New interview with OOTP cast
New interview with OOTP cast The BBC has a new interview with Bonnie Wright, Matt Lewis, Katie Leung, and Evanna Lynch online now. When asked what his highlight of filming the fifth movie was, Matthew replied:

"I love comedy, I love making people laugh - but what I really loved this year was tackling the emotional side of Neville. That was a big challenge for me because Neville has always been a light-hearted, humorous character and I have never had to do anything as deep and emotional as that before."
Posted by Ciaran on Jun 21st | 50 Comments
Visitor Comments
Posted by Glitterbug Jun 21st 2007

I love him as Neville :)


Posted by Sirius_Black Jun 21st 2007

Matt Lewis is an awesome actor, I'm sure he's played the role of "emotional Neville" really well! :D BTW... first?


Posted by swans_rule_the_afl Jun 21st 2007

I hope so, SO much that they leave in the scene with neville in teh hospital in this movie. I love that scene, it's just so beautifully written. When harry's like "I had never felt more sorry for anyone else in my life", or something slong those lines, it was just so...I don't know...well, I felt very sorry for neville at that point.


Posted by ravenclawsheart Jun 21st 2007

i hope tat in the movie we see neville in st. mungos or whatever cause it shows nevillle is more than a clumsy guy ast school


Posted by swans_rule_the_afl Jun 21st 2007

Note: I butchered that quote, sorry, but u get the jist of it...


Posted by kokoro_ravenclaw Jun 21st 2007

Sounds interesting. I really hope that the St. Mungo's scene is in the movie, it almost made me cry, honestly.


Posted by Snow_White_Queen Jun 21st 2007

aww, i love neville. sounds like a good film. top 10?


Posted by harrypotterwiz101 Jun 21st 2007

Looks great! I can't wait...Its supposed to be the best movie yet! top 10


Posted by Lethe01 Jun 21st 2007

great, looks awesome! Top 10?


Posted by susanova Jun 21st 2007

I love that they're doing all these interviews with the 2nd tier characters. This is a very talented bunch of young people, and it's good to see them get face time with the press. After all, how many times can you do the same interviews with Dan, Emma and Rupert without getting a tad repetitive?


Posted by xxkatedxx Jun 21st 2007

I love matthew lewis i think he's great as Neville!


Posted by polkadots56 Jun 21st 2007

I LOVE MATT LEWIS!! He is so cute!!


Posted by hp_plot Jun 21st 2007

awesum.. i lik evanna very much


Posted by Mrs_GinnyPotter Jun 21st 2007

I agree, I love hearing what the other main characters have to say. I really love Bonnie Wright as Ginny she's a wonderful actress and I'll bet that her and Daniel Radcliffe have great chemistry in HBP movie.


Posted by lovexlaugh_potter Jun 21st 2007

whooooot! Really can't wait for OofP


Posted by Steph Jun 21st 2007

wow we're getting lots of interviews at the mo! great stuff :) matt is one of my favourite cast members he seems so nice and a true harry potter fan!


Posted by moonshyne Jun 21st 2007

that scene where his mother gave him the gum wrapper, and he kept it....that just tore my heart into shreds. It seemed so real to me. If they have that particular scene, I hope they do it right. It's so emotional, I'm not sure they could do it justice.


Posted by ginnygal Jun 21st 2007

These interviews were great and again we got to read interviews from the other stars!!! I cant wait for the next one!!!


Posted by MOCHS Jun 21st 2007

Ooo... More interviews as the date of the movie draws nearer... All these interviews have made me a much happier fan. Keep them coming media people!


Posted by member_of_SPEW Jun 21st 2007

"what I really loved this year was tackling the emotional side of Neville" - I agree, that's got to mean that they keep in the whole subplot of Neville's parents. I really hope they do! It's not vitally important, but it really adds a lot of depth to the character, and I wasn't happy that they didn't highlight it in the fourth movie.


Posted by snottlebie7 Jun 21st 2007

Finally hearing some interviews with the other main characters....all good fans of the books and great actors/actresses of course.


Posted by hp_plot Jun 21st 2007

gr8 interview...... evanna sounds lik a gr8 person.. cant wait 2 c thm actin


Posted by iggy_mz Jun 21st 2007

i thnk mathew iss an excellent actor and i hope tht st.mungo s part is in it cause i thnk he will play it well!! i cant wait for the mooviee!!


Posted by Lenore Jun 21st 2007

I think Matt is just an excelent actor! I'm sure he's got the emotion right. Even the little bit he did with parent!angst in the fouth film was so sad, imajine what he can do with it when they give him some spotlight. And Evanna, even in a written interveiw, just seems to be made to play Luna, no? And I'll admit, for a bit there I was worried if Bonnie would be able to pull off OotP and HBP Ginny, but now I think she'll do just fine. Eee! Cannot wait!


Posted by magdalenarosrus Jun 21st 2007

I cannot wait to see the emotional scene!!!And of course I am sure it is going to be just GREAT :)))) OMG ...Only 19 dayssss!!!!


Posted by xhproxx Jun 21st 2007

AWWWW!!!!! MATT IS SUCH A CUTIE!


Posted by Luna_Fan1ofmillions Jun 21st 2007

Help! Have any of you here that are from the US ever sent a fanletter to any of the cast? How many stamps did you put on your letter? And how long would you say it would take for it to get all the way to Europe?


Posted by SugarxSpunxQuill Jun 21st 2007

Matthew wasn't quite how i pictured my Neville, he's better ;)


Posted by moonal Jun 21st 2007

the more interviews i read, the more i love matt lewis! his answers are really good, and quite funny as well. can't wait to see him on screen :D


Posted by bEtHyBoP13 Jun 21st 2007

some people asked about the st. mungos scene with neville, like if its going to be in the film or not. it's not. in the early screening reviews someone said that there is no st. mungos scene, neville just tells him about it. maybe someone answeed already im not sure but i just wanted to let you know! GO BONNIE AND EVANNA!! =]


Posted by miss_black Jun 21st 2007

"Evanna: When I was about eight I was stuck in a phase of reading Tintin books but my mum wanted me to read something else. She said "there is this great book called Harry Potter", but I said I didn't want to read about a boy with glasses - I just thought it sounded silly. Then she read me a chapter and I took it from her, because I loved it - and Tintin took the bottom shelf." omgggg it happened to me too!! omg that's scaryyy! Evanna is so cool seriously! also the rest are... Bonnie n Matthew are amazing! hehehe Matt really made me laugh when he said that his friends use him to flirt with girls lol


Posted by hp717 Jun 21st 2007

I think if neville's actor never did the emotional side of him,he shouldn't be neville.Anyone agree???????????????????? ?????


Posted by hgshipper31 Jun 21st 2007

i love bonnie she is so amazing! I can't wait til the dom scene where ginny shows off her feistiness and courage! also luna_fan1ofmillions i have written to dan radcliffe and bonnie wright before. i live in the us and i put on one stamp the one time for bonnie and the 3times for dan and it went to england just fine. also i don't know how many days it takes to get there but usually if it's your first time it could take 3-5 months to get back to you. thats what happened to me but it could be much sooner for you. hope that helped! :)


Posted by Dobby4ever Jun 21st 2007

Bonnie is one of my favourítes, probably because Ginny is one of my favourite characters. Otherwise I like Matthews too, he seems like a great guy, and I really like Neville too, he can always make one laugh. I think this interview is very much like the two others a coupple of days ago.


Posted by luv_hp_4ever Jun 21st 2007

OOOO yay! im so excited!! Im glad that Neville has some emotional scenes in this one! He should, and im sure mathew lewis pulled them off nicely!! But the character i can't wait to see in this film is ginny! We haven't really gotten to see bonny wright actually doing anything and i like her! well, i don't really know that, but i know that ginny is one of my favorites and i can't wait to see Bonny in action!!! She was even good in GoF when all she had was a couple of lines, but they were all very funny and cheeky and Ginny-like I'm also really excited to see what Evanna Lynch can do! I am expecting great things from her in this film! Katie Lueng is a good Cho, but cho isnt one of my favorite characters, so when i think of the res of HBP and harry with ginny it makes me not like cho which makes me not like katie lueng as much. if that makes any sense at all... anyways. now i'm off to actually read the interveiw, lol...


Posted by luv_hp_4ever Jun 21st 2007

good interveiw! but WAy too short!!


Posted by Luna_Fan1ofmillions Jun 21st 2007

hgshipper31, thank you so much! That helps a lot! One question though, what kind of stamp was it? I want to pull a Mrs. Weasley but I think I would probably put the wrong stamps on the letter and five months later I would have it back in my mailbox and I would be so upset!


Posted by feralfeline Jun 21st 2007

Thats so adorable. Neville is my favorite character, and I love how his character is developed throughout the series. Also I have a *slight* crush on Matthew Lewis!!! Hes so adorable! AW! Im so happy that they didnt leave out the whole vulnerable Neville thing in the movie! That was one of my favorite parts from the book, besides the famous Weasley Twins departure scene! YAY! OMG I CANT WAIT TILL THE MOVIE AND BOOKS COEM OUT OMG OMG!


Posted by hgshipper31 Jun 21st 2007

lunafan i just used a regular stamp. it worked fine for me but just to be safe you could go to the post office and ask for a special stamp but a regular one you have at home should work fine. if u have any other questions just put them in the comments cause i check back here like every couple of hours or so. hope i answered your question! :)


Posted by Mada Jun 21st 2007

I am also excited to see how ginny is portrayed in this film. I love her in the books and I am confident that Bonnie will do her justice. And Evanna is PERFECT for Luna. I saw an interveiw she did... I think it was on abc family????? and she started to talk and I was like OMG! She's perfect! Mathew is also really good for the part of Neville and is am always impressed with his interviews. As for Katie... she is great in the movies but I have never been that impressed by her interviews. And I think the whole kiss thing has been exploited. Though it is Harry's first kiss. I am just getting tired of hearing about it. I would rather hear about some other aspect. Like how she felt about Cho being the one that rats out the DA... But over-all they're all very good.


Posted by Micino Jun 21st 2007

I can't wait to see the movie! Matthew is a perfect Neville, Bonnie has been doing great with her few spots so far, and Jo said that Evanna is perfect. I love how all of them are big fans too. That really helps with thier performance, you can tell. Can't wait!!


Posted by dumbledoreswoolnsox_22 Jun 21st 2007

hehe I love Matt Lewis! He's an outstanding Neville!!!! Bonnie is really great as Ginny too, and Evana looks like she will be a great Luna!! Katie is cool too. I can't wait for the movie!!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by granger1019 Jun 21st 2007

OMG, with all of the talk from the actors about how they all developed the characters emotionally, I think I am going to be bawling through the whole movie!


Posted by Luna_Fan1ofmillions Jun 21st 2007

hgshipper31, thank you once again! Although so far I've been unable to locate a post office around me to which I could easily get to. On my own anyway . . . I'm fairly confident that there are a lot of stamps around my house and getting one wouldn't be difficult, but I need like 20-30 for what I want to do, and that amount would certainly be missed . . . And I could ask my parents to take me to a post office to buy some (the money wouldn't really be the problem, I have more than enough), but then they'd be curious as to why I need so many, and I would have to explain about the fan letter (I've never sent one), and why I need so many stamps for it--and really, I'd rather just skip all that. (Sorry for boring you with this.) But I think I'm going to have to tell them to take me in the end anyway . . . I read in yahoo! answers that I need postage that equals to 85 or so cents, so that's why I was asking what kind of stamp you used. But thank you so much for your time! So I suppose I should send my letter as soon as possible, five months is pretty long! And this next question may seem silly, but how long were your fan letters? What kind of stuff did you say? This is going to be my very first one and I'm afraid I'll sound incredibly crazy for a fan if I send a letter that's too long, or if it's too short. (Once again, sorry for boring you with all this! And anyway, my letter will probably be one of hundreds already sent.) Oh! One final question, what adress did you sent your letters to? I was going to send it to Leavesden Studios, they'll supposedly forward it to the correct person, but I don't know!


Posted by thecoolesthpfan Jun 21st 2007

i think that kaite, matthew, and bonnie all do an awesome job with their characters, and i cant wait to see evanna as luna lovegood!!!!!! i'm so excited for the movie, i just cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by ginny_girl11 Jun 21st 2007

I honestly believe that Matthew, Katie, and Bonnie all do an absolutely fantastic job. They really are able to bring their characters to life. They are all lovely actors, and as Neville and Ginny are among my favorite characters, Matt and Bonnie stick out especially to me personally. Their portrayals of these characters are so close to what I interpret from Jo's writing. You can certainly tell that they have matured not only as people, but most definately as actors as well. They are simply excellent. And yes, I do have to admit...I generally am not the fan-girl type, and typically couldn't care less, but I do think that on top of Matthew being an incredible person and actor, he is extremely adorable. For some strange reason unknown to me, the sequence in GOF when he's just kind of dancing around with mid-air all alone, makes me completely melt every time I see it. Don't ask me, I have no idea why. In short, yes I do very much admire Matthew Lewis. Please nobody hold it against me.


Posted by hgshipper31 Jun 21st 2007

lunafan hope u read this! srry i'm a little late but i was at play rehearsal. yeah i sent mine to leavesden studios but whichever person you're sending it to you should look up their mailing address on the internet because it will probably be more quicker to get to that person. don't worry you're not boring me with this i like helping people. basically in my fan letters i just asked them questions on if they were going to come to my state and random stuff like that. but i think that a long letter would be better than a short letter. but usally the stars just send back an autographed photo and a typed letter that they put in every envelope. i was a little disappointed when it wasn't handwritten but the harry potter stars usually get about 300-500 letters every week maybe even thousands so try to understand if they don't answer questions that you wanted answered! i'm sorry if this wasn't useful cause i'm not too good at giving out advice! best of luck on sending your letter! :)


Posted by Luna_Fan1ofmillions Jun 21st 2007

Thank you so much again hgshipper31. I'll look around for the mailing adress, though with my luck I probably won't find it. And I always wondered how they handled letters, now I do! Well she's sort of new, so I hope she's not getting too many fan letters already, but she probably is. Ah well . . . I'll try my best to make a unique impression at least! Molly certainly left Uncle Vernon quite stunned! And thank you for wishing me luck! I wish you luck on all your rehearsals!


Posted by july21tillhp7 Jun 22nd 2007

dang, so many interviews =p


Posted by iamshinek Jun 23rd 2007

see http://hotshadow.com/New_ interview_with_OOTP_cast. aspx




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