In Part 2 – Characters, explore how the beloved characters from the wizarding world were brought to life. From page to screen, this episode traces how actors and creators shaped Harry, Hermione, Ron, and the wider cast across the eight-film saga. With screen tests, casting stories and the evolution of key performance choices, this is a must-watch for fans in the UK, USA, Australia and the Philippines who want to understand the heart of the characters.
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00:00:01Your attention, please.
00:00:06I'm Hermione Granger, and you are?
00:00:10Rubeus Hagrid, keeper of keys and grains at Hogwarts.
00:00:15Let me introduce you to your new defense against the dark arts teacher.
00:00:21Me?
00:00:24Together we shall cast ourselves into the future.
00:00:30Don't call me Nymphadora.
00:00:33I'm Malfoy.
00:00:35Dracon Malfoy.
00:00:40I'm Rita Skeeter.
00:00:42Of course you know that, don't you?
00:00:49He's not Fred I am.
00:00:50I will have order.
00:00:53Professor Snape.
00:00:55Professor R.J. Lubin.
00:00:57I prefer Sir Nicholas, if you don't mind.
00:01:00Merlin's beard!
00:01:06I mean, I'm just Harry.
00:01:09Just Harry.
00:01:10No!
00:01:11No!
00:01:12No!
00:01:13No!
00:01:15THE END
00:01:35The reason why I became involved with Potter was the characters.
00:01:40I loved these characters and I related to these characters in some way.
00:01:45Each one in a different way.
00:01:47The characters, they are well drawn, they are multidimensional and unpredictable and funny.
00:01:55Even more than that, I think, is the fact that the relationships between them...
00:01:58...are so clear and so beautifully written.
00:02:00And not just the primary characters of Harry, Ron and Hermione...
00:02:03...but the secondary and tertiary characters, the teachers and the students.
00:02:07They've seen each other go through highs and lows.
00:02:09They've been on the journey together.
00:02:11And when we're making the films, we really do look at the story and the characters first.
00:02:17That's the heart, that's the soul of the film.
00:02:20Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair and bright green eyes.
00:02:30He wore round glasses held together with a lot of sellotape...
00:02:34...because of all the times Dudley had punched him on the nose.
00:02:37The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead...
00:02:41...which was shaped like a bolt of lightning.
00:02:43He had had it as long as he could remember...
00:02:45...and the first question he could ever remember asking his aunt Petunia...
00:02:48...was how he had got it, in the car crash when your parents died.
00:02:52I've always said that Harry's not a hero.
00:02:55Well, he is. He's a hero, but he's not a hero in the Superman sense of the word hero.
00:02:59He's a very vulnerable, fragile kind of hero who is incredibly afraid.
00:03:06And it's somebody coming to terms with that.
00:03:08And it's about, you know, the importance of friendship...
00:03:10...which he learns to rely so heavily on Ron and Hermione.
00:03:14He had just raised his wand when the compartment door slid open again.
00:03:18The toadless boy was back, but this time he had a girl with him.
00:03:22She was already wearing her new Hogwarts robes.
00:03:26Has anyone seen a toad? Neville's lost one.
00:03:28Neville's lost one, she said.
00:03:30She had a bossy sort of voice.
00:03:31Lots of bushy hair and rather large front teeth.
00:03:34She was so much like myself.
00:03:37I mean, I was seriously, seriously nerdy.
00:03:42And I was very kind of insecure like she was.
00:03:45I was quite a tomboy.
00:03:46I wasn't super popular or anything, so...
00:03:48I basically was her, to be fair.
00:03:50I used to sit there in interviews and be like, I'm not like her at all!
00:03:53And, like, try to convince everyone that I wasn't.
00:03:55I was absolutely adamant.
00:03:56I've never been top of the class and I've never read loads of books.
00:04:00I've always been totally the opposite, really.
00:04:04But my mum was a lot like her.
00:04:06Real swot at school.
00:04:08I've just accepted it now.
00:04:10Hello, dear, she said.
00:04:12First time at Hogwarts?
00:04:13Ron's new, too.
00:04:14She pointed at the last and youngest of her sons.
00:04:17He was tall, thin and gangly, with freckles, big hands and feet and a long nose.
00:04:22That doesn't really describe me at all, really.
00:04:25Especially the tall part.
00:04:26I'm ginger, that's the main thing.
00:04:28Uh, Joe Reiling asked me to read this here today.
00:04:34Um, having seen Dan Radcliffe's screen test, I don't think Chris Columbus could have found a better Harry.
00:04:40I'm also delighted to see that we're going to have a screen Ron and Hermione who can bicker as though they've been doing it all their lives.
00:04:49Chris's choice of three wonderful British actors for the leading roles shows how well he understands the spirit of these books.
00:04:56I wish Dan, Emma and Rupert the very best of luck and hope that they have as much fun acting the first year at Hogwarts as I had writing it.
00:05:05I think I'm a tiny, tiny bit like Harry, because I'd like to have an owl.
00:05:17Dan, at his core, is essentially a really good person, and I felt that that's what Harry was.
00:05:23Harry has a, has a goodness that you really can't explain.
00:05:26You can only see it in someone's eyes.
00:05:32When we were doing the first movie, once they got the job, once they were on the set,
00:05:36they were all so excited to be there.
00:05:38Yet, at the same time, getting them into character was difficult, to say the least.
00:05:42114, take one. AMB cameras.
00:05:45All right, Dan, I want you, when you open that book, really big reaction.
00:05:48You're scared to death, you close it as fast as you can and put it back there.
00:05:51Set, and really loud.
00:05:54Actually, you can shake the book a little yourself, Dan, okay?
00:05:57Set, and action!
00:05:58Those early days were, were part filming and part acting lessons.
00:06:03I, I, you know, I was striving to get a performance out of these guys.
00:06:06Footsteps! Footsteps!
00:06:08They couldn't have been any greener.
00:06:10The kids bonded immediately because they were all thrown into it for the first time in their lives as actors.
00:06:23The lack of experience certainly bonded them in a way where they were committed to doing their best, even at that young age.
00:06:36You go down to that bar, the bars. There's no such thing as magic for the bars. Then you close it.
00:06:42And then you go join Dudley in there, okay?
00:06:44It was overwhelming because, particularly with something like Harry Potter, when every kid's got their vision of, of what a character is, what a place is, you know, what pivot drive is.
00:06:53You're not gonna obviously please everybody, but you hope that the majority of people will see that what you're doing is, is, is right and correct and, and fulfills something that they've got in there.
00:07:04Now, Richard, play it like to that, yeah.
00:07:07I think a lot of the actors were, were anxious that, that they would live up to the, to the iconography of all of those characters.
00:07:15It was tricky in the beginning because with the world of Harry Potter, there are parameters.
00:07:20And in that world, Dumbledore wouldn't do that. Harry wouldn't say that.
00:07:24And sometimes it's quite hard until they get really immersed in, in the world.
00:07:29Who do you think it was that carried out your parents' house, Halloween night, ten years ago?
00:07:34Who do you think it was that took you to Dumbledore? Hmm?
00:07:37You can't go and think, what would Spencer Tracy do here now? Because most people haven't played a giant.
00:07:42So you're kind of on new territory.
00:07:45Better than school, isn't it? Excuse me.
00:07:48Haggard, I figured he'd move very, very slowly, because anyone who's eight foot tall and probably weighs about 550 pounds is not going to turn round quickly.
00:07:57It was the last time he did it, he probably killed somebody.
00:08:00So I figure he, he moves in quite a sort of ginger, rather delicate way for fear of breaking things.
00:08:06And sits down very, very slowly in chairs.
00:08:10And hugs people very gently, you know.
00:08:13I still need a wand.
00:08:17A wand? Oh, you want Ollivanders. Ain't no place better.
00:08:21You have to use your imagination of what you think it would be.
00:08:25And from the script, you feel the style of the piece.
00:08:29And when you think you've got to understanding the style of the piece...
00:08:32I wonder.
00:08:34...then you're getting close to what the reality of the piece will be.
00:08:38I always turn to the books.
00:08:41They have details in, the scripts don't.
00:08:44One of a wizard's most rudimentary skills is a limitation.
00:08:49I studied that scene, particularly his charms class, because it has little details in there.
00:08:54He was a gnome-like wizard, which tells me he's not quite human.
00:08:57So that's where the voice came in, the kind of slightly pitching it up a little bit.
00:09:00He stands on a pile of books to teach and falls off of the book.
00:09:04So he's slightly clumsy, perhaps.
00:09:06So all these little bits of information can be added to build up...
00:09:09...quite a vivid picture of the character.
00:09:14Another year gone.
00:09:17Gryffindor wins the House Cup.
00:09:30Harry Potter's all about beating the clock.
00:09:34You didn't want to wait another year to start Chamber of Secrets...
00:09:37...because the kids aged so quickly...
00:09:40...that they'd be too old for their roles in that particular book.
00:09:43So the films essentially needed to be shot back to back to back to back.
00:09:46Set and action!
00:09:49Do you think it's true?
00:09:51Do you think there really is a Chamber of Secrets?
00:09:54I was really excited to come back for a second...
00:09:56...because I felt like, okay, I kind of know what to expect now.
00:10:00But if there really is a Chamber of Secrets...
00:10:02...and it's really been opened, that means...
00:10:04The heir of Slytherin has been returned to Hogwarts.
00:10:07The problem is...
00:10:09No, sorry, can I do that again?
00:10:11Yeah, okay.
00:10:12I felt marginally more in control.
00:10:14Cut.
00:10:15I don't know, really, really sorry.
00:10:18Really sorry.
00:10:19All right, save the rate, camera reloading.
00:10:22Hardly any of you remember that my favourite colour is lilac.
00:10:25You can't just put an actor who's only done a little bit of work...
00:10:29...in with these incredible stage actors and these incredible film actors.
00:10:33You need another legendary actor.
00:10:36Gilderoy Lockhart came slowly into view...
00:10:39...seated at a table, surrounded by large pictures of his own face...
00:10:44...all winking and flashing dazzlingly white teeth at the crowd.
00:10:49You may find yourselves facing your worst fears in this room.
00:10:53Know only that no harm can befall you whilst I am here.
00:10:57I must ask you not to scream.
00:11:00It might provoke them!
00:11:02I was absolutely thrilled when it all came to pass.
00:11:05He's just a wonderfully puffed-up character.
00:11:10He's deeply, deeply, deeply in love, but with himself.
00:11:15He pretends to be humble.
00:11:16He's wonderfully cowardly.
00:11:18He pretends to be brave and strong.
00:11:20He would sell his best friend down the river.
00:11:23Pretends to be a gracious person, but in reality...
00:11:25...fantastically unreliable.
00:11:27Complete and utter phony.
00:11:28Those are all qualities that it was good fun to play.
00:11:31I didn't get rid of the band and banshee by smiling at him.
00:11:36First day I got there, I saw a crew list.
00:11:38I might expect to see 150 names on a normal crew list on a big film.
00:11:421,500 names, I counted them.
00:11:44That makes you sweat a bit.
00:11:46I'd love to know whether J.K. Rowling modeled him after anybody in particular.
00:11:50Some people might say, oh, it's like any number of actors or public figures.
00:11:55In crew terms, he's comic relief.
00:12:02And sometimes he's rather more than that.
00:12:05Do you think he's all right?
00:12:07Who cares?
00:12:08B-camera mark.
00:12:09Set and action!
00:12:14I took my way, Potter.
00:12:16Draco's dad, er, his name's Lucius Malfoy.
00:12:19He comes into the story and it makes everything a bit...
00:12:22...and Malfoy now a bit more scarier.
00:12:25Mr Malfoy crossed the shop, looking lazily at the items on display...
00:12:29...and rang a bell on the counter...
00:12:31...before turning to his son and saying, touch nothing, Draco.
00:12:35What did I say?
00:12:40Touch nothing.
00:12:42Exactly.
00:12:43Sorry, Father.
00:12:44The camera loves him.
00:12:46And unfortunately, the camera loves him in a really evil way.
00:12:50Jason has a wonderful sort of ability to be theatrical...
00:12:55...but with a darkness.
00:12:58And you wanted someone who could play the character...
00:13:01...who had this sort of elevated sense of self...
00:13:04...who was quite superior and disdainful.
00:13:07My soul concern has always been, will always be...
00:13:11...the welfare of this venerable institution...
00:13:16...and its student court.
00:13:18I'd watched the first film and I'd seen what a horrible little git Draco is.
00:13:22Like everybody else, I despised him and wanted to boo him off the screen.
00:13:25And I was trying to take some inspiration from who he was...
00:13:29...so I thought that partly my job was to help you understand...
00:13:32...why he turned out like that.
00:13:34So as much as I could get on the screen, I was just a bully.
00:13:37Terrible father.
00:13:39You see, Weasley, unlike some, my father can afford the best.
00:13:43The Malfoy families and the Weasley families are polar opposites.
00:13:46The Malfoys are about order, structure and rules...
00:13:50...whereas the Weasleys are more hippie.
00:13:53They're much more of a unified family.
00:13:56We have a very different idea about what disgraces the name of wizard Malfoy.
00:14:01Clearly.
00:14:03Arthur Weasley is actually, you know, the real deal.
00:14:07He's a proper dad.
00:14:09Apparently, I didn't know this, but J.K. Rowling said that...
00:14:11...he's the only real father, the only functional father, which actually he is.
00:14:15The others are kind of surrogate fathers.
00:14:17Your sons flew that enchanted car of yours to Surrey and back last night.
00:14:22Did you really? How'd it go?
00:14:25I mean, that was very wrong of you boys. Very wrong indeed.
00:14:28The Weasleys, the sort of family anybody would want.
00:14:32But sort of homespun and from years gone by, you know, from the 50s...
00:14:36...is what they look like to me.
00:14:38It's something that people hark back to, isn't it?
00:14:40It's Harry's idea of a good home to be in.
00:14:43And so I think that's what Harry really loves about them.
00:14:46It's not much, but it's home.
00:14:49I think it's brilliant.
00:14:51If after I'd done the old expendo ding-dong...
00:14:54...if I let down and then picked it up in some...
00:14:57Well, that's it, yeah.
00:14:59...in that sort of way.
00:15:01Come on, J.K.
00:15:04Although the young members of the cast were inexperienced...
00:15:06...they were the centre of the film. You know, we're supporting them.
00:15:09Dan, you're looking at it in a more...
00:15:11Well, of course, that can sometimes happen.
00:15:13They were growing as young artists and young performers...
00:15:17...and you could see them acquiring knowledge as they went.
00:15:21Now, kids, one thing everybody's forgetting, after his spell...
00:15:25...everybody goes,
00:15:26Emma, really big reaction from you.
00:15:28You're staring in horror. This is your friend, okay?
00:15:31Emmendo!
00:15:33You really felt the sort of learning power, the learning spirit of Hogwarts...
00:15:38...was alive in the very sort of process of the realisation of these roles.
00:15:45It was definitely a curse that killed her.
00:15:48Probably the trans-McGriffian torture.
00:15:50Encountered it myself once in Ouagadougou.
00:15:55Full stories in my autobiography.
00:15:57Sometimes we, as adults, act as we can complicate things...
00:16:00...and try and find something that's maybe not there...
00:16:03...or add something when it's not necessary.
00:16:07And sometimes the simplest approach, the most direct approach...
00:16:10...to acting a part is the most effective.
00:16:14And the kids can teach you that kind of thing.
00:16:17If someone says,
00:16:18''Run over there and scream like an owl.''
00:16:20Or ''Run over there like a dog.''
00:16:23You just do it, because that's what you've been asked to do.
00:16:26You don't think, ''No, what is my motivation? Why am I doing this?''
00:16:29You just do it, because you're so young.
00:16:31''Yeah, okay, where am I going? Over there, run.''
00:16:33I arrived ready to work with children that were young.
00:16:36And less experienced than me.
00:16:38It was my last shot of the film.
00:16:39It was where Lucius flounces out of Dumbledore's office.
00:16:42And there was no line there.
00:16:44And I said to Chris Columbus, ''I just feel like he'd say something...
00:16:47...on his way out, having been humiliated.''
00:16:49He said, ''Well, try something. Let's do it again and try something.''
00:16:52So we were shooting, and Dumbledore dismissed me.
00:16:55And I turned to Daniel and I said, ''Let's hope Mr Potter will always be around to save the day.''
00:17:01And Daniel stepped forward and he said, ''Don't worry. I will be.''
00:17:06It was absolutely electrifying. It was fantastic.
00:17:10And I flounced out the room.
00:17:12And at that moment, I thought, ''That's not a kid. That's a 13-year-old actor.''
00:17:17In the first film, I wouldn't have done it.
00:17:19But in the second, I kind of have a bit more confidence with putting ideas forward and trying new things.
00:17:25And so if I'm in a situation in the film, I think, ''How would Harry react to this?''
00:17:30I've developed as a person so much everybody on set has, especially me, Rupa and Emma.
00:17:37They've been working for a year and a half, so these kids are actually becoming seasoned professionals.
00:17:43It used to take 10 or 11 takes to get to a certain point in their performances.
00:17:47Now it takes three or four.
00:17:48Oh, come on, Harry.
00:17:49I didn't know I could speak past all time. What else don't I know about myself?
00:17:53I think even the adults have developed.
00:17:55I find this probably the most difficult part I've ever played.
00:18:01Let the feast begin.
00:18:03Because there is no sort of classical reference in it whatsoever.
00:18:07And you're left basically to your own sort of devices of what you want to make of it.
00:18:13I just found that the only way I could play it was to sort of find the voice.
00:18:17Most importantly of all, and pay attention, please.
00:18:21And you have to sort of find a rhythm to it. You know what I mean? Like music.
00:18:24The third floor corridor on the right hand side is out of bounds.
00:18:29It's developed into a community now. It's almost like an actor's repertory company.
00:18:34And it's really much easier now. We all got to know each other and relax with each other.
00:18:39We trust each other. So this means smashing like that.
00:18:43It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices.
00:18:58We got to the point of editing the second film and Richard was getting sick.
00:19:03And I remember Richard, going to visit Richard at the hospital. He was very ill.
00:19:07At that point the doctors were saying he was going to get better. He was going to be fine.
00:19:11But he just had a sense that he was not going to get better. That he was really frail at this point.
00:19:17And he said, the last thing he said to me is, you better not think of replacing me.
00:19:23And I said, don't worry. How can we ever replace you?
00:19:27And that was really the last exchange we had. And then he passed away two weeks later.
00:19:32There was certainly a sense of great loss. We'd lost a great actor. We'd lost a really nice chap.
00:19:43And we'd also lost Professor Dumbledore.
00:19:51He was always very, very kind to me.
00:19:54He was great, you know, in our scenes and helped me.
00:19:58When he died it was very, very sad. And also it was, I think it was more or less, the first encounter with death.
00:20:04Dan was much closer to Richard than I was.
00:20:07But I still spent two years with him.
00:20:09I was just, I was really shocked. I kind of...
00:20:13Richard, Richard always seemed so alive.
00:20:17I know it sounds like a weird thing to say, but it's so much personality.
00:20:20And he was always laughing and joking and it didn't make any sense to me.
00:20:28So it's Lumos Maxima once. Doesn't work.
00:20:41You get frustrated, so you throw the second Lumos Maxima.
00:20:44And that, the second one is going to be the huge one.
00:20:47Like, should I see something in the book that tells me to do something a different way?
00:20:51I think that you already read the instructions. It's more about...
00:20:54Affecting it now.
00:20:55No. The word is expectations.
00:20:58When you have expectations, things doesn't work.
00:21:01Okay.
00:21:02You know, when you...
00:21:03Okay.
00:21:04You know what I mean?
00:21:05Chris Columbus had done an amazing job setting up the universe.
00:21:09The directors that followed Chris, all of us were very lucky that Chris made such great decisions.
00:21:16But there were places where I wanted to take this universe that were not present in the two previous films.
00:21:22Alfonso was kind of amazing to work with.
00:21:25When it comes just from your...
00:21:28From your heart, from your own energy, then it's when it happens.
00:21:31Okay?
00:21:32Okay.
00:21:33It was a big step forward, I think, for us all working with him.
00:21:35Because we all had to meet a whole new set of challenges.
00:21:37Two level, take six.
00:21:39Lumos, Maxima.
00:21:40On, off.
00:21:41Lumos, Maxima.
00:21:42On, off.
00:21:43Lumos, Maxima.
00:21:44On, off.
00:21:45Lumos, Maxima.
00:21:46Lumos, Maxima.
00:21:47The first thing that I did with the three kids was to talk about what was important in Azkaban that was relevant for them as real people.
00:22:05Let's do something.
00:22:08Just to get our timing right.
00:22:11I said, okay, I want you to write an essay in first person.
00:22:14You as Harry, you as Hermione, and you as Ron.
00:22:18And I want you to tell in this essay the story of your life from the standpoint of Harry, but investing that Harry with your own personal experiences.
00:22:28And your own personal emotions.
00:22:31He was really interested in what we all thought of our characters.
00:22:36And it was his way of getting to know us.
00:22:39I loved writing down all my thoughts on her and scanning through the books to find quotes to back up what I was saying.
00:22:47And I loved that he had asked me to approach the role in an intellectual and personal way.
00:22:56It was one of those moments where we felt, oh, right, okay, we've got to start making decisions for ourselves now as well.
00:23:02Because Alfonso isn't just going to, you know, spoon feed us the emotions.
00:23:06He wants to find them for ourselves.
00:23:07And it was right because at first we needed to be told what we should be feeling in these moments.
00:23:12And when Alfonso came in, we were all a little bit older and we all had to start making these decisions for ourselves.
00:23:17Emma being Hermione wrote something like 30 pages long.
00:23:21Emma just came in with reams and reams of paper.
00:23:24That had this brilliant purity.
00:23:26I came in with one side of A4.
00:23:27Daniel wrote something with raw emotions.
00:23:31Rupert being Ron didn't deliver the essay.
00:23:34It would have been quite helpful had I done it.
00:23:38I actually forgot to do mine.
00:23:40I think it was around some exams as well and it just, it was quite a lot.
00:23:43And actually when I questioned why you didn't deliver it, it says Ron would never deliver the essay.
00:23:47And so I said, okay, you understand your character, it's perfect.
00:23:51We just did what our characters would do.
00:23:53It's just, it just works, isn't it?
00:23:58Now what do you want me to do with your sparrots?
00:24:00Show me.
00:24:01You want me to go like...
00:24:02What would you do, show me?
00:24:03Maybe you separate mine.
00:24:05So what are you saying?
00:24:06What are you saying?
00:24:07So I take one off here.
00:24:08Like that on my shoulders.
00:24:09Pick up the other ones.
00:24:10Or, once that they start getting some confidence, they would question absolutely everything that
00:24:15I would do and why I would do this like this or things like that.
00:24:19Don't you think she'd be very squirmish?
00:24:20Squirmish means?
00:24:21Well, I mean, I'm carrying dead ferrets on my shoulders.
00:24:25Remember something.
00:24:26I was new.
00:24:27They'd been Harry Potter and Hermione and Ron for a long time.
00:24:31So they were very good with their arguments about what Harry or Hermione would do or not.
00:24:42Alphonse wanted us to put a lot of ourselves and our thoughts into the characters.
00:24:47Hello.
00:24:48Okay, let's find out what feels organic with you.
00:24:51Hi.
00:24:52And what feels organic with the character.
00:24:56Early on we said, okay, how would you wear your uniform?
00:24:59At first they were all, oh, Titus says, yes, but if your parents were not around.
00:25:03He said that you should, like, customize it how you would if you were really at school.
00:25:06So it feels more natural.
00:25:08They started doing weird things with ties or taking the shirts out.
00:25:11Some of the kids stocking everything and trying to be very neat.
00:25:14We would start wearing Slytherin rings, Slytherin tie pieces.
00:25:18And the hairstyle was pretty much dictated by the kids.
00:25:22Because we wanted to be something organic, the hair, the uniform and the attitude of each one of the actors.
00:25:28So be wicked, this way comes.
00:25:31You go on living, but you have no memory.
00:25:33You have no sense of self, you're just a shell.
00:25:36You told us the script that you've been given.
00:25:38If you don't feel that it's natural or that it works, then you just say and we can change it.
00:25:42An empty shell.
00:25:43Well, if you feel saying no sense of self, if it helps, keep it.
00:25:48Yeah, it floats.
00:25:49If it floats, okay, so keep it.
00:25:51What I loved about what Alfonso did with it, it is that sense of rebellion.
00:25:55You realize that you're in a different world now. These aren't kids anymore.
00:25:59In this one, Hermione, she's rock and roll, she's a girl of power, she's out there doing everything.
00:26:05Foul, loath of evil.
00:26:07Malfoy insults her, and instead of keep walking, just ignore him. That's it. Smack!
00:26:12Something wicked this way comes!
00:26:16I remember agents start calling about possible possibilities to play Dumbledore.
00:26:22I remember David getting so upset and said, we're not going to discuss this for a long time.
00:26:28You know, he didn't want to go there.
00:26:30And I respect, I admire that quite a lot.
00:26:33And then once that we needed to start moving on,
00:26:37I think that it was very, very...
00:26:40It was very clear that we were leaning very, very rapidly towards Michael Gambon.
00:26:46Welcome, welcome to another year at Hogwarts.
00:26:50There's a grace and there's a dignity and there's a weight there.
00:26:53And Michael's very mischievous in his own sort of special way.
00:27:00In any press conference that he was asked,
00:27:03How do you feel stepping into Richard Howard's shoes?
00:27:05He would pretend that he didn't know that he was replacing somebody.
00:27:09He would go, Oh, am I?
00:27:10What Michael Gambon has brought to the film is something very special.
00:27:15Because I think he's acknowledged Richard in giving Dumbledore a little bit of an Irish accent.
00:27:21But he, again, has made the character very much his own.
00:27:24We must search the ground!
00:27:26Search the skies if you must, Minister.
00:27:28Meanwhile, I'd like a nice cup of tea or a large brandy.
00:27:34Something of the slight changes that we wanted to do
00:27:37is that we wanted to recover one element of the Dumbledore of the books
00:27:42that is a certain, rather than a regalness, a certain funkiness.
00:27:48He could seem a little shabby and a little distracted,
00:27:51but actually he's completely in control of everything.
00:27:54And that's something that I think that Michael brought onto the table really beautifully.
00:28:00One more time.
00:28:01The lines came out, but they're all jumbled.
00:28:04Dumbledore is who Dumbledore is by the very nature of what Joe Rowling wrote.
00:28:08Wise, eccentric, with a twinkle in his eye.
00:28:12He doesn't replace Richard.
00:28:15He is doing Michael Gambon's Dumbledore.
00:28:17Dear lady, who did this to you?
00:28:20It's him, headmaster.
00:28:21The one they all talk about!
00:28:23He's here!
00:28:24Somewhere in the castle!
00:28:25Sirius Black!
00:28:26Sirius Black!
00:28:27Sirius Black!
00:28:28Sirius Black!
00:28:29Don't tell me you've never been here in a Sirius Black.
00:28:33He's a murderer.
00:28:36Throughout the whole first part of the film, the big villain, the big danger is Sirius Black.
00:28:42And there's a twist in which you realize that actually Sirius Black has been a good guy all along.
00:28:49Not only a good guy, he's going to become the new father figure for Gary.
00:28:54So we needed an actor who could not only play the two different parts,
00:28:59but play the transition to the different parts.
00:29:03Gary Oldman is Sirius Black.
00:29:06There's a kind of rock and roll quality about Gary.
00:29:09And he's not that old, but he kind of feels like he's been there forever, really.
00:29:14In a good way.
00:29:15In a really kind of rebellious way.
00:29:19The world has read these books, so I'm not going to be everyone's idea of Sirius Black.
00:29:25I'd like to think I haven't, you know, disappointed anyone.
00:29:30Gary said that he's one of his most difficult characters to play because he says,
00:29:34I'm used to masks.
00:29:35And he said, this Sirius Black is so raw.
00:29:38That voice is mine.
00:29:39I'm not playing accents.
00:29:40I'm playing my own accent.
00:29:41I'm not playing masks.
00:29:43Pretty much, this is the way I look.
00:29:45And emotionally, he's dealing with something that is so close to him,
00:29:50that is his relationship with his children.
00:29:52So I think that you can see that wrongness in his relationship with Harry.
00:29:59The first person I was consciously quite scared of working with was when Gary Oldman came in.
00:30:05By that point, I was more knowledgeable about film and about drama,
00:30:09and I knew a lot of his films.
00:30:11So working with him was very frightening.
00:30:14It's cruel that I got to spend so much time with James and Lily and knew so little.
00:30:20I kind of treat Harry like an adult, really.
00:30:23And also, I'm living a friendship through him.
00:30:27Because he's so like James, who was my mucker, my mate.
00:30:36I know this.
00:30:39The ones that love us never really leave us.
00:30:42So I'm a man very much emotionally rooted in the old days,
00:30:47when we were the young, older.
00:30:51I found that when I would see the flashbacks of the parents of Harry,
00:30:55James was a very cool dude.
00:30:59In their youth, James, Julius Black, looping Peter Pettigrew,
00:31:04there were this mischievous crowd.
00:31:09Alfonso had this idea that we were a little like, a little like the Beatles.
00:31:15That kind of Abbey Road look.
00:31:19And that Sirius was a bit of a, he's a little bit reckless.
00:31:24So we were thinking that he was kind of a little bit like the John Lennon of the group.
00:31:28Well, well, Sirius, looking rather ragged, aren't we?
00:31:36Finally, the flesh reflects the madness within.
00:31:41Well, you'd know all about the madness within, wouldn't you, Remus?
00:31:44It was.
00:31:55Looping was another new character we're going to introduce in Azkaban.
00:32:00There was a lot of discussion who should play this.
00:32:03Nobody quite does troubled as well as David.
00:32:08Preoccupied.
00:32:09Like, there's always something at the back of his mind, like he's forgotten something.
00:32:15My goodness, you poor thing.
00:32:17You remember the sensation there?
00:32:19Oh, this is nothing.
00:32:21Lupin needed, in a way, the opposite journey than Sirius Black.
00:32:25If Sirius Black was going to be from a very dangerous character,
00:32:29turning him into the most lovable character for Harry,
00:32:32he was the other way around.
00:32:33Run! All of you! Now!
00:32:36It was how you have a character that is absolutely full of love and understanding,
00:32:42then to realize that he's a monster.
00:32:48And you see him back, and you don't judge him because you still love the pure side and the bright side of this character.
00:32:54A favorite teacher, you know, is how Harry describes Lupin, and indeed J.K. Rowling describes where Lupin comes from for her.
00:33:03And so I sort of look back at some of my favorite teachers when I was back at school.
00:33:06My English teacher, my drama teacher, my art teacher, who took me under their wing.
00:33:09In the Prisoner of Azkaban, most of my scenes are with just Dan.
00:33:15The nice thing I found was that he's a remarkably wonderful boy, now a young man,
00:33:20and so it wasn't difficult at all to feel affection for him and to feel protective of him.
00:33:25Ah!
00:33:27One, two, three, four, boom!
00:33:29Ridiculous!
00:33:30Balloon, seven, five, three, one.
00:33:33Emotionally, it was never a kid hanging with a werewolf.
00:33:36It was this kid hanging with his favorite uncle who has this disease.
00:33:42You know what I mean?
00:33:43It was always finding the reference in the universe that we know.
00:33:49Well done, Harry.
00:33:51Well done.
00:33:53That's flowing.
00:33:55Another new character introduced in Azkaban.
00:33:58Professor Trollani and Emma Thompson agreed to do the character.
00:34:02Come tonight!
00:34:04He who betrayed his friends whose heart rots with murder shall they break free!
00:34:10I thought about the character and it was just the first thing that occurred to me was,
00:34:14if she's always going, look beyond, if you're always looking beyond, then you can't see what's there.
00:34:18So I thought, if she hasn't looked at herself, if she can't see herself, then she must look all sort of undone and not at all well put together.
00:34:28I did have buttons here once, but I don't know where they are.
00:34:32They've gone.
00:34:33She took the character of Trollani and what she did was so great, says yes, in the book, she whispers all the time.
00:34:43She says, I don't know if we're going to achieve necessarily cinematically what is in the book just by whispering.
00:34:49And so she's stuck on doing this balance of whispering and screaming.
00:34:54Crystal gazing requires that you clear the inner eye.
00:34:57Emma Thompson became like the big teacher for Emma Watson.
00:35:01You may be young in years, but the heart that beats beneath your bosom is as shriveled as an old maid.
00:35:11Little Emma, she was at awe that she was going to work with Emma Thompson.
00:35:15She thought she was going to meet this very aloof genius.
00:35:19And what she received was this person who was just trying for everybody to have a good experience while we were working together.
00:35:24I loved Emma Thompson. She treated everyone with exactly the same level of respect.
00:35:30And if I keep acting, which I hope that I will, I hope that I would be how she is as an actress.
00:35:37I do wish I was with you until Christmas.
00:35:40Not.
00:35:42But it's been gorgeous. Thank you so much. It's been such an honor.
00:35:46I've loved it. I have.
00:35:48Thank you so much.
00:35:49Thank you so much.
00:35:50Thank you so much.
00:35:51Thank you so much.
00:35:52Thank you so much.
00:35:53Thank you so much.
00:35:59Between the third and the fourth, there was more of a break. You know, there was a much more substantial time off.
00:36:05It was just great to be back here with everyone who I've got to know so well after the last few films.
00:36:11It's kind of like we were back for a new term at Hogwarts, literally.
00:36:15But we always get quite nervous when you sort of find out there's going to be a new director.
00:36:21Because you spend a long time with them, so you get quite close.
00:36:24And it's quite nerve-wracking to see what sort of person it's going to be.
00:36:27Now, would you listen to me, please?
00:36:29There is no point in any of us being here unless you are good.
00:36:35And every one of you has to show with their face, with their body language of everything in this movie,
00:36:44that it is unbelievable to be agents.
00:36:47This is not just anything about Harry Potter.
00:36:49We all have Harry Potter spoken of kids, right?
00:36:51Well, not this one.
00:36:52Mike Newell has a real professorial quality.
00:36:59And was very much a taskmaster in encouraging them to capture the essence of the characters they're playing.
00:37:07Mike Newell was such a big personality. He was so British.
00:37:11And it was so loud and, like, if he said something, everybody would shut up.
00:37:16It's about how you pay attention. It's about how jumpy you are.
00:37:20It's about how you respond. Why do you shout us at you?
00:37:24It's really sort of quite scary sometimes.
00:37:27They don't know me. They don't know what I want.
00:37:29They just know that they have been told to sit up straight and fold their hands in their laps and pay attention.
00:37:34Action.
00:37:36Stay away from me.
00:37:38Fine.
00:37:39You would say something to them and they'd say,
00:37:40Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Very good, sir. Yes, sir.
00:37:42And you'd think that's not it at all.
00:37:45These two called the twins, who are brothers to Rupert.
00:37:49Jamie's this side. Right. Okay. Jamie, you go first.
00:37:52Am I looking at the right bloke?
00:37:54I still can't remember which way round they are.
00:37:56But they're heavenly boys.
00:37:58Here we go. Master Juice, everybody.
00:38:00And I'd staged a little bit of action in the corner where they started a kind of...
00:38:05...a sort of pushing kind of thing, which I then wanted to ignite into something more serious.
00:38:13They did a very sort of stiff...
00:38:16I said, No, come on. You know it's not like that.
00:38:20Cut! Cut it! Cut, cut, cut.
00:38:24He comes over and looks over the top and he goes, Right, which one of you two wants to fight?
00:38:27Okay, who wants to fight?
00:38:28Like a fool, I said, Yes, okay, I will.
00:38:30On came one of them. I don't remember which one.
00:38:33You son!
00:38:35With me trying to bang his head on the stones and him trying to bang my head on the stones.
00:38:38And he starts, like, throwing me around. So I thought, Okay, I'll throw him round.
00:38:41The rest of the children couldn't believe what they were seeing.
00:38:44This director is rolling on the floor with so-and-so.
00:38:47One of the crew had left something on the floor.
00:38:49And as I threw him onto it, it turned out he bruised or cracked his reel or something like that.
00:38:53So I had to be helped up off the floor like the old man that I was.
00:39:03And, of course, they found the whole performance absolutely hysterical.
00:39:07And I, at that point, stepped over a line with them and they kind of knew I was all right.
00:39:13He let it all go and made it really unintense, unrestricted, which helped us immensely.
00:39:21He really had the characters going totally different to what we'd done before.
00:39:34The Goblet of Fire allowed us to expand beyond the walls of Hogwarts.
00:39:38We just were able to see that the Wizarding World was a much bigger world than we'd been accustomed to.
00:39:43Please greet the proud sons of Durmstrang.
00:39:52The Durmstrang and the Bobatons both have a much better opening chance than us.
00:39:56And I'm pissed off about this.
00:40:00Stan, you're a Durmstrang.
00:40:01Would you not agree that your blokes and the Bobatons have got a much better entrance?
00:40:06We met the Durmstrang's, the Bobatons, who, you know, were quite exotic by comparison to our, sort of, English public school.
00:40:15They come in doing martial arts.
00:40:17And then ours, ours is, um, the Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy-Warty Hogwarts, teach us something, please.
00:40:24Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy-Warty Hogwarts, teach us something, please.
00:40:29So we bid you truly welcome, you are a Foddy-Lot.
00:40:38Yes, I'm a Foddy-Lot.
00:40:40Yes, I'm a Foddy-Lot.
00:40:41Yes, I'm a Foddy-Lot.
00:40:42Yes, I'm a Foddy-Lot.
00:40:44Yes, I'm a Foddy-Lot.
00:40:45Yes, I'm a Foddy-Lot.
00:40:46Yes, I'm a Foddy-Lot.
00:40:47Yes, I'm a Foddy-Lot.
00:40:48Yes, I'm a Foddy-Lot.
00:40:49Yes!
00:40:50Yes, yes!
00:40:51Yes, yes!
00:40:53Excellent!
00:40:54We now have our three champions.
00:40:57We now have our three champions.
00:41:01I'm Clemence Poisy. I'm playing Claude Lacroix and Harry Potter.
00:41:06In a way, she is what English think a French girl would be.
00:41:10I mean, she's very chic and very, you know, she's perfect all the time.
00:41:16Victor Crumb is the Bulgarian seeker.
00:41:19He's described as more of a physical being rather than talkative.
00:41:24Cedric was already a pretty fully written character.
00:41:29He was a pretty significant part of the book.
00:41:39He's quite competitive.
00:41:42But he plays fair and he sticks to the rules like he should.
00:41:47So who's standing right next to you?
00:41:50Come on, get my name right.
00:41:53I don't know. I think it's just Ron.
00:41:56What's my name?
00:41:57When you look at the script, I think it's just Ron.
00:41:59It doesn't know my name.
00:42:00What's my name, Rob?
00:42:02What's my name?
00:42:03That's that one.
00:42:04Hi, Harry.
00:42:05That's that one.
00:42:06She's famous.
00:42:07That's plain rude.
00:42:09On Christmas Eve night, we and our guests gather in the Great Hall
00:42:14for a night of well-mannered frivolity.
00:42:25Harry falls completely in love with Jo Chang and asks her to the ball and she's already got a date.
00:42:30That's what I like about Harry is he's pathetic at the whole romance thing. He's rubbish.
00:42:37He's no good with girls. He's no good with dating. He doesn't know how to be around girls.
00:42:41I'm actually a really fantastic dancer, but because Harry's not very good, I felt I should play it down.
00:42:50He's a bit more mature now. He's got a bit more comfortable around girls, which is quite fun to do.
00:43:03Now, don't swing your arms, okay?
00:43:05What's happening is that you're coming on as a perfectly normally-dressed girl and you're not, okay?
00:43:13I was so nervous about the whole thing because it's meant to be such a big moment.
00:43:17No, it's lovely.
00:43:20I got down about three steps and fell down in front of the whole set, which was incredibly embarrassing.
00:43:29People barely recognize her. People are saying,
00:43:32Is that really Hermione Granger? Is that her?
00:43:36It's about, again, as usual, her feelings for royal. She won't leave the surface.
00:43:40The whole point of the tournament is magical international cooperation to make friends.
00:43:45Ron, he went through quite a hard time with that.
00:43:48I think he's got a bit more than friendship on his mind.
00:43:50There was a lot of jealousy going on and he wasn't in a good place at the ball.
00:43:53Are you going to ask me to dance or not?
00:43:55No.
00:43:56No.
00:43:57Alastor, Moody, Explorer.
00:44:16Ministry malcontent on your new defense against the dark arts teacher.
00:44:22You know, Mad-Eye's his own man, and when it comes down to it, he's a gunslinger with a wand.
00:44:29What appealed to me about him was the fact that he reminded me of some of the teachers of the old school.
00:44:34You need to know what you're up against. You need to be prepared.
00:44:38That whole notion of tough love and all that kind of thing.
00:44:42Brendan Gleeson has a real challenge in this to play a man who is not who he seems to be.
00:44:49And Brendan goes into such tiny, specific detail when he's making the character.
00:44:56He developed this wonderful shiver.
00:44:58They say I'm mad!
00:45:00Which, as soon as he'd had a pull on his flask, which everybody thought was booze,
00:45:06there would be this kind of...
00:45:10as it gets it up to the nerve ends.
00:45:12What was it like?
00:45:14What was he like?
00:45:16Who?
00:45:17The Dark Lord.
00:45:19Don't say his name.
00:45:20You know who?
00:45:21We do not speak his name.
00:45:22You know who?
00:45:27Whiter than a skull, with wide, livid, scarlet eyes.
00:45:32Voldemort had been talked about for so long, and the build-up to Voldemort arriving in the books is just immense.
00:45:38And a nose that was flat as a snake's, with slits for nostrils.
00:45:43I remember reading, and then his face turns round, when Voldemort's face turns round, and just thinking, wow, wow, wow.
00:45:49Lord Voldemort had risen again.
00:45:52How do you create that character who has such an effect on an entire universe that some people have followed him, and most certainly a huge number of people have been intimidated by him, and that he's a worthy adversary for not just Dumbledore, but ultimately our hero, the chosen one, Harry Potter.
00:46:14There was only one that we were truly interested in, and it was Rafe.
00:46:20I was just aware of it as a very successful franchise.
00:46:24I hadn't bought into it.
00:46:26And actually, the thing that made me excited was the artwork that Mike Newell showed me about the look of the character.
00:46:34There were a lot of tense discussions about his look.
00:46:37To his great credit, David Heyman, the producer, always said, you've got to make his face weirder than just a human face.
00:46:48And that's going to take you doing something with the nose, which Rafe and I were both vehemently opposed to.
00:46:58And then we did some drawings, and then Rafe suddenly said one day, you know, it's not half bad.
00:47:04The nose is flattened to suggest the physiognomy of a snake.
00:47:09It was just a gut feeling about, oh, that's an interesting and daring and challenging, hopefully scary look.
00:47:17We're approaching the graveyard set.
00:47:19We're approaching the graveyard set.
00:47:23Ooh!
00:47:27I can feel it. I can feel it.
00:47:35It wasn't going to slip on screen quietly.
00:47:37It came on and hit it with such ferocity and viciousness.
00:47:41There's something incredibly primal about what he does as Voldemort.
00:47:45When he popped up and he was very fleet of foot, he was like a dancer.
00:47:51He plays it with a lightness and a mercurialness and a sort of sensuality.
00:47:57There's attractiveness about it.
00:47:59Although he looks like some weird mixture of reptile and sort of broken, fallen angel, doesn't he?
00:48:05Fate, Harry.
00:48:06That's what brought us together 13 years ago.
00:48:11The hard thing is he's really a personification of, quote, evil, which I think is impossible to play.
00:48:17I mean, you want to feel there's a living mind and a brain behind any of these so-called villains.
00:48:24Where I start from is the idea of love is repulsive to Voldemort.
00:48:29You can't help thinking that he's been cheated of it.
00:48:31So, therefore, it becomes a thing to despise and to destroy.
00:48:35When dear sweet Lily Potter gave her life for her only son,
00:48:40she provided the ultimate protection.
00:48:44I could not touch him.
00:48:50It would be easy for Voldemort to become this kind of archetypal bad guy,
00:48:55but Rafe imbues him with some very scary corners.
00:48:58He wasn't just a block of ice.
00:49:00You could see that there were an enormous number of things that were going on just under the surface with him.
00:49:08You can't play the whole scene on one note, so you've got to look for the little gradations and nuances.
00:49:13So, you try things.
00:49:16How lies have fed your gun.
00:49:19Do you know where you're standing?
00:49:22Do you know where you're standing?
00:49:23In trying them, stuff happens.
00:49:25It gets more fluid.
00:49:26It gets more fluid, I suppose.
00:49:28More fully inhabited.
00:49:29No matter.
00:49:30Things have changed.
00:49:31Shh!
00:49:32I can touch you!
00:49:34Now!
00:49:36Mike Newell was quite keen that we didn't deny the moments of overt, visceral rage,
00:49:43and a sort of ecstatic rage, and a delight, in a way, a sort of sadistic delight in the power he's got.
00:49:50Attaboy, Harry!
00:49:52I think you can sometimes cheat yourself and the character, and indeed the audience, of those kind of red-blooded moments.
00:49:59At the same time, I tried to find a balance.
00:50:01Mike just said, don't go all subtle on me.
00:50:04Let me see a few moments of craziness.
00:50:08I didn't want to talk to Wraith that much, simply because I know that I'm not a good enough actor to actually be talking and then suddenly have to turn around and pretend that he's my worst enemy.
00:50:27Ten seventy-three, ten-two, B camera, A on the end.
00:50:30Maybe in ten, twenty years I might be able to do that, but now I know that I can't.
00:50:35Pick up your one, Potter.
00:50:37So I didn't want to get into big conversations with him just, you know, before we were doing takes and things.
00:50:41Don't you turn your back on me, Harry Potter! I want you to look at me when I kill you! I want to see the light leave your eyes!
00:50:49That's, I think, the most focused the set has ever been on all four films.
00:50:53There was a real sense that the last three films and everything we've done in the fourth film up to this point, it's all building up to this scene, to this confrontation with Voldemort.
00:51:03Explore!
00:51:05This is not only what a lot of the wizarding world have been waiting for, it's also what the audiences have been waiting for.
00:51:12Let's go!
00:51:16So I think we all felt quite a big sense of responsibility.
00:51:19Accio!
00:51:23Arrrgh!
00:51:29Nice cut!
00:51:30Arrrgh!
00:51:31300.
00:51:32Baw, let's do it again.
00:51:34Very good!
00:51:35Very good!
00:51:36Very good, very good.
00:51:37Alright, once again, right away.
00:51:39We'll print it!
00:51:40If the fourth film was all about young love
00:52:01and what it's like to discover the opposite sex,
00:52:04one of the emotional drives of this film
00:52:07is how we all have a right, really, to be quite complicated
00:52:10and have a difficult time when we're in our teenage years.
00:52:16The films are growing up. They're maturing.
00:52:20And we thought that David would handle that brilliantly.
00:52:23I'd just love to try one.
00:52:25Just where I walk straight up to him and he turns
00:52:29and he has that look of slight surprise on his face.
00:52:32And I dare him.
00:52:34Let's do it now. Let's do it now. Let's do it now.
00:52:36Yeah, cool.
00:52:44He always wants the atmosphere to be created in the room,
00:52:47which obviously I think is very important.
00:52:48It helps out whoever's in front of camera.
00:52:51If us behind camera are sort of playing up
00:52:53and really acting out the scene
00:52:55and it's not just sitting back and going through your lines.
00:52:57Here we go. So we've got to up the energy, guys.
00:53:00It doesn't feel like a dance.
00:53:01It doesn't feel like you're enjoying this moment.
00:53:04You've really got to give them a hand to help out.
00:53:07We need to really bounce back.
00:53:08Okay. Here we go. And action! Come on!
00:53:15He's more in the subtext
00:53:17into what the character is really thinking,
00:53:21not what he's saying.
00:53:22And just somehow, there's a big story between the two of them.
00:53:25Right.
00:53:26They've been on too many night...
00:53:27Night seems to go, yeah.
00:53:27Yeah, I can see them...
00:53:28Night seems to go, yeah.
00:53:28They've been on too many night seems to go, yeah.
00:53:30Yeah.
00:53:31It's one of the things I love about the job,
00:53:32that you're working with people who are interpreting characters
00:53:35and presenting characters.
00:53:36And one of my favorite bits of directing
00:53:39is exploring these characters with the actors who make them real.
00:53:43If I'm not pushed sort of relatively regularly,
00:53:48there is always a danger that I will get complacent.
00:53:50If you're doing a few scenes where you can sort of drift through it,
00:53:53you sort of start thinking,
00:53:54Oh, God, will I be able to really hack it
00:53:57when I get back into the big scenes?
00:53:58There's this moment where he's with Snape.
00:54:00It appears there is a connection
00:54:02between the Dark Lord's mind and your own.
00:54:05Whether he is as yet aware of this connection
00:54:07is, for the moment, unclear.
00:54:09And he's going through the whole occlumency lesson.
00:54:12It's a really interesting journey for Dan to take as an actor.
00:54:15You mean, if he knows about it,
00:54:17then he'll be able to read my mind?
00:54:20Read it. Control it. Unhinged.
00:54:25It's actually quite a complex bit of acting.
00:54:28And we were on, like, take seven.
00:54:29And I said, Well, just keep going, Dan.
00:54:31We'll just go straight for another take.
00:54:32We won't break it.
00:54:33And action.
00:54:34There is a connection between the Dark Lord's mind and your own.
00:54:38And reset once more.
00:54:39Reset, please.
00:54:40There you can do that.
00:54:41And I'll go for take eight, take nine, and we'll get to take 12.
00:54:45And action.
00:54:47And I can see the determination in his eyes
00:54:49that this time he's going to really make it sing.
00:54:51This time he's really going to crack that moment.
00:54:56It was very intense.
00:54:57We were in there for about three days.
00:54:59Concentrate.
00:55:00What a focus.
00:55:02I've never been as sort of as pushed as regularly as I am on this film.
00:55:07David Yates is fantastic at helping me to find new levels of character.
00:55:12It's one of the reasons I felt so good about coming back again...
00:55:15...was because, yeah, I'm back for a fifth time...
00:55:17...but David, he's really going to teach me something.
00:55:20I really love doing research for a character.
00:55:30And, like, I have to know everything.
00:55:31I have to understand every single...
00:55:32I'm practically a Harry Potter lexicon.
00:55:34Like, you could ask me anything and I would basically know the answer.
00:55:38I think Ivana beats me, but just narrowly.
00:55:42Hello, Harry Potter.
00:55:44I've been a fan for ages, so I always wanted to be in the films.
00:55:48And then when Luna came into book five, I was, I really want to be her, you know?
00:55:56Okay, so what books are you?
00:55:59Ivana.
00:56:00We did this casting call.
00:56:0215,000 people show up.
00:56:04I think we'd been anticipating a couple of thousand and it went bananas.
00:56:10The queue went around block after block after block.
00:56:15It was frightening to see how many kids came from all over the UK...
00:56:20...to audition for Luna.
00:56:22I wasn't nervous because, like, I know Luna so well and I was thinking...
00:56:26...someone has to get her, you know, and I could do it.
00:56:29It was a complete long shot that she was going to get the part...
00:56:32...but she came in and immediately you knew that she was special.
00:56:37Unfortunately, all my shoes have mysteriously disappeared.
00:56:41Personally, I suspect Nargo will be behind it.
00:56:45I thought I'm going to do my impression of Luna...
00:56:48...but my vision, what I think of her.
00:56:50I saw the tape and basically the gist of it was...
00:56:52...listen, if you don't cast me, that's okay.
00:56:54But, you know, you'll have made a big mistake.
00:56:56Because I am Luna.
00:56:58And I just want to be true to Luna, you know?
00:57:00And if you just don't like me, well, that's not my fault.
00:57:04It's just because you have a different image of Luna, you know?
00:57:06No, no, no, no.
00:57:08Oh, okay.
00:57:10And they were saying, oh, you come back for a screen test...
00:57:13...and you do a screen test with Diana Radcliffe.
00:57:15And I was, what, you know?
00:57:17I thought I'd be doing loads of auditions.
00:57:20This will tell.
00:57:21What's fascinating about Ivana is she's such a fan of Harry Potter.
00:57:25And when we're on the floor and we're working...
00:57:27...she becomes Luna because she's obsessed about her.
00:57:30Well, I think I'm more determined than her...
00:57:32...because I don't think she'd stand in a queue for a few hours.
00:57:35That's a Gryffindor trait, I think, really being determined about things.
00:57:39And that was the difference between her and all the other girls...
00:57:42...who we interviewed for the part.
00:57:43The others could play Luna.
00:57:45Ivana Lynch is Luna.
00:57:47This is the Black family tree.
00:57:53I hated the lot of them.
00:57:55My deranged cousin.
00:57:59There's a very evil goings-on in Black's history.
00:58:03Like my cousin.
00:58:05Then that tricks, let's trade.
00:58:09My cousin who's gone wobbly.
00:58:12She's got, obviously, a personality disorder.
00:58:21Harry Potter.
00:58:24Helena came in and we really threw it around the room.
00:58:27She was determined that we never took a straight line with Bellatrix.
00:58:32One, two.
00:58:33So Helena's did some really crazy stuff...
00:58:36...some of which has ended up in the film and some of which hasn't.
00:58:39To be or not to be.
00:58:43It's like an acting exercise, isn't it?
00:58:45I'm definitely milking every moment that I have.
00:58:48I've probably got about four lines.
00:58:49I keep on trying to give myself more lines.
00:58:52And if I start talking, Gary, just let me improvise.
00:58:55I won't stop you.
00:58:57I always had great fun creating the look of her.
00:59:00Originally, I think they sort of said, like, black sack.
00:59:03And I thought, I don't want to have a black sack.
00:59:04Because I've done witches before and I've done the hag look.
00:59:07And I thought, I've got to be sexier.
00:59:11I also had the feeling that, because she's been in prison for 14 years...
00:59:15...there's a dilapidated quality to her...
00:59:17...in the way that she was once intensely glamorous and very beautiful...
00:59:20...but it's sort of gone seed.
00:59:23You know, you can't dress Helena and say, this is it.
00:59:26Helena needs to be able to help create that costume...
00:59:29...because she's expressing that character.
00:59:32...so she needs to express the costume, too.
00:59:38A costume is really important.
00:59:40Sometimes I can't get a character and then suddenly you pop something on...
00:59:43...and it's like, oh, there it is.
00:59:44You know, the first day it was like, well, how does she walk?
00:59:46Because she's very clumsy.
00:59:47I thought maybe she'd walk, you know, with her legs out, you know, kind of...
00:59:50...and then tripping over.
00:59:51But the idea that she's trying to be an adult...
00:59:53...she's the youngest person in the Order of the Phoenix.
00:59:55So slowly they kind of developed it.
00:59:57You know, the boots were the first thing, I was wearing high heels, pointy bits...
01:00:00...and they're like, no, these big boots are...
01:00:02...that's what makes her sturdy and what trips her up a lot.
01:00:07We also wish to welcome our new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher...
01:00:11...Professor Dolores Umbridge.
01:00:13In the book, of course, she's described as very ugly and toad-like...
01:00:16...and I love people saying, oh, you'll be great for that part.
01:00:19Thanks so much.
01:00:21Because she's quite hard, I thought that was quite important...
01:00:24...to have a caring sort of look.
01:00:26So we've had a lot of fun with it.
01:00:28And the shape, just a little round, woolly person...
01:00:31...was just not very nice.
01:00:34I thought Imelda was very interesting to watch.
01:00:38No, I'm not doing it, but what I am saying...
01:00:40A lot of actors, you know, will do the same thing...
01:00:42...will have rehearsed it, decided how it's gonna be...
01:00:44...and just do it and do it and do it, whereas Imelda was very flexible.
01:00:48Like, every take would be something different.
01:00:51Things at Hogwarts are far worse than I feared.
01:00:54Things at Hogwarts are far worse than I feared.
01:00:58Things are far worse at Hogwarts than I'd imagined.
01:01:02She just sort of works her way at it and is very meticulous about it.
01:01:06Something you'd like to say, dear?
01:01:08Oh, there are several things I would like to say.
01:01:12Each term, as it were, there are fresh teachers that come in...
01:01:16...and give everybody a lift.
01:01:18Blah, blah, blah, blah. Disloyalty.
01:01:20Oh!
01:01:22It's a magic place to be.
01:01:26I don't think I can get it.
01:01:27Oh! Disloyalty.
01:01:30Yes.
01:01:33Minerva McGonagall and Loris Umbridge are two very distinct characters...
01:01:39...who are very different.
01:01:41But both characters are not what they seem on the surface.
01:01:43...and I think that's a very big element of Joe's books.
01:01:47...
01:02:05okay, yeah, this is what I want to do.
01:02:07I want to be an actor.
01:02:09But three was when I made that decision.
01:02:11And on five, I had a moment where there was a scene
01:02:13between myself and Sirius at the tapestry
01:02:16when Harry's wondering if he is turning into a bad person.
01:02:21And Sirius says,
01:02:22You're not a bad person.
01:02:26You're a very good person who bad things have happened to.
01:02:29And it's the absolute nine that sums up Harry's situation.
01:02:32Harry feels, I guess, it's a lot of shame and a lot of guilt.
01:02:37I just feel so angry all the time.
01:02:43And Sirius just basically says,
01:02:45We have a choice, and it's just what we do with it
01:02:49that matters, that defines who we are.
01:02:52You don't often get to do scenes like that.
01:02:56When I first saw that scene,
01:02:58it was the first time I looked at it and went,
01:02:59Well done. That was good.
01:03:03That was like proper acting then.
01:03:05You couldn't see the joints.
01:03:07And that is in part to do with the fact
01:03:09that I have Gary Oldman around at the time.
01:03:12And action.
01:03:13Dan adores Gary.
01:03:14He really respects him and his craft.
01:03:17It's just this whole thing at the beginning,
01:03:19you know, well, what's life without a little risk?
01:03:21I think it's a great privilege to see
01:03:24the way he'll take Dan aside and talk to him.
01:03:27How many films have you done?
01:03:29Forty-something.
01:03:30Forty-something.
01:03:31There must be now.
01:03:33How long have you been acting for?
01:03:3522 years.
01:03:36You have 40-odd films to 22.
01:03:39That's pretty good going, and stage work.
01:03:42Yeah, I did stage.
01:03:43I would do a movie, a stage, a movie, stage, a movie, stage.
01:03:46I just watch him, and I learn so much when he's around,
01:03:51and I think I raise my game.
01:03:52Your expression, fantastic.
01:03:54Even without knowing it, I raise the stakes of what I'm doing,
01:03:57just because I know he's involved.
01:04:16I'm a book purist, so I've read each one of them
01:04:29three or four times each.
01:04:31I actually read them before we start.
01:04:35I was quite late reading the last one.
01:04:39I did read it.
01:04:41Really?
01:04:42I did, yeah.
01:04:43I mean, I read it quite...
01:04:45I left it quite late.
01:04:46I was probably the last one to read it.
01:04:47In the world, ever?
01:04:49Probably.
01:04:49In the universe.
01:04:51Yeah, no, I really enjoyed the last book.
01:04:53Yes, I do.
01:04:55Don't listen to it, please.
01:04:57No, I'm glad you read it.
01:04:59I do believe you.
01:05:04Six.
01:05:05I mean, it's got its intensities and its dark moments,
01:05:08but it's actually quite fun.
01:05:09It's wonderful to see you.
01:05:11So, what brings you here?
01:05:12Oh, the three broomsticks and I go way back.
01:05:15Further than I'd care to admit.
01:05:17I remember it was just one broomstick.
01:05:21I've worked with Jim Broadbent before,
01:05:23and I knew his capacity for both comedy and for pathos
01:05:26would absolutely bring so much to the table for Sloghorn.
01:05:30We had a few conversations about his vulnerabilities and his strengths.
01:05:34It's a mad time to live in mad!
01:05:35Sort of homing in on the essentials of the character.
01:05:41Any ideas of what these might be?
01:05:46Yes, Miss...
01:05:47Granger, sir.
01:05:48For me, the feeling of this one for Hermione's character
01:05:50is that it's much more of a romantic comedy.
01:05:53It's much more about relationships.
01:05:55It's Susanne Wiltentia, the most powerful love potion in the world.
01:06:03That's my new one!
01:06:05I think Lavender, she's coming in to literally alleviate the darkness
01:06:10and to provide humour.
01:06:11This is actually where I had my screen test.
01:06:14We just gave her Rupert and said,
01:06:15OK, you're auditioning for Lavender Brown.
01:06:18Do something to Rupert that's very lavender.
01:06:21Within two minutes of meeting him,
01:06:23I'd lie on his lap and giggle.
01:06:26I'm your sweetheart.
01:06:29That's my one-one!
01:06:32I had to sit here and there was a big plate of biscuits
01:06:35and Rupert was sitting here and I had to lean across him
01:06:39and get a couple of biscuits.
01:06:41Do you want one?
01:06:43No, I'll do fine.
01:06:44And poor old Rupert sat there while Jesse kind of poured
01:06:48and sort of bounced all over him,
01:06:53doing very sort of Lavender Brown-ish things.
01:06:57We didn't sort of kiss or anything, which I was sort of expecting.
01:07:00So embarrassing!
01:07:01Can't believe.
01:07:03Tweet it! Tweet it!
01:07:06Ron uses her, really, to instill jealousy in Hermione
01:07:10and in the end, the extreme of Lavender's character
01:07:14actually causes, you know, Ron to see the greatness in Hermione
01:07:18and what they should be together.
01:07:20These girls are going to kill me, Harry.
01:07:24People, I think, underestimate Rupert as an actor
01:07:26because he is so funny and he makes it all look so easy.
01:07:30Hello, darling.
01:07:32What's your drink?
01:07:33I've sat in screenings with audiences who've watched what Rupert can do
01:07:36and he obviously connects with them really brilliantly.
01:07:40That's the comfort zone the audience have with him.
01:07:43It's Rupert.
01:07:43He'll be funny and appealing,
01:07:45but he can do really serious, straight stuff.
01:07:49And we're seeing stuff Rupert doing in The Hallows Part 1
01:07:53and Hallows Part 2, which is really grown up and dark.
01:07:57You're watching, oh, God, it's really powerful.
01:07:59As an actor, your job is to be somebody else.
01:08:06And I love that.
01:08:07I love the challenge of playing somebody else.
01:08:09But when you're playing the same character for so many years,
01:08:11it can get quite tedious.
01:08:13But I was quite lucky with Neville in terms of
01:08:16he evolves so much over the years
01:08:19that every time I come back, it's like playing somebody else.
01:08:22Expelliarmus!
01:08:23Look at him.
01:08:25He can do spells now.
01:08:27He's not as shy as he used to be.
01:08:28He's not as vulnerable.
01:08:29He stands up for himself, stands up for his friends.
01:08:31And every year just bringing a little bit more into it,
01:08:34a little bit more and adding layers.
01:08:36And that is even more challenging than playing somebody else completely.
01:08:40Everyone, please, quiet, please.
01:08:43Shut it!
01:08:45Thanks.
01:08:46In order to focus where your character moves for each film from the book,
01:08:51you've kind of got to bring the character on, you know, in each step.
01:08:55Because otherwise, you'd just be playing the same sort of tone throughout.
01:08:58I think in the first few ones, she's really shy
01:09:00and she gets really embarrassed around Harry and, you know, other people.
01:09:03She's kind of quite contained.
01:09:05But as the books go on, I think she understands
01:09:07he isn't just a chosen one and he isn't this special character.
01:09:10He's just who he is.
01:09:11And I think that's kind of why they end up together.
01:09:16It's all about truth and honesty
01:09:23and finding the reality and humanity in each character,
01:09:26whether they be on the light side or on the dark side.
01:09:29Roll, please!
01:09:34You see, you can't do this!
01:09:36You can't be trusted!
01:09:38The Dark Lord trusts him.
01:09:40The Dark Lord is taken.
01:09:44Avada Kedavra!
01:09:46There is this deep, dark secret that Snape is carrying
01:09:52and I always wanted that to be obvious.
01:09:54From the very first time Snape looks at Harry,
01:09:57and you've seen the first film,
01:09:58when Snape is looking at Harry,
01:10:00there's something much, much deeper going on.
01:10:04Harry, what is it?
01:10:06Where shall I...
01:10:07Nothing.
01:10:07Nothing.
01:10:07I'm fine.
01:10:09I don't think anybody but Joanne Rowling is sure about him.
01:10:14You know, he seems to be one thing
01:10:18and then constantly pulls the rug out from under your feet.
01:10:23A second, a second!
01:10:24Well, here's the thing, is that he had a separate conversation
01:10:32during the first movie with Jo Rowling.
01:10:34So, Alan knew something that none of us knew.
01:10:38He may have known the secret that exists in Book 7.
01:10:40I don't know.
01:10:41He never told us.
01:10:42He said he knew something.
01:10:43And his performance was based on that conversation.
01:10:45Do you dare use my own spells against me, Potter?
01:10:52Yes.
01:10:54I'm the half-blood prince.
01:10:58The space that Alan puts between words sometimes,
01:11:01you can feel an entire auditorium hanging on that pause,
01:11:06and they absolutely adore it.
01:11:08I can't change the Dark Lord's mind.
01:11:10But it might be possible for me to help Draco.
01:11:16Is it true, he said?
01:11:18They're saying all that down the train
01:11:20that Harry Potter's in this compartment.
01:11:22So it's you, is it?
01:11:23Yes, said Harry.
01:11:25He was looking at the other boys.
01:11:26Both of them were thickest and looked extremely mean.
01:11:29Standing either side of the pale boy,
01:11:30they looked like bodyguards.
01:11:31Oh, this is Crabb and this is Goyle,
01:11:33said the pale boy carelessly, noticing when Harry was looking.
01:11:36And my name's Malfoy.
01:11:38Draco Malfoy.
01:11:38He starts off as the ultimate sort of slimy-haired git, if you will,
01:11:44and he slowly, very slowly, matures to the sixth film
01:11:48where he realizes that he, you know,
01:11:50he wants more than just a sort of two-dimensional relationship with Harry.
01:11:53He wants to get involved, so to speak.
01:11:57Enjoy the ride back to London.
01:11:59I think it's been quite frustrating for Tom.
01:12:03Take your hands off me, you filthy scrim!
01:12:04In the fifth and the fourth and the third films,
01:12:07because Tom had so much more to give.
01:12:10I don't want your help.
01:12:13Don't you see that I have to do this?
01:12:15I have to.
01:12:16I was so glad when I read the script that he had such a big role.
01:12:21And action!
01:12:24It's like seeing a new character.
01:12:28Because Malfoy becomes so much more complex, conflicted.
01:12:32You see him struggle with his own identity
01:12:34and the task that Voldemort's given him.
01:12:36The thought of someone seeing him this week
01:12:38is like, I mean, that's the moment we should explore.
01:12:42Sure.
01:12:42I think as well as the emotion.
01:12:43All right, well, if we play around with it and you, uh, yeah.
01:12:46Give us a thumbs up when it's a good one.
01:12:48All right, man.
01:12:50David and I have had great fun sort of talking about where he is
01:12:53in each individual scene in mind state
01:12:55and what's he thinking.
01:12:57And it certainly gives you a lot more things to play with, really.
01:13:03Serious.
01:13:04Serious.
01:13:07Please.
01:13:09Avada, Kedavra.
01:13:13The thing that Dumbledore's death did was to steal Harry
01:13:15and to really focus him on the task ahead
01:13:18because before he was the foot soldier who was under orders
01:13:22and now it was different.
01:13:23Now he was the one who was having to make the plans.
01:13:31So if you were to turn into Bonnie's shoulder there,
01:13:34just show us what that might look like.
01:13:36Uh, yeah, that's it.
01:13:38And, Bonnie, if you were to just put your arm around Dan,
01:13:41you just hold him because he needs to be held now.
01:13:44That's it.
01:13:46That's a great shape.
01:13:48If it feels comfortable.
01:13:49I think it is.
01:13:50That's a great shape.
01:13:51Yeah.
01:13:52Thanks, guys.
01:13:52Come on.
01:13:53Quick as you can.
01:13:53Come on.
01:13:54Come on.
01:13:54Come to me.
01:13:55Everyone had read the books and it was such a big moment for all the fans.
01:14:00All right.
01:14:01So let's stand by for your husband, everyone.
01:14:03Within Hogwarts, it's obviously quite a thing to see, you know, someone you look up to just
01:14:08completely lying there and I think it was difficult for, for all of us.
01:14:13In the series of stories, this is a very big deal.
01:14:17All right.
01:14:18So we have to create an atmosphere here that you can cut with a knife that we can all feel.
01:14:24And it's not happening.
01:14:25All right.
01:14:26It's very emotional.
01:14:27It's very moving.
01:14:28And if we can feel it collectively, then we might get something special this evening.
01:14:33All right.
01:14:34So you have to all start tuning in and making it quite real.
01:14:38Otherwise, we're wasting our time.
01:14:40Okay.
01:14:41All right.
01:14:42So let's go for it, guys.
01:14:43Let's see.
01:14:44Everyone in position.
01:14:45After a few takes, slowly, everyone did kind of feel that same feeling.
01:14:49I think that was really amazing.
01:14:51Kind of in the middle of the take, you could not really hear anyone breathing or anyone
01:14:55kind of making a noise.
01:14:56And everyone was concentrating on one thing.
01:15:03Dan said to me once, you know, if we have a challenge with the scene, he says, you know,
01:15:08one of the reasons I find it difficult reaching for this is because, you know, my experience
01:15:12of the world is quite limited.
01:15:16But as he gets older and he starts to move into his own adulthood, he suddenly decides
01:15:21how challenging the world can be, you know, as a young man.
01:15:25And that's kind of parallel with how Harry starts to grow and mature in terms of dealing
01:15:30with Voldemort and the dark forces.
01:15:33You know, and Dan carries a lot as an actor as well, I think.
01:15:37I mean, it's extraordinary.
01:15:38I don't know how he or Emma or Rupert sometimes deal with it so brilliantly.
01:15:42I didn't feel a huge amount of pressure.
01:15:47It's only recently I've started to feel pressure.
01:15:50It's not pressure to please other people.
01:15:53It's pressure to please myself now.
01:15:55It's pressure to make sure I know I'm doing as much as I can.
01:16:01It can get tough because you can start becoming self-conscious and full of doubts and things
01:16:05about whether what you're doing is actually any good.
01:16:08Especially when you've been doing it with one character for a long time.
01:16:11But, you know, you have to sort of power through that
01:16:13and just keep giving as much and just trust the director
01:16:15to be able to guide you in the right direction.
01:16:19At the beginning, I was so sure of who she was.
01:16:23Griffith North!
01:16:26At the beginning, she was just this bossy little girl
01:16:28and she wasn't very real.
01:16:31And now I feel like I'm playing somebody very real and very complex
01:16:36and I think it's got harder. I think it's got a lot harder.
01:16:48Here we are talking as we're filming the seventh film.
01:16:52And we've had the most incredible cast.
01:16:55I mean, we've been very lucky. People want to be a part of it.
01:16:58What's your favorite part of it?
01:16:59Harry!
01:17:00Everyone!
01:17:01Everyone!
01:17:02Everyone!
01:17:03You've got these wonderful actors
01:17:05who I would dream of building a movie around.
01:17:09And in Potter, I get them for five minutes
01:17:11and they come in and they do their bit and it's great.
01:17:14And then we move on.
01:17:15So it's a real privilege.
01:17:21Hard to believe.
01:17:22It'll be us leaving one day.
01:17:24It's impossible to say really why these films are so popular,
01:17:29but something about those three, Harry and Hermione and Ron,
01:17:34exploring the themes of friendship and betrayal and trust
01:17:39and fear and courage and love has engrossed the whole world.
01:17:44And the relationship between the three of them in the films
01:17:48simply has translated into life.
01:17:55There they are.
01:17:56They have the same relationship between Rupert, Dan and Emma
01:17:59as between the characters.
01:18:01Obviously, we've been through a lot together.
01:18:04We've been through this whole experience together
01:18:06and we've got quite a strong bond in that sense.
01:18:10To see them on film and to see how far they've come,
01:18:13they've really developed into some fine, wonderful actors.
01:18:16A lot of the audience have grown up with them.
01:18:20And that's unique.
01:18:27There's a set of characters here that you've seen mature
01:18:30and develop and change.
01:18:31I think that's kind of a beautiful thing.
01:18:36There's probably no series quite like that.
01:18:38There's probably no series quite like that.
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