Our friends at Snitchseeker let us know about a video interview they did with Chris Rankin who portrays “Percy Weasley” about his filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . It was his first opportunity to work face to face with Ralph Fiennes who is known to Harry Potter fans as “Lord Voldemort”. Spoiler Alert! Read the rest of this entry »
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Video Spoiler: Chris Rankin Talks Harry Potter
On March - 9 - 2010
Video: Ifans Enjoyed Being Xenophilius Lovegood
On March - 4 - 2010
As Rhys Ifans promotes his film Greenberg, MTV asked him about being cast as Luna Lovegood’s father “Xenophilius Lovegood”. The British actor was very happy to get the “Harry Potter” call. According to him, there’s the normal phone and then there’s the “phone made from wood” which is the one you’re called upon by the “Potter people”. And then, “you get your wand out, put your cloak on, and off you go”.
I bet a lot of us would like to do that!
Ifans said he considered it an honor to be a part of the cast before the filming of the Harry Potter series was completed:
The “Potter” movies sport a sizable British cast, which means that just about everyone has some sort of shared work history with everyone else. “You just sit with all these actors you’ve starved with in the theater… sitting there dressed as wizards [and] having wand-offs. So it’s very pleasantly surreal.”
Ifans confirmed that he is in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I which will be released in movie theaters on November 19, 2010 but not in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow Part II which will be released in movie theaters on July 15, 2011.
Thanks to Snitchseeker
Isaacs on the End and Saying Bye to His Wig
On March - 2 - 2010
Jason Isaacs, who portrays Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, recently spoke with MTV about the Harry Potter films. He said he’s finished filming his part in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows although he’d do just about anything to get back on the set. He said he didn’t get to keep his wig and that he’s looking forward to and dreading when the film says ‘The End’ on the big screen.
Video Spoiler: Radcliffe Talks DH & Trevor Project
On March - 1 - 2010
We previously reported that Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) did an interview for AP Live to discuss The Trevor Project. MTV also had the opportunity to discuss the project with him. Of course, they couldn’t resist asking about Deathly Hallows. Spoiler Alert!
New Photos of Swinley Forest DH Set
On February - 25 - 2010
Some new photos from the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Swinley Forest film set are now online. The photos are from a SnitchSeeker visitor. They show some buildings and some bright green material that is usually used for special effects. You can see them in our gallery beginning here.
The person also got to ask some of the security people some questions. Here’s what they had to say:
Firstly he said the reason for the security is that if a person or even just a torch or camera flash gets in a shot it can ruin a whole take. [He] told me they were having 150 extras on set that night, which explained the many mini-buses we saw going through the forest, and the huge catering marquee at the WB base. He said no main cast were due in that night although I noticed on Matt Lewis’s twitter that he was “rockin in from work at 4am”.
They were filming chase scenes with freerunners - the Snatchers? (he called them Catchers) - running down a slope (i think there’s a picture of the slope) towards a crowd of extras, I heard lots of shouting (”Go, go, go!” that kind of thing) which sounded like they were rehearsing the running.
They were going to be filming this till the early hours of the morning, but it eventually would be edited down to a clip less than 30 seconds long. I assume this could only be something for the Battle, with the many people and the section of Hogwarts nearby.
Finally he said that some main cast would definitely be on set filming for about an hour on Monday night, and they hoped to be all done with filming by Tuesday.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I will be in theatres on November 19, 2010, and Part II will be released on July 15, 2011.
Thanks to SnitchSeeker for letting us know!
Bonham Carter Talks Bellatrix Death Scene
On February - 25 - 2010
Helena Bonham Carter, who portrays Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films, recently spoke with Rotten Tomatoes about the death scene she does in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Here’s some of what she had to say: (**Caution for spoilers.**)
“I’m mostly in [Deathly Hallows: Part 2],” she told RT. “But it was fun. I died on my last day, which was really weird — to actually be [killed] on my last day. Molly Weasley - Julie Walters - kills me.”
And it’ll be quite the moment, she explained. “I do get a good death scene,” she told us. “It was really exhausting. As usual! [I'm] duelling, with a wand, on a table. I fell right off. I was clever enough to say, ‘If you’re going to ask me to duel, backwards, can we put a stuntman at the end?’ They said, ‘Ah, you won’t need one.’ And what did I do? Walked straight off.
“You’d think with 70 people looking at you, one of them would go, ‘Er, could you stop?!’ No! They loved it. I nearly killed myself — on the day that I died.”
Read the rest of the article here.
Felton Preparing For Deathly Hallows Epilogue?
On February - 25 - 2010
Now that Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) has returned from Berlin, Germany where he did some filming for The Apparition, there is some online supposition that he may be being prepped for the filming of the epilogue in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, thanks to a couple of his tweets here and here:
TomFelton Just had my body cast in plaster. Very odd feeling! So nice when it comes off! Will be the last time I do that for HP. Quite sad really x
TomFelton Back at hogwarts getting a head cast. You guess what for x
Hmmm…I wonder…I’m usually so bad at guesses, Tom.
Thanks to MuggleNet
Video: Warwick Davis & Matt Lewis at Expo
On February - 23 - 2010
Warwick Davis (Griphook and Professor Flitwick) and Matt Lewis (Neville Longbottom) recently attended the Midlands MCM Expo. While there they answered some questions. Here’s some of the things they talked about:
- Matt said they’re nearly done filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows I and they’re working on the final battle scene with Voldemort and the Death Eaters
- Matt admitted that when he was young (around 9 or 10) he dressed up as Harry Potter as he was a fan of the books
- Warwick said he gets a lot of his information about Potter from the fans
- Matt Lewis says he got to keep the Gryffindor Sword he broke while filming
Source: SS
Matt Lewis Doing Deathly Hallows Nightshoots
On February - 22 - 2010
Matt Lewis, who portrays Neville Longbottom, updated his Twitter account to state he’s doing nightshoots this week for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Sat in the hotel. On nightshoots this week. I’ve brought my clubs so I think the driving range and then the swimming pool beckons.
He’s supposed to be filming at Swinley Forest. You can see our report here on the new photos from the set.
Thanks to UHP for letting us know!
Craig: Rickman’s Snape Death Extremely Good
On February - 21 - 2010
The Telegraph recently did an interview with Harry Potter film production designer Stuart Craig about his experiences with filming the movies. The article includes the first drawing J.K. Rowling did of the Hogwarts’ grounds, props, and more. When asked if he’s ever cried from one of the scenes, he admitted to having recently cried during the Snape death scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The last time I cried was a few days ago when we filmed the death of Alan Rickman’s character, Snape. It’s quite difficult to cry in rushes - where we watch the previous day’s work - but he is such an extraordinary actor and he dies and extremely good death.
You can see scans of the article in our gallery here: page 1, page 2.
Thanks to RG.net.
Warner Bros have provided fansites with a video and loads of new photos from the LEGO Harry Potter Years 1 - 4 game. The photos are specifically from years 1 - 2 (Sorcerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets). They include some great screen shots of Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, Platform 9 3/4, the Troll, Hermione, Dumbledore, Harry, Ron, Draco, and much more. Check out the many new photos in our gallery beginning 
