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11/12/02 We're Hangin' With..... THE HARRY POTTER TRIO by: Lynn B.
AGW: When you are acting do you play younger or just play your age? Emma: Play your age I think. We're growing up with the books. We're the same age as them so we're growing up with them. AGW: Did working on the first film make it easier this time around? Daniel: It think I was certainly a lot more confident with Chris [Columbus, the director]. If I had an idea or something I was more comfortable with talking to him about it whereas on the first one I wouldn't have been able to do that. Emma: I think everyone was a lot more competent and more comfortable because we all knew the crew. We knew the director. We knew what we were doing for starters. I think everyone came back feeling a lot more confident. AGW: You had more interaction with CGI characters in this film. Was that harder working with more that wasn't there? Daniel: For Dobby, (the elf) it wasn't quite not there. There was an orange ball on a stick which helps but because the actual creature is so animated and jumping all over the place, it's hard to get a fix on where it is at one time but it was made easy by everyone around us that we got used to it in the end. AGW: Could you describe some of your special effects sequences? Daniel: In the books, the Basilisk is supposed to be I think 80 feet long. They built 25 feet of it, including the head which was actually quite hard to fight because I kept knocking the teeth out of the mouth so they had to spend endless hours repairing it. Rupert: Coughing up the slugs was probably my favorite scene because I had to try out all these different flavored slime. There was orange, lemon, peppermint, chocolate and it made them taste really nice so I really enjoyed it. Emma: Being petrified was actually an amazing wax model of me which I had to have a whole cast made of me. I didn't have to actually lie there (indicates a frozen position) for half an hour.
Daniel: The best thing so far for me was, at the premiere I met Ben Stiller which was radical and then at the New York premiere I met Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon. That's probably been the best of it so far. Rupert: Yeah. Getting recognized is pretty cool. One time I got recognized up a mountain when I went to Switzerland and that was cool. Emma: Probably the best thing is going to the really, really cool premieres and getting to pick all of the cool outfits. AGW: Daniel, Chris Columbus says you've developed as a leading man, a hero and a bit of a heartthrob since the first film. Do you feel like a heartthrob and do you have girls coming up to you now? Daniel: Personally, I can't actually see it, but if other people can, then great! (laughs). AGW: Can you predict one thing in the books for each of your characters that you think will happen? Emma: She will do something really clever like be a doctor or something. She'll be really academic. Daniel: (looking at Emma) We two are going to get together. That's my prediction. Rupert: I was going to say I hope they don't fall for each other. AGW: Daniel, what kind of music are you into now?
AGW: What kind of fan mail do you all get? Daniel: Around my birthday time I got a lot of presents and things. The effort that is put into them is unbelievable. It's so amazing. Emma: Yeah. When it was my birthday, somebody gave me a massive, big, white, cuddly bear as big as me and they sent it in the post to me and I just think that was completely amazing as they'd never even met me or anything. Rupert: It was my sister's birthday and they brought my sister a present as well. Chris Columbus isn't directing the next Potter film, he's producing. How do you feel about that? Emma: Chris will still be there, it's not like he's gone forever. Alphonso (Cuaron) is a really, really nice guy and I think it's really exciting working with somebody new as well. AGW: This movie has more action and it's darker. Do you think some young kids will be frightened? Daniel: I don't think so. It's all in the book and if you take away the darkness from the film then you haven't done the film justice. So, if they've read the book I don't think they'll be scared at all. Rupert: I was scared too. It's pretty scary. It's up to the parent if they want to put their child through that. AGW: What's the best thing and worst thing about doing these films? Daniel: The best thing is playing a character who has inspired children all over the world and adults, obviously. Honestly, I don't think there is a worst thing. Emma: Again, it's the acting which I really enjoyed and even if you take away all the glamour and attention and premieres and everything, it still comes down to the fact that you are acting. Just being with so many fantastic actors, directors, all the people I worked with. Rupert: For me it was coughing up slugs and coming to New York. Both were best. AGW: Daniel, you are a film buff. What directors and actors are you interested in? Daniel: I absolutely love Wes Anderson and "The Royal Tennenbaums". I think my favorite film of all time was "Twelve Angry Men". It's the most amazing film. AGW: Daniel, Harry comes back to Hogwarts sort of a celebrity from the first film. It's both good for him and bad. Does your own life reflect that at all? Did you come back to your school more liked or disliked for becoming famous? Daniel: I moved schools and all the new people I've met have been absolutely fantastic. There's no jealousy or I haven't been bullied or anything. Everybody's been really nice. AGW: Would you like to go on with the series, doing four or five movies to maybe the 7th book. Emma: I don't know if they're going to make a fourth of a fifth but they've been a really good experience and I've really enjoyed them so yeah, I suppose. Daniel: We're all definitely doing the third film. After that, who knows? Each film takes more or less a year to film so we've got quite a long way before we have to make that decision. AGW: Emma, can you comment on having to hug Daniel in the film? Daniel: (warning her) Be careful (everyone laughs). Emma: Okay. For starters it was cringe having to hug somebody in front of 300 kids and everybody else in the whole entire world but it was okay. He was really nice about it. You would think he'd be like ewww, get off me but he wasn't. It was very nice. AGW: What about you, Daniel? Daniel: I was thinking ewww, get off me. No I wasn't. I was cool with it. I didn't' mind it at all. AGW: How are your families doing with all this limelight? Daniel: My parents are really amazing because they've helped me with absolutely everything I've done and I couldn't have done anything like this without them. Rupert: Yeah, my parents have helped me keep my feet on the ground. Emma: My parents have helped me being very supportive. AGW: Daniel, which scene from this movie were you most excited to shoot? And which on the upcoming Prisoner of Azkaban? Daniel: In the third film I'm looking forward to doing all the stuff with Lupin and Serious Black and those characters. In this film I loved filming the dueling scene because there's a huge crowd and I like all the scenes with loads of people. Plus Ken Branagh and Alan Rickman together , it was fantastic to watch. If you could do magic, what would be the one spell you would most like to cast? Rupert: I'd like to have the flying car. That would be really cool. Daniel: I'd like to have the invisibility cloak because, if you get into trouble you could run off very, very fast in the opposite direction. (Emma agrees). AGW: You guys jumped right back into this film after doing the last one. This time you have a little more time in between. What are you up to right now? Any projects in between? Rupert: Having that short gap in between kind of helped us filming the second one because we could just jump right into it. I did "Thunderpants" in between the two films. That was a different character to play. Daniel: Now I'm just back at school. I think it did actually help going from one film to the other. We did get a holiday period in there but we were still in our characters' frame of minds. I know I was. Emma: I went back to school, which was good and went pretty much straight back as well. AGW: What has been the most satisfying aspect of giving so much of yourself to these films? Rupert: Meeting all the people and going to places like New York and coughing up slugs and seeing the final thing is really good. Daniel: Yes, one of the best things is actually seeing the finished product. You work on it for ten months and you finally see it and it's like a great moment when you actually see it all completed. Emma: You both nicked my answer again. You spend ten months doing it and you haven't seen special effects or any of the editing. You haven't seen anything and, because you worked on it and were in the scenes it's this massive surprise when you see it. AGW: What do each of you identify with most about the characters you are playing and has that spilled over into your real life? Emma: I don't go around saying "holy cricket" too much but sometimes I find myself saying some of the lines from the film. Daniel: I think I'm going to have to go and have therapy some day. When I keep reading the books I just find more about myself that Harry has in his personality too like curiosity, loyalty, not being afraid to stand up for yourself and getting in trouble. I don't think much is different. We don't break the rules but we just bend them. We get in trouble a lot which we have in common. Rupert: When I was reading the books, I thought I could relate to Ron. We're kind of similar. We've both got ginger hair. We're both scared of spiders. We've both got quite a big family and we both like sweets. AGW: This Harry character has a darker side to him, speaking to snakes etc. How do you relate to that? Daniel:
I think everybody has a dark side, really and however much you like to
show it or are afraid to show it, we all have it. It was great to be able
to show Harry's dark side, great to show that he's not flawless. He's
not the perfect person. AGW: Do you have a favorite subject in school and any thoughts of what you want to be when you grow up? Emma: I'm not very academic so I'd probably say sports or art. But if I have to go academic it would probably be English and History. What am I going to be when I grow up? Absolutely no idea. Just going to go with the flow. Daniel: I love English at school. I love reading and writing so I think I might like to be a writer and because I was given a love of film by Chris Columbus and David Heyman I might like to be a director. I don't know. Rupert: Don't have a favorite subject. I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it. AGW: What's your reaction to criticisms that the film is about witchcraft? Daniel: I can't see that it's like Satanism or anything. In the first book, the thing that saves Harry from being killed is the love his mother had for him and I don't really see how that can be judged as evil. AGW: Guys, did your voices change between the films? Daniel: My voice did break but it didn't go (demonstrates) up and down and stuff. It went from one to the other. I think Harry's also at the age where his voice might break so I don't think it's a problem. Rupert: Fortunately the characters in the books grow up with us because my voice has broken as well. AGW: Do each of you have something on your Christmas wish list? Rupert: More slugs I think. Daniel: A DVD of "The Royal Tennenbaums" Emma: More clothes. AGW: Is there a downside to being the "Harry Potter" kids? Daniel: I think if I do go on to act or whatever I do, I'm going to try to separate myself from the character but, at the same time, it's not something I will ever be ashamed of because it's a huge achievement and something to be really proud of. Emma: I think I could be a hundred years old and in my rocker and still be proud to say I was in the Harry Potter films. Rupert: Yeah, me too. |
 
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Daniel
Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron) and Emma Watson (Hermione) went
almost directly from shooting the first Harry Potter film to the second
installment Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. When they
spoke with press in New York, the trio seemed more comfortable in their
roles in the new film and with their celebrity. Daniel and Emma are more
confident in their answers and Rupert is even funnier than when we last
spoke with him. 
Daniel:
I just love original punk rock now. Not so much the new stuff, although
The Hives are good, but I like The Undertones, The New York Dolls, The
Stranglers, those kind of bands. 