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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Press Conference - Part 3
Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Media: What thought have you each given to your careers post-Harry Potter? What would you like to do next?
[Pregnant pause]
Emma: Ummm. [clears throat] You go, Dan.
Dan: All right. Ummm. [laughs]
[Everyone laughs]
Dan: I don't know, just keep acting and hopefully do really interesting and different things, and hopefully continue to find things that are really difficult for me to do, and challenge me, and things, so I don't become complacent, or whatever. So just carry on, really, and I'd like to write, I suppose, as well, in a very very long way away, but that's another thought. But, yeah, I suppose for now I hope to continue the way I'm going.
Emma: Hmmm.
Media: Like, write fiction books?
Dan: No, just poems and things, really.
Rupert: Yeah, I suppose it is the same for me. I just want to - I haven't really given it that much thought to be honest, but I think that I want to continue acting and I don't know. Just sort of see how things go from there.
Emma: Mm.
Rupert: If it doesn't work out, I've still got the ice cream van.
[Everyone laughs]
Emma: It's funny. In this sort of - I don't know. You can't really say, "This is what I want to do," because it's not really your choice. You know, this business is completely unpredictable. You never know what films are going to be made, what work is going to be out there. You just have got to ride the - just see what's out there, I guess. But ideally I'd love to try some theater at some point. I'd love to a period drama. I'd love to - you know there are loads of things I want to do. I also really like to sing, and I'd love to - don't worry. I'm not going to release a single or anything.
[Everyone laughs]
Dan: When's your new album out?
Emma: Yeah. A couple months? A couple weeks? No. No, no. Don't worry. I'd love to do something which has music in it, or I don't know. There's loads of things I am really interested in, but it is just what comes up, really, and it is also what works in terms of scheduling. Obviously, I've still got the next two Harry Potters to do and juggling that with school and stuff. Next summer, I've got some time, so I'm aiming to get something there. But, again, it's just - I don't really want to do something just for the sake of it. I'll really want to wait for the right thing to come along. And, yeah - just to do the right thing. And, I mean, hopefully, hopefully will. But you just got to - you just got to see what's about, and get yourself out there and audition for lots of different bits. And just - yeah. So...
Media: What will you be studying?
Emma: English Literature, Geography, Art and History of Art.
Media: Does each film, having a different director at the helm, have a different feel to it on the set while you're making it, or do they all sort of run together, and like you said earlier, seem like one big long film? And how would they...?
Rupert: Yeah, I thought this time felt a lot more relaxed, because David sort makes you feel very calm, and he's really laid back.
Dan: Yeah.
Rupert: Definitely in contrast to Mike Newell, and how he did it.
Emma: Yeah.
Dan: Man!
[Emma laughs]
Dan: Wonderful.
Emma: Eccentric, a very big British character. [distractedly in the background] Yeah, yeah. Ummm, yeah. There definitely is a different - definitely it is a different atmosphere with each director, just with regards to their personality. They've got to set the pace of the day. And they, you know...so it difers. But with this one, was kind of as Rupert said, kind of quite laid back, sort of quite chill, quite kind of - it was quite a nice atmosphere. I always felt like David...
Rupert: Lovely atmosphere, yeah. Brilliant
Emma: I always felt like David sort of had time to talk to us about what was going on, and yeah, he always had time to listen to us, and liked to talk about - talk it through.
Dan: Yeah, definitely.
Emma:And sort it out and just really - yeah, just really think about it, which was nice.
Dan: And, you know, for me, even more important than how David had, you know, time to talk to us, is that, you know, he doesn't just talk - he talks to everyone.
Emma: Mmm. Yeah.
Dan: He's just a lovely man. And you know, it's - he's an absolutely - we're very lucky, because he's a fantastic director, and he's a delightful man.
Emma: Mmm.
Dan: He's very, very laid back, and incredibly softly spoken.
Emma: Yeah.
Dan: And I mean, this mic will need to be here.
Emma: [laughs] Yeah. You'll have to be like...
Dan: Because he's very, very quiet, but he's absolutely just - he's just fantastic, and we're incredibly lucky to have someone like him to direct us.
Emma: Yeah.
Dan: And also, he - it was more laid back, but at the same time, there was a - the energy that was there, it was a very quiet energy, and it was really - it was incredibly focused. And he knew from the moment he got onto the set, the kind of story - the story he wanted to tell and the way he was going to do it. And so, the energy that was there, was a - it was so incredibly focused, and there was a real drive and ambition with David to make the movie the best one yet.
Emma: Yeah. Also, another - sorry. I'm sorry, I remember this is amazing - if you can imagine coming into a series, the fifth film of a series, and if you consider the size of the cost, and the amount of actors he's dealing with, and the amount of crew members he's dealing with. It never actually occurred to me, because I just didn't think about it, but David actually managed to learn everyone's name.
Dan: Yeah.
Emma: By first name.
Dan: Yeah.
Emma: And he really made an effort to do that. And it wasn't just me, Dan, and Rupert. It was everyone in the cast. He made sure that he knew their names. He went and spoke to them. He knew them as people. He didn't just - he really made an effort to become part of the crew and the team, and I like, I really admired that. I was like, "Wow, that's really..." I really respected him for that, and that's really cool.
Media: There was a - way back - it also said in one of the production notes that you were pushed harder, you thought, than on any of the other films. So if you could talk a little bit about the work on that?
Dan: Yeah. It was just a thing that David would come up to me at the end, after a take or after a whatever, but no, after a take. And he'd say, "That one, that one, it was good, but it wasn't real," You know? And, or "You can get it better than that," or - you know. And there were times when I was thinking, "I can't."
[Emma laughs]
Dan: "I don't know how." But, actually, in the end, I could. And he was not - but the great thing about David was that he also knew when to - when he'd got as far as he was going to get. And so he's - the thing, I do like to be challenged, and that's why David came at the perfect time for me, because he is totally willing to do that.
Emma: Mhm.
Dan: It's great.
Emma: Yeah, I felt - actually, I felt a bit nervous about working with him because I just thought, well, :I don't know this guy." I'll go and watch some of his previous work. I was looking at the films that he's done, The Girl in the Cafe, and Sex Traffic, and the performances that he got out of people in those pieces of work - I was just like, "Oh my goodness, how am I ever going to live up to that sort of standard of acting quality." I guess, and just how real everything was, and how - I guess the thing that occurred to me most about David and the most about this film is it really made me feel something. It really makes me feel. I know that sounds weird. So I was really like - I really was so eager and really earnest to kind of, to live up to expectations and for him really to get the best out of me that he possibly could. And it felt - I was really nervous, but I was also really excited, because I thought, "Wow, I really think this guy can take me to a new level," which I think he does with all of us.
Rupert: Yeah.
Emma: And that's really nice. And also, having seen - David's staying on for the next one - having seen the film, it's amazing and it stands alone, but it feels like it's unfinished business. It feels like...
Dan: Yeah.
Emma: ...it has more to do, more to say.
Dan: Yeah. Absolutely.
Emma: I didn't feel like he's - like I've learnt all that I can from David.
Dan: No.
Emma: I still feel like there's so much more that I can learn and I can get out of him, so it's sort of a really exciting concept...
Dan: Yeah.
Emma: ...even though we're working with the same person again. So it's really - yeah, it's really exciting.
Dan: I am thinking of getting David Yates into his director chair and breaking his legs so he can never leave.
[Everyone laughs]
Dan: That was rather grotesque.
[Everyone laughs]
 
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