Post by Alesia on Oct 23, 2005 16:16:08 GMT -5
You can find the entire transcript here:
www.mugglenet.com/mugglecast/transcripts/gofjunketinterview.shtml
but they had interesting things to say about the adult actors and the changes in Dumbledore:
Media: Mike, talking about challenges. As a director, you've got some of the greatest actors in England as the co-stars...about trying to use them. I mean, they are just in the background now to Harry's story, I was wondering what the challenge is.
MN: It's actually a problem. I think that the way that we attacked it, was that even though each of them is now, Maggie is established, Alan is established, Mike Gambon, Hagrid, all these people are established. So there is no more exploration for the audience to do of those characters. Indeed they mustn't change in a way, and so what you have to do is find a kind of lapidary way of using these tiny bits which will show you parts of these characters that you've never seen before. So you've never seen Hagrid in love before, a very wonderful thing it is too. She did this thing at rehearsal, nobody could believe it. This is Frances DeLatour, and they found themselves opposite one another. And of course they are both of them great natural comediennes. So it was great to see these two people kind of awkward and blushing and retiring with one another. And then suddenly she lent forward and does what she actually does in the scene in the movie, she picks something out of his beard and we all thought, "Isn't that wonderful!" and then god helps us she ate it. (laughter) So, you know, those little things. A tiny moment like that will keep those characters alive. But yes it's something you have to do. It's difficult.
DH: Look at how Dumbledore in particular has really changed. Looking to explore, this is the first time that we're really aware that things are getting beyond his control. And that he's not altogether comfortable with it.
MN: It was really interesting actually, 'cause Michael was really game to do that. I think that he had not really wanted to be the same figure that Richard Harris had been, a figure of tremendous Olympian authority who's never caught on the harp. He wanted something different simply because he's not Richard Harris. And what he found in this one is that Dumbledore is fallible and not omnipotent, and indeed is behind the game. A great deal of what he does is about being inadequate rather than super adequate which of course is much more interesting to play.
www.mugglenet.com/mugglecast/transcripts/gofjunketinterview.shtml
but they had interesting things to say about the adult actors and the changes in Dumbledore:
Media: Mike, talking about challenges. As a director, you've got some of the greatest actors in England as the co-stars...about trying to use them. I mean, they are just in the background now to Harry's story, I was wondering what the challenge is.
MN: It's actually a problem. I think that the way that we attacked it, was that even though each of them is now, Maggie is established, Alan is established, Mike Gambon, Hagrid, all these people are established. So there is no more exploration for the audience to do of those characters. Indeed they mustn't change in a way, and so what you have to do is find a kind of lapidary way of using these tiny bits which will show you parts of these characters that you've never seen before. So you've never seen Hagrid in love before, a very wonderful thing it is too. She did this thing at rehearsal, nobody could believe it. This is Frances DeLatour, and they found themselves opposite one another. And of course they are both of them great natural comediennes. So it was great to see these two people kind of awkward and blushing and retiring with one another. And then suddenly she lent forward and does what she actually does in the scene in the movie, she picks something out of his beard and we all thought, "Isn't that wonderful!" and then god helps us she ate it. (laughter) So, you know, those little things. A tiny moment like that will keep those characters alive. But yes it's something you have to do. It's difficult.
DH: Look at how Dumbledore in particular has really changed. Looking to explore, this is the first time that we're really aware that things are getting beyond his control. And that he's not altogether comfortable with it.
MN: It was really interesting actually, 'cause Michael was really game to do that. I think that he had not really wanted to be the same figure that Richard Harris had been, a figure of tremendous Olympian authority who's never caught on the harp. He wanted something different simply because he's not Richard Harris. And what he found in this one is that Dumbledore is fallible and not omnipotent, and indeed is behind the game. A great deal of what he does is about being inadequate rather than super adequate which of course is much more interesting to play.
