♪ ♪
- Thanks.
[festive music]
- Yeah, so I'll be watching the game...
[clock chiming]
[Big Ben chiming]
♪ ♪
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- [gasps]
♪ ♪
[sighs]
♪ ♪
[train whistle blows]
[whistle blasts]
♪ ♪
- [speaking indistinctly] - What?
♪ ♪
- [speaking indistinctly]
- Hi!
♪ ♪
[chimes]
[lively music]
[train whistle blows]
♪ ♪
[John Williams' "Harry's Wondrous World"]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
♪ ♪
[John Williams' "Hedwig's Theme"]
♪ ♪
- He couldn't know that, at this very moment,
people meeting in secret all over the country
were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices,
"To Harry Potter, the boy who lived."
♪ ♪
- Dan. - Hey, man.
- It's great to see you.
- How you doing, dude? - How are you, mate?
- It's so nice to see you. This is awesome.
- This is incredible. - Yeah, it is.
- Last time we were here, you were shorter.
- I'm just-- just very, very slightly.
That's kind of you to say. [laughs]
Here we are. - 20 years down the road.
- Yeah. - It's kind of odd.
- How did it come to you? Like, I never--
I would never get to ask this question.
Like, how did you end up doing "Harry Potter"?
- I ended up doing it
because my daughter Eleanor
convinced me to read the books
after I refused three times.
So once "Prisoner of Azkaban" came out, I said...
- Thank you, Eleanor. - [chuckles]
I said, "Okay, I'll read these, finally."
And then immediately, I saw the movies.
I just saw them. And that hasn't happened since.
Then I had to fly to Edinburgh to meet Jo Rowling
and essentially said, "This is my vision."
She said, "That's exactly the way I see the movie."
- When the books came out,
the queues of kids around the block--
I mean, thousands of them all waiting for the latest one.
[all shrieking]
[confetti blasts] [crowd screaming]
- So many people were beginning to fall in love
with JK Rowling's writing.
- I think I probably would have been about eight years old.
I think that's when the first one came out.
It became, like, our family thing.
My dad used to do all the voices,
and my brother and I just became obsessed.
We would just beg him to keep going.
And every time he finished a chapter,
we'd be like, "One more, one more, please.
"Just one more. Please, please, please.
One more, one more, one more, one more."
- A friend of mine at school
had the first two.
And I went for a sleepover at his house and he said,
"Well, 'Philosopher's Stone' is there on the bookshelf."
That's what we did the whole sleepover.
We just both sat there in silence,
him reading "Chamber of Secrets,"
me reading "Philosopher's Stone."
And that was it, really. I never looked back.
- At the time of reading,
we instantly related to Fred and George
because there aren't many twins in literature.
- "The Chamber of Secrets" was the first book
that I sort of genuinely stayed up at night reading.
- The writing was so vivid, the characters so relatable.
- It was such a intricately, perfectly designed universe.
- I think it's very easy to forget that, at the time,
people were talking about, like, the death of reading.
- I just think it's a beautiful creative outlook on life,
this belief in limitless possibilities.
- One of the many reasons I admired JK so much
is that millions would now read books
who would never have lifted a book up in their lives.
And you suddenly realize the power of writing.
[together] Hip, hip, Harry!
- And then in terms of casting,
it was--the search for Harry Potter was insane.
- The new "Harry Potter" film are looking for children
to play the three main roles in the multi-million-pound film.
- I remember going to the-- the very first audition,
and there was hundreds if not thousands of people.
And then we realized that
we were the only set of twins there
who weren't wearing identical clothing.
So we ended up going over the road
and bought two identical matching tops.
- Just off the rack. - Just off the rack.
We were like, "Right, they will do."
And then off we went.
- They'd let us all mill, you know, sort of congregate
till they "seemingly" walked away,
and, of course, while there's still one gentleman
holding a boom mic straight over our heads.
And this little girl asked me, "What's that?"
I think I even said, "It's a mic, duh."
I was like, "They're filming us.
This is just, like, a trick."
Like, as if I'd done it before, really.
And I remember it, 'cause it was Emma.
- I became completely gripped
by the excitement around this audition.
And I always knew that I was going for Hermione
in a way that I think terrified my parents
because they were like,
"What are we gonna do with her if she doesn't get the part?"
- I was just excited.
I wasn't sort of daunted.
I wasn't thinking, "I wonder how many
films they're gonna make," anything like that.
I thought, "Oh, this will be fun."
- I think the biggest pressure at the beginning
was who was gonna be Harry Potter.
- We couldn't find Harry.
We couldn't-- we just couldn't find Harry,
and it was getting kind of weird,
um, and panicky.
- I was in my hotel room in London one night
watching the BBC version of "David Copperfield."
Immediately, a light bulb went off in my head,
and I said, "This is Harry Potter."
This is the kid we've been looking for for months.
So I asked the casting director,
I said, "We've gotta get him in here for an audition."
She said, "It's never gonna happen.
"His parents do not want him involved in this world.
They don't want him to take this role."
- I think the deal was to sign on for, like,
all seven films and they would be filmed in LA.
So Mum and Dad were like, "No, that's, like,
a huge disruption to his life."
- Fortunately, David Heyman,
uh, went to the theater a few weeks later.
- These two guys in the row in front of me
started sort of turning round.
- David, being the great producer that he is,
convinced Dan's father to bring Dan in for an audition.
And that's basically when we got our Harry Potter.
- And action.
- That's a dragon egg. - What is it?
- That's what that is. - What is that?
- A dragon egg.
- Uh-huh. - Yeah.
I was a very happy kid who had
a really haunted quality, apparently.
"You're really sweet, but you looked like
you had real, like, stuff going on."
- It was very emotional, actually, seeing this kid
sitting there talking, and I just thought,
"Yeah, that's him. Thank God we found him."
- Rupert and Emma were very easy to cast
because they felt like they jumped off the page.
We screen-tested the three of them together
to make sure that they all had this chemistry,
which immediately was obvious in the first screen test.
- Remember, guys, get closer to her
as she finds out the information.
And action.
- I never thought to look in here.
I checked this out first term for a bit of light reading.
- This is light? - Shut up.
If Filch comes around the corner any second now,
at least 50 points off Gryffindor.
I knew it! Here it is.
Nicholas Flamel is the only known
maker of the Sorcerer's Stone.
both: The what?
- Oh, honestly, don't you two read?
- Cut. Good job.
- It's lovely seeing you.
- Yeah, this is surreal, isn't it?
- How do we all feel being back and talking about this?
- Well, A, really emotional, obviously.
And B, um, it feels like no time has passed
and loads of time has passed simultaneously.
- Yeah, kind of much the same. It's quite surreal.
It doesn't feel like much time has passed.
It doesn't feel like we've kind of earned a reunion yet.
- Yeah. - I know.
- I have had kidney stones and a baby,
so time has obviously passed. [laughter]
- You did mention that. - I feel my age.
- But there is, like, such a collection
of, like, shared memories and stuff
that we just all did together that it is
immediately very easy to be, like--
to sort of slip back into where you were.
Our first audition, the-- the day we all met--
- Oh, my God, yeah. - I think for the first time,
there was, like, me walking out of my dressing room
and seeing, like, another, like,
young, brown-haired boy going the other way.
I never saw his face, but I was like,
"You are clearly another Harry
that is being tested out today."
And they were, like-- - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Testing us with various different configurations
of Ron, Harry, and Hermione.
I remember there was one
where they put all the three of us together.
- I do remember that when it was the three of us,
something felt different... - Right. Yeah.
- And, like, right and easy. I do remember the click.
- We'd been out at the studios.
They'd told us we got the parts and they were like, "Cool.
"So we're announcing you've got the parts.
There is now going to be a lot of media outside your house."
So you can't go home."
- So far, it's sort of
turned things upside down. [laughter]
Um, it's--I don't know,
I've never had anything happen to me like this before.
Hermione made complete sense to me.
That's me.
Like, I am that girl.
- Well, Emma was arguably the smartest person on the set,
and I'm talking about everybody.
She just was-- she was a brilliant kid.
- I think I'm scarily like my character.
[laughter]
'Cause I live in a family of, um, seven
and, um, I've got a redheaded sister
and I live in a burrow.
- Rupert is just the most camera-ready
12-year-old boy in the world at that point.
Like, he was so, like, just fearless.
- Rupert was Ron, you know,
and Dan kind of was Harry.
- How do you feel about becoming famous?
- It'd be cool. [laughter]
We were all talking about this,
how comfortable you made us all in our auditions
and how, like, this, like,
extended massively into the set.
My memory of it is that it seemed effortless to you.
- Well, on the first film, I was dying the entire time,
but I just--I always believe
you cannot bring that kind of anxiety.
I want everyone to feel comfortable.
I want everyone to feel like it's a family.
I want everyone to feel like they're home.
[John Williams' "The Journey to Hogwarts"]
♪ ♪
- Hey, class, listen to me.
Welcome to your first flying lesson.
I want you to raise your hand over the broom.
For the first several weeks on the film,
the kids are basically in shock.
- Looking back, I am sort of amazed at the fact
that I wasn't ever, like, completely overwhelmed by it.
- Shh. Shh. Shh. - Dan, when you turn away
from her this time-- when you turn away,
grab hold of this,
and look up like you're going to get it, okay?
- But I also think that was, again, part of Chris
and the whole crew just, like,
they kept us having fun the whole time.
- Obviously, we were just kids, and we were all
looking forward to mucking about together.
Chris Columbus made the atmosphere
very much like a funfair.
- We were very much just, like, kids being kids on a set.
- Mm-hmm. - My residing memory
from the first-- from "Philosopher's Stone"
is I just learned how to play slam.
- You know what we did a lot of as well was that game.
- Oh, my God. - Slaps.
- So much hand slaps. - Oh, slaps.
- With, like, all of us, like, red--
like, red, raw hands from, like,
hitting each other really hard. - I think we also upgraded
to knuckles as well. - Oh, and shins.
- Yeah. - I remember the shin version.
- Mm-hmm. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Sorry. Gotta give it back. [laughter]
- I am the champion!
- They probably made their jobs harder for themselves
by letting us have as much fun as we had
because it distracted us from,
you know, the work we were supposed to be doing.
- And for the other viewers, get a mousetrap.
- Darling, don't put it on your nose.
You're gonna remove all your makeup.
- Like, a big problem was, like,
throughout a take, our attention would, like--
would wane and come and go.
- They'd say a line and then they'd smile at the camera
where they were just so happy to be in a Harry Potter film
that they couldn't contain their excitement long enough
to focus on an entire scene.
- Guys, guys, guys, guys.
- Columbus had worked with kids a lot.
And he was terrific with them. He really was.
He used to go down on his knees to talk to them
and huddle around so nobody could hear.
- He was such a dad as well.
Like, and I--you could really feel that,
like you were kind of part of his family.
- Be a little looser with this.
And just be talking, you know what I'm saying?
- Yeah. - You go up and you're, like,
frozen like this, but you can be--
"You really think"--
"Of course I can use it," like this, okay?
- Yeah. - Good job, though.
- But it's not easy, 'cause it takes a tremendous
amount of patience with kids,
particularly with-- with kids as hyperactive
and as excitable as we all were.
[indistinct chatter]
- Looking great. - Well, they wanted to--
- Fancy seeing you boys here.
- [laughs] Hi. - Snuck away.
A couple of Gryffindors just kicking it.
- Come here. - Good to see you, brother.
How did Chris Columbus stay is such good--good spirits?
- We sort of ran around. I guess we were all, like, 11.
- You might get, like, three people to do the right thing.
But it doesn't mean you're gonna get the other five
in the background doing the right thing.
- No. No. And Rupert was--was relentless.
Once he started-- once the flood gate open--
- God, yeah. - But that's the thing.
That's the way it worked, wasn't it?
'Cause Columbus basically just
let us be kids. - Yeah. True.
- I never recall feeling like we were working.
- But that's so important, isn't it, that we had that--
- Yeah. I think that's why it feels that way
when you watch it. It feels like...
- Yeah. That's true. - Kids.
- I tell you what's funny about that, though, is--
is being surrounded by all the--
the cream of the, um, the British acting industry
and not having a clue who anyone is.
I thought--I thought Richard Harris worked here
as like--as a tour guide for a while.
[laughter]
[plucky string music]
- I don't think any of the kids had the capability
of understanding the gravity
of who they were dealing with at the time.
- That was no stranger Hagrid met in the village.
It was Snape, which means
he knows how to get past Fluffy.
- And with Dumbledore gone--
- Good afternoon.
- The British royalty of the acting world.
- What have you got to say for yourself?
- I swear I don't know how it happened!
When I think of the people that I got to
just grow up around and hear--hear them interact
and hear the quickness of people.
- The adult actors came in
and were, like, the mischief in a funny way.
[laughter]
- That's actually great.
- Like Robbie Coltrane.
- He was such a kid.
Like, so immature
and, like, just so much fun.
- He loved making us laugh,
and he was incredibly good at it.
- I've tried absolutely everything.
I've tried creams. I've tried jellies.
I tried shaving.
Every moment-- I woke up, it's like--
my husband is threatening to leave me.
If he really loved me,
he wouldn't mind a little facial hair, I'm sure.
But he's being very, very difficult.
♪ ♪
- That, like, kindness and that warmth from you...
- Aww. - It made all the difference.
Well, we spent so much time together.
- I know. I know. I spent more time with you
than I did with my own children at one point.
- I know. Wild.
- [laughs] - Ooh. I know.
- I think most of my favorite scenes, if I'm honest,
looking back, are with you and the gang in Hagrid's hut.
- I keep thinking about that scene
where I get called a mudblood. - Yes.
- And you were so sweet with me that day.
'Cause it was, like, my first, like, you know,
big piece of acting.
[emotional music]
♪ ♪
He called me a mudblood.
- [gasps] He did not.
- What's a mudblood?
- It means dirty blood.
Mudblood's a really foul name for someone who is Muggle-born.
Someone with non-magic parents. Someone like me.
- The three of you have become such great actors.
Being on that set,
you felt like you actually entered the world.
- Yeah.
- With all of Stuart Craig's sets,
the attention to detail was phenomenal.
[plucky string music]
♪ ♪
- I was always adamant that Hogwarts shouldn't feel
as if it's a world that couldn't exist in reality.
I had a tremendous amount of creative freedom,
so we could build this world from the ground up.
- Some of the sets on "Potter" were overwhelming to me,
and I'd been doing it for 35 years.
You know? "Oh, blimey."
- The very first time I visited the set,
they walked me through the Great Hall,
which was mind-blowing.
- All the floors are real Yorkstone.
A lot of those scenes with 250 extras,
they're all about 18 and trampling 'round.
You're not gonna put a plastic floor down.
It's gotta be the real stuff.
And all these lit candles going up and down on wires.
- One of my favorite moments on set ever
was the moment when all the floating candles
started burning through the ropes that tied them
to the ceiling and just started falling
around the Great Hall. - Hundreds of real candles
that were really lit-- - "Oh, my God."
- On fishing line from the ceiling.
- So much of that would be visual effects now.
The fact that we got to actually be on that set--
- Actually, that's so true. That's so cool.
- Thank you, Stuart Craig. - Yeah.
- We love you, Stuart Craig.
[John Williams' "The Quidditch Match"]
♪ ♪
- The hardest scene to shoot was Quidditch.
And the audience had to
understand the rules immediately.
- Quidditch is easy enough to understand.
Each team has seven players: three chasers, two beaters,
one keeper, and the seeker--that's you.
- So Jo Rowling basically did a rule book for us.
A Quidditch rule book
explaining every detail of the game.
Then, with Stuart Craig, our production designer,
designed the look of the Quidditch pitch
and really create a pitch that felt authentic and real
for a game that is completely unreal.
- Lots of energy, enthusiasm.
Set and action!
- She scores! - Angelina Johnson scores!
Ten points for Gryffindor.
- I always wanted to tell you this,
but there was a moment, you know,
on day two maybe or three,
the camera pushes into you and you say,
"We're not going home, not really."
- Feels strange to be going home, doesn't it?
- I'm not going home.
Not really.
- I got tears-- I still get tears in my eyes
thinking about it. I thought, "This guy--
this kid is an amazing actor."
- Oh, that's-- - And it was that moment
that kind of opened up the whole world for us.
And the first film was very storybook, very inviting.
- Yeah, it's lovely and--
- It's like, "Welcome to Hogwarts."
Until you get to the end of the movie.
- And where a man-- I melt a man's face.
- Yes, exactly.
[dramatic music]
- [screaming]
- The first film was a hit. - Yep.
- So once it became a hit and people accepted
not only the film
but accepted the cast-- - Right, yeah.
- I had a ball on the second film,
"The Chamber of Secrets," 'cause I was, like, free.
[engine sputters]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[engine revs]
[glass shatters]
[mischievous music]
♪ ♪
- Okay, come on. Shh, shh.
Okay, come on.
Shh, come on.
♪ ♪
- Morning, Weasleys.
all: Morning, Dad.
- I always loved any scene where the kind of Weasleys
were together, like the Burrow scenes.
It just had this frenetic energy.
Everyone kind of played off each other.
- The thing about the Burrow as I remember is that
it changed all the time.
It sort of expanded and contracted.
One minute, there was a huge fireplace of floo powder
and then there was just-- and then it got smaller.
- Yeah, it was like a living, breathing set that changed.
I feel like being a Weasley
is the best part of being in Harry Potter.
We had, like, our Hogwarts family but I felt, like,
so special having an actual extra family.
- It was great. - All these scenes that we got
on top of everything else.
- Julie's brilliant to work with.
We used to--Ron would say, "Hello, Mummy. Hello, Daddy."
- Julie Walters who played my mother, Mrs. Weasley,
was--was just so wonderful and brilliant to me.
She really kind of took me under her wing
and she just was, like, the perfect mother figure.
- The twins were two people that I was really close with.
They really were like older brothers.
Julie Walters and Mark Williams,
they were like my second family.
They were always kind of staying in character
and they would have this kind of--
they would bounce off each other.
- Dumbled--dom--mith.
- Who? Who, dear?
- Dumbledore must know you're here, Harry.
[laughter]
- Cut.
Stop, stop. [laughter]
- This isn't working.
- Can't believe it.
- You guys look great. - Hello.
- How are you? This is amazing.
How're you guys doing? - Very well, thank you.
How are you? - Good.
This is so exciting. - Yeah.
- It's the first time I've been back since "Azkaban."
- We didn't know you were gonna come back.
- The Weasley family values were consideration,
thoughtfulness, and fun!
Now, Harry, you must know all about Muggles.
Tell me, what exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
It's just very natural when we were all together.
It was a family, you know, in all but name.
- That's the cool thing about it as well is that you see
that--that motion where they are very inclusive
and then you see the complete opposite with the Malfoys.
- Yeah, it's always such a good comparison,
the two families side by side.
- A real chalk and cheese side of it.
- Not now, Draco. Play nicely.
[ominous music]
Mr. Potter.
Lucius Malfoy.
We meet at last.
I was first aware of Harry Potter
because everybody was reading the books
on the tube everywhere I went.
I'm convinced I ended up playing Lucius
because I didn't want to.
I went to audition for Gilderoy Lockhart
and Chris said, "That was great.
Would you mind reading a different part?"
I was about to play Captain Hook in "Peter Pan"
and I thought, "Well, I don't wanna play
two children's villains."
And I read through gritted teeth.
I was deeply bitter,
and, of course, that's exactly what was necessary,
and they asked me to play Lucius, and thank God they did.
How dare you?
The point of him being in the story to me
was to explain why Draco was such a horrible,
heartless, sadistic bully at school.
- Red hair and a hand-me-down robe?
You must be a Weasley.
He's a product of his parents, Draco,
and he's got really bad parents.
If Hagrid was your first influence,
chances are, you're gonna be...
[as Hagrid] "All right there, mate."
You're gonna be lovely and--and very huggy.
- Isn't he beautiful? Oh, bless him.
Look, he knows his mummy. [chuckles]
[fire blasts] Ooh!
[gasping]
- If your dad is a psychopath
wielding a cobra cane about,
you're probably not gonna be the friendliest geezer.
- 37, take one. Camera mark.
- Tom, remember, slow. You're telling a tale.
But sinister, soft. Set and action.
- I adored Tom from the second I met him.
He was always just the biggest sweetheart.
- Working with Jason was a real treat.
In fact, working with Jason was not always a treat.
Just immediately turned into the most unfriendly,
horrible person I've ever met.
- I just remember grabbing him and--and just being
as unpleasant as I possibly could
and watching his little face constantly seeking my approval.
The very first scene that I shot was actually cut
and is on the deleted scenes.
Draco touched something, and I used this cane
and I went--
Don't touch anything, Draco.
But I didn't know how sharp the teeth were
and they went right into little Tom's hands
and he looked up at me and his eyes welled with tears.
- Yes, Father.
- And I went, "Tom, I'm so sorry, I didn't realize
how sharp they were and how heavy it was."
And he went, "No, no, it's all right.
It was good for the scene."
- He'd be this evil father,
and then they'd say, "Cut."
And he'll come and give you a cuddle and say,
"Oh, did I hit you too hard? Did I hit you too hard?"
He's a real, you know, Jekyll and Hyde, that one.
- [scoffs]
- Yeah! Yeah!
Whoo-hoo! Yeah!
Harry Potter.
Such an honor it is.
- I remember saying to a friend,
"You know, I've got this part. It's an elf in Harry Potter."
And the squeals of joy and the complete despair
at my not understanding, you know,
how important this character was.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
- We did a take and he goes,
"Thank you, this will be all," and I swung my leg out,
and I stepped down and I swung my stick,
and Chris goes, "Cut.
Can we clean the floor where Jason slipped, please?"
And I said, "No, I didn't slip."
He said, "Well, what happened?"
And I said, "I kicked Dobby down the stairs."
- [screeches]
[whimpers]
[yelps]
- And I just thought, "This is gonna be
ridiculously good fun."
- Mr. Malfoy.
Mr. Malfoy!
I have something of yours.
- The sock is pathetic, isn't it, on one level?
But on another level, it's everything,
and that's, I think, the beauty of the character.
- Master has given Dobby a sock?
- What? I didn't g--
- Master has presented Dobby with clothes.
Dobby is free.
- One of the major themes is this alliance
of friends who endure.
[emotional music]
♪ ♪
- So you and I had one of our greatest laughs together...
- Yes. - With Richard Harris.
And we had a animatronic version
of Fawkes the phoenix
and it was this bird-- big, red bird
that doesn't exist in life. - That does not exist.
It's not-- it wasn't unrealistic.
Like, it could, I guess.
- Richard came in and looked at the phoenix and said,
"Wow, they train these animals marvelously these days."
- 'Cause they had a camera inside the eyes,
so they could see Richard looking at it,
and then they were like,
"Well, we don't wanna break the spell,
so we'll just keep the bird reacting and moving."
And then that, of course, you know, got into a cycle
where Richard was like, "The bird is responding to me."
- Ah, fascinating creatures, phoenixes.
They can carry immensely heavy loads,
and their--their tears have healing powers.
- We never told him. - No, we never told him.
- No. - He just thought it was
a real bird. - Yeah.
- It was insane that we were part of that.
- You know, I do not know of another human being
that could have started the series in the way you did.
- Well, that-- that makes me feel great.
I've always felt guilty about leaving.
I really did. - Don't.
- When I said goodbye to you guys, I was like,
"I can't believe I'm leaving these guys."
- And I think you honestly-- I don't think you ever
get enough credit for, like, what you achieved
on those first two and with all of us,
and so thank you so much for that.
- It's been the greatest experience of my life.
[soft music]
- You fail to recognize that it matters not
what someone is born...
but what they grow to be.
[liquid bubbling]
♪ ♪
- Hello. [both laughing]
[speaking indistinct]
- Oh, thank you for coming.
Thanks for chatting.
[dramatic music]
- Who is that? That man.
- Who is that?
That is Sirius Black, that is.
♪ ♪
- Sirius Black is an essential character for Harry.
It's part of Jo's themes of
"Don't judge a book by its cover," you know?
The image of Sirius Black as a criminal
is one that's presented to Harry.
- We have a killer on the loose.
- Sirius Black, you mean?
But what's he got to do with me?
- And yet, when Harry meets him
and through the course of the third film,
he comes to learn that he's not who he has been told he was.
He's somebody very different.
And Gary is such a remarkable actor.
One of the reasons we chose him is he obviously
has the potential for darkness,
but he has such soul and has such a warmth within.
- Can I ask you, when were--
were you first approached to be Sirius?
- I was aware of Harry Potter,
but it--it was very much a sort of kids' thing.
People were telling me to read the books and I had kids,
so it was gonna be in my universe somewhere.
And then they were taking a slightly darker approach.
- Yeah. - The book was interesting.
I met Alfonso, and I think at the time,
he was the main attraction.
- Now, remember, guys, that you have to
take care of your frogs. - Yeah. Don't worry.
- For "Azkaban," it's a coming of age.
They're passing the threshold between childhood
and their teenage years.
In the first two, Harry is still a child.
There is a greater optimism around the tone itself.
Nevertheless, when he turns 13,
there's a big cloud
that overshadows everything around Harry,
and we needed to convey that also stylistically.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
[train wheels screeching]
- What's going on?
- Don't know, maybe we've broken down.
♪ ♪
- "Prisoner of Azkaban" felt like a whole new era, really.
It was a much darker kind of story.
There was a lot of kind of quite adult themes in it.
- The descriptions that JK Rowling
has of the dementors are very scary,
and I really wanted to convey the sense that the dementors,
what they do is they suck all the joy away,
that they were sucking an essence of Harry.
But I think that the most important piece
to achieve that was Dan's performance.
- When was "Azkaban"-- how old were you?
- 14.
- Really? - Yeah.
- When we first met? - Yeah.
- I think I had a natural sort of paternal thing.
[both grunting]
[chuckles]
Are you going to kill me, Harry?
- The first person I remember being, like,
in order of when they came in was Gary.
- I remember that. I remember--
I remember you giving me the Gary chat.
Yeah, you were like, "Listen, Emma, you need to be cool,
"because Gary Oldman-- it's a really big deal,
and you need to be cool," and I was like, "Okay."
- And which was--which was really a projection
of my own fears 'cause I was like,
"Dan, you need to be cool. This guy's a big deal."
- Dan was first a bit daunted.
And Gary was amazingly generous as a person,
but also as an actor, and immediately embrace him
and include him in--in the acting process.
It was really sweet to--to see the two of them.
And it was almost as if it was mirroring that relationship
because, in many ways, Harry has made a totem
out of Sirius Black.
That totem that is kind of unapproachable
and in many ways scary.
And then that was not unlike in the film
that when they discover who they truly are,
is when suddenly there's an amazing bond.
- You saw them between takes
sitting with each other, talking and laughing.
And you could see in the way that Dan looked at Gary
the adulation and the respect that he had for him.
- All the stuff in the Shrieking Shack at the end,
I feel like me and Rupert and Emma were just, like,
watching tennis in that scene just being like,
"This is acting, guys.
This is what we all need to be working towards."
- There was Tim Spall,
the one and only Alan Rickman. - Yeah.
- David Thewlis, you, Emma, Rupert.
- It's really nice of you to include me, Emma, and Rupert
in that group.
To watch you guys act but also
just watching you guys as people
and just watching these, like, incredible actors
who were just like, "Oh, yeah, no.
"You're just people and you'd have fun in between
and the whole process doesn't have to be painful."
It can be intense and you showed me the wonders
of that sometimes as well and that was really important.
- Let's kill him! - Wait.
- I did my waiting! 12 years of it!
In Azkaban!
- I have never done a scene
with such an amazing cast in my life.
It's a very long scene.
It's a scene in which there are a lot of twists
inside the scene, and it was so much fun.
It's an intense scene in which a lot of things are at stake.
- No! I trusted you!
- And you can see-- Rupert and Emma and Dan--
that they are completely committed to this scene.
I love it. I-I have such a great memory of it.
- I told Dumbledore you were helping an old friend
into the castle, and now here's the proof.
- Brilliant, Snape. Once again,
you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task,
and as usual, come to the wrong conclusion.
- I always loved the character of Sirius.
I love the relationship Harry and Sirius have.
He's like this cool uncle, but also older brother figure.
- He's painted as this villainous guy
and then has the switch where you go,
"Oh, he was set up and he's a good guy."
- And he's so kind and so warm--
- And he's warm and kind-- - And cool.
- And he's kinda cool. - Yeah.
- I wish I'd had the whole picture.
You know, we only ever found out book--
- Yeah, book by book.
- I don't know whether you-- - I did not.
- Because you were Harry Potter, you had a--
- Just Rickman. Rickman did. That was it.
- Rickman? - He had the inside line.
- He worked that well.
- He very, very early said to Jo,
he was like, "I think I need to know what happens."
- [as Snape] I need to know.
- [laughs]
- Give me a reason. I beg you.
- Rickman would have an in, wouldn't he?
- He did, yeah.
And he never told Chris, never told anyone.
He would--Chris would literally say to him,
"Why are you doing that like that?"
He'd say, "I'll tell you later."
[both laughing]
- Yeah, "You'll find out on a need-to-know basis."
- Wait a decade.
- Dan was not a child actor. Was another fellow actor.
- Alfonso was like, "Now you're teenagers,
and I'm gonna treat you like a teenager."
And he was the first one who, like,
assigned us homework. - Yeah.
- Loosen up, loosen up.
- He wanted to get to know us,
so he set us this exercise where he asked us
to write an essay in character.
[whistles] [laughter]
- He was like, "You know these characters
"at this point better than I'm ever gonna be able
to understand who they are, so you tell me."
- And after about, sort of,
a half a side of A4, I was like,
"I feel like I've pretty much covered everything.
"Like, Jo has written a good 500 pages about this,
"but I feel like this one pretty much sums it up.
Great, okay. Yeah, cool. Proud of that. Bring that in."
- Of course, Emma writes, like, 12 pages,
like, beautifully written.
- Rupert didn't deliver anything.
- I didn't do it.
- And I said, "Rupert, where's your assignment?"
He says, "Well, uh, I thought that Ron wouldn't do it..."
[laughs] "So I didn't do it."
- I mean, luckily, Alfonso kind of saw
that it was very in character for--for--
for me not to have done it.
- Rupert is Ron.
It's just Ron 100%.
Emma is just such an effortless actor.
She prepares a lot.
When you're doing the scenes, it's as if everything
is just flowing out of her.
The truth of the matter is that they are great actors.
Sirius Black finds a redemption
by having Harry understanding who he truly is.
It's a moment of-- of great liberation,
of great freedom,
and all of this is conveyed symbolically in the two of them
flying in the night under the silver moon.
[emotional music]
♪ ♪
- It was like a family, wasn't it?
- Yeah.
- More than any other experience.
You never have that in the movies
because you work with a bunch of people
and you get friendly with them
and then most of them you would never see again.
But with "Potter," you would come--you would come back
and that's what made it, amongst many things,
what made it very special. - Yeah.
It just feels like, you know, being in these,
you get to be a part of film history.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [shouts]
- Hogwarts has been chosen
to host the Triwizard Tournament.
[cheers and applause]
- "The Goblet of Fire"
during all of the Triwizard Tournament stuff,
it was so lovely to be surprised and blown away
and, like, taken away by the magic of the scenes
and to be surprised.
Like, I remember seeing the Beauxbatons
come and do their entrance
and the Durmstrangs.
It was really cool.
[fire whooshes]
- With the fourth film, we wanted a British director.
We wanted something quite theatrical.
- Cut, thank you very much.
- Mike is just this excited,
loud, passionate man.
[all shouting]
He was a perfect director for that film.
It was a really, like, bombastic,
action-packed, wonderful, eccentric film.
- I love Mike. He was great.
I mean, he was almost like he was from the books.
He was like a Hogwarts character.
- The fourth book is the biggest of them.
It's about 900 pages. It's a doorstop.
It's a house brick.
Action!
And I thought, if it's really gonna nail
the little darlings to their seats,
then it has to have this great, big, energetic core to it.
- He was just this kind of, like, firecracker of energy.
He'd get so excited by things.
And there was this kind of really endearing,
like, childlike quality to--to him.
- He loved the humor as well and would always
try and find it in every scene.
- It was probably only a couple of films in
that I sort of started to feel nervous.
And I remember-- - It was Mike's change
when--when Columbus left.
It was definitely a bit of a different--
- Yeah, it was a different vibe.
- Mike Newell. - Mike treated us like adults.
- That was it. - Yeah.
- He did, I suppose. - Yeah.
- We did have fun on set.
[lively music]
- The Weasley twins, whom I-I was very fond of,
they had to fight.
- We were doing the scene when Fred and George
are rejected from entering the Triwizard Tournament.
And then we had these wigs on and beards on.
What looked like old men.
And Mike said, "Okay, so I think you guys will be really
"annoyed with each other. I think you should have
a good fight about this."
- These two were sort of, um, pressing about at it.
Cut!
And I said, "No, come on boys, really, it's a fight."
- Mike just came over. He said,
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no."
- Okay, who wants to fight?
- And like an idiot, I was like, "Oh, yeah, okay."
- Well, of course, I was a tubby 60-year-old gent
at that stage.
Um, and, uh, I-I really shouldn't have done it.
- And so he dived on me and, like,
just went like this,
to which I said, "Okay." So I did the same to him.
- I-I remember gripping him 'round the waist
and trying to fling him about and so forth
and cracked a couple of ribs.
And so was in absolute agony from--from then on.
But of course, the wonderful thing was
that I had made a complete twit of myself
and everybody felt much better for that.
- You know when you shouldn't break a director's rib?
- [sighs]
[plucky string music]
[indistinct chatter]
- [clears throat]
- In "The Goblet of Fire,"
that film is just all about teenagers,
you know, having crushes for the first time,
asking someone to the date, to the Yule Ball.
They just mirrored all those kind of awkward phases
you go through as a teenager,
and they really felt like that, too,
because we were literally having the same experiences.
- The amount of, um, like, prep and coaching
Emma and I would give each other on, like,
texting to the opposite ***-- like, if we--
if she was texting a boy or I was texting a girl,
I'd be like, "She sent me this many kisses back.
What do I do? This is a nightmare."
- We had that kind of older brother, younger sister thing.
- It was a very interesting film
in terms of a lot of hormones flying around.
[laughs]
- There was crushes,
and people went out with each other
and broke up and-- just like you do in--
like I used to do at school.
Um, it was exactly the same environment,
but it was just in a Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
[book thuds]
- That film was probably peak hormone, at least for me.
♪ ♪
[giggling]
It was exactly what you'd expect.
And especially, like, the fourth film was the one
with, like, the Beauxbatons and the Durmstrangs,
so, like, you had a bunch of,
like, hormonal teenagers anyway,
and then, like, bring in two massive groups of new people,
all of them are, like, purposefully hot for the film.
Um, so it's, yeah, it was that--
that film was, yeah, it was all kicking off.
- Why do they have to travel in packs?
He is just, like, a slightly awkward teenage boy
in a very unremarkable way,
which I suppose feels sort of remarkable
for a hero character in something.
- You slay dragons.
If you can't get a date, who can?
- I think I'd take the dragon right now.
Jo wrote him very endearingly in those years,
and I feel like it did not take a huge acting stretch
for me to tap into my awkward, nerdy, teenage side.
- Cho. - Yes?
- Um, I just wondered if you-- I just wondered
if maybe you wanted to go to the ball with me?
- Sorry, I didn't catch that.
- It obviously was a coming-of-age story.
- [inhales deeply]
[sighs]
- One of the--the big, big sequences
was the Christmas ball.
- The Yule Ball is, first and foremost, a dance.
- The scene when the students are learning to dance,
it was pretty much like a typical
school dance of that age.
You've got girls on one side, boys on the other.
- We were in a big room in Oxford.
Maggie's right in the middle, and she says,
"Right, I'm gonna teach you to dance."
Of course, she picks Rupert, and she says,
- Place your right hand
on my waist. - What?
- The kid's 14, and he knows how to get a laugh.
[laughs] It's great.
- And weirdly, I felt quite
self-conscious of-- I didn't really know--
I'd never danced with a lady before,
so it was kind of a very new thing.
- Never gonna let him forget this, are you?
both: Never.
- And yeah, of course, James, Oliver, the twins,
they were constantly kind of ribbing me.
- We were winding him--
- We were winding him up anyway.
- Before we started filming.
- They kind of convinced me,
before we filmed it,
that there was this whole, like, dance routine planned.
- We were like, "Do you know your steps?
"You know, right? No, you know, the routine.
"Like, we've all been doing a routine for, like,
the past six weeks" or something like that.
- Just try to build the pressure.
- And this way.
Now, you will have to lead eventually.
Understood?
[laughter] - Cut!
- One of the most enchanting days was the Great Ball
because there was all these incredibly beautiful
young people, perfectly dressed.
[quirky music]
- Bloody hell.
♪ ♪
What are those? What are those?
- My dress robes.
The suits we had on were, like,
really--really wide lapels
and long sort of tails and yeah,
you didn't-- you didn't feel cool
at--at really any point in that.
- I look like my Great Aunt Tessie.
[sniffs]
Smell like my great Aunt Tessie.
- All I can remember is that, like, really aggressive,
like, six-layer collar thing you had on.
- Oh, the little frill thing, yeah.
But actually, I kinda loved it.
It was kind of-- it was very Weasley.
- Yeah, it was perfect. - I felt I pulled it off.
Not a lot of people could pull it off.
- Emma obviously looked beautiful
and was in an incredible dress.
And, uh, me and Rupert looked like,
I don't know, Austin Powers' mates
or something hanging out at the side.
- She looks beautiful.
- For the first time, Harry and Ron--
particularly Ron--
see Hermione as a young woman,
not just this kind of sidekick that they each have.
- Is that Hermione Granger? With Viktor Krum?
- No, absolutely not.
[applause]
I mean, everyone can kind of relate to that.
That's what I kind of love about these stories
is they sit so parallel to everyone's life,
like the first school dance and those kind of emotions,
those anxieties, insecurities.
- I knew it was a big deal, and I was miserable.
[laughs] I li--I--
I just knew it was the, like,
duckling becomes a swan moment.
I knew there was just, like, all of this pressure suddenly.
- Now, don't swing your arms, okay?
- Mike Newell coached me
to walk down the stairs in the dress.
"Your arms are swinging too much.
You're walking too quickly. You need to walk slower."
Like, he's giving me a million different directions
about how to walk down the stairs.
And of course, I fell down the stairs.
- We were a bunch of very self-conscious teenagers.
They were, like, uh,
"You're gonna learn some dance steps for this."
You trust me, don't you?
I'm not a dancer, and I will never be able to dance.
Yeah, I feel like I'm pretty rigid
in--in that dance scene.
[applause]
- Oh, look at that. Look at that. Stunned.
Lucky man. Lucky man.
- Emma and I have always loved each other, really.
- I walked into the room where we were having tutoring.
The assignment that had been given
was to draw what you thought God looked like.
And Tom had drawn a girl with a backward cap on a skateboard.
And I just don't know how to say it--
I just fell in love with him.
- I think I was in the hair and makeup chair.
And someone said something along the lines of,
"Yeah, she had a crush on you."
- I used to come in every day
and look for his number on the call sheet.
It was number seven.
And if it--if--if his number was on the call sheet,
it was an extra exciting day.
He was three years above me.
And so for him, he was like, "You're like my little sister."
- I was--became very protective over her.
Yeah, I've always had a soft spot for--for her,
um, and that continues to the day.
- I think really the truth of it was Tom
was the one that I could often be more vulnerable with.
- There's always been something that's like,
I don't know, a kinship.
- Nothing has ever, ever, ever, ever happened
romantically with us.
We just love each other.
That's all I can say about that.
[applause]
[light music]
- Together! One...
both: Two, three.
[energy blasts]
- [grunts]
- In "The Goblet of Fire," the universe shifts,
and suddenly, there is Voldemort.
[ominous music]
♪ ♪
I cast Ralph Fiennes because
he's one of the most potent actors of his generation.
And I knew that he had a great force,
just kind of delicate, subtle force of personality.
- My sister has children who were then
around 10, 11, 12.
I said, "Martha, I don't know about this Harry Potter thing.
Voldemort. What's that?"
"What?
"You're being asked to play Voldemort?
You've got to do it!"
[dramatic music]
[screaming]
♪ ♪
And then I was shown some drawings...
design ideas for the look.
I wasn't expecting that.
And I thought, "Wow, that's a strong look."
I didn't feel Voldemort was that human.
I felt he was the essence of evil.
I know he's been human,
but he's become a snakelike thing.
So there was the voice.
The sort of snakelike whispered, husky,
something that I suppose I've-- sort of whispering voice.
[raspy inhale] Breath on the breath.
"Ah, Harry Potter..."
Come to die.
- Ralph wanted to be ultimately evil
and otherworldly.
And the best way to do that
was to take his nose off.
- He does have a nose-- spoiler alert--
and he was covered in stickers.
So he was slightly less intimidating than on-screen,
except when they called action.
And for some reason, I was terrified of him.
- I can touch you.
It took about three hours in makeup,
the painting of the hands, the nails, the teeth,
and even with my nose,
um, I--I felt...
[screeching]
Strong. It felt powerful. It felt evil.
- What was big was that one of the people that you assume
is gonna be very important to the story is Cedric Diggory.
In that confrontation, Cedric is killed.
- Kill the spare.
- Avada Kedavra! - Cedric!
- And Harry, he manages to take the body
and crash land back at the end of the competition,
and Cedric Diggory's father believes that his son has won
and then he realizes that the kid is dead,
and he howls like a dog.
- That's my boy!
[sobbing]
That's my boy! [Harry sobbing]
- Suddenly, something completely unexpected
and serious happens,
and suddenly you realize that this movie is not about life.
It's about death.
- It's such a massive scene
'cause it is also the first time
Harry sort of feels that kind of death
of--of somebody young, close to him.
That's a scene I remember really distinctly going,
"Oh, this is-- yes, these are kids' films,
but my God, there's some challenging stuff in there."
He's back, he's back. Voldemort's back.
- The moment of Cedric Diggory's death
is the moment when the series comes of age,
and now the children have left childhood
and are going to have to confront
the perils of adulthood.
And it all comes from that moment of death.
- Cedric Diggory was murdered
by Lord Voldemort.
- The three of them, they're in adversity,
and that forges friendships, as we know.
- "You are protected, in short,
by your ability to love,"
said Dumbledore loudly.
"The only protection that can possibly work
"against the lure of power like Voldemort's.
"In spite of all the temptation
"you have endured, all the suffering,
you remain pure of heart."
[soft music]
♪ ♪
[both laughing]
- How nice of you to let us do this in your house.
- I know, so nice.
You know what I've always wanted to do?
Let me see if we can-- is get up here.
Oh, now, look, they really don't look very well.
[both laughing]
- They're all still here. - They're really still here.
I mean, has anyone fed them? This is so sad.
Okay, now you can be Harry Potter.
- Okay, actually.
- [laughing]
- I'll go down the right, you go down the left.
- Yeah, and let's race, okay? On your mark, set, go.
- Oh, God.
- We're snogging down here.
[both laughing]
- Get over it. - You know what?
I-I took a photograph of something.
Last night, I thought, I'm just gonna dig up these things,
and I asked for your autograph.
- God. Is that right?
- No. Read it out.
It's so nice to see you. What does it say?
- "Dear HBC..." - Yeah.
- "It was a pleasure being your costar and coaster."
- [laughing] - Wow.
What a--what a clever pun.
- That was clever.
- I mean, I'm honestly still kinda pleased with that.
- You were poetic. Yeah, yeah.
- "In the sense that I always ended up
holding your coffee. I do love you."
- And what does it say?
[laughing]
You can share. - I can.
We can share this now. I said, "I do love you.
"And I just wish I'd been born 10 years earlier.
I might've been in with a chance."
- It's all right now.
- "Lots of love and thanks for being cool."
- Isn't it nice?
Now, I shall always treasure that.
- Thank you. - That is in my toilet, Dan.
[explosion]
- [cackling]
- There's a storm coming, Harry.
We'd all best be ready when she does.
- [cackling]
Yes! [glass shatters]
I was in film number five, "Order of the Phoenix."
- Yeah. - Look, I got my teeth.
- Helena's brought her teeth. - My teeth.
- She's assured me that she's done
literally nothing to these in terms of cleaning.
- No, these are actual relic. There's 11 years in there.
Yeah, it smells a bit whiffy, but...
- You just gonna put them right in your mouth, yeah?
- No, but the teeth were helpful.
Yeah. - Okay, in they go.
- What do you think? - Yeah, I'd forgotten.
- Do--do you remember me?
- I remember--this is--yeah.
[both laughing]
- The teeth helped. - With the character?
- I think I wanted to be in camouflage.
When I was first offered it, Jo sent me
a secret message saying, like,
"There might not be much on the page,
"but she's gonna do something significant."
With Bellatrix, it was fun,
because it was fostering the--the childish
and the naughty. I was just like...
And totally anarchist. - And the psychopath, yeah.
There was like a playfulness to her...
- There was the playfulness.
- Which is, like, even more disturbing.
- Of course, Bellatrix doesn't think she's evil.
She thinks she's the opposite. - No. Right.
- So I had to sort of construct
a reason for why she should hurt people
and why, for her, she is desensitized.
It makes her feel powerful.
[fire roars] Ha!
Itty, bitty, Potter.
Yeah!
- Bellatrix was just this wild thing
that was uncontrollable.
- You can never really know
what's gonna come out of her mouth next.
- [shouts]
- Very exciting for an actor, 'cause it was like,
whatever she did on that take does not mean she's gonna do
the same one the next.
- I remember trying to be in charge of the scene
and her just having the best time.
[Bellatrix cackles]
She's just allowed to do anything she wanted.
She could cackle, she would jump up and down.
Calm down.
And say whatever she wanted.
And just not knowing--not-- trying to keep her in tow.
- You filthy half-blood!
- It's all right, he's just a curious lad, aren't you?
I kept on wanting to go, "Shut up."
- [whispers] Draco.
[whimsical music]
♪ ♪
I killed you, didn't I? - You killed me, but--
- Yeah, I'm sorry.
- Um-- - Had to be done.
I remember we worked on lots of spells and things,
'cause you were a really good wizard.
I was really good witch.
And we had a real duel, and they cut the whole lot.
[both laughing]
And that's really messed up,
because I just thought,
"I've been to wand school for weeks."
- And we were on that set for days.
- Days, it was in the run.
I think it was really one of my first things
and you fell into the veil. What was it? The veil?
- Yeah, yeah. - Was it?
- I go through the veil.
Then there was speculation of, does he come back?
Can you come back from the veil?
No, you can't. - No, you can't.
- Avada Kedavra!
[chaotic music]
♪ ♪
[chuckles]
- I will say that that was
an interesting point for all of us
as, like, younger actors.
'Cause there was a certain group, like Maggie...
- Yeah - David Bradley, and Alan.
They had known us when we were 10 or 11.
And when you came in, by that point, I was like 15, 16.
So, like, you and Gary and David, like,
would treat us more like adults; I loved it.
You saw in us, that, like, a few of us were, like,
kind of ready to be like, "Could you push me?
Like, we--we wanna try and be actors too."
[clanking, clicking]
- By the time we get to "Order of the Phoenix,"
the world is becoming more political.
And I felt we needed a director
who could handle that in an entertaining way.
David Yates works so well with actors,
really pushes them in all the right way.
- Progress for the sake of progress
must be discouraged.
- David was just such a sweet, kind of gentle guy
that really cared so much about all of these characters.
And also, I'd get a lot of kinda one-on-one
with David Yates.
- I went into "Order of the Phoenix"
with the young actors in mind and sort of thinking about
how we sort of grow the whole thing up
and make it a little bit more adult
and sort of thematic and a little darker.
- It needed to expand and get bigger
and more and more frightening.
- Ah! [grunting]
- There was a big increase in scale and complexity,
from being childish to influencing events
and being part of the big world.
- He's just a boy.
You say much more, and you might as well
induct him into the Order straight away.
- Good. I want to join.
If Voldemort's raising an army, then I want to fight.
- When I started, one thing that David and the studio
spoke to me about was,
Emma is not sure she wants to come back to do another Potter.
- Oh, Harry.
- People definitely forget what she took on
and how gracefully she did it.
Dan and Rupert, they had each other.
I had my cronies,
whereas Emma was not only younger,
she was--she was by herself.
- I did find a diary entry that was kind of like, hmm.
I could see that, at times, I was lonely.
- We never talked about it on the film
because we were all just kids.
As a 14-year-old boy,
I was never gonna turn around to another 14-year-old
and be like, "Hey, how you doing?
Like, is everything okay?"
- So "Order of the Phoenix."
- Was when things started getting spicy for all of us.
- Mm, but you were considering pulling out.
I never really spoke to you about this.
- Yeah. I think, um...
I think I was scared. - Yeah.
- I don't know if-- if you ever felt like
it got to a tipping point when you were like...
- Oh, absolutely.
- This is kinda forever now.
- Yeah. No, I had moments like that.
Kind of all the way through.
[cheers and applause]
I would say I had kind of similar feelings to Emma.
Kind of contemplating what life would be like
if I called it a day, but...
we never really spoke about--I guess we were just
kind of going through it at our own pace.
We were kind of in the moment.
At the time, it just didn't really occur to us
that we were all kind of having similar--similar feelings.
- Yeah, um...
the fame thing had finally hit home in a big way.
No one had to convince me to see it through.
The fans genuinely wanted us to succeed,
and we all genuinely had each other's backs.
How great is that?
[cheers and applause]
[uplifting music]
♪ ♪
- It's always amazing that these films
mean so much to them, they--'cause we--
they kind of grew up alongside us and helped them
with some really difficult things in their lives.
And I'm just very proud to be a part of something
that means so much to so many.
- I've been thinking about
something Dumbledore said to me.
- What's that?
- That even though we've got a fight ahead of us,
we've got one thing that Voldemort doesn't have.
- Yeah?
- Something worth fighting for.
- My son, Billy, we used to watch them every night.
You know, if he got the Sunday night blues,
he was watching a Potter movie.
That was his safe place.
- I'm really looking forward to watching the films
with my hypothetical children one day.
- It's massive, the impact. It is extraordinary.
- It is unbelievable.
- I was writing to JK Rowling since I was about 11 years old
to say thank you to her to say,
I would find life a bit hopeless without Harry Potter.
Luckily for me, she read the letter
and responded to it.
So I'm one of the very lucky few people who can say
JK Rowling was my pen friend.
[bombastic music]
- The first part of the audition
is this crazy open call.
Literally, anyone can come.
- That's my ticket. Off we go.
Let's go to London.
We fly, of course.
- And there would be thousands of people lining up.
- I remember Dan very vividly.
It was on my screen test.
Mistletoe.
I remember him talking to me,
and I kept forgetting that I have to talk back to him
because I'm so used to watching him on a screen.
So I would just kind of be like...
I kind of think that contributed to the whole
Luna Lovegood vibe, because she is a bit spacy.
Hello, everyone.
You look dreadful, Ron.
And then he found this secret world of odd bots,
of misfits, of people who had this strange power
but who still had enormous humanity
and depth and vulnerability.
The movies kind of gave people permission
to accept parts of themselves.
So it was quite liberating to see your oddness
as a superpower represented on-screen.
- I remember when I first met you all--
biggest bunch of misfits that I ever set eyes on,
and here we all are.
- We're still a bunch of misfits.
- Well, maybe, but we've all got each other.
- I was not good at school.
- You'd be better off with "Goshawk's Guide to Herbology."
I didn't have a huge amount of friends.
- Watch where you're going, Longbottom.
- I think it's great to be a misfit.
And I think that's possibly why it's so popular.
Everyone wants to know that they do belong.
It's a great relief of loneliness, I think.
- I was quite a shy kid.
I could relate to that kind of feeling
of not quite knowing what your place is.
- Working hard is important,
but there's something that matters even more.
- Stupefy! - Believing in yourself.
[thud]
- Everyone felt more like they belonged
by witnessing these characters that didn't belong.
- Bonnie was, kind of, when she arrived,
she was only 9, maybe.
- Mummy, have you seen my jumper?
- Yes, dear, it was on the cat.
- Hello.
- I always found Ginny, Harry, that relationship,
how that kind of slowly developed
and entangling with it the whole Weasley family
and Harry essentially becoming a Weasley, himself.
It was something I never really kind of expected,
especially kind of reading the books.
- Bonnie was the youngest one.
So it was just a bit like, "Oh, what? This is weird."
- Close your eyes.
And you know, there is this kind of pressure.
You know, this is the loved sort of hero of the story.
- So everyone on the set has known you
for about six or seven years, and they've watched you grow up
and they're now gonna just watch you kiss.
Cool. Yeah.
- I mean, there's so many amazing female roles
that Jo wrote, and I think that's really important.
- I am so proud of who Bonnie and Evanna and Katie are
and who they've become.
They've all become these incredible activists.
Every single one of those girls was like a lovely,
great human being.
[quirky music]
♪ ♪
- I tell you, I've--I've missed your company.
- Did you? Aw, thank you. - That's for sure.
- Did you get anything? 'Cause I stole quite a lot.
- Did you really? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I didn't. I should have known that.
- I should have told you. - I'm quite reassured by that.
'cause I was definitely trying to steal my wand.
And I worry that if I had,
I probably would have lost it by now somewhere.
- You know they don't work, Tom.
- Well, I've been assured
that in time, with enough practice--
- Practice it would work. - Yes.
- But it's quite funny looking back at it now,
us doing these incredibly elaborate moves
and nothing happening.
- And nothing--except one time it did happen with me.
And they said, okay, this time we are gonna blow up Hogwarts.
- Oh, yeah, you got to do it, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- And they said, so we will take your cue.
When you do your spell, it will blow up.
- [giggles] - [laughs]
And I was actually really surprised and scared
by my own reaction, 'cause I thought, "Wow."
[explosion]
[cheering]
It was this horrible thrill of power.
- Right.
- And, like, I've had that amount--just pointing
my wand there and then it blew up.
- Yeah, it's a lot more satisfying than,
you know, making a feather levitate.
- Yeah. [both laughing]
- So what was Draco doing
with that weird-looking cabinet,
and who were all those people? Don't you see?
It was a ceremony, an initiation.
- Stop it, Harry.
I know where you're going with this.
- It happened. He's one of them.
- One of what?
- Harry is under the impression
Draco Malfoy is now a Death Eater.
- The child who hasn't received affection,
the enabling love of the parent or the adult
can develop this anger and hatred at the world
and goes to the dark side.
- You dare to talk to me like that in my own house?
- Lucius.
- So much of what Draco's journey is,
is to do with whether he is or isn't
trying to please his father.
- In the sixth film, they make him do
the worst thing ever, or to attempt the worst thing ever,
of killing Dumbledore, and obviously we see him crumble.
- Draco, years ago, I knew a boy
who made all the wrong choices.
Please let me help you. - I don't want your help.
Don't you understand?
I have to do this.
I have to kill you.
Or he's gonna kill me.
- With Tom, what was great with "Half-Blood Prince"
was you suddenly took this bad guy
who, in the previous films,
had always been somewhat two dimensional.
And then we were able to give him the opportunity
to explore a far more complex and interesting journey.
And I sat down with him and I said, "Tom, look,
this is your opportunity to really shine."
- I remember David Yates saying if we can get
just 1% of empathy or sympathy for him,
then we'll have done our job.
- Do it.
- To my mind, Draco is the hero.
Harry's always gonna do the right thing.
Harry's always gonna make the right choice.
There's never really any dilemma for him.
Draco breaks the chains of this terrible family
in his responsibility and what he's expected to do.
And to watch Tom create that struggle on-screen
and really manifest all that nuance,
all that complication,
all that great ethical minefield
that he tiptoes through was--it was just so impressive.
- No.
- Severus.
Please.
- Avada Kedavra!
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- It's obviously amazing to be back,
but it's like it's so...
I guess, like, shocking that so many people
that we both thought would be around for much longer
than they have been,
like Helen and Alan and Richard and...
- Yeah, they're like fam-- like family,
you can grieve in the same way.
- Yeah. - Just too soon.
- Yeah.
[solemn music]
♪ ♪
- Do not pity the dead, Harry.
Pity the living,
and above all, all those who live without love.
It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry,
and forget to live.
- Richard Harris was such a special, warm person.
He was so twinkly.
- Well, Richard was classic.
Probably one of the funniest men I've ever met.
He was this devilish 11-year-old
trapped in a 70-plus-year-old man's body.
- Will you give us another twirl, ace?
[chuckles]
- He just had that glint in his eye,
which made him the perfect Dumbledore, by the way.
- Hmm, alas.
Ear wax.
- Richard Griffiths was just delicious as Mr. Dursley.
- There's no such thing as magic.
- He embraced his wickedness
with such verve and passion.
- His passing was the one that has affected me most
because he was generous with knowledge.
Just, like, wanted to share everything with you.
[gasps]
- I wondered when I'd be seeing you, Mr. Potter.
- I feel really lucky to have some, you know,
some little bit of touch
with the amount of just amazing people that passed.
You know, I'll be very, very old one day saying, like,
"I knew that absolute legend."
- I--I know I ought not be here.
The Dark Lord himself forbade me to speak of this.
- Helen McCrory played my wife.
I said, "I think I just met
the best actress I've ever seen in my life."
- Come.
- I feel lucky to have worked with her
and shared just so much,
frankly, adolescent laughter with her on the set.
- She had taught me a lot.
See, I can't even say it. [laughs]
She had this ability, yeah,
just to sort of to show such empathy in her eyes.
And it was a--it was a real treat to work with her.
[singers humming]
♪ ♪
- I can teach you
how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses.
- Alan Rickman never talked to me like I was a child.
He always took my thoughts and opinions
very seriously, which I was always very touched by.
- Alan was a very dear friend, and we had that final scene.
His final scene.
- It answers to you
and you only.
- Does it?
I was a little intimidated by him.
His precision, his expert delivery of lines.
And we were sort of went toe to toe in a funny way,
you know, Snape and Voldemort.
Two actors can relish
metaphorically fencing with each other.
Alan was a magician in that way as an actor.
[choir vocalizing]
♪ ♪
- The ones that love us never really leave us.
And you can always find them.
In here.
[sweeping music]
♪ ♪
- Remember this.
You're not alone.
- The Elder Wand.
The most powerful wand ever made.
The Resurrection Stone.
The Cloak of Invisibility.
Together they make the Deathly Hallows.
Together they make one Master of Death.
- The boy who lived.
[dramatic music]
- Harry!
♪ ♪
- Come to die.
- No!
♪ ♪
Avada Kedavra!
[whimsical music]
♪ ♪
- The measures they had taken to protect their families
made him realize more than anything else could have done
that they really were going to come with him
and that they knew exactly how dangerous that would be.
He wanted to tell them what that meant to him,
but he simply could not find words important enough.
- It's both really cool.
It's really--and it's weird, like, walking around here
and seeing the sets that we were, like, kids on,
who treated everything with the amount of respect
kids treat things when you're just there and having fun.
- Yeah. - It's weird.
I'm having, like, weird, nostalgic moments.
Remember my hamster?
Does anybody remember my hamster?
- Yes. - Millie.
- Yeah. I didn't remember the hamster's name.
I'm sorry. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- That's okay. Rest in peace, Millie.
- I remember you having a hamster
and being vaguely jealous that you had an animal
that was on set with you. - They made a coffin for it.
The carpentry department. - They did, yeah.
When Millie died, the set designers built
Millie her own custom-made wooden coffin
that had velvet on the inside of it.
- It was beautiful. - Whoa!
- And--and it had her name engraved
because I was, I mean, I was beside myself.
- Did we do, like, a service?
I feel like we said a few words.
- I kept wanting to pick up dead Millie, and, like,
stroke and touch dead Millie.
And he was like, "Emma,
Millie's got to, like, stay in the coffin now."
- I have forgotten so much of this.
- It doesn't feel like much time has passed.
- I know.
- We all still look better than we do in the epilogue.
- Yes. - I was gonna say.
- Which is great. Like, we've made it in before that.
- Bag? - Yeah.
- Jumper?
- I was all forehead and a fat suit.
- Yeah, I was very, I was-- - I think I kind of...
- Yeah, you went for it.
You were like, "Give me the full, give me--"
- I did, yeah. Give me everything.
- Yeah, you went all in.
- Yeah. - I was so proud of you.
- No one else can really quite understand
what we experienced; it's a very unique thing.
Think David Yates used to describe us as astronauts
'cause no one else has really experienced this in this scale.
And we'll be kind of forever bonded by that.
[horn honks]
- Some of the sweetest memories I have
from the three of us is just each of us
knowing we sort of needed to take care of each other
in just small ways.
Just in terms of, like, it's really cold.
Like we're all gonna-- we're all gonna stand together
or I'm knackered.
Are you okay, Dan, if I, like, fall asleep on you,
like, in between this take, 'cause I'm so tired or--
- I think we have all fallen asleep in various
like on--on each other
in, like, some of the most grand cathedrals
and things in the UK. [laughter]
- The level of trust I had
and that we did build over those 10 years was like,
if we were doing a stunt,
I trusted that one of you would catch me.
- I feel like that kind of trust and reliance
and that takes, you know,
there's very few work environments
where you get that much time to build that up.
- And it was like nonverbal. Like it was,
it was like the three of us could communicate
without even having to say anything.
We just knew what needed to be done.
We were each very strong for each other.
Need to change.
- How, Hermione?
- Undetectable extension charm.
- You're amazing, you are.
- Always the tone of surprise.
- These films had a very different feel.
We were away from Hogwarts.
A lot of the time camping out different places.
The tone was a lot darker.
It felt like a different film.
Dumbledore sends you off to find all these Horcruxes,
but it doesn't tell you how to destroy them?
- It's very refreshing, I think,
'cause we all got to do some a lot more serious stuff.
And it was a real opportunity
to go deeper with these characters.
Are you coming, are you staying?
I saw you two the other night.
- Ron, that's--that's nothing.
Ron--
The scene that I thought was gonna be really awkward
and I wasn't sure about at all
which was us doing our dance.
- Yeah. - Like I--now that's one
of my favorite scenes from the whole of the series,
because the level of familiarity that you and I
had with each other, at that point, I didn't think
I could have done a scene like that with another actor.
- Well, it's also an interesting scene 'cause like,
first of all, we were doing Harry Potter films.
And then on the last movie, the director came and was like,
"Hey, how about you do slow dancing to Nick Cave
for five minutes?"
We're like, "Wait, what movie are we working on?"
Like, "Great, but okay."
- ♪ I once was blind, but now I see ♪
♪ Have you left a seat for me? ♪
♪ Is that such a stretch of the imagination? ♪
♪ Hey, little train, we're jumping on ♪
♪ The train that goes to the kingdom ♪
♪ We're happy, Ma, we're having fun ♪
♪ ♪
- There's so much said in the scene.
It was unspoken. I loved that.
And also in the same way that for the characters,
they got to have a moment of fun.
I feel like you and I got to have a moment of fun.
- Yeah, certainly. - Which we also...
both: Needed at that point.
- You know? - Yes, absolutely.
- Treacherous little bleeder. Is there no one we can trust?
- There was that, like--that scene on the last movie
where it was like us running through the forest.
- We were racing through the woods
trying not to be caught by the Snatchers.
- And action.
- Well, don't hang about. Snatch him.
- Honestly, I remember you and I, Emma,
becoming incredibly competitive...
- Ridiculously competitive.
- About who was gonna run faster.
- Give me five. That rocked! Whoo-hoo!
- I feel like Rupert was always, like,
a little bit, too, like, "You guys do what you like."
- He was just like, "You do your thing."
- Yeah... - I be here.
- For me, running is a stunt,
walking is a stunt.
- Oof.
- I absolutely do not like
watching very many scenes of myself in that,
but I've watched you two and I think you're brilliant.
- I remember that was a really sweet thing, though.
I do actually remember that the three of us telling each other
that we were doing a good job or that we'd done a scene well.
- Especially 'cause we had started off young
and really not knowing what we were doing.
So that when we'd see each other do
like a bit of real acting, you'd go, "Oh, cool."
- "That was--that's was cool." - Yeah, "Well done."
Like, yeah that was--I guess we're all getting better.
- Crushed it. - Great. Well done.
- Yeah, yeah. - I mean.
Obviously, us kissing was the most horrifying thing
either of us... - Oh.
- Yeah. - Have ever had to go through.
I'm Hermione Granger.
And you are?
- I'm Ron Weasley. - Pleasure.
- "It's levi-ohh-sa," not levio-sahh."
[laughter] She's a nightmare, honestly.
No wonder she hasn't got any friends.
- I think she heard you.
- It was just built up so much for the whole series.
- Eight films.
- I love Ron and Hermione's romance
and the way that sort of just bubbles away
under the story constantly.
- Uh--um...
[clears throat]
This relationship has been so restrained for so long.
- Got a bit of toothpaste.
- Slughorn's having Christmas, too, you know.
And we're meant to bring someone.
- I expect you'll be bringing McLaggen?
- The audience are desperate to see these two kiss.
- Actually, I was going to ask you.
- Really?
- There's a scene that we should--it's nice and sweet
that we should talk about once you've read it.
'Cause we'll be doing the kiss this week
between Ron and Hermione. - What?
- Doing the kiss between Ron and Hermione in--
- This week? - This week?
- In the chambers of secrets.
- In this moment of extraordinary jeopardy,
they turn to each other and then they just kiss.
We've waited seven movies for this.
I spoke to both of them in their trailers,
made sure they were both comfortable.
It was almost like prepping them for a major sports event.
You know, saying, "Okay guys, you can do this.
It's gonna be great."
- It was meant to be, like, this, like, dramatic make out.
'Cause you and I just kept corpsing--
like, we just kept laughing. - Yeah, yeah.
- And I was just really scared
we were never gonna get it because...
both: We couldn't take it seriously.
[laughter]
- I did not make this better because I've been told
significantly that I was just being an absolute ****
about this and was like,
"I'm gonna come on set and watch you guys kiss."
- Well, everyone wanted to be on set for it.
'Cause everyone was like, "This is gonna be good, guys."
Like we need-- - I'm sorry about that, guys.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I knew I was gonna kind of have to be the one
to kinda make this thing happen
because Rupert was not gonna, so I just had to go for it.
- Taking no prisoners.
- I needed like, momentum into the kiss in order to do it.
- And Rupert's, I could almost on that first take,
I saw Rupert's face explode with surprise,
'cause he thought, "It's only the first take."
- Kinda think I blacked out. I just remember
your face getting closer and closer to mine.
- Every time you talk about this,
you make it sound like an actual horror show
in your head.
- It wasn't that bad. I know.
- Kissing Rupert is one of the hardest things
I've ever had to do.
It just felt wrong,
so wrong on every level
because Dan, Rupert, and I are so much siblings.
Harry?
All three of us, I think, felt so matched
in how much it meant to us.
I remember the scene when you were like, "No, guys,
I'm the one who has to go on my own kinda thing
on this--this one."
And I gave you the hug to say goodbye.
I'll go with you. - No, kill the snake.
- I knew I was saying goodbye to the series.
I knew I was saying goodbye to you.
And I just had to just bring to the surface
how I really felt about it all coming to an end.
- Yeah.
- It's a very biblical image
carrying Harry across the bridge.
- If you ask Jo or anyone who's deeply involved in it,
they'll just say it's the battle between good and evil.
It's as simple as that.
- I owe so much to Neville as a character.
I was very, very shy, I wouldn't--
I would never speak up in class.
I wouldn't put my hand up for anything
'cause I-I very much was him.
Great story of Neville is that he's the champion.
- That wonderful bit at the end.
That great speech of Matthew's, you know.
Good must prevail, of course.
- It doesn't matter that Harry's gone.
- Stand down, Neville.
- People die every day.
We lost Harry tonight.
He's still with us in here.
He didn't die in vain.
But the thing that Harry Potter did for me,
both as a--as a story and as an actor in it...
But you will.
Was that it helped me to find first what I'm not.
Harry's heart did beat for us. For all of us.
Which, therefore, by extension, found what I am.
- Confrigo! - [hisses]
- [shouts]
- We're looking at the book, the final confrontation
between Voldemort and Harry.
It takes place in the Great Hall
with a huge audience watching.
And I really wanted something earthier and more intense
and more visceral than that.
Because these two adversaries were almost joined
spiritually, if you like, in this strange, horcrux-y way,
I thought, wouldn't it be wonderful
if Dan just grabbed Ralph and pulled him off this tower?
- Come on, Tom, let's finish this the way we started it.
Together.
- As they apparate, they merge together
that deep connection that we'd sort of
threaded through the stories and the films,
you'd visualize in that moment
before they tumbled down into the courtyard.
- I remember being quite physically tired.
We put everything into it.
We were exhausted, I think, at the end.
We were shooting in cold months
and the skies were gray.
My forearm got so tight
'cause this thing, this running current in you,
you had to...
push it back at him.
- As well as the physical challenge of making the films,
there was that small pressure of thinking,
"You're the one who's gonna finish this.
"It has to go out on a high. It has to be meaningful.
It has to resonate. It has to deliver."
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Who are you? - Hello, my name is Emma Watson
playing the part of Hermione Granger.
- I'm horrified. - No, never.
- What? - Never mind.
- You rather not be seen like this?
- Yeah. - Why?
- 'Cause he doesn't like the clip in his hair.
- Yeah. - Mr. Radcliffe.
- Yep. Ah! - Ah?
- Camera, ah!
You're from the press?
- I'm from the press, exactly. How did you know?
It's your first day. How does it feel?
- It feels absolutely fantastic.
- Are you excited?
- Very much so. Can't wait.
- After all this preparation, finally happening.
Okay, get back to work. People need to pamper you.
- Yeah. - Right.
- What do you think about when you think about it now, Rup?
As you look back on--
like, for me, it's very good memories.
Like, what is it for you?
- I'm very proud to have been part of them.
I think towards the end it was kind of a weird time,
especially kind of finishing.
I felt like I lost track
of who I was and who the character was.
I didn't really know where they ended or began.
- Yeah, there were some things that I'm just like,
who--who am I?
Like, what do I like to do?
What--what is important to me?
- Like, it was weird things.
Even my name didn't feel like my name.
- Yeah. - I felt I only
really knew how to do one thing.
- Yeah. - I knew how to play Ron.
Ron was my favorite character,
so it was so cool being him in the film.
- It's almost like we did
the most extreme form of method acting.
- It always had to end at some point.
We were never gonna be doing this forever.
- The way it feels for me now,
like, seeing you here, having had time apart...
Let me try not to get emotional.
It feels like you're like a pillar of my life.
- That's a very overwhelming thing,
'cause I've watched you grow up.
We've watched each other grow up.
We grew up together.
We're family. We always will be.
We don't need to see each-- oh, my God.
Even though we don't see each other all the time.
Yeah, it's a...
It's a strong--
a strong bond that we will always have.
And we will always be part of each other's lives.
[tender music]
[chuckles]
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- Oh, it's so nice to see you. - So good to see you.
I love you.
[both laughing softly]
As a friend.
[both laughing]
- Just to be clear. - Just to be clear.
- For everyone watching.
- But it's true. There's so much love.
- Oh, thanks, Rupes.
- Let's do a rehearsal,
and it can playback I need to playback from the top.
When you're ready, and action.
When we were all wrapping up those final scenes,
one of the last shots we did in the entire shoot.
- We were diving past the camera
and landing on this huge crash mat.
- That was what it all came down to, this one take.
It was jumping in a chimney.
- It was such a metaphor for what was actually happening.
We had to, like, jump onto a mat, basically,
to travel into another world.
- The collective emotion was incredibly palpable
and--and for the people who'd supported them
and had been there for them throughout.
Everybody who'd seen them grow up.
- On that last day, I just lost it.
- I mean, I remember all of us just holding each other.
All three of us were, like, utterly devastated.
I think it was the first time we'd allowed ourselves
to even process or realize we'd done it.
We'd made it through.
- It's so ingrained in me as well,
like I measure my life with these movies.
So it's like, "Oh, when did you pass your driving test?"
I'm like, "Order of the Phoenix."
- Every part of my life is connected to Potter.
When I meet people who it's a really important part
of their life, or the books or the films were in some way,
like, a part of their identity,
it, yeah, it just makes you really proud.
- There's something about Harry Potter
that makes life richer.
Like, when things get really dark and times are really hard,
stories give us places we can go
where we can rest and feel held.
- I don't think I fully appreciated the reach
that these films had when we were in them.
The amount of people that have said things like,
"These are the only films my dad and I watched together.
"Like, we can't talk about anything else.
"And like, we watch Harry Potter together.
And that has been our thing."
- It's amazing to--to be a small kind of part of that.
And just seeing it kinda relive on, finding new mediums,
like the stage show, "Fantastic Beasts."
It's just kind of living forever,
and it's amazing to see it.
[together] Harry Potter! Harry Potter!
- There's nothing like the stories of Harry Potter.
The stories told within them,
the individual characters' journeys.
I just think that has such
a transformative effect on people.
That's magic.
It's beautiful here.
- Every child wonders how they're going to fit in.
And it's an epic journey that every child goes on.
- Dobby will always be there for Harry Potter.
- It's very inspiring for young people to go,
"Oh, that could be me there having that moment of doubt
or that wobble or that argument with my parents."
- Stay close to me.
- Until the end.
- I have found it an extraordinary world
to be involved with.
And it's a-- it's a beautiful world.
- Harry.
all: Harry.
- Harry.
- And that's what's so profoundly therapeutic
and good about it, is it's made
people who otherwise feel lonely,
they feel they belong.
- Don't give it to her, Harry. - Shh.
- Most of the fans that--that come up
and say hello to me now
weren't even born when we made the films.
So it quickly makes you feel slightly older
and very grateful
that it's been passed down to other generations.
Training for the ballet, Potter?'
- One of the things that was unique about Harry Potter,
besides the incredible imagination of worlds
and characters that Jo Rowling created
was the fact that you get to see young children
grow into adults
and to see that journey on film.
I don't think we've ever seen that before.
I don't know if we'll ever see it again.
- It just feel so lucky that I get to be part
of a world that people love so much and makes people happy.
- There's something about those--
the escapism you find.
The healthy form of escapism.
That, I think, is kind of what Harry Potter does.
- And that's what these stories are for.
They are a guide to how to live.
- I just think it's an end of an era.
It's a ten--ten years of my life.
My--my children are grown up during this, of course.
That is Robbie Coltrane, finest gamekeeper in Hogwarts,
last day on Harry Potter.
[somber music]
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- The legacy of the movies is, I suspect,
that my children's generation
will show them to their children.
So you could be watching it in 50 years' time, easy.
I'll not be here, sadly, but... [laughs]
Don't you think on it for one minute.
But Hagrid will, yes.
- Kinda looking back at it now,
just really fond memories.
I think about it a lot. It was a great time.
It really was, it was--
it was amazing.
- Just the best, most amazing experience.
And I can't really explain to you--
like, they're such good people.
They were so kind, and...
they both took the responsibility very seriously.
And I appreciated that so much.
- It really is like family.
We're just so intrinsically linked.
They're very important people to me.
- The crew on these films were unbelievable.
There are people on these films that are--
are foundational to who I am...
As a person and an actor.
I feel so lucky to be where I am
and to have the life that I have
and be able to work with the people I work with now,
but none of it is possible without this.
So yeah, it was--it was very--
it was a very good ten years.
[somber music]
- Expecto Patronum.
♪ ♪
- After all this time?
- Always.
[whimsical music]
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