Actor Bill Nighy spoke about having worked with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and especially Rupert Grint in
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in which he plays Minister for Magic Rufus Scrimgeour, last year while promoting his and Rupert's comedy,
Wild Target, which will hit French theatres on July 7th (it is currently in UK theatres). Bill goes into detail on filming alongside the trio, how the
Harry Potter franchise differs greatly from any other film project, and in the unity of the cast and crew who have become such great friends over the 10 years of production. The video, courtesy of
Premiere.fr via
UHP, can be viewed below.
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Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person. And Daniel was charming. And Rupert I'd already worked with, so it was nice to work with him again. And they were really welcoming a nice to me. You know, they've been there for 10 years. There were people on that movie that were finishing their Harry Potter life, and people who'd been there for 10 years. It had been their life.
And they'd become great friends. I mean, you do on a single movie. You become great friends with people and get married or have babies, or they just become good friends. It's always tough to pull away because you go do another movie. But on Harry Potter they've done however many they've done - six movies - and they've become big parts of each others' lives. So there was a feeling of the ends of things for people.
Some people finished while I was there. They had their last scenes, and it's a very big deal. It's not like other movies.
I think they will all go on and make other movies. The audience that grew up with them will be happy to see them in other things. They are all good young actors and I should think they will continue to make movies and the audience will grow with them and follow them wherever they go, I would think. They are such popular performers now and they are part of people's lives. They've grow up together, and that audience will stay with them, I would think.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be out November 19, 2010 and July 15, 2011.