INTERVIEWS
Marie: What other books have you been reading since Harry Potter?
Marie: Do you have a special time when you like to read?
Marie: How about reading in your job as an actor? When you get a script, how long does it usually take you to read it?
Marie: What did you like most about the Harry Potter books?
Marie: What about the character of Harry Potter? What did you like the most about him?
Marie: How are you like Harry, or how are you very unlike Harry?
Marie: What was the best part and the hardest thing about making the movie?
Marie: How do you prepare yourself for something like that?
Marie: What do you think Harry Potter teaches kids?
Marie: How old were you when you started to act?
Marie: What were you acting in then?
Marie: How does school fit into your schedule when you're making a movie?
Marie: Do you do homework?
Marie: You're still being tutored now. Do you plan on going back to regular school?
Marie: Did you miss regular school?
Marie: Do you participate in sports or any special clubs at school?
Marie: When you grow up do you want to continue to be an actor?
Marie: What kind of music do you like?
Marie: How do you approach studying a script?
Marie: Do you have brothers or sisters?
Marie: How important is it to get along with your fellow actors?
Marie: So it's just a sense of teamwork and cooperation?
Marie: Does that apply in other aspects of life?
Marie: When there's a disagreement, how do you handle that?
Marie: Of all the magical things in Sorcerer's Stone, what's the one thing that you really wish existed?
Marie: I wanted to ask you about the invisible scenes—but I guess you're not allowed to talk about it?
Marie: Were there any scenes that were scary to shoot?
Marie: The flame—was it special effects or real?
Marie: Did you do a lot of stunts?
Daniel: Yeah, I do about 90 percent of my own stunts. But there's not that many. That's the reason I've been getting into gymnastics, because my stunt double, I have two, but one of them is called Tolga who's really nice, he's really cool, and the other one's David Holmes, he's 17, but he's very small. He's been Britain's No. 1 gymnast. He's been tutoring in gymnastics, preparing me for all the stunts.
Marie: What part of gymnastics do you like best?
Marie: I bet your parents love that?
Daniel: Holes by Louis Sacher. It's about a boy whose family has had a history of bad luck, and he gets sent off to juvenile prison and they have to dig a hole a day five feet deep and five feet wide, in the blistering heat. They said character building, but they're lying, so he's got to find out what it actually is. It's really, really cool.
Daniel: Yeah, quite a lot of the time I do it when I'm coming into the studios, so I read in the car quite a lot.
Daniel: Well, I read it straight through once, and then I'll read it a couple more times over the next week. Then we'll look at the schedule, and learn all the scenes for the first week, and then after that week's done I learn my lines for the next week. It kind of goes on like that.
Daniel: All the different kinds of concepts. Like J.K. Rawling's imagination. And her description of all the things…it's so clear and you can really visualize it.
Daniel: I suppose he's quite mysterious...
Daniel: I'm like Harry because I think I'm loyal to my friends, and I stand up for myself.
Daniel: Well, the best part was the whole thing really. Because it's all fantastic. But the hardest part—there's the scene in the Mirror of Erised that is not so much hard physically as hard emotionally, because you've got to get the right thought into your head, and because it's like the emotional heart of the film. You've got to get exactly the right thought, so that was quite hard.
Daniel: Quite of ten what I do is, I think of a moment from one of the films I've seen, or a song I've heard that I thought was absolutely fantastic. I visualize it in my head, and apparently, it comes out on the screen. Which is quite weird actually!
Daniel: I think it teaches them to be loyal, and to be brave, and to be…curious.
Daniel: Well, the first four days when I started to act I was 9, but then I had my birthday so I was 10.
Daniel: David Copperfield.
Daniel: I have a minimum of three hours a day, and a maximum of five [to study]. Many don't think that's a lot, but I'm the only one in the class.
Daniel: I've just started to get back into doing homework, so I do quite a lot of homework a night now.
Daniel: I'm definitely going back to regular school.
Daniel: For the first nine months, no. But when I was doing exams yesterday I did. Exams is the time when our class is kind of closest, because we're comparing results and talking to each other and chatting and just leaping around the classroom.
Daniel: Yeah, I do, but I'm not that good at them. I like athletics, which I'm good at. I go for runs almost every weekend. I do gymnastics, which I'm quite good at. And I like dancing, but again I'm not that good.
Daniel: Well there are so many things I'm interested in. I like writing, not books, but I like writing. Scripts, songs. I like gymnastics, but I doubt I'll ever be a gymnast. I love music. I'm definitely interested in being an actor, but there are so many other things I'm interested in as well.
Daniel: I like R.E.M. I like Ash. There's a band called JJ72. They're really good, I like them. It's mainly certain songs, rather than the band. I like Badly Drawn Boy.
Daniel: I just keep reading it, and sometimes I'll make little notes by them. I'll read it with somebody else like my dad or my mom.
Daniel: No.
Daniel: If me, Ruport, and Emma hadn't got on so well, it wouldn't have been so much fun. Because if we'd been arguing all the time, it just wouldn't have been as fun as it has been. So it's really important.
Daniel: Definitely.
Daniel: Yes, but mainly it applies very heavily, like in class you've got to sometimes group together, but it applies so heavily in a film. It's like a chain, and if one person, or one link in the chain is bad, then something could majorly go wrong. So it's really important.
Daniel: Um, we definitely don't scream at one another. If it's on the film set, we'll just ask Chris Columbus, or if it's in the classroom we'll ask a teacher.
Daniel: The power of invisibility.
Daniel: Right!
Daniel: The Final Chamber was quite scary, and the Chess scene, because in the Chess Room, all these huge pieces of chess were just exploding. But in the Final Chamber, I had to run up these stairs, then get two steps away from this nine-foot wall of flame, it was quite scary.
Daniel: Real—really hot!
Daniel: Well, sometimes me and David Holmes make little fight sequences so that's quite fun. And I like doing summersaults, and I like diving off roofs.
Daniel: They do actually. When they come, they really enjoy watching it. I get really dirty though.