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Nabs · #1 (**permalink**) 03-30-2007, 10:15 AM

Entertainment Weekly has a new Potter feature in their Popular Culture coverage, bringing with it the news that David Yates, director of Order of the Phoenix, is likely to return for Half-Blood Prince.

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''The other day, there were all these guests at the studio,'' says Radcliffe. ''They walked past me, and a friend of mine overheard one of them saying, 'He's much shorter in real life, isn't he?' Then I walked past them again, and another one said, 'God, yeah, you're right. He is shorter.''' Radcliffe grins. ''Oh, shut up!... You have to laugh, really,'' he says. 'If you could start your article with the words 'He's much taller in person than I expected' that would be fantastic.''

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''It's not a huge part,'' Helena Bonham Carter says, her elocution remarkably clear despite a mouth full of fake teeth. ''So I thought I could have lots of breast, if not lots of lines.''

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''All of us adult actors come in for two or three weeks,'' Jason Isaacs says of the huge Potter guest-star roster. ''We all want to make the most of all our moments. But then you'd have a Harry Potter film that lasts 15 hours.''

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''Of course she [Emma Watson] was always going to come back,'' says a rep on the Potter films, blaming some of the delay on ironing out Watson's complicated school schedule.

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''This is one where the fans will be especially pleased,'' the actor says. ''It's chock-full of stuff.'' (Despite that density, the producers say Phoenix will run under two and a half hours and be the shortest film so far.)

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''I thought it was a curious fit at first,'' Yates agrees. ''[But] they want directors who come from not an obvious background...instead of the same old usual suspects who've made a ton of big films before.'' Yates seems to have clicked with his cast. ''He's very quiet, very docile,'' says Radcliffe. ''But he's got this incredibly filmic imagination.'' He must be doing something right: While nothing's finalized, Yates is expected to return for film 6, which is slated to begin shooting this September.

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Director Yates recently watched the bloody-hand scene with a test audience in Chicago. ''The theater went very, very still,'' he says. ''Dolores does it with a smile and a cup of tea. That's what makes her really horrifying.''

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''What was the thing Luke Perry was in?'' asks Radcliffe, his voice rising in a good-humored way. Beverly Hills, 90210. ''Wasn't he in his late 20s playing a 19-year-old? And people come up to me and say, 'Do you not think you're getting too old for the part?' It's lunacy.'' But even Radcliffe admits that he and his castmates certainly look dramatically different. ''I saw a bunch of continuity photos from the first film the other day,'' he says. ''It was quite incredible. We've changed so much, it's unreal.''

To read the 5 page article, buy a copy of the magazine or go here.

UPDATE: Scans from the magazine, including all 3 different covers and a new picture of Sirius Black, can be seen here courtesy of HPANA!

FearlessLeader19 · 03-30-2007, 10:18 AM

thats cool! 50 questions??? waoh!
*goes to see the article!

first to post!

cgold · 03-30-2007, 10:54 AM

That was a fun article. I really hope I can get a copy where I live and that the Ron one is definitely available. It would spoil my weekend entirely if I'm not able to get that magazine.

MadameMalfoy · 03-30-2007, 11:07 AM

Nice article! Im not even sure if I can get the magazine.

skates · 03-30-2007, 11:13 AM

What a cool article! I like the way they answered all the crazy comments and questions fans ask now a days lol/ Loved it! Where can I see the trio on the cover??? I also noticed that OOTP is like over 800 pgs.long, DH is only 600 noooooooooooooooo!!!!