INTERVIEWS
Marie: How do you pronounce the name of your character?
Marie: What do you like best about her?
Marie: Are you as involved in your schoolwork as Hermione?
Marie: What grade are you in?
Marie: Do you have any study tips?
Marie: When you were filming, did you study with a tutor or did you go to school?
Marie: Was that harder or easier than school?
Marie: Do you want to continue to act?
Marie: Do you think it will be hard to balance school and a career like that?
Marie: Have you gone back to regular school now?
Marie: How did the kids treat you?
Marie: What kind of things do you like to do at school?
Marie: Have you ever been to America?
Marie: Did you do any research before the movie?
Marie: Have you read the fourth book now?
Marie: What scenes were the most fun to film?
Marie: What was the hardest scene you had to film?
Marie: What's your very favorite book?
Marie: So you like reading?
Marie: What was the first book he ever read you?
Marie: Do you have a special time to read?
Emma: It's Her-MI-a-knee.
Emma: I think that she has great charisma, a real character. People think that she's all sort of obsessed with learning and reading and all that kind of thing, but I think that that is her character. That is why she is such a funny character, because she's got that outstanding thing, which everyone thinks is unbelievably funny, because she's just so obsessed with it. I think that's just a really good part of her. I think that's one of the best parts about her.
Emma: No, definitely not. I mean, I try really, really hard at school and everything, but you know I'm sort of just above average really, I'm nothing sort of amazing, at all. I try my best and everything, but no definitely not, I'm not obsessed.
Emma: Sixth, going into seventh.
Emma: Yeah, for a while actually I thought I was dyslexic, but I'm definitely not now. I found math quite hard, but I always say that the key to being able to do anything in math is to know the time-tables, because that leads to everything. I just think that you need to know that to be able to get the basics going.
Emma: I studied with a private tutor, Rupert. We normally tried to get three hours in one day probably, or like, four hours.
Emma: Probably harder, because we had less time to do things in and it was all quite rushed. Yeah I think I found it a lot harder. It was sort of on and off.
Emma: Yeah, if I'm asked.
Emma: I'm having some extra teaching over the summer to sort of catch me up. I mean I'm not that far behind. I think I'd like to have a bit of a break from acting, but yeah I really enjoy acting, and I love meeting new people and I love going to different places, that sort of thing. I would like to, but not straight after all this filming work I'm doing. I do think that it really, really, really, really damaged my schoolwork.
Emma: Yeah, I've been back for a whole term.
Emma: They were all quite curious. They all wanted to know really, but after the first week or so, two weeks, it started to get a bit better. I mean still, people sort of, look at me, but it's not that bad.
Emma: I love sports. I play rounders, I play hockey, I play tennis. And I quite like athletics. I like high jump, I like long jump, I like hurdles, and I love tug-of-war.
Emma: I wish.
Emma: Well, I read the books before the movie started. I was on the third book. My dad looked things up on the Harry Potter Web site, but that was all I really did for it.
Emma: Yeah.
Emma: Probably, I think we most enjoyed the scene where we were all in the boat going up to Hogwarts. That took actually ages. At the very end, it was kind of getting boring because we had to do it loads and loads of times. But all of the gang, as we call them, like most of the main characters like Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Neville, all of those people, were all in these boats together. We played truth or dare, we chatted, we talked, we did a couple of pranks as well. We attempted to push one of the boys in, but that didn't really work at all. I remember something, which wasn't to do with being in the boats. Our hairdresser had this machine where you type in whatever you want it to say and it comes out in a sticker. So I printed out about 12 of these, and stuck them all over Dan's back. And they all said things like, "punch me," "pull my hair for $1.50," and sort of "trip me up," "laugh at me." That was OK because he did it on me, which was really unfair.
Emma: I think the Great Hall scene, because you had to have so much patience. We sat there for ages, and the reason we did was because all of the extras, there were millions of them. To get everyone out for break and then to get everyone back in from break, that just took ages. We kind of worked a long, long, long time, and then did a 15-minute break. That's why it was so hard, because we sat there with this stinking food, and it was so hot, and everyone was bored sick. We were all sick of each other. The other one was probably the troll scene. I had to do all the stunts. It was fun, but it was hard work. I had to crawl around this cubicle that was 30 centimeters high. I bumped my head so many times. It was really good fun.
Emma: I don't have a favorite, but I have one that I really quite like. It's called The Phantom Tollbooth. It's so imaginative, and the author just describes everything perfectly, and you can just see the whole thing totally as if it's happening in real life because she just explains it so well. It's got a proper beginning, middle, and end. It sort of starts, then there's the adventure in the middle, and it kind of ends well as well. I quite like some of the Edith Blighton books. There's this new book, it's just out, it's called I Captured Castle; it isn't by Edith Blighton, it's just come to mind, and it's a diary of a girl that's living in a crumbling castle, with a really weird mom and sister. It's a softy romance, and I'm not going to explain it all to you, you'll probably get really bored. My dad bought it for me. He just went out to the book shop and thought, "Oh yeah, Emma likes diaries." He bought it, put it on my bed, and I just started reading it really.
Emma: Yeah, I enjoy reading. My dad reads me loads of books. Especially Raold Dahl books. I love his books.
Emma: I think the first book he ever read to me was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Emma: Normally I read just before I go to bed, for an hour, half an hour. And sometimes at breaks at school.