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The Hollywood Reporter are reporting that Rhys Ifans, who portrays Xeno Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has landed a bad guy role in the upcoming Spider-Man re-boot film set for release in 2012.  No news yet on what part it is, only that he’s going to be a baddie.

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Rhys Ifans, who portrays Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was recently interviewed by PopStar.  During the interview he didn’t reveal much about the film, but had lots of great stuff to say about his co-star, Evanna Lynch, who portrays Luna Lovegood.  He also talked about what a big deal it is to get a part on the Potter films.

“This is the first film that I’ve ever done that I’m not really allowed to talk about. But it’s great. I play Luna Lovegood’s (Evanna Lynch) father (and editor of the Quibbler), Xenophilius Lovegood. And it was a thrill.”

“When you’re an English actor and you get the call from Harry Potter, that is like getting your stripes. It was great. You end up on set and there’s all these actors that you’ve worked with before or crossed paths with. So we’d all be sitting there in our chairs eating our soggy English sandwiches, pumping it up, dressed up like wizards. It was a pleasantly surreal experience.”

Of Evanna, he said:

“She’s amazing,” he said. “If there’s a question on set — and they have a plethora of researchers and people who’ve read the books — but if anyone needs to know ANY miniscule detail about anything that has happened in any Harry Potter novel from start to finish, they ask her. She knows it all. So it was quite intimidating. I was working with this expert in Harry Potter. But she was a joy to work with. All of them, all of the kids or whatever you call them, it was just a great couple of weeks.”

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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.

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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. 

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Rhys Ifans, who portrays Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was recently interviewed by BBC Radio.  During the interview, which was conducted in Welsh, he talked about his role and the Harry Potter films. Mynwy converted some of the interview into English. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

I can’t reveal much about the new Harry Potter film, which I don’t understand because the book is out anyway, but I had to sign a clause that I wouldn’t.

However, I play Xenophilus Lovegood, a wizard who is the father of Luna Lovegood, one of Harry Potter’s friends. That’s all I can really say because I haven’t read the book!

There’s been so much money thrown at the project, with there having been [six] other films. They’re filming up in Leavesden near London in an old Rolls Royce airplane engine factory.

It’s an enormous place, so you walk about and see things like a zoo full of owls, so if you need an owl for a scene, you pick up the phone and someone comes across with an owl. It’s a like a machine. I’ve never been – in America – with an employer of so many people.

I’m not a big fan of Harry Potter but it feels like a privilege to get called up with people like Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon so it’s an honour that they thought of me to play a cross-eyed wizard.

You can also see some photos while he was at the BBC for the interview in our gallery here.

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