New Half-Blood Prince Posters and Interviews

Four new character posters for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came out yesterday. Paired up are Snape and Dumbledore, Harry and Draco, Ron and Fenrir, and Hermione and Slughorn. Click the thumbnail to view the Hermione poster. Thanks to Leaky and Cinematical.

Wizard Universe posted a new interview with Emma Watson a few days ago which I’ve added below. They also spoke with Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint.

What is Hermione’s big moment and big sequence in the sixth film?
WATSON: There’s this mean girl called Lavender who has a bit of a crush on Ron. It’s leaked in the beginning of the film that Hermione and Ron are finally going to get it together, and then she steps in. Hermione is sensitive and quite mean, really. And it’s very much about how she sort of despises Lavender. Not really because she’s taken Ron away, but because she’s kind of the opposite of Hermione. So it’s very comic and also quite sad for her. It’s very Ron based, her part.

Do you think the fans of the book will find “Half-Blood Prince” to be a faithful adaptation?
WATSON: I hope so. I think we’ve stuck as close as we possibly can without making a ten-hour movie. We’ve never had that complaint before, and I personally am such a big fan of the books. I’ve read them each of them three or four times so I think that’s a really good focus for us.

When you look back at the making of this film, what do you think you might remember from it?
WATSON: What really stuck out for me was Ron’s Quidditch scene. It was so funny. Rupert’s comic timing is just brilliant and he’s so funny. There’s this great scene where Hermione and Lavender are fighting over Ron, and we had a bit of fun with that. With Dumbledore’s death scene it was absolutely freezing that night and it was a very sad scene, really.

What are the pros and the cons of having the same directors a couple times in a row versus having different directors coming in each time?
WATSON: It was a lot of fun having new directors because there was more energy and you knew there would be something new every time. But David [Yates] is a very good director and I think he’s done a really good job with it. When you get to know someone you can trust them, and it gave him more a chance to try different things out.

At the very first press junket for the film, David Haymen and Chris Columbus [“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’s” producer and director, respectively] both said they looked high and low for kids they thought could handle both acting in the film and the fame that would come along with it. How confident were you that you could handle all that? And how different a ride has it been versus what was in your head almost ten years ago?
WATSON: The funny thing is I never realized that I was going to be famous. It never really occurred to me. I was just auditioning for parts and I just loved the character so much. I felt that I knew how to play her and I could be her, and Chris Columbus gave me a lot of confidence. And the fame thing never really hit home, it never did. When you’re doing a movie you’re kind of in a bubble and you don’t really realize the impact it’s having on the rest of the world. It comes in these surreal moments, like a premiere or a film coming out, and I realized that I am famous, but most of the time I forget.

If you continue acting after “Harry Potter” is done do you think you’re going to look for roles that are as far from Hermione as possible?
WATSON: I would like to play someone a bit different, yes. But I’m not going to go play a thug just to get away from Hermione. It will be really interesting if I find anything I feel as strongly about as I felt towards Hermione. I just felt like I had to play the role. It’s very hard to explain, I just felt I had to do it, and I haven’t read another script that I’ve felt that way about.

posted by dook on Saturday, May 2nd, 2009, filed under Uncategorized.