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Dan Radcliffe and Emma Watson:The “Azkaban” Interviewby Lynn B.
These two have a mutual admiration society going. Either that or something flirty is starting to happen between them. Ever the English gent, Dan pulls out Emma’s chair for her and they share lots of smiles as they talk. The two 14-year-olds were seen dancing together at the party after the Premiere and can’t say enough nice things about each other.. hummm. Ron and Hermione may be getting closer in the films but in real life could it be Harry and Hermione? Well, for now, we’ll just settle for a friendly chat about Dan’s rock band aspirations and Emma’s love of her girl-power role in “Azkaban”. Tune in…. AGW: Can you talk about how much you think you’ve changed over the course of the three “Harry” films? Emma: We've just been getting older. Daniel: I think that we probably have changed as actors as well, but I'm not conscious of myself changing. You can’t pick up on it. I’ve not watched the first one again for about three years now. So I can't really compare it to the third because it's not very fresh in my mind. AGW: Were you more confident this time around? Emma: I think that you get more and more confident every time really. Daniel: That's because we've had more experience with different directors. Emma: It's funny, because a lot of the crew who were on Harry Potter one are still doing Harry Potter three. So it's great. Daniel: Yeah, and now four as well. It's like a family, basically. AGW: You are older now. Have you started dating anyone? (I’d swear both young actors blushed at this) Daniel: Um, no. Sorry. I don't want to disappoint you. Obviously, I mean, I'm sure both of us notice members of the opposite (gender) because we're now both fourteen. So I suppose we’re just going through what any person 13 or 14 goes through. (Okay.. good curve ball you just threw us, Dan). AGW: Are you getting more attention? Daniel: Maybe a bit, yeah. I'm not complaining. AGW: How annoying is it to be growing up in front of tons of fans? Daniel: Certainly it has affected me. I'm kind of just going through what every other teenager goes through, but with posters. (we all laugh) It's not as different as people would expect, I don’t think. Emma: I agree. I agree. AGW: Did you learn anything different from new director Alfonso Cuaron? Daniel: Basically, I think that everything that we learned with Chris (Columbus, director of the first two films) we were now able to put into practice with a different director. I think that the reason Alfonso was able to do longer takes and was able to do more complicated shots was because with Chris we just didn't have the experience or the focus to do that kind of stuff. We did with Alfonso. It is hard. It's more challenging, which is good because if we're getting older and we're not being challenged then there's no point in doing it really. But I think it’s just that we learn more with each director. And now with the fourth film, (“Goblet of Fire”) with Mike Newell directing, I think that we're going to learn even more as well. AGW: Were you able to teach Alfonso anything about your characters? Emma: Yeah. One of the first things that he did when we met him is that he asked us to write an essay about our characters. Not just to help us, but to help him to see the character through our eyes. He gave us a lot of freedom with that as well, which was really good. Daniel: I think that it's quite important to mention that when we did the essay, we basically did exactly what our characters would've done in that situation. So I wrote a page. And it was fine. It was OK. It wasn't great. Which is what Harry does. Rupert [Grint] didn't do it. Rupert forgot to do it. I always get the figure wrong. Emma, how many pages did you write? Emma: It becomes a little bit more every single time you tell it [Laughs]. Daniel: It’s about eleven. Emma: Hey, I have big handwriting. Daniel: It was really a quite amazing essay. Alfonso read it to us. (Emma beams). AGW: Are you two committing to do more of the films? Daniel: We've already started on four. So we're definitely doing the fourth. Each film takes a year to do. So I don't know. Emma: Yeah. One film at a time. AGW: do you feel like you’re giving up on your school life to do these movies? Daniel: I do better at school when I'm on set, quite a lot better. I mean, I still see all of my friends all the time. I get to see my friends without having to do the work at the same time I see them. So, for me, I don’t think I’ve lost anything. Emma: No. I haven't had to give up a lot either.
Emma: I loved it. I loved every single second of it. Girl power. It was great! I would have done it for a whole week, but it was only a couple of takes. I went, ‘I want to do it again! I want to do it again!’ It was great. It’s a great moment. It was cool. Daniel: It is a great moment. At the premiere, everyone cheered when she did it. AGW: So do you have new ambitions? Now that you’ve conquered the film world, will you go into politics some day? Daniel: God help the nation that I’m a politician for! I really enjoy acting. I really love acting. I think it's really something that I'd like to go on doing. Again, there's loads of other stuff I’m interested in as well, mainly music and writing and things like that, but I'd love to continue acting. I really would. Emma: I feel incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunity to be in such a fantastic film (series) and to work with so many talented people. My ambitions couldn't even have dreamed of the scale and the greatness that 'Harry Potter' is. So I feel really lucky about that. But as Dan said, I love performing. I love being creative. There are so many different aspects to the film world that even if I don't pursue acting. then there'll be something in it for me that I might end up doing. But I'm just going to go with the flow and see what happens. AGW: Is there anyone that you’d still really like to meet? Daniel: I've already met some of them. There's a really cool band called Cedars who I got to meet. They were shooting a video on the stage next to us at one of the studios. That was really amazing. I got to meet some of my favorite actors, too. Gary Oldman, I actually got to work with. I've always loved him. Since I started acting, I've always watched his films. Tim Robbins and Ben Stiller. I have gotten to meet some fantastic people. Emma: Someone that I was dying to work with (was Emma Thompson), and I was so pleased when I heard that Emma got cast in the part of Professor Trelawney because I love her. I think that she's such a great actress and she did a really great job with Professor Trelawney. She is hilarious. She's so great. (We hear that Emma also has a crush on Brad Pitt). AGW: Was there anything from the book that wasn’t in the movie that you wished hadn’t been left out? Daniel: There was one scene in this third book. I can't actually remember what Harry said in it because I haven't read the book in quite a while, but it was something like he comes out of Lupin's (David Thewlis) office and basically sits down. It's almost him just slightly despairing, but telling himself that he's got to get himself together if he wants to fight the Dementors. That's all I can remember, actually. Other than that I think I got to play most of the great scenes from the book. Emma: I think that they did a really good job on this one. A lot was cut, but they did a great job of making sure that everything that was put in the film is really relevant to the plot. One of the things that I think is really great about the film is that it's really fluid and it's really fast moving. AGW: What was filmed but cut out? Emma: Oh my goodness. There were a couple of my fights with Ron that were cut. There was an awkward hug with Ron, but it did get cut. AGW: Why was it an awkward hug? Emma: Well, just on the exterior, I think, Hermione and Ron spend the whole film just arguing with each other. Ron is convinced that Hermione's cat Crookshanks has eaten his rat. But I think that it's a bit of a cover up really because they have a bit of a soft spot for each other, and it's a classic love-hate relationship. You always tease the ones you like. AGW: Fans seem glad that Hermione gets to be so strong in this movie. Emma: Yeah. This is really her girl power film. But I hope I've done justice to her character because it's my favorite book. And it's such a great part for her in the third book. I hope she's what they all (the fans) thought she'd be. She really comes into her own. I think that you see a really different side to her than you have in the other two. It's much more personal and this film has really tested and challenged me. I've definitely enjoyed it the best out of three because of that. AGW: This is a much more emotional film for Harry. Was that hard for you, Dan? Daniel: Harry, being a teenager, has the same feelings as every other teenager, basically, but because of his past I think that he feels those feelings of anger or loneliness more strongly. I think that was kind of hard for me. But because I'm obviously feeling the same things as him, I just kind of took what I was feeling and basically just exaggerated them. I listened to music or something to get me in the right state of mind for filming, and I just kind of hoped for the best. Emma: (beaming at Dan) I have to say that Dan focused so hard on a lot of the scenes in this. One of the scenes that he did, he was so into it that he almost fainted. AGW: Which one was that? Daniel: It was one of the Dementor scenes, where it was me and Sirius (Gary Oldman) by the lake with and I was having my soul sucked out. I do this kind of stupid thing where I forget to breathe properly. I haven't done it lately. AGW: Can you talk about some of the cool and great actors you’ve been able to work with in this film? Emma: Well, there's been Emma Thompson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis.. Daniel: Timothy Spall. Michael Gambon as well. Emma: What a cast, really! Daniel: It was amazing. Ever since I've started doing the 'Harry Potter' films I've been watching films a lot more. I've watched I'd say 90 percent of Gary Oldman's films and I have so much respect for him as an actor. I think that he's one of the greatest actors of his generation and it was a complete inspiration to work with him. He's actually the nicest guy as well. He gave me a bass lesson. He's a really great bass player. It was actually so amazing for us to be working in the same room as Gary, David Thewlis, Timothy Spall and Alan Rickman all in one go. It was unbelievable. Emma: Daniel almost bit my head off at the beginning. He said, 'Gary Oldman’s been cast as Sirius Black,' and I went 'Who?' Now I know that is the most terrible thing that I could possibly say, ever. Even though I didn't know him, just working with him, he did such a good job. He's great. AGW: Did you learn any Spanish from director Alfonso Cuaron? Daniel: None that I can really repeat. No, really. We’ve both started Spanish at school. But, please, don't test us or we'll fail. Or at least I know I will. He's very patriotic about Mexico. It's great. He really talked about it a lot. Emma: Please. Seriously. Don’t test us. AGW: Was there a particular actor that you enjoyed learning from? Emma: Working with Emma Thompson, I had such a good time with her. I had really good fun with the scene that we did because she was very creative and she was very involving with me and she said, 'Oh yeah, why don't we try this? Why don't we do it this way? Wouldn't it be good if we said this line here?' It was really flattering for her to involve me like that. I hope it gets some laughs in there. AGW: How would you feel if you couldn’t do this film or future “Harry” films and someone else had to do your part? Daniel: It'd be very hard to watch someone else play the parts, I think. I don't know. We are getting older than the characters because there was a longer gap between the third and the fourth. I'm now 14 and go to 15 in a couple of months. So I'm getting older than Harry. We can only take it one film at a time. If they do want me to do it after five, we'll just have to see then, I suppose. AGW: How about downtime on set? What did you do to escape or chill out for a few minutes? Emma: Dan listens to a lot of rock music. I have to say that in hair and makeup every morning, he was jamming away in his chair. Daniel: Hormones are interesting things. I think that Emma's right. I think that the music does help to let off a lot of steam, definitely. AGW: Does your family help you and do they handle your finances? Emma: I think that Dan and I both have very supportive families and I'm trying to do exactly what I did before I even started the films. Between every single film, I go back to school. I see all my friends. I do everything that I used to do. I play sports. I go to the normal teenage parties. All of my money is locked away in a bank until I'm 25 and I'm not going to see it until then. And I suppose I just have good friends and family who keep my feet on the ground and keep it real. AGW; Do either of you have plans to do anything other than the “Potter” series? Daniel: I'd love to go off and do other films. I'd love to maybe form a band. Whether I actually ever get that together, I don't know. I don’t know if I actually have the organizational skills to get me and some other guys together. That'd be amazing. I'd love to make a record. But whether it will happen or not, I don’t know. Films are definitely something that I'd love to carry on doing. Emma: I have a lot of ambitions that I want to fulfill. Daniel: (smiling at Emma) Emma is actually a really quite fantastic singer as well. (To Emma he says) I know you won’t mention it yourself. Emma: [Laughs] Okay. I would like to maybe do some stage work. I love to sing and dance. I love the adrenaline you get when you're right there onstage with an audience responding to you. AGW: It must have been hard when Richard Harris (Dumbledore) died. Daniel: It was awful. I have what I think is the supreme, amazing honor of being able to be in Richard Harris' last scene that he ever shot. It's amazing to be able to say that. I don't think that Richard was the kind of guy who would've wanted us to mourn over him for ages and to just be sad. I think he'd have just wanted us to be happy and remember him for all the times that he made us smile and laugh. AGW: How do you think Michael Gambon has done taking over the role? Emma: Obviously, it’s very hard to follow on from Richard Harris. A lot of people thought that he was a perfect Dumbledore. But (Gambon) did a really, really great job because instead of trying to make himself look exactly like Richard Harris, trying to copy him, he did his own thing with it. He's still Dumbledore, but he’s put a different spin on it. He’s done something different with it. Daniel: I think he's more of a mischievous Dumbledore. AGW: What has been your weirdest fan encounter so far? Daniel: I went to MTV (TRL)-- and I'm about to go again, actually. It was the first time that I'd ever been there and you've got the huge windows all around. Carson Daly took me over to one of windows and pointed down (to the street) and there was a girl down there wrapped in a towel and nothing else and just holding a sign saying, 'Nothing comes between me and Harry Potter.' It was a “Harry Potter” towel, which made me feel better. |
 
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We
went to New York for the premiere of the new “Harry Potter”
film and sat down for a chat with Harry and Hermione (Daniel Radcliffe
and Emma Watson)! We learned all kinds of cool info like, did you know
that Sirius Black plays the bass! Emma looked extra hot with more blonde
streaks in her curled, light brown hair and was wearing a very cute red
military jacket with gold braid with her jeans. Dan’s hair was all
tousled cute and he was in white tee, jeans and tennies. Big change after
the fancy clothes the two donned for the Premiere the day before. 
AGW:
Emma, you certainly give Draco the wallop he deserves and it gets a great
reaction. How pleased are you that this movie really features Hermione’s
character?