on that same platform, at the same age that Lily Potter, the youngest daughter of Ginny and Harry was, so it’s almost literally like looking back at myself.

How does it feel to have three kids?
The three kids who played the children were just… they just epitomised all of us, when we were that age, so it was lovely to look back. They were so excited on the day, it was a massive dream come true, and they’d been through such a massive process of auditioning. I think it was probably the most auditions any person has been through to get a part in a film. In the auditioning process Dan and I sat down with different children and talked to them, because obviously the dynamic is incredibly important… to try and portray the idea that they are this family unit, that they’ve spent every living moment together, since they were babies in their hands to how they are now. It was challenging to get that warmth with someone you’ve barely met and some children don’t want to get close to someone they don’t know. But they understood it was incredibly important to make the scene work, so they were very giving to the situation.

The structure of the last two films are different. What was the biggest difference for you in filming it?
It was weird when we first were given this idea that there would be two parts. I was very interested to see how that would be done, but obviously, because it’s still one book, it’s not like we’re filming two books, all at once. It was still one book, in my mind, so the actual story all connects, so we’ve always been used to filming everything all over the place, like any film is filmed. In that perspective it wasn’t too difficult to differentiate the first part and the second part.

Read the entire article here.

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Thanks to Snitchseeker and Bonnie Wright Online, we have scans from the new issue of  Hot magazine of Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) talking about the kiss between their characters in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 and growing up together in the past ten years.

Click here to view the scans in our photo gallery.

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Bonnie Wright and Jamie Campbell Bower, who will be seen as “Ginny Weasley” and a young “Gellert Grindewald” in Deathly Hallows, posed for the September issue of Vanity Fair in a photo layout titled “Good Graces”.  Along with actresses Imogen Boots, Hannah Murray, and Jessica Brown-Findlay, Wright wore a gown from Marc Jacobs’ Fall fashion line for Louis Vuitton in London while Campbell Bower wore a tuxedo from Anderson & Sheppard for Saville Row.

Click here to see the Vanity Fair scans in our photo gallery.

Source:  Snitchseeker

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While attending the Grand Opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Bonnie Wright spoke to MTV which is now online:

“Being the person who sort of ends up with the hero of this franchise is never something I ever would have imagined,” she said of her character becoming Harry’s love interest. “It’s just been so exciting, so lovely to have something that develops further, and you can make [Ginny] my own and take things from your own life growing up and put those things into it.”

According to the article, Wright believed it’s “fitting” that the epilogue in Deathly Hallows is a stand-alone scene rather than a background scene for the credits:

“It wasn’t my last scene, but it was one of my last scenes. That’s where I started the journey of ‘Harry Potter,’ on the platform, and then to see the girl who’s playing our daughter was just psychologically, it was very weird, because she’s the same age as me. It was literally having a whole cycle of the journey.”

Also, Wright hopes the audience will appreciate the end result of the Epilogue scene, considering all the creative energy that went into it.

“I hope it’s well-received. In terms of the prosthetics and creativity of it, they took months and months — I must have done 100 tests and costume fittings. A lot of energy went into making that moment perfect.”

Source:  BonnieWrightOnline

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Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), and Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) participated in an interview with Nylon magazine for its Young Hollywood issue.  The magazine released video previews of their new issue which reveals some of the Harry Potter stars’ favorite songs.  Note:  Grint’s Cherrybomb co-star Kimberley Nixon will also be in the issue and seen in the first video.

The second video is exclusively Rupert Grint who discusses wanting to sell ice cream in Japan, his collection of pets and things, and what kind of films he likes.

Click here, here, and here to see photos of them at the shoot in our photo gallery.

Thanks to Snitchseeker

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Today, Bonnie Wright, who portrays Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films, turns 19!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BONNIE!

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Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), Matt Lewis (Neville Longbottom), and Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley) attended  T4’s Stars of 2009 and played T4’s Harry Potter version of “Marry, Kiss, Kill” this past Sunday. A video of their fun is now online!

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Belgium publication Het Nieuwsblad recently visited the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows set and got a chance to interview Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) and Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley). The article includes close up photos of the pair and a group shot of many of the cast as well. You can see the scans of the article (in Dutch) in our gallery here and a close up of the group photo here.

In the interview, Tom talks about being the villain and how he and Dan Radcliffe get along so well. He also stated that the epilogue will probably be the last scene they film. Bonnie talked about King’s Cross Station and about a possible reunion in the future.

Here are a few excerpts:

Tom Felton: It’s good to be the villain. I think every actor likes to play a character that is miles away from yourself. But in reality, Daniel Radcliffe and I are very convergent. We share the love for cricket. Even if we try to murder each other with spells, we are brothers together in Daniel’s dressing room next to watch cricket matches on TV. We sometimes play cricket, but the film company is quite concerned that Daniel gets a ball in his face. So, the ball is not hit in his direction. ”

Tom Felton: We still have several months filming. The last scene we will probably be filming the scene 19 years later is playing. I’m very curious how we all will be.

Bonnie Wright: I’m looking forward to returning to King’s Cross station. I had my first scene for the first Harry Potter movie ten years ago. I hardly knew then what acting was. I especially remember that I was freezing.

Tom: We’ve spent more than ten years together on this film set. We have grown up here. It will be strange to say goodbye.

Bonnie: Who knows, we can have a reunion in about ten years. What became of the actors? Maybe we’ll play together in the Harry Potter musical. (Laughs)

If anyone is able to translate the rest of the article (from Dutch) please let us know.

Thanks to SnitchSeeker for sharing!

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