Scholastic entrevista a Lavender Brown

Traducción de la entrevista que Scholastic le hizo a Jessie Cave en el set de Harry Potter y las Reliquias de la Muerte: Parte I.

P: ¿Cuándo estabas leyendo los libros de Harry Potter te veías a ti misma como el personaje?
Jessie: No en absoluto. Casi lo contrario. O sea, leí Harry Potter y el Príncipe Mestizo extrañamente casi 6 meses antes de recibir la llamada para audicionar. Y cuando leí el libro por primera vez no me gustó Lavender para nada, y me pareció que era muy molesta. Así que cuando lo leí de nuevo con la mente puesta en representarla, fue muy diferente. Me di cuenta de repente que ella está muy enamorada de ese chico. Y también se le rompe el corazón. Así que sentí mucha empatía hacia ella, en oposición a odiarla.

P: Ella es probablemente uno de los personajes que no les gusta a los fans. ¿Cuál es su reacción contigo?
Jessie: Tengo montones de cartas muy tiernas que dicen que realmente aman a Lavender y que creen que Ron y Lavender tendrían que haberse quedado juntos y cosas como esa. No sé. Creo que es una fuente de humor en el film. No es una caricatura pero está muy cerca de serlo y creo que la respuesta a ella es graciosa.

P: ¿Has pasado por un amorío como el de ella?
Jessie: Bueno, lo intenté. No tuve tanto éxito como Lavender, pero recuerdo tener estos gigantes enamoramientos de chicos en la escuela. Me recuerdo encontrando el horario de uno de los chicos que me gustaba, y mis amigas y yo lo seguíamos. Sabíamos dónde estaba cuando estaba en la escuela. Solía pasar por la ventana de su salón de clases, pensando que haría una diferencia. Que él me iba a ver. Simplemente era patética. ¡No debería estar repitiéndolo ahora! Tenía 14 o 15. ¡Simplemente patética!

P: ¿Fue extraño ingresar en una serie ya establecida donde esta gente había crecido junta? ¿Tuviste la sensación de “chica nueva”?
Jessie: Sí, fue increíblemente extraño que los haya visto en el cine y haya leído los libros desde chica. Pero fue un alivio conocerlos y darme cuenta de que son normales. Todos fueron encantadores y acogedores. Fue una experiencia brillante.

P: ¿Con quién crees que te relacionaste más?
Jessie: ¿En el set? Definitivamente con Emma. Realmente me llevé muy bien con Emma. Pensaba que ella era brillante.

P: ¿Cómo fue besar a “Ron Ron” (Won Won) en Harry Potter y el Príncipe Mestizo?
Jessie: ¡Fue extraño! Fue muy extraño, básicamente porque era mi primer día rodando. Uno estaba aplastado en el final. Había tanta gente en la habitación también que me daba bastante miedo. Pero, también por eso, por la gente y el set, es muy fácil pretender que estás en ese mundo por un minuto.

P: ¿Cuántas veces tuvieron que grabar la toma?
Jessie: Varias veces. Porque había distintos ángulos, ¡fue una cosa de dos días!

P: ¿Fue díficil o fácil representar el personaje?
Jessie: Ella es un personaje muy liberador para representar. Sería lindo ser tan libre con tus emociones y sentimientos, y profesarle tu amor a la gente.
Es muy energética por lo que es muy divertido hacer de ella.

P: ¿Cuál es el mejor recuerdo que te vas a llevar?
Jessie: Creo que el mejor recuerdo fue el último día que filmamos y estábamos en el negocio de los Weasley, el cual adoro porque yo solía ser una ilustradora. Hice arte. Y cada caja de dulces estaba decorada y diseñada y era hermoso y yo sólo recuerdo pensar “Esto es brillante”. Pero no sólo por eso, era porque sabía que se estaba terminando el rodaje. Era un día muy hermoso y recuerdo que estaba muy feliz por haber estado en esta película y recuerdo que amé todo de ella.

P: ¿Qué libro crees que Lavender recomendaría leer?
Jessie: Probablemente algo como la saga Crepúsculo (que es a partir de 12 años) porque ella es muy romántica y ahí hay historias de amor geniales. Así que creo que ella las leería y le encantaría enamorarse de un vampiro.

P: ¿Si pudieras hacer otro papel en Harry Potter cuál sería?
Jessie: Me encantaría interpretar a la profesora Trelawney o a Dolores Umbridge porque son personajes excéntricos y me encantan los anteojos que usa Trelawney.

Fuente: Scholastic.
Traducido por mí.

Una semana más para ver Harry Potter y el Príncipe Mestizo

Antes que nada, ya sé que se llama Harry Potter y el Misterio del Príncipe, pero me parece absolutamente horrible, así que pienso seguirle diciendo Harry Potter y el Príncipe Mestizo, como realmente es.
Estoy muy desilucionada. Pasaron el estreno del día 16 al día 23, a causa de la gripe A. Ya estoy hasta la coronilla de todo el revuelo que hay por esa maldita gripe.
¡Y me siento muy mal porque quiero a Harry! Encima que tendría que haberse estrenado en Noviembre y estuve meses esperándola ahora pasa esto.
Me parece totalmente injusto y una falta de respeto para los fans.

‘Harry Potter’ countdown: Dan Radcliffe talks about life at Hogwarts and beyond

05:00 PM PT, Jul 3 2009

Our countdown to “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” continues. Today, it’s our exclusive interview with the star of the magical franchise, Daniel Radcliffe, who is not quite ready to leave the halls of Hogwarts but does admit he is starting to look toward life beyond its familiar corridors.

Daniel Radcliffe

Most movie sets are flimsy facades — the walls usually move when you lean against them — but not the airplane factory in Watford, England, that a decade ago was transformed into the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and built to last. The floors and walls are real stone, and no one knows their cracks and echoes better than Daniel Radcliffe.

Well, maybe that’s not entirely true. “I still get turned around in here,” Radcliffe said as he wandered through an especially dim corridor. “I couldn’t tell you the name of this set, but I know my way to all the sets. Well, pretty much.”

Radcliffe was wearing a black suit with a shirt and tie the color of a dark red wine, his costume for a holiday party scene in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.” He seems smaller in person than on the screen; he’s a compact 5-foot-5 but it’s the sinewy physique of a horse jockey thanks to years of training as an action hero. In person, he has a quick smile and the same chipper enthusiasm as his world-famous character, but the actor also possesses a sly wit and calculating eye that quickly sets him apart from the puppyish boy wizard he plays.

Radcliffe, who turns 20 this month, has been wearing the Hogwarts robes since summer 2000, when “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling signed off on his casting. It’s difficult to understate the impact on his life in England where the mania for the books and films is even more intense than it is stateside.
In the subsequent years, Radcliffe has been called the world’s richest working teen (he made $25 million just last year, according to Forbes, and also inked a $43 million deal for two more “Potter” films) and at age 16 he became the youngest non-royal to have an individual portrait put on display at Britain’s 153-year-old National Portrait Gallery.

“I started this when I was about 10 or 11; it’s quite mad if you think about it,” Radcliffe said with a serene expression that suggested he is accustomed to the bedlam. That eighth and last “Potter” film is scheduled to be released in 2011 and will close out one of the most massive undertakings in mainstream film history.

No one would begrudge Radcliffe for taking a long break afterward, but no one who knows him actually expects that to happen. The actor performed to strong reviews in London and New York in Peter Shaffer’s play “Equus,” and the harrowing spiritual and sexual themes (along with the nude scenes for the star) were an emphatic declaration that Radcliffe wants to be more than Rowling’s magical orphan.

“He’s an extremely focused young man and keen to learn as much as he can at all times,” “Half-Blood” director David Yates said. “He’s pursuing a career that will carry him far beyond this role and these films. I have seen very few people his age with such purpose in them.”

The magical trio of Harry Potter

Of the sets in Watford, the Great Hall and Dumbledore’s office are the most impressive to visit. “I pity the poor blokes who have to take it all down,” Radcliffe said. “It will take them years.”

Radcliffe said the “Potter” soundstage has been a second home and a one-of-a-kind acting academy. Several generations of the best from British and Irish stage and cinema have passed through the franchise, such as Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson and the late Richard Harris, and Radcliffe tried to learn something from each of them.

Asked for an example, he points out that Richard Griffiths, who plays Harry’s sour uncle, was raised by deaf parents and, attuned to nonverbal expression, approaches his work with a more internal strategy than most actors. He first learns what his character is thinking in each scene as opposed to what he is saying.

Griffiths also once advised Radcliffe to never let the camera catch him when he wasn’t thinking because the void would be read in his eyes; the veteran prefaced that counsel by saying it was told to him by Lee Marvin, who heard it from Spencer Tracy.

“Just think,” Radcliffe said, “how many young people get access to that sort of advice and that sort of history?”

But it’s Gary Oldman and Imelda Staunton who have left the biggest impression on Radcliffe. “To me those are the two that are just in the firmament,” Radcliffe said as he relaxed between takes. “All of them, everyone, has been brilliant, but those are the two that mean something special to me.”

In “Half-Blood Prince,” Potter comes to grips with being “the chosen one” and he has some fun with it, especially when his closest friends take him to task for taking himself too seriously. The same seems to apply to the actor waving the wand.

Radcliffe loves going to movies and the theater but he does so with pals and only on nights when there’s no red carpet. “He won’t do premieres,” a longtime member of the “Potter” production team said. “He doesn’t court publicity. He puts on a baseball cap and goes to movies in London on a Friday night with friends.”

Sirius Black and Harry Potter

Radcliffe is an intense music fan and jumped at the chance to discuss some of his favorite bands, which on the day of the interview included the Arctic Monkeys and the Libertines. He even plays; Oldman (who once recorded a duet with David Bowie and famously portrayed Sid Vicious on screen) tutored his young friend on bass guitar. He clearly enjoys the music’s reckless energy and, perhaps, the idea of separating himself further from Harry Potter; he also likes using a bit of raw language and, with a wink, talking about the number of beautiful women in London.

Radcliffe’s parents were with him when fate picked him for the role of Harry. The family was attending a play, “Stones in His Pockets,” when they bumped into David Heyman, the “Potter” producer who urged the youngster, who had by then already starred in the BBC film “David Copperfield,” to audition.

Fame has not pulled Radcliffe, an only child, away from his family. His father, Alan Radcliffe, stood not 20 yards away from Radcliffe during the filming of the holiday party scene and afterward they took a short stroll; viewed from a distance, the pair have the same gait and profile. Radcliffe chuckled when asked about it. “It’s true, isn’t it? People say I look like my father; I don’t. I just have all the same mannerisms. If we walk down the road for 30 seconds, we will fall into step with each other.”

His mother, Marcia Jeannine Gresham, told her son that as the “Potter” novels went along, she saw more of her son in the character and vice versa.

“She read ‘Half-Blood Prince’ and she did say, ‘Harry has started to argue like you argue,’” Radcliffe said with a roll of his eyes. “He is very good in analogies, and I also use a lot of semantics, and it does really irritate people into submission really. Obviously, J.K. Rowling actually had cameras in my house and knows that is how I argue…”

Radcliffe laughed but then grew a bit serious.

“I would like to think I haven’t been influenced by him too much just by playing him for so long,” Radcliffe said. “I am thrilled to have this in my life, but it is separate from my life, you know? It’s nice to be called Dan. And actually I started correcting people now. You do feel like a bit of an idiot doing that, but at the same time, in the long run it is better for us. I know it’s better for me.”

– Geoff Boucher

Fuente: Los Angeles Times

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/07/harry-potter-countdown-dan-radcliffe-talks-about-life-at-hogwarts-and-beyond.html

Traducción en deuda, lo prometo!

‘Harry Potter’ countdown: Emma Watson still ‘quite intimidated’ by pal J.K. Rowling

04:19 PM PT, Jul 2 2009

Watson The countdown to “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” continues today with a dressing-room interview with Emma Watson. We’ve already posted the on-the-set interview with Rupert Grint; tomorrow it’s the title star himself, Daniel Radcliffe. Keep checking back for a story a day between now and the July 15 release of “Half-Blood Prince.” (This is a longer version of a feature that will appear in the special “Harry Potter” section in this weekend’s edition of the Los Angeles Times Sunday Calendar.)

How many people get to meet their maker and live to tell the tale? Emma Watson, with a chuckle, said that’s how she has viewed the recent blossoming of her friendship with “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling.

During the filming of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” Watson contemplated the relationship she’s developed with Rowling, as she sat one brisk afternoon in her dressing room (relentlessly pink in its decor). “We talk, we e-mail each other now,” she said, nodding toward her laptop and that morning’s missive from the woman who is arguably the world’s most famous living young-adult author.

“I must admit I still feel quite intimidated by her,” Watson said. “Not because she is actually intimidating, but because I admire her so much, and we have all been such mad fans of the books and her and everything.”

Rowling has said that Watson’s character, the sweet but swotty Hermione Granger, is based in part on her own persona as a child. That has led to a mutual fascination between the actress and the writer, who together have shaped the character. In “Half-Blood Prince,” Hermione is the wounded heart of the film, dealing with her stirring feelings for childhood chum Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) as well as the dark threats gathering at Hogwarts.

“There are serious dangers brewing, but there is also a lot of romance and humor in this film,” Watson said, “which I enjoyed quite a lot.”

J.K. Rowling and Emma Watson During the filming, Watson, who is now 19, had a certain famous pair of eyes looking over her shoulder far more often than in the past. Rowling was a rare visitor during the making of the first five “Potter” films — she was simply too busy with writing the series of novels — but with the final book published in summer 2007, the writer dropped by the bucolic Watford set outside London.

To hear cast members tell it, Rowling became like one of the wise old ghosts who populate the fictional wizard academy of Hogwarts: She was a fairly common presence but one who never failed to startle and amaze.

That meant more to Watson, perhaps, than anyone else in the cast and crew. The other lead actors spoke about Rowling in casual terms, but Watson could barely tamp down her awe.

“I just really want her to like me,” Watson said, sounding a bit like the insecure overachiever Hermione. “I’m always really keen to tell her how I feel, and maybe it’s a bit much. She is so down to earth and funny and witty. . . . I definitely see Hermione in her. She’s genuine and brilliant.”

Those are terms others use to describe Watson herself.

“Emma is astonishingly bright and just anxious to move forward with life,” said “Potter” producer David Heyman. “She’s been amazing to watch. She has these choices. She could be an actress or a model, but with her studies and success she could also be a lawyer. She could also be an artist. . . . It’s pretty amazing to see.”

The day she was interviewed on the set, though, Watson was most excited about the new possession she proudly showed a visitor: her first driver’s license. “My makeup lady gave me a car freshener as a gift,” she chirped. “It’s all quite cool.”

Mario Testino photo of Emma Watson for ElleThe actress, like the other two members of the “Potter” trio, seems remarkably grounded despite the oddities that come her way, such as the roomful of Bibles that have been sent to her by fans. Why Bibles? “I have no idea. They just come in the mail. People think I need spiritual guidance. Everyone sends Rupert pajamas. He has no idea why.”

Aside from school plays and the “Potter” franchise, Watson’s only acting credits are her voice role in last year’s “The Tale of Despereaux” and the BBC’s 2007 movie “Ballet Shoes,” which was met with mixed reviews. Watson just made her debut as the new face of Burberry for its autumn line (Peruvian fashion photographer Mario Testino took the pictures, including the one on the left) and she is on the cover of the new Elle looking nothing like the little girl from potions class.

A big topic of speculation in England is where the daughter of two attorneys will be attending college (the latest rumor: Columbia University) after she finishes the final two “Potter” movies, which are being filmed in Watford. She spoke glowingly about life at Hogwarts but said it has been a lot of pressure on her through her teen years.

“I will look back on this part of my life and I know it will be special, but it used to be that if I ever had a bad review or someone said, ‘Oh, she is too this,’ or ‘She’s too that,’ I got upset about it,” Watson said. “Now what I have worked out is that it would actually be physically impossible to be perfect for everyone. Everyone has a distinct idea in their head of what each character is like. So I’ve kind of had to lower my standards. I can’t be perfect for everyone. J.K. thinks I’m perfect, and that’s good enough for me.”

– Geoff Boucher

Fuente: Los Angeles Times

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/07/emma-watson-on-her-pal-jk-rowling-i-still-feel-quite-intimidated-by-her.html

Harry nos sorprende con un nuevo talento!!!

Warner Bros. nos sorprende con una nueva imagen, no por lo extraño de revelar fotografías, sino por la curiosa escena representada: Slughorn sentado en el fondo de una habitación, mientras ¡Harry toca el piano!
La imagen pertenece a Harry Potter y el Príncipe Mestizo, que será estrenada el 17 de julio de este año. Nunca antes hemos sabido sobre el talento de Harry con el instrumento, así que resta esperar la película para saber a ciencia cierta cómo será llevada a cabo la escena y cuán habilidoso resulta Potter con el piano.

Fuente: HarryLatino

http://www.harrylatino.com/noticias/5946/el-talento-oculto-de-harry