more articles on the trio and hp.
Daily Mail
The The Daily Mail has a interesting article called "Move over
Hermione - there are three new girls vying for Harry Potter's
attentions", this article touches Harry's story and also the actors
from this movie:
"Today, though, there is nothing naive about Daniel Radcliffe, who
is 18 in three weeks. He walks confidently into the room in a grey
suit, black shirt and silver tie which give him more of a touch of
Al Capone than Harry Potter.
Compared to Rupert, the same age, who lopes along beside him, all
shaggy red hair, jeans and T-shirt, Daniel seems aeons ahead in
sophistication. Perhaps appearing naked for the recent sell-out run
of Equus in London's West End has led to Daniel's startling new
maturity and stature.
Emma, the daughter of two lawyers and the only one of the three
main characters still at school - she is at the £11,000-a-year
Headington School in Oxford where she is studying for A levels -
said: "You have your first cigarette or glass of alcohol in a safe
environment with friends, or you choose to do it in a nightclub and
you come out and you can't walk.
Emma says: "If I'm having boy troubles I'll occasionally track down
Rupert and say, 'What is going on here, I don't understand.'"
Daniel quickly interjects: "Don't ask what she means by boy
troubles!"
Daniel, an only child, who lives with his parents - his father is a
literary agent, his mother a casting agent - in Fulham, West
London, is said to be likely to come into the £20 million fortune
he has earned through his acting on his 18th birthday on July 23.
That's just two days after the final book is published.
But one thing's for sure, Harry the heartthrob will work his
magic."
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How Harry Potter and friends grew up
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They have spent almost half their lives on Harry Potter film sets,
growing up in the magical but fictional world of Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The Harry Potter cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma
Watson
But now, as the final book of J K Rowling's seven-part series is
about to be released and the fifth film, Harry Potter and the Order
of the Phoenix, arrives in cinemas on July 12, a world without
Harry Potter is looming for the films' three young stars.
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint took time this week
- production on the next film does not start until September - to
ponder their pasts and speculate about what the future holds when
they leave Hogwarts.
Radcliffe, 17, has already briefly shed his Harry Potter wizard
robes for a well-received West End stint as the troubled young man
who blinds horses in Equus. He has a film, The December Boys,
awaiting release and is due to begin work on another, My Boy Jack,
soon.
His height - 5ft 6in - would probably preclude a career as an
action hero, but then his ambitions lie elsewhere. He has a keen
sense of humour and a quick wit and, with Peter Sellers as his role
model, has his sights on dramatic and light-comedy parts.
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"It was fantastic to do Equus but I'm not under the false
impression that doing one different role will make people suddenly
see me as an actor in my own right rather than the actor who plays
Harry Potter," he said. "I think if I continue to do other
interesting roles, hopefully people will start to see me
differently."
Daniel was talking in a suite at Claridge's Hotel, having slipped
virtually unnoticed past the paparazzi, dressed in a black T-shirt
with the slogan: "Flying Saucers for Everybody". "It would probably
be my policy if I was to run any kind of government," he
deadpans.
"Somebody asked me today what I would do if I was a leader of a
country and it would be flying saucers and unicycles - everybody
needs a unicycle in life."
He has, he says, been plagued by strange dreams lately, although he
cannot lay the blame at Harry Potter's door. "I've dreamt I'm being
stalked by an England cricketer. I don't know what prompted it -
although I've been watching huge amounts of cricket - but for some
reason Andrew Strauss was being paid to stalk me. I woke up with a
cricket bat in my hand."
On July 9, Radcliffe will cement his stardom by placing his hand
prints on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, but he still finds the idea
"really bizarre". "It's one of the things I get embarrassed about
because it's such a massive honour. It's a very exciting
prospect."
Despite having been in the eye of the Harry Potter storm for most
of their childhoods, Radcliffe and his two co-stars seem remarkably
well-adjusted and down to earth. "People ask me if I think I've had
a normal childhood - and if a normal childhood is being healthy and
happy, then I have," he says.
"I don't feel I've missed out on anything. Perhaps I've grown up
slightly faster than some other people my age simply because from
the age of 11 I've been surrounded by more adults than kids. I've
had a working relationship with adults and that does change how you
develop and mature. You possibly do grow up slightly faster.
"The other day, somebody said the last Harry Potter film will
probably be released in 2010. I don't know how true that is, but if
it's the case then that will have been 10 years of my life and
that's a huge chunk, so I'll be sad because it will be the end of
an era in a way. But I equally imagine it will be quite exciting to
be out of that world."
Daniel is as interested as any of the millions of Harry Potter fans
in finding out Harry's fate when the seventh and final book in the
series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is out. "I have no
idea what will happen," he says. "There's certainly a possibility
that Harry might die. I've been told that people in Las Vegas are
placing bets over whether he'll live or die, which is hilarious.
Will it make me sad? No. I think if Harry dies in a heroic way,
it's a good way for him to go."
Emma Watson, at 16 the youngest of the trio, has grown into an
attractive young woman over the course of the films, but she is
probably the least confident in her own abilities. While she sees a
lot of her Hermione Granger character in herself - "We're both very
stubborn, determined, loyal, academic feminists" - she believes any
acting talent she has is instinctive and is unsure whether it will
be enough to carry her on in after Harry.
"I'll feel a bit lost when it all finishes, I guess," she says.
"It's hard to imagine life without Harry Potter. It's made up such
a big part of my life and dominated so much time. It'll be really
weird.
"Never having done an audition before and never having done any
professional acting and going into the biggest film franchise of
all time, I've kind of come from nowhere and gone straight in at
the top. Where do I go from here? I feel like I need to backtrack
and work my way through again. I'd be really interested to kind of
train properly because I feel I shouldn't be here. I should have
done so much more."
What she has gained, however, is valuable experience, and she had
grown sufficiently in confidence to ask David Yates, the director
of Order of the Phoenix, whether she was contractually obliged to
do so many takes. (Yates, who likes 30 or so takes, gave a polite
yes.)
"I got thrown in the deep end on the first one, but the Harry
Potter films have been a pretty amazing acting school," she says.
"When I got the part, the only thing I had apparently was some
natural acting ability. I didn't know anything about making a film,
and there was so much technically I had to learn and
understand.
"I spent the first two films just constantly being in awe, not
really knowing if I was doing it right, if I was any good or why I
was there.
"I've worked with four directors now, all of different
nationalities, ages and personalities and I've worked with animals,
with huge amounts of special effects and stunts. And I feel like
I've seen and done a lot, so I'm quite lucky and I feel I'm pretty
well set up for any other project I take on. This is my fifth time
around, and I feel so much more confident in my ability as an
actress."
Watson, who was wearing blue Diesel jeans and a pink Chanel top, is
being paid a reported £2 million for each of the final two films in
the series, but insists that her drawn-out contractual negotiations
were not money-motivated. "It was more about juggling my A-level
exams, going to university and doing the movies," she says.
Apart from clothes, her biggest expense so far has been a laptop,
although she will be buying a car as soon as she has passed her
driving test. "I'm taking lessons, but it's so hard," she groans.
"I had no idea."
She, too, is eagerly awaiting the final book. "It feels as if I've
been waiting for ever. I really want to know what happens. There's
a guy who claims he's been able to hack into J K Rowling's account,
and he's saying that Hermione's gong to die, and I found myself
getting sad. I hadn't contemplated her dying."
Watson, whose parents divorced when she was five, plans to take a
gap year, go to university. And then, if things go as planned, with
Hermione Granger behind her, she will return to acting. "I'm still
growing up, changing all the time, and I hope I'm talented enough
to take on another character. I guess that will be a test of
whether I can really act."
Of the trio, 18-year-old Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley,
appears the least concerned about the end of the franchise.
He has appeared in two other films - Thunderpants and Driving
Lessons - and, since leaving school at 16, he has spent much of his
time on the golf course when not on the Harry Potter set.
"Cool" is his favourite adjective; it applies particularly to the
ice cream truck he has bought and drives around
Hertfordshire.
"I don't know why I bought it, but it's really cool," he says.
"I've always had an interest in the ice cream industry. It's really
cool; it's got a freezer in the back and a big kitchen with sinks.
It's got a bell that plays a tune. It's really cool.
"The last few years have just been really fun all the time. I've
enjoyed every moment of it. I suppose socially you miss out on a
bit, like you don't get as much free time with your mates, but when
I'm on the set I'm working with people I'm really close to because
we've been doing it for so long now. I just have a good time doing
it.
"I've learned a lot of set stuff because when I first started I'd
only done a few school plays. If I can, I'd like to sort of carry
on with acting."
He finds it "cool" that people recognise him in the street,
although, he says, "It's something I'm still trying to get my head
around." For the happy-go-lucky Grint, a death scene for Ron
Weasley in the final film would also be "cool", but it is not
something that he has thought too much about.
"It would be quite cool to have a death scene if it was a really
cool battle scene, but I don't have any theories," he says. "It's
going to be really sad when it all ends, and it's going to be weird
because it's been a big part of my life.
"But I've got to do other things after Harry Potter so I'll just
see what happens. I've still got my ice cream van if it doesn't all
work out, so I'll be all right."
