| EmmaRiddle | 05-15-2004 09:52 AM |
http://www.snitchseeker.com/images/n...dcliffe_80.jpg A pair of PoA interviews - Includes a new pic of Dan! Summary:
Mugglenet has informed us of 2 interviews, from today different magazines, concerning PoA. Article: A pair of PoA interviews The Times has today run an article and interview relating to PoA. Here are some interesting quotes; Quote:
Scene: a frozen lake in a Scottish forest. Beneath a grey, menacing sky, Harry Potter stands dirty and bloodstained, with a broken voice and a wonky wand. For the tenth time, he has to run down a mock hill in Shepperton Studios, point his wand, and shout, "Expecto Patronum!" at some mist, which one day will contain computer-generated Dementors, but for the moment contains nothing at all. Still, Daniel Radcliffe manages his intense Pottery stare yet again, despite the fact that the light on the end of his wand isn't working.*
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"Wasitawright?" he inquires. "Yes," says Alfonso Cuarón, the director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. "Dan is never off his mark," he adds, generally. Then he looks at the shot on video replay. "No more new things. Forget the light on the wand," orders Cuarón in his Spanish-English. But the robot camera on a crane is casting a shadow on Radcliffe's face. They'll have to do the shot again, for the eleventh time. Radcliffe waits, drumming a complicated rhythm with his wand. Cuarón gives some final suggestions to Radcliffe: "Don't breathe. Don't lean. Don't nothing. Don't act."
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Radcliffe skips happily up the hill, ready to run again. He grins at Hermione, Emma Watson, who is in the background talking in sign language to the crew. She yawns. Radcliffe spins his wand like a cheerleader. Across the fake lake, Gary Oldman, who plays Sirius Black, appears to be having a little picnic from a brown bag. Soon he lies down on the hill, apparently asleep.
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Off set, Radcliffe, 14, is grey-faced and looks shattered. "When you're doing it, it's not tiring at all, with all that adrenalin pumping around. But it hits you when you stop, like jet lag. The worst thing is waiting around for the really complicated shots: you have to be focused all the time, or you won't do yourself justice. I'm so tired by the end of the day I just get home and fall asleep."
Remember, Radcliffe is doing two jobs, unlike the adult actors. The children spend nine hours at the studio - four on the set and three to five being tutored for school. Despite this, Radcliffe appears to be more balanced and cheerful than most teenagers. Does he not get bored? "Not really, I keep going by watching films and listening to music. I play all kinds of rock."*
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"What is it about Brad Pitt?" asks a journalist. "How long have you got?" replies Watson. She says she doesn't mind being recognised in the street.*
"I don't mind it either," adds Radcliffe, but he was surprised when 3,000 girls met him at Tokyo airport. "Amazing, if slightly scary."
Radcliffe, Watson and Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley, spend a lot of time in each other's company. "Between movies we didn't see each other," says Watson, "but we stayed in touch." Asked about the next movie, she snorts and says, "Not thinking about it."*
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Coltrane lights up another Dunhill. He's quite tough with*
the Potter fans, too. "Adults come up to me on planes with the*
books and I say, 'Admit it's for you or I won't sign it.' I've never read them, but my children have." Although against working with animals, Coltrane likes the children. "I've known the kids for three years now - bloody hell, they're not kids any more." "What have you*
contributed to their education?" someone asks. "I couldn't possibly comment," says Coltrane, grinning, in his poshest Scots accent.
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"It's like acting in a very sophisticated pantomime. You are on the line in a very present way. Lickety-split, you have to get through it and there's no room for subtext. You can't complicate it, just play it with intensity." Oldman's only disappointment is that J. K. Rowling gives him the chop in book five. "Yeah, I thought I was on to a goldmine. Then halfway through the filming, the next book comes out and I die... Very disappointing."
| The Sunday Morning Herald has also run a PoA feature. Here are some quotes from that article. http://img59.photobucket.com/albums/...arrypotter.jpg Quote:
"We made a decision early on: let's be precise about the theme of this film, and we are going in that direction. Whatever sticks stays and whatever doesn't doesn't," Cuaron says.
It comes back to feelings, he adds. "As wizardly as the wizards in Harry Potter are, their emotions are very muggle," Cuaron says, using Rowling's word for non-wizards. "The strength of the book is not the magic itself, though the magic is great, but the strength of the human emotions."*
| Source: Mugglenet |
