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HP & Order of the Phoenix Update

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With filming on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix now over five weeks in, we talked to the three stars and producer David Heyman about the film, and the franchise’s latest director, David Yates, at last night’s Sony Ericsson Empire Awards, and they’re promising great things for the fifth film.

“We’re doing the fifth Harry Potter at the moment, which is going really really well,†gushed Daniel Radcliffe. “The new director’s fantastic. I’ve never been quite this pushed before, so regularly. He’s really pushing Harry’s emotional and psychological journey. But he also seems to have an incredible eye for sets and shoots and things.â€

Rupert Grint is similarly cheery about new guy Yates. “Yeah, he’s really cool. We’re really getting on well. He’s a lot different from the other directors though. He’s a bit calmer, and he doesn’t really get stressed out at all, and he’s just a really nice bloke.â€

Producer David Heyman told us what they’ve filmed to date. “We’ve done a little bit of action so far. We’ve done some stuff involving centaurs and Grawp, who is Hagrid’s 16ft brother. The kids have to act against a lot of blue screen for characters like Grawp, but thankfully they’re used to that by now.â€

Heyman also talked a little about the challenge of adapting the mammoth fifth book. “Inevitably with every book you make choices and there are certain things you have to leave out, so there are things that are left out on this. It always kills me, but you have to do it. We showed the script to Jo a couple of months ago, and she was very happy with it, so I think it’s a good adaptation.â€

The fifth book is not universally popular (Emma Watson said she “really didn’t like†it, relative to the other ones), but Daniel Radcliffe is going against the flow. “It’s actually my favourite. The third and the fifth are my favourites, which is a very uncommonly held opinion.â€

“I think the problem is that Harry can be seen to come across as quite petulant in the book, and I don’t actually think that’s the case,†he explained. “I think when JK Rowling puts things in capital letters I don’t think that necessarily means he’s shouting. It could just refer to the sort of energy behind what he’s saying. I think that’s one of the things that people object to about the book, is that they don’t want a manic-depressive superhero.†Both he and Heyman assure us that Harry will not be just a petulant teen in the film version.

Meanwhile, we spoke to Jason Isaacs to ask if he'd be back as Lucius Malfoy. "I hope so - you'll have to ask David. I can't bear the idea that somebody else would get to wear my Paris Hilton wig, but you never know."

So how much longer is filming going to take? “We’re actually shooting until the middle of May,†said Heyman, “and then we break up for two months so the kids can do exams. Then we pick up in July and we shoot until October or November.†Wish Watson and Radcliffe luck with those exams in the middle, and with any luck we’ll see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by November 2007.

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Daniel Radcliffe: Free meat worldwide on July 23, 2007
Emma Watson: Free meat worldwide on April 15, 2008
Rupert Grint: Free meat worldwide on August 24, 2006

DANNY & RUPERT'LL BE GAME BY THE TIME THIS ONE OPENS EH!!!!11! Of course you lucky Brits and other countries/states where the age is only 16, you can already formulate devious plots & plans...
 
I just watched GOF this weekend. I remember hearing from Emma that Mike Newell really pushed her, and took her acting to new levels.

IMHO, she STUNK in that movie. Grint wasn't much better, and Radcliffe was just ok. These kids just can't hold the screen with the likes of Gambon, Richardson, Rickman, and Oldman.

But that Cho Chang! RWAAAOW! An Asian chick with a Scottish accent?? ME LIKEY LOTS.
 
I agree that Grint is a non-entity at this point, and Watson had moments but not a cohesive character. But Radcliffe is getting a lot better IMHO.

None of these 3 will be great adult actors, but they'll be rich enough not to care...
 
OOTP is a good book. But let's be honest, Harry does come across as a complete tosser in it. Which actually fair shakes to Rowling is pretty much accurate for young teens.

The pacing is different for sure as well, and Grawp is just a sucky side plot that I am shocked they are bringing into the movie. Probably to give Coltrane something to do I imagine, but I thought he would of been axed or have a seriously diminished part.

The action is OK I guess, but doesn't have the same punch as the Cedric Diggory scene from GOF which wasn't very well translated to screen to be honest.

It has an excellent George and Fred Weasley moment in it though that should be pretty funny on screen.

Oldman will have to be back for this one, he wasn't in GOF, I think they used a different voice actor for his fireplace scene, could be wrong. He is kinda integral to OOTP though, so it will be good to have him back.


I assume that OOTP will suffer from the same choppiness that was prevalant in GOF unless they add another 20-30 minutes to the running time. It's even longer than GOF, I believe.

And Lupin will be back! And now introducing Nymphodor Tonks! Holla!

Who knows, I'm sure it will be great if not outstanding.


And Emma needs to get some damn cleavage showing this time around. You knows that.
 
^^Yup, agreed. I gottal learn more about the actress who played Cho Chang. I wonder if she really has a burr??? Sex-eh!!
 
^She is really Scottish. There were arcticles about her in EVERY SCOTTISH NEWSPAPER EVER when she got the part. I think it was an open audition and it was her first acting role.
 
Katie Leung
Date of birth (location)
8 August 1987
Motherwell, Scotland, UK

5' 6½" (1.69 m)

Katie Liu Leung was born in Scotland to Peter and Kar Wai Li Leung, who are now divorced. She lives at home with her father, two brothers and one sister. She is currently attending one of Scotland's most prestigious private schools, Hamilton College.

Katie's father saw an advertisement for a casting call and suggested Katie try out. Katie objected when she saw the length of the line at the casting auditions and said she'd rather go shopping. She waited for a total of 4 hours before she got in. The audition for her only took 5 minutes and the next two weeks, she got called in for a workshop and from then on, she got the part as Cho Chang.

Trivia

Beat out over 3,000 girls to make her debut as 'Cho Chang' in 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.'

Parents are Kar Wai Li & Peter Leung (divorced)

Attended Hamilton College, a prestigious £5000-a-year private school in located in Hamilton, Scotland. Since finishing school in May 2005, Katie wants to either study art at university or embark on an acting career.

Author J.K. Rowling insisted that the actress to play Cho had to be a complete unknown.

According to her father, she had never been in a school play and went for the audition "on a whim"..

Her dad runs a successful restaurant in Glasgow & a thriving Chinese food wholesale business

Lives in a £400,000 house

Lives with her father, two brothers and a sister in an exclusive district of Motherwell, Scotland.

She achieved pass results in English, maths, chemistry, biology and art in her Highers (Scottish high school exams).

Can speak Cantonese (Chinese dialect)

Parents are originally from Hong Kong

[September 2005] She plans to defer going to university so she can continue to play Cho Chang in the 'Harry Potter' films.
Personal quotes

[on acting] "I wouldn't want to be in a film because I'm Asian. I want to get respect as an actress."

[on hate sites regarding her and her role in Harry Potter] "This kind of stuff is inevitable because Dan has so many female fans - millions of them - so I'm nor surprised some of them don't like me. But I don't think it's all based on jealousy. I'm not going to satisfy everyone's preconceptions of Cho."

[on playing Cho] "If this turns out to be my only film then I think it would be pretty cool to be known as Harry Potter's first crush."
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Is that a faint fap fap fap fap fap fap I hear in the distance? :bigass:
 
All this and a Scottish accent...I am so there...

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She does actually sound like the perfect girl for me (cute, young, local, has money) and I'm currently unmarried, which is a bonus in my direction!
 
She achieved pass results in English, maths, chemistry, biology and art in her Highers (Scottish high school exams).
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OMG, the exact same ones I did! Except I failed chemistry. And didn't do art. And did others she didn't. BUT CLOSE.
 
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