A round-up of media from the Empire Awards including videos and interviews some featuring news about '
Order of the Phoenix'.
Empire have updated their
site with many features including an
exclusive awards gallery,
a video of David, Dan, Rupert and Emma accepting the award as well as a video interview with Dan and
a blog of the event
An entire transcript of the acceptance speeches from the HP stars can be seen
here.
Additionally Empire has an
exclusive interview featuring quotes about '
Order of the Phoenix'.
Quote:
Producer David Heyman told us what they’ve filmed to date. “We’ve done a little bit of action so far. We’ve done some stuff involving centaurs and Grawp, who is Hagrid’s 16ft brother. The kids have to act against a lot of blue screen for characters like Grawp, but thankfully they’re used to that by now.”
“Inevitably with every book you make choices and there are certain things you have to leave out, so there are things that are left out on this. It always kills me, but you have to do it. We showed the script to Jo a couple of months ago, and she was very happy with it, so I think it’s a good adaptation.”
Quote:
“I think the problem is that Harry can be seen to come across as quite petulant in the book, and I don’t actually think that’s the case,” Dan explained. “I think when JK Rowling puts things in capital letters I don’t think that necessarily means he’s shouting. It could just refer to the sort of energy behind what he’s saying. I think that’s one of the things that people object to about the book, is that they don’t want a manic-depressive superhero.”
Quote:
Meanwhile, we spoke to Jason Isaacs to ask if he'd be back as Lucius Malfoy. "I hope so - you'll have to ask David. I can't bear the idea that somebody else would get to wear my Paris Hilton wig, but you never know."
David Heyman confirmed that they will be shooting until mid-May when they will take a 2 month break for the kids exams. Filming will re-start in July and is due to conclude sometime in October or November.
Dan also spoke to
BBC Radio 1 and told them he would be filming Harry's kissing scene with Cho today.
Quote:
"It'll be odd because one of my parents will be on set. It will be embarrassing but hopefully I'll work past that and be utterly professional but I'll probably keep screwing it up so that I can keep doing it."
Thanks to
The Leaky Cauldron and
Veritaserum for the links!