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Exclusive: Jessie Cave talks Breed, serious Lavender in Deathly Hallows final battle
This week, SnitchSeeker got the opportunity to chat with Jessie Cave about her new production Breed - playing at Theatre503 in London until October 19 - which focuses on on illegal dog fighting. She also talked a bit about her role in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part Two, discussing the serious tone mood her character Lavender Brown and the final battle exuded. While not giving too much away, she did divulge a rather haunting sequence shot during the battle, where Lord Voldemort's threatening voice boomed through the walls of the Great Hall.
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SnitchSeeker: First question we have to ask: Do you have a dog at home? Jessie Cave: No, I don’t. But I know lots of people who do and my grandpa had a dog. I don’t have one at home.
SS: So, other than never owning a dog, what were the biggest challenges with the play, either emotionally or physically? Jessie: The biggest challenge was doing a role that is so different to me. It was actually challenging, it was liberating and the best thing I’ve ever done by miles. It’s actually changed my life and made me much more free and adventurous, really, because you have to make a leap with this character and try something different. I’m just so happy that I got the part and was able to experiment.
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SS: Many actors try to find something in themselves to help them relate to their character, but Liv was so troubled. How did you manage to do that? Jessie: I never looked for anything particularly. I just tried to go with what I had on the paper, and do what I could with that. I didn’t need to find anything or research anything. It just came naturally. As we rehearsed it just was obvious. I found it really natural. It was a bonus to act with Deirdre [O'Kane], who played my mum, and John [Michie], who played my dad, and Paul [Stocker], who played my brother because it felt like such a real family – however dysfunctional. It was a really easy process, despite how hard the subject matter was. It was such an easy process and the most fun I could have had.
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SS: Were you aware of the dog fighting issue before doing the play? Jessie: Well, I read a story a few months back, which I didn’t realize Lou Ramsden, the writer, she actually had that as her source material. I read about this normal housewife who got arrested in the law, who had three children and was seemingly very normal. I read about her and, funny enough, she was the source material, really, for the play. But actually having done the play I just see all these dogs around me - all vicious dogs with things around their mouths. Now my eyes are so much more open to it. It’s clearly happening. It’s something that needs to be addressed. It’s really terrifying.
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SS: In learning more about dog fighting, and all the terrible things associated with it, did that affect your performance as Liv? Maybe even enhance it? Jessie: Yeah, we spoke to a lot of policemen who had dealt with dog fighting and dog handlers also who were very experienced in people who bred dogs for fighting. It must have affected us, and helped us. It’s just a way of life for this family. There’s a technical jargon that they refer to as dog fighting, like how they set up the dog fight pit, the party mentality is just something that Liv’s been brought up around so she doesn’t know anything different. She obviously knows that dog’s can be pets, but it’s foreign to her. It’s something that she’s just absorbed in. So I just hope to remember that at all times. This is just normal for her – the violence.
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SS: There are dogs represented on stage, but not physically there with you. There’s sound effects of dogs, however. Did that make it easier or more difficult for you? Because there’s a lot of timing involved with sound effects. Jessie: At first it was really difficult because we have to become used to those sounds so they didn’t throw us. But time’s gone on and now there just normal to us. If we see the dogs in our heads, which is the main point, and if we believe that we’re seeing a dog, [the audience is] seeing a dog.
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SS: Switching gears for a minute, I understand you’re going to be in a BBC comedy, Sadie Jones, later this year. Is that just one episode you’re in or full time? And what’s it about? Jessie: Yeah, that’s just one episode. It’s a really funny character though. She’s called ‘Hermione’ (laughs) and she’s just an absolute really, really, really posh girl who’s obsessed with this boy – clearly has many parallels to Lavender Brown. She’s just really funny. She’s obsessed with badminton, the sport. The boy that she’s going out with is famous badminton player. Obviously he’s not, but he just plays along. It’s really funny actually. I’m really glad I was in it.
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SS: You did some filming for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows earlier this year. Are you in Part One or Part Two? Jessie: In Part Two. It was such fun to go back and do the scenes. I’m really so happy just being involved in it again.
SS: Is Lavender different, character-wise, because there’s a war going on? Is she more serious? Jessie: Everybody is. It was so strange going back to film because it was such a different atmosphere with everybody involved, even the crew. It was a different type of film. So Lavender’s understandably different and a bit more mellow and vulnerable. Everyone is vulnerable.
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SS: Do you get to use a wand in the final battle and duel with anyone? Jessie: I can’t really say anything other than that she definitely has a role to play in that.
SS: What was your favorite scene? Jessie: Being in the Great Hall at the end, when Voldemort made an appearance. Not physically - but it was terrifying, absolutely terrifying, to hear his voice. Having everybody in the Great Hall, all the little actors, us and the adult actors, all start hearing the voice together. For a moment, it felt so real. Oh my God, it was terrifying.
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SS: In the book, Lavender was attacked by the werewolf, Fenrir Greyback. Does that happen in the film? Jessie: Something does happen, yeah. She doesn’t end well.
SS: You’re going to France in December for the Magic Christmas convention for Harry Potter fans. Are you looking forward to getting out and talking to the fans? Jessie: I really am actually! It sounds like a really fun event. I’m really lucky to have been invited. I hope it’s fun. I hope this is a celebration of Harry Potter and what it means – the brilliant books, the brilliant films. It’s been such a huge bonus to my life. Everybody’s involved - everybody who loves Harry Potter - and I’m a fan. What a lovely celebration it should be. It’s my send up, really. It’s finishing and it’s nice to be involved in one of the last few things like this. So I’m really happy to go.
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SS: Do you get recognized often by fans? Jessie: I do, actually. I live in London, so it’s quite a small place. I do get recognized quite a lot just because of the places I go probably, and also a lot of kids recognize me. My brothers and sister, where we live in Ealing, which is quite small a place. So, definitely. It’s quite funny, really.
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SS: Do you have Twitter account or Facebook? Jessie: No, I don’t.
SS: All right, last question: Are there any other projects you have lined up? Anything fans can look forward to seeing you in? Jessie: Well, I’m in Sadie Jones and I’m in Breed, obviously, and then, I don’t know. I’m really looking forward to going to America, actually, to see what happens out there. And I’m just looking forward to having a break after [Breed] because it’s intense. I’m in a really good place. I’m really happy and excited about everything. I also write comedy, so I’m planning to take a comedy set show in Edinburgh next year, so that’s something I’m doing with the time.
For those interested, tickets for Breed can be purchased here.
As Jessie mentioned, she is looking for to meeting fans at the Magic Christmas fan convention, along with fellow Harry Potter actors Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy), Chris Rankin (Percy Weasley) and Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom). The event will run from 18-19 December, 2010, at le Maison internationale in Paris, France.
Hosted by Spotlight Events, the event will have guest meet and greets, including autographs and photos with the actors, as well as a Yule Ball, and wizard duels display. An assortment of tickets at different prices are being sold now: Order of the Merlin pass (200€); Wizard's pass (140€); and Squib's pass (55€).
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Exclusive: Jessie Cave talks Breed, serious Lavender in Deathly Hallows final battle 
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That's another thing I must see when I can find it online, or on BBC America, maybe.
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