Pottermore has released a new interview with a Fantastic Beasts crew member. Acclaimed stunt coordinator, Eunice Huthart spoke with the Pottermore Correspondent about the fantastic stunts in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Unfortunately, the correspondent “can’t, in good conscience, tell you about them.”
What the interview does tell us is that Huthart and her team of twelve action scene experts have done a lot to bring the film’s characters to life– and that Eddie Redmayne has an affinity for dangerous stunt work.
‘Eddie’s great. We just tell Eddie what to do and he does it,’ she says, sitting cross-legged on the floor next to me. ‘I have never had to talk him into doing anything. Eddie’s just like, “Come on guys, what are we doing now? Bigger, faster, harder!” It’s more a case of me telling him, “Eddie, we can’t do that!” We need to make sure he can work tomorrow, you know.’
Huthart is also excited to work with director David Yates:
My whole job is delivering what David thinks up, so I have to pick my moments and just bombard him with 200 questions whenever I can. It helps me set the action for this film especially, because it’s so character-based. We’re not just doing action for action’s sake here, we are doing it in character. Some of the stunts on this film are great. I’m just here the whole time thinking, I get to work with David Yates, how lucky am I? It’s mental.
Too bad the Pottermore Correspondent won’t share the details!
To read the full interview, visit Pottermore, here.
Leaky was on the red carpet at Leavesden Studios yesterday interviewing the cast and crew of the Harry Potter films about their favourite bits of the WB Studio Tour, the current projects they're working on and what they think the studio will do for the future of British filmmaking. The red carpet coverage is now online and can be found at the LeakyNews YouTube channel or embedded below.
Those interviewed include Tom Felton, Evanna Lynch, Bonnie Wright, Harry Melling, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Newell, Nick Dudman, David Barron, David Heyman, George Harris and more. You can check out the video below, which also includes a clip of David Bradley (Argus Filch) talking about his upcoming role on Doctor Who and the ways in which it's different from playing Filch. Devin Lytle and Brian Rosenthal from Team StarKid were also there to tell us about their favourite parts of the WB Studio Tour.
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Has this made you more excited for the studio tour and how hard will you be looking at the tables for the profanity Tom scratched in?!
Warner Bros.' monthly Harry Potter newsletter has a brand new interview with Nicholas Hooper in which he talks about his experiences scoring "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." In the interview Mr. Hooper comments that the journey to the cave was his favourite scene to score in the sixth film and that "[upon hearing] it performed by the hug...
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Thanks to our friends at Oclumencia for pointing us to a series of interviews with Vira-Tempo blog where director David Yates and several of the cast members discuss the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD. Links can be found here: Dan Radcliffe, David Yates, Rupert Grint, Bonnie Wright, and Emma Watson. Of interest are new comments from Dan Radcliffe and David Yates on that Bl...
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Last night in the UK, two more behind the scenes specials on the making of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince were aired. While both contained many interviews with cast and crew, of note were the new clips from HBP, and we have them both now in our video galleries. SPOILER caution: At approx 15 min here in the Sky Movies special with Alex Zane, you can now watch the intense Unbreakable Vow...
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As posted before UK Channel 4 was set to broadcast a special on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Recorded during the London premiere of the film in Leicester Squarey, thanks to our Order partner BonnieWrightOnline, you can now watch the show with part one here, part two here, and part three here. In the program you can see footage of many of the cast and crew, as well as interviews condu...
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Thanks to the folks from the Kyle and Jackie show who let us know about the Australian radio program that went to London for the premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. At this link,you can see new video interviews with the cast and crew on the soggy wet carpet, as well as hear a brand new radio interview here with Rupert Grint, Bonnie Wright and Jessie Cave.
Thanks so much guys!
Attention magazine fans! The new edition of Movie Magic magazine contains a large feature on Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Thanks to Megan from Magical-Menagerie, we can now preview part of the magazine, as seen in these scans which features interviews with the Trio, Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright and more. Notable are new comments from producer David Heyman on the opening scene of Harry P...
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The Telegraph Magazine has a new indepth feature on the creative team behind the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. In a lovely rare feature, the newspaper features the men and women who create the gorgeous sets, amazing props and effects seen in all of the Harry Potter films over the years. At this link, you can see scans of the newspaper insert which has interviews with many of ...
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The Baltimore Sun is running a new article today, featuring an interview with Harry Potter film director David Yates, and also contains new comments from screenwriter Steve Kloves. Mr. Kloves is very complimentary of working with David Yates, and also speaks to the task of transforming the beloved Harry Potter novels by J.K. Rowling to the big screen. Of interest are the following comments: "K...
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As we told you previously, there were to be new preview footage and cast interviews broadcast this weekend on ABC Family. We now have the first new clips available here in our video galleries.
In the footage we see short new interviews with actors Dan Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson, as well as director David Yates and producer David Heyman. Most of the footage we have seen before, howe...
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