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Scholastic Interviews the cast -
Summary:
Including previews of the new film.
Article: Scholastic Interviews the cast Scholastic, the US publishers of the
Harry Potter book series, has posted their Prisoner of Azkaban
preview with a series of interviews with the cast of the film.
Dan Radcliffe (Harry) Quote:
That's where all the self-doubt comes in. He thinks, oh, if he doesn't know certain things, he doesn't know about his dad. Well, what else doesn't he know? And if he's finding these things out, maybe there are other things as well. So I think that's what really makes it an interesting book, because it does deal so much with self-consciousness, worry, and self-doubt.
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Honestly, I have absolutely infinite respect for my mum and dad and my best friend, Will, whom I've known since I was 12. They're sort of my main influences in my life really.
Emma Watson (Hermione) Quote:
"I'm going skiing and I haven't gone skiing so I'm really looking forward to that, and I'm hoping that goes well!"
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Yeah, a little bit. I looked at a GCSE book the other day and I was like, "Oh my god, I'm never going to pass!" It's just like it goes on forever and ever and ever, and the amount of work is a bit like "AAH!"
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I'm not actually really sure. I think you have to do math; you have to do physics, chemistry, biology. I think you have to take English, and I think you have to take French. And then I've got stuff like Latin, Spanish, geography, history.
(She's right; you have to do the core subjects. English, Maths, the three Sciences and then either french, welsh or religious studies plus four other subjects of your choice. I dont know why they spoke to her about GCSE's;that course doesn't start until year 10 and she's in year 9.)
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Oh, yeah, and the brilliant thing is that this year, because of the big enough gap between the third and the fourth [filming of the Harry Potter movies], it would mean that if I did break my leg I'd be all right again before we started filming again.
Rupert Grint (Ron) Quote:
Well, when we were in the car with the twins, Fred and George, I don't remember how, but the owl pooped on Fred, on one of the twins, and it stank out the back of the car because it's quite a small tight car and really hot. It stank.
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Oh, yeah, I'm doing my GCSE's at the moment, just studying for now and I take the exams next year.
(He is in fact taking them this Summer with Tom Felton, (he's in Year 11) I think - so possibly this interview was conducted before Christmas...If not then I suppose he's doing them a year late...)
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It's just normal revision really. You choose the subjects and you only do the exams that you chose, and of course the compulsory ones like math and science that I don't really enjoy.
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I've chosen arts, German, because you have to do any language you want, either French or German or Spanish. German was pretty easy so I chose that.
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I'm not sure actually. I'm on my last year of secondary school and I haven't really decided what I'm going to do yet.
(In other words - yes he is in Year 11 - GCSE exam year. Note: The question about University is mis-placed; College/6th form comes before University and lasts for two years. You have to be 18 to go to Uni.)
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I'm reading a cool book at the moment for English; it's called Of Mice and Men. It's quite good.
(Yay - same book I had to study! I thought it was really tiresome...)
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Just any ice cream, because when I was a kid I really wanted to be an ice cream man, and I still quite fancy the job. It just looks like quite a cool job.
Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) Quote:
Well, to be honest with you, I know this probably isn t a good thing to say, but there was this horror book that I had by R.L. Stine called The Snowman. I really loved that book when I was about 8 or 9 or so. I rented that book out from the library and I never gave it back. It was too good. I was very impressed with that book. I didn t read any of the other ones, but just that book alone, for some reason I couldn t put it down. I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.
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Because they are the most beautiful fish, and you don't need to eat them. You can just put them back and catch them again. It's a less brutal sport as opposed to eating your catch.
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I m doing my mock GCSE's at the moment; that s a lot of equations and trigonometry.
(So this interview was most likely held before Christmas - mocks are held nationwide in the Winter Term of school - 6 months or so prior to the real Summer GCSE exams.)
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I'm studying English, math, geography, physics, business studies, religious studies, information technology, biology, chemistry, French, and design technology.
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You can finish school as soon as you finish the GCSE's.
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Yes. I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever. I plan to go to college in Southampton, a fishery studies college. Again, my brother was down there about two years ago and he said it was great, so I'm looking forward to that.
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Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.
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It would probably have to be the children that get told that they're going to meet Malfoy and get excited about it, and then when I do actually come they sort of run away and hide. You feel that they're being really ungrateful, but they're not, they're genuinely frightened. I suppose you have to take it in good humor.
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I like geography. I like to know where places are. And lunch. Lunch is a good one. That's about it really. I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.
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Fishing rod and reel, someone to talk to—like Beyoncé. A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands. A genie. Yeah, a genie in a lamp would do the trick beautifully.
Chris Rankin (Percy) Quote:
For me, Percy's kind of the odd one out. He's the ugly duckling of the piece, I find. There's nothing wrong with him, but everyone seems to think there is. I mean, he's different, he's a prefect. He's the one that obeys the rules, that doesn't go out trying to slay villains or go out and find stones and mirrors and things like that. I find him a lot of fun. I enjoy the role he plays, because he always sort of pops up at the most inconvenient moments. He's a giggle. As the books go on, his part kind of grows from this slightly annoying person in the background to by the time we get to the third one he's Head Boy, and obviously his presence is felt more. When he's at the Ministry and becomes the Junior Secretary to the Minister of Magic, obviously he's becoming more and more important and more and more annoying, and I love that.
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Not professionally. Potter has been my first professional job. I've had jobs other than Potter now, but that was my first professional acting job. It was my first professional job at all—I'd never been paid to do anything before.
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I sent in a letter saying, 'Dear Sir or Madam, I m interested in playing Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films. This is why: I was a prefect at school, I've got ginger hair, I've been in these shows, I've done these plays. Here's a photo of me. Sincerely, Chris Rankin.' It's kind of weird, still!
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I think the best scene that I've filmed was the one in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when we're all sitting around the table having breakfast. That was just really, really fun working with all the Weasley family. We had a good laugh, and Julie Walters who plays Mrs. Weasley is the funniest person ever. We spent days just giggling. They'd mess up tapes on purpose and just play practical jokes on us. That was fun. I think working with them was sort of the highlight.
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She's quite strange to talk to, actually. She's (Jo Rowling) lovely, but you're talking to her and you can sort of see the cogs going in the brain. You can see her thinking, 'Now what can I use in a character?' It's a bit weird. But she's very intelligent, a very intelligent lady. She won't tell me anything and I keep asking her. Nothing.
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Not anymore. I left school when I was 18, but I started doing Harry Potter before then. I was doing my final two years of school and filming at the same time, which was disastrous really. I might go to university in a couple of years, but we'll see how work goes.
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It enhances imagination, and usually there's less violence in books. I think there's no end to pleasure in books, I find. That may just be the way I've been brought up. I've always read books and always been read to and I find it very easy to get completely involved into a book and just disappear into a completely different fantasy world of my own, and I love it. I think you can t beat a book, personally.
Jamie Waylett (Goyle) Quote:
He's more stupid, you know what I mean? In the first one he's a more petty boy intentionally, but in this one he's trying to be petty but he's kind of dumb. I think he's quite funny. I don't think he really wants to be bad. You see, in the film I (Goyle) think he would rather be a Gryffindor than a Slytherin.
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Yeah. It's fun, when I am with my friends and talking and someone says, "Were you in that Harry Potter role? Do you mind signing that?" I've done it for a few years now. At first it was exciting, and then I got a slight bit nervous. But the way I look at it is, if that were me asking someone, I'd want them to sign it. I always sign it. I make sure.
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Yeah. I mean, it was sad for Richard Harris to go because I got on with him quite well. I know he was a really big actor, but he wasn't acting like it. He remembered my name and stuff like that. He was nice.
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We like to play games, like Twister or something like that. We just sit and talk. We might play the Play Station. We just hang out. We've got foosball, pool tables, stuff like that. One day it was really hot and everyone stayed out and we'd go outside and play catch. Everyone does things together and we get along with everyone.
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English and math. Chemistry, biology, physics, and I've got a college course. It's like an internship. I'll be working on car engines, bricklaying, painting, stuff like that. It's fun. I enjoy it a lot.
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No, not 50 Cent. I met the President [Bush] on the lawn. He comes in on his helicopter. The person there introduced me and said, "Do you know who this guy is?" He looked and he said, "Harry Potter!" I shook his hand. The guy was good friends of the President. After that, everyone on the lawn was taking photos of me.
Gary Gero (The Owl Trainer) Quote:
Well, we raise them all, so they all think we're their parents. They'll climb in your jacket; they groom you. I love great grey owls. They're huge, funny looking creatures. Just everything they do is funny. They're not terribly clever, but they can be.
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Well, there's the law of common sense, for one thing. The simple answer is: We have rules to follow. We have a certain amount of hours that the animals can work. It depends on the animal. Even if the animals are on the set eight hours, they are not working eight hours. They work while they're shooting for half an hour. Then the lighting for the next shot will take a couple of hours. Different animals have a different sort of criteria for how long they can be on the set. Some animals are really great for five hours; you know that going in, so you try to keep them to that.
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TLC 
