In a delightful interview filled with light-hearted banter and intriguing insights, the cast of Harry Potter, including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, share their personal experiences and imaginative musings related to their adventures in the wizarding world of Harry Potter.
INTERVIEWER: In the movie, you encounter a Boggart who transforms itself into your worst fear. If you individually encountered Boggarts, what do you think they’d be?
RUPERT GRINT: I’m actually really scared of spiders. I hate spiders. Just like Ron, really.
INTERVIEWER: What do you think the other two would morph into?
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: I don’t know.
RUPERT GRINT: You always said that I was like a frog.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: I didn’t say you were like a frog.
RUPERT GRINT: You did in one of the pictures.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: Did I?
RUPERT GRINT: Yes.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: That was during my horrible phase. I don’t know Rupert. What would you like to be? You like camels.
RUPERT GRINT: Camels are quite cool.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: So he can be a camel.
INTERVIEWER: It’s a handy thing to be, you know. You can go a long time without water.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: I have absolutely no idea about what Emma would be.
INTERVIEWER: Throw one in.
EMMA WATSON: Yes, come on, Dan. No pressure or anything.
SHRUNKEN HEAD: Hey. How about a potato head? A platypus.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: Help me.
SHRUNKEN HEAD: A lion.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: A lion.
EMMA WATSON: Roar.
INTERVIEWER: What do you think he’d be?
EMMA WATSON: I know he has a real thing for werewolves.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: No, just wolves.
INTERVIEWER: Wolves.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: I convinced you that I was a werewolf.
RUPERT GRINT: He did, yes.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: I told him I was a werewolf.
RUPERT GRINT: And I believed you as well.
INTERVIEWER: You couldn’t have done really.
RUPERT GRINT: Oh, I did, yes.
INTERVIEWER: Boys, you are probably the most famous under 16-year-olds on this Earth. All those girls, it must be a glorious time.
EMMA WATSON: Plenty of towel girls.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: Yes. Many, many towel girls. It’s great. It’s very cool. Yes.
INTERVIEWER: What are the things you’d like to be able to do that you can do in Harry Potter that you can’t do in the real world?
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: I think I’d like the invisibility cloak because then I could just sneak into so many rock concerts. It’d be great.
SHRUNKEN HEAD: You don’t need a cloak to sneak into concerts. Just roll in under the turnstile like I do.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: Yes.
SHRUNKEN HEAD: But I do have a favourite band.
INTERVIEWER: Okay. What’s your favourite band?
SHRUNKEN HEAD: Isn’t it obvious? Talking Heads. You walked into that one.
INTERVIEWER: When a new Harry Potter book comes out, having started out as Harry Potter book fans, it must have really changed the way you read these books now.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: You do kind of start to look at it as in, oh, my God; I’ll be doing this soon.
INTERVIEWER: So for you it’s not a book, it’s a list of things to do.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: Yes. I read the fourth book as we started the first film. At the Yule Ball I remember Rupert and me were like oh, my God we’re wearing dresses.
INTERVIEWER: Did you have a similar moment when you read that?
RUPERT GRINT: Definitely. I was scared.
INTERVIEWER: But when you were looking at it thinking that’s another two weeks in blue skirts, did it sort of ruin or heighten your enjoyment of the book?
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: I think for me it heightens it because I’m actually going to get to do this. There are kids all over the world dreaming of this stuff.
INTERVIEWER: You’re living a dream?
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: And I’m actually going to be able to do it. It’s fantastic.
INTERVIEWER: What about you?
SHRUNKEN HEAD: Don’t you think I’d be a great Harry Potter?
INTERVIEWER: Especially when it comes to waving a wand.
SHRUNKEN HEAD: I hadn’t thought of that.
EMMA WATSON: Now that I’ve done the film, when I’m reading the book, I can see Dan, Rupert and I actually doing it. It’s really funny. I have this little picture in my head.
INTERVIEWER: That’s me, done. So now it’s time to turn to the Head and ask him to ask you his one question.
SHRUNKEN HEAD: Daniel, isn’t our scene together the highlight of the film? Don’t you think it’s head and shoulders above the rest?
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: It’s the Knight Bus scene, isn’t it? I just remember you got on set and you were making all the demands actually.
EMMA WATSON: He wouldn’t come out of his trailer for hours.
SHRUNKEN HEAD: I don’t remember that.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: It was a great scene. A very good scene.
SHRUNKEN HEAD: Come on, Daniel. I’m the most talented shrunken head in the Screen Actor’s Guild. In fact, I’m the only talking shrunken head in the Guild.
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