I've finally finished the trio interview, so we now have the transcripts to the Order of the Phoenix Press Conference in which Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint talk about several things concerning the movies, their lives, and their future. You can read it below.
Also, we'd like to thank the News Admin, katiebell, for providing us with the audio!
__________________
Question: I wanted to ask each of you - what is it like to initiate a new director? Is there anything special you do on his first day, are you nice ...?
Daniel: It's great. I think, whenever a new director comes on board, there's always a real sense of excitement. Because, you know, you're aware that something new is going to be brought to the table, and that's always - I think that can only be an exciting prospect. So I don't think that we go through any particular rituals, do you?
Emma: (laughing) No, there's no introductory rituals that I want to say. But I guess it just sort of ... I guess ... I know, it's really nice; I love the casting crew that have been on the film since the very beginning ... kind of been there all four or five years. So, it's this is quite a nice friendly, sort of family .... Hopefully it's not so intimidating for newcomers, because everyone's kind of really friendly.
Rupert: And all of the directors have always been quite different as well so it's always quite, sort of, um, exiciting to meet the new ones. We had some pretty good ones.
Daniel: We've done quite well!
Rupert: We've been lucky.
Question: We've literally watched the three of you grow up, as we're reminded in this movie; it's so shocking, in a way. For the three of you, growing up with these characters - have you found that they've influenced you in real life? The way you are today, do you think? And ... I wanted to ask Emma ... You seem to have a journey of hesitation, I'd call it, before you commited to doing the next two pictures. Can you talk a little bit about that?
Emma: I didn't sign the contract, sort of, immediatley, because I needed sometime to figure out just actually ... the legistics, if you can imagine, of combining making a Harry Potter film - making two more Harry Potter films - and combining that with my school time table ... and I really want to go onto University; I really want to continue what I was doing. I didn't want to have to give either one up, so I was kind of in this really difficult ... kind of ... really difficult position. It just took a bit of time just to work out how I was going to make that work. Warner Brothers have been extremely supportive of helping me figure out ways to do that. For instance, they've given me Monday mornings off so I can go to school and I can see my teachers and I can pick up my work. They've provided all the teachers that I need to get all of my work done. They - even though I'm over the age of sixteen - they're still supporting me, giving the hours I need to get all of my work done. They have got a box, every Friday, which I can put my work into, which they'll send back to my teachers. They'll mark it, they'll send it back to me. It just took a while, just to figure out the legistics of how it was going to work, and I find it quite frustrating and obsessing, kind of, all of [the] incenuations that were made about why I was holding off. But, I just had to figure out a way to make it work for me, and that took a bit of time.
Daniel: I mean, it's important to realize that when you commit to a Potter film it is, you know, on the whole about a sort of ten-month commitment. And so, it's never something, and especially if we were thinking about not only the sixth films or the seventh - that's two years. And so it's never something that should be rushed into lightly. And a lot was made of it that was obviously generated by the media. In terms of growing up with the characters ... that's sort of a question that gets asked in different ways a lot. It's one that I think people always want us to say "Yes, we couldn't live without them!" And while they've been amazing, I don't know if they've actually influenced us. Well, certaintly for me, I can only speak for myself. I don't know if Harry, as a character, has influenced
my character too much, personally ... I don't know how you guys feel.
Emma: Yeah, um, well it's really funny - we get off a lot about growing up, and being on camera, and growing up in the limelight, and all of that sort of thing. But it's a really funny question for us to ask, because we can't see ourselves from sort of the outside, if that makes sense. It's a bit like ... trying to look at it from a different prospective, so it's a bit funny. But, um, yeah, I mean - I sometimes - sometimes I feel like I barely have to act because I feel so close to my character, and I just feel like I know her so well. I think we're quite similiar, in a lot of ways, so my job isn't too hard really. So, I'm quite lucky like that. It's nice, we've kind of grown up together. I think I'm actually - all of us are just a teeny bit older than our character. Though, in a way, it's nice because we've kind of experienced what our characters are going through before them. We kind of know what it's like to have been through that expirence then we can apply it to what we're doing in the film. So it works quite well, really.
Rupert: Oh yeah. To me, it's really weird, sort of looking back at all the films; it just seems like one long, big film. It's werid looking back at the early ones of it. How young we were, and how much we've changed. It is really weird. I've really enjoyed it; it's been a really good part in my life and um ... Yeah, I've really enjoyed it.
Daniel: I'd ... I'd a hideous reaction at one point when I was in a screeing of Harry Potter five, and there was a picture of me on screen ... but there was a clip for me, in the first film, at one point is used in the fifth. And, um, I just heard loads of girls go "awhhh" and that was just ... soul-destroying.
Question: So, have the three of you pre-ordered your book from Waterstones, or is J.K. Rowling giving you a little bit of a preview of what's gonna happen?
Daniel: None of us get a preview. I think only J.K. Rowling's husband has recently found out what happens. I don't think any body else knows.
Emma: Literally, it's so like ... the security on the books, and making sure it's kept [secret], you know, it's pretty tight. So, I think we get one the night it's released.
Daniel: Well, yeah, but not before.
Question: Signed?
Daniel: I should hope so, too! (laughing) No, I don't think so.
Emma: It's really funny, because we kind of - we know Jo; we've known her for ages, and it would feel really awkward asking her for an autograph now. I would never do that. I bet, like twenty years, I'll really regret it, but ...
Rupert: I think I actually did, on the first one! I've still got it signed, the first book.
Emma: Aww, nice one.
Question: With your "Potter paycheck," what's been the biggest things that you've treated yourselves to over the years, or recently? Your biggest indulgence?
Rupert: Recently, I've got an ice cream van. So that's been, really ...
Dan: That's fantastic, actually.
Emma: It's a real ice cream van! It's not just like the shell over my tooth, no. It's got like the ice cream, the sweets, the toppings ...
Dan: That just makes it.
Emma: I really want to see it.
Daniel: I've net really spent ... I shouldn't have let you go first then, should I?
Emma: You can't beat that.
Dan: You can't top that! Nothing particularly exciting. I mean, I'm quite interested in artwork and things like that. But, I'm not gonna ... I've never been, sort of, into cars or anything like that, so I don't think I'm gonna splash out on a classic car collection, which I think people seem to expect me to ... I don't think I'm going to be doing anything particlarly exciting. And I would like to point out at this moment in time that I have not bought, and never plan to buy, a Fiat Punto! This was reported a while ago in, I think London Light, and it was completely untrue. And the best bit of the article said that I was working with Fiat to get just the right shade of green, for my car. And I would like to now state that has never happened.
Emma: Again, I haven't really ... I mean, uhm, I bought myself an Apple Mac - my little laptop, which I love. It's my pride and joy. I've used it so much I don't have any memory space on it anymore ... So I've got to find a way to delete that up!
Daniel: That's impressive!
Emma: That was my ... But I'm not in strive at the moment. I'm taking my lessons now, so I suppose at some point I'll be wanting to get a car. To be honest ... I'm finding driving so hard, and going in a car is so intimidating, I can't really imagine myself buying a big fat sports car or anything that has has an engine bigger ... a smaller engine! I want something really small, really safe, and really sort of unintimidating. I'm not sure yet, but that would've been my next biggest.
Rupert: Get a Punto!
Emma: Yeah, yeah! Get a Punto, and then they really will have things to write about! My shade of green!
Question: Harry goes through a great deal of emotional stress and angst in this film; so does Alan Strang in
Equus. I'm just wondering, do you leave these things at the end of the day, or do you take them home with you?
Daniel: Yeah, it's very important to leave Alan Strang in the theater! It's sometimes, I suppose, could be hard to detach yourself from a certain character, particularly after having done the show for sixteen weeks. You know, you do get very attached to him and in a way you do miss going out and doing it, night after night. But at the same time, it is essential that you do just now leave it behind and move on, and now it's time to ... I'm doing another film in August, and then onto Harry Potter, so, it's just time to keep moving on to other things.
Question: And the stage experience?
Daniel: The stage experience was phenomanal. I think it came at exactly the right time for me. At that stage, it was exactly what I needed to do, and it was great fun! It was fantastic and I met some brilliant people and got to work with Griffiths in a totally different capacity. As Uncle Vernon, it's great, and we always have a laugh, but he's only normally that for a week, week and a half ... And so, to spend sixteen weeks or more with him as this kind of character was fantastic.
Questions: What message do you want people to leave the movie with? Both from the movie as a whole and your performances individualy.
Emma: I guess, in a big way, what this film is about is Harry's in a really, really difficult place. He feels really isolated; he wants to isolate himself, because he thinks if he does that, he won't have as much to loose. I think a lot of the film is about Harry's journey to realizing that he doesn't have to do it alone, and the importance of his friends, and the importance of just friendship, and that you need to sort of look at it in a positive way. And, that actually the friends that he has and the people that he has behind him, while it's scary, because he might loose them, it actually gives him something to fight for, and that makes him a much more powerful wizard-slash-man than Voldemort, so ... That was, I think, for me, one of the key messages, but ...
Daniel: I also think it's about, in terms of Harry's character, sticking to your guns. If you know something is the truth, and you know that it's right, then you can't let yourself be compromised by other people and outside voices and I think that's what Harry and Dumbledore go through in this film. And I think, for me - that's one of, along with everything else you said - is enough central message to the film so ... Our performances individualy, I don't really know what people ... I think, I think ... I don't think -
Emma: I think it's just as we've grown up we've watched the different director and he's brought out different things in us and helped us to develop, and we've learnt more ... For every film we learn something new and we bring all of everything we've learnt together.
Daniel: I think we're a lot better as well; I think it's fair to say that. We have all grown and developed, and it does add something to the film, so, certaintly ...
Question: There's so much speculation about the book. How would you feel if your character doesn't make [it]?
-Audio Skip-
Rupert: [through skipping audio] Ron going to survive - I don't know how - I look forward to seeing what the outcome is.
Emma: I haven't really contemplated it. I'm sort of pretty convinced that she's gonna make it; I don't know why, but, I think she's gonna make it ... I hope so. But then, in a way, I guess also ... I don't know, I'm such a big fan of like, um, of the books, and I remember, with the Philip Pullman triliogy, whose dot materials?, I remember just at the end. Just knowing that both of them were going to live on - sorry, this is Lauren Will, I don't know if anyone's read it. I'm just talking like seemingly everyone's read the books! Just, when you know that the heroins in each book are going to live on; I hate endings that don't wrap themselves up! That's really like ... I don't know, what's the word? Perfectionist of me. I really like that to be like the ending. So in a way, it would be nice for that to be some sort of like "This is what happens!"
Daniel: Everyone's [going] to die!
Emma: (laughing) That's not what I'm saying! It would just be nice to wrap the characters up, so you know which direction they're going in, and what ... and hopefully, you know, Hermione will have a really cool career and be doing something like really great with her intelligence or like the Harry/Voldemort connection thing will have hopefully sort itself out.
Daniel: It's not that simple! A couple of years ago I said that I really ... that I would like Harry to die, because that is, as you say, that's a conclusive ending. But I'm still gonna stay away from that now, because the next day some of the headlines will - "Radcliffe wants Harry dead!" Which is, you know, awful. I do think it would be fitting, in a way, because when you consider the prophecy that's made about him and Voldemort, one of them's gonna go. And I think ... I don't know, to be honest. There's nothing really you can say, because I don't know. I ... I think he might, but that's based on absolutely nothing.
Question: Have you contemplated on the betting odds of Harry's doom?
Emma: No, not at all! There are bets on it?
[There are bets on how Harry's going to die.]
Daniel: The public must really love me!
Question: All the way, you guys growing up and assuming all sorts of leadership and things like that ... How easy did you find it to become leaders and teachers of Dumbledore's Army? How did that effect you guys?
Rupert: Ron isn't really ... either of those. No, I really liked doing those scenes; they were really good fun cause um ... [they] were sort of like a really good sort of atmosphere on the set. Got to do a load of good stunts as well which is really cool.
Daniel: Oh yeah, you did have ...!
Rupert: Yeah, I got pulled back on a wire cause me and Hermione have a duel.
Emma: Yeah. And who wins?
Rupert: Yeah, I really enjoyed thoses scenes; they were really cool.
Question: [About the D.A. but ultimately unintelligable]
Daniel: Those scenes were great! I mean, for me, I was thinking of it as, you know ... he starts off as this sort of, very reluctant leader/teacher and by the end he is Henry the Fifth! And to the point where David Yates, the director, did actually once give me a note that said, "Dan, bring it in a little bit with Henry, because we don't want it to go quite that far!" So it was great ... But the only problem with those scenes was the set we filmed on had under-floor lighting, and the whole place was mirrors ... so in every shot, you'd have to have fires all around, so it would reflect in all of the mirrors! Which meant that set seemed to be a sort of a degree hotter than the sun.
Emma: It was like walking into an oven. And the worst thing is that it's an enclosed set, because the door, so everything was closed off so it was just like ... Oh my god, it was so hot!
Question: Did you pass out?
Daniel: No! No, no!
Emma: We didn't pass out.
Daniel: We weren't cruely treated or anything!
Emma: We were allowed out for air occasionally ...
Question: What thought have you each given to your careers
post Harry Potter? What would you like to be doing next?
Emma: Uhmm .... you go, Dan!
Dan: (laughing) All right! I suppose 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. So, just, carry on, really! And I'd like to write, I suppose, as well ... a very, very long way away but that's another thought as well. But, I suppose for now, just hopefully continue the way I'm going.
Rupert: Yeah, I suppose it's the same for me. I haven't given it much thought, to be honest. I think ... um, I definatley want to continue acting - see what goes on there, really. If it doesn't work out, I've still got the ice cream van!
Emma: It's funny ... You can't really say "this is what I want to do," 'cause 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 out there ... You've just gotta ride the ... just see what's out there, really, I guess ... Ideally I'd love to try some theater at some point, and I love to do a parie drama or I'd love to ... I mean, there's loads of different things I want to do! I also really love to sing - don't worry, I'm not launching a singing career or anything!
Daniel: When's the album out?
Emma: A couple months! No, no, no - don't worry! I'd love to do something which has music in it. It's just what comes up, really. And it's also just what works, in terms of scheduling ... For example, [I have] the next two Potter's to do, and juggling that with school and stuff ... just, next summer I've got some time, so I'm sort of aiming to get something there, but ... again, I don't want to do something just for the sake of it; I really want to wait for the right thing to come along and ...
- Audio Cut Out -
Question: So it was a laid-back set ... but you also said, Daniel, in the production notes that you were pushed harder, you thought then, on any of the other films. Maybe you could talk a little bit about what that meant.
Daniel: Yeah, it was just the thing that David would come up to me at at the end, after a take and he'd say, "That one ... that one was good, but it just wasn't real," or "You can get it better than that." And there were times when I was thinking, "I cant! I don't know how!" But ... actually, in the end, I could. But the great thing about it was that he also knew when to ... when he got as far as he was going to get. I do like to be challenged and pushed and that's why David came at a perfect time for me - he's totally willing to do that! It's great.
Emma: Yeah, I actually ... I felt a bit nervous about working with David Yates, just because I sort of thought, "Well, I don't know this guy ... I'll go and watch some of his previous work." And just looking at the films he's done -
The Girl in the Cafe and
Sex Traffic, - just, the performances he got out of the 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; and just how real everything was ... I guess, the thing that occurs to me most about David and the most about this film is it really made me feel something ... it really makes you feel. I know that sounds weird, but ... I really was so eager and really earnest to live up to his expectations and for him really to get the best out of me that he possibly could. I was really nervous, but I was also really excited 'cause I thought, "Wow, I really think this guy can take me to a new level," which I think he does with all of us ... And it's really nice. Also, having seen the - David's staying on for the next one - having seen the film, it's amazing and it stands along but it feels like it's unfinished business. It feels like he has more to do and say. And it doesn't feel like he's - you know, "I've learned all that I can from David" - I still feel like there's so much more I can learn and get out of him so it's still a really exciting concept even though we're working with the same person again. It's really exciting.
Daniel: I'm thinking of getting David Yates into his director's chair and breaking his legs so he can
never leave. That was a rather grotesque image - I'm terribly sorry!
Question: Can you talk a bit about the audience and how it may have changed over the years - or grown? I know in America the books and the films seem to appear to girls as much as boys ... But over the years, what kind of audience have you heard from and what do they tell you that they're responsing to in the films?
Rupert: I dunno really. I think it's quite a varied audience I suppose. Obviously, it's quite for the younger ones, particularly, and also ... they've probably grown up by now.
Daniel: Yeah, let's hope!
Rupert: I've always had quite ... when you get recognized, people always say good things about the film and I've always had a sort of good feed back for the fim.
Daniel: It's quite unique in a way, 'cause it does attract a huge range of people, and that's what's great about it, because you know ... Potter, in a way, is one of the few films that ... I mean, ovbiously the marketing and all that is targeting certain groups of people, but really it doesn't just appeal to one demographic of people, it appeals to a huge range of them - we get a lot of people of different ages from all around the world. And also, as you say, the people were ... the amazing thing about it is that the people who were ten when the first film came out and indeed were seven when the first book came out ... then, they've grown up in the amounts of our age. But ... the nature of Potter and the fantastic story-telling means that younger kids are still coming to it, which means that it's got this audience that sort of regenerates itself ... two generations.
Emma: What I love is that I'll be out and about and one day I'll have, kind of, a seven or eight-year-old come up and ask for an autograph and say, "Oh my God, you know, I'm a really big fan" and "Love the films!" and the next day ... thirty? forty? Like literally, it ranges from kind of like ... grandmas to like young kids! It's amazing; the range is absolutely universal. I really like that; I really like that they're for adults and they're for youn - I think they're definately getting a lot darker and they're getting a lot more mature and I think we are growing with that inital audience that we first had at the beginning. We're taking them on a journey; I don't think anyone will be like, "Harry Potter is too young for me," or anything like that ...
Daniel: No, not this time around.
Emma: No ... I think it's still bloody scary! I think it's still ... I don't think ... It's amazing! It really does manage to give every type of audience some of what they want. So yeah ... it's good.
Question: Fans always focus on Harry's wonderful characteristics, but you know him best. What are his bad points? And for the other two - how are Harry and Dan most alike - not the bad points, obviously.
Daniel: (laughing) Let me go first! I think Harry does ... has bad aspects, and I think everybody has in a way. I think he can be - you know, when he lashes out in this film ... he lashes out at his two best friends - and I think that's something that a lot of people do because they know that, ultimately, they'll be okay! I think he can be ... possibly, I think he can be selfish, because he does have this desire to ... you know. He feels he has to live up to this image of himself that all these people have of being sort, you know, this 'great defender of right and magical things...' which is a very inarticulate way of saying it. I think he does feel he has to be the hero, so he has to go alone so he does try to cut himself off from people. So I think those would be a few of them ... And also, possibly in the third film ... when Snape infers that he's like his father and he's arrogant ..... I think there's possibly some truth in that, that we're possibly going to see more of. I don't know, but, possibly ... And now you guys; be very diplomatic.
Emma: I will, thank you. Umm, well you have to consider and you have to remember that this is a boy who has never known his parents, who is living with the Dursleys (which, I think, is anyone's worst nightmare), he's been completely isolated from everything and everyone, he's probably quite lonely (no one in the world will ever understand what it's like to be him or go through what he's gone through), he's just lost his Godfather (which is the only other member that he's had), he's world famous (everyone knows who he is and looks to him in the magical world and in the street) ... considering all of that, it's a job that he's actually sane. And he is a really nice guy, and that he isn't more screwed up or self-centered, or just not completely gone off the rails. Or not completely ... I mean, he's a survivor. He's a fighting spirit, strong ...
Daniel: Well, J.K. Rowling did say at one point - I remember her saying that if you - cause a lot of people had a problem with the fifth book, because they didn't like Harry's anger in it; they felt that we was too angry - and J.K. Rowling did just say, "If you haven't understood Harry's anger in the fifth book, then you haven't understood the four books previous to it, because if you did, then you would see that he has a right to be this angry."
Question: Daniel, I just saw
December Boys, and it's a great performance, but there are some similar themes to Harry Potter - the loneliness and being an orphan. Tell us a little bit about that and about the film that you're going to be doing in August.
Daniel: Oh, right, okay. Yes,
December Boys is a film I did Australia in 2005. It's about four boys who grow up in a Catholic orphanage in the outback of Australia who - due to a generous donation to the orphanage - who are sent on holiday for their birthday month, which is December (hence why they are the December Boys), and they all have various "rights of passage" stories while they are away. And I think it's a really sweet, guinely sort of warm, heart-felt film. Hopefully other people will like it too. It ... As you say, there are similar themes, and I've now ... the tally is up to three orphans - Harry, David, and Maps ... and Turn - and yes ... so I suppose there are similar themes here, but it is a very, very different film and he's a very different character from Harry, because Maps is much more restrained than Harry; Harry lets a lot out, and Maps doesn't at all. With
My Boy Jack, which is about Rudyard Kipling and his son, who was sent off - who wanted to go - and was sent to war despite having failed numerous army medical tests because of his eyesite was so bad. So it's a very, very sad story, and yes, as you can sort of guess, that one doesn't end happily. It's a beautiful, beautiful script written by David Haig, who is also playing Rudyard Kipling. So it's very exciting.
Question: I had a question ... which was each of your favorite scenes to film and why?
Daniel: I like the scene after the kiss with Cho Chang.
Emma: Me too.
Daniel: Because we're all just in hysterics! I think a
lot of that was genuine. I think, that day, we were just in quite a giggly mood. If you watch it, you can watch me - well, all of us were actually trying to keep it together. It's like the scene in um ...
The Usual Suspects, at the very beginning when they're doing the line-up, when all of the men that're doing the scene - they're laughing hysterically, and they can't keep it together at all. The director was getting really angry about it 'cause he couldn't get them under control. In the end, actually, it really works cause they all know each other, and in that way it's a very sweet scene ... and I also love doing anything which is sort of Sirius ... and Gary and all that ...
Emma: Yeah, that was me, and everyone as well, because I just have such good memories about filming it. I genuinely was - I don't think you remember, but ...
Daniel: I think it was something to do with oranges.
Emma: Something to do with oranges, I don't know why ... Dan and Rupert said something before a take, and literally, David, I remember, just filmed me just laughing in hysterics ... and Dan and Rupert just stopped -
Rupert: It was quite scary, actually.
Emma: And I was still going, and I was on the floor just laughing ... and he just filmed all of it, right until I stopped, and it just went on for ages. So my laughter is really genuine, which makes it ... I just think it feels like a scene which kind of brings together our real friendship and our character's friendship. It just all works together - comes together beautifully. I'm really fond of that scene; I really like it.
Rupert: Um ... I dunno, really. There's loads of scenes that were really fun and I the the funest one to do and watch back was the Hall of Prophecies, 'cause that was like ... there was like nothing there. There was no set at all; it was just green screen and looking back, watching it, was really weird but ... that was pretty cool.
Daniel: I think it's fair to say that we enjoyed most of the scenes we filmed. The only ones I don't want to partucularly don't want to ... anything on a broomstick, really, for very obvious reasons, and I think, generally speaking, we have a laugh pretty much all of the time.
Question: Emma, you mentioned that it was difficult for Harry to be world famous, and I'm wondering how it is for the three of you to be dealing with fame.
Emma: It's really ... I guess, what was difficult for Harry is that he'd live all of his life as this normal boy and suddenly just found out that he's a wizard and that he's famous, and it was something he just had to deal with. In a way, it's feels kind of easier for me, because it almost feels like I've never known anything different. I was so young, when I first started doing this, and it kind of builds up quite gradually as well, but I've kind of learnt, as I went, along the way, just from expirence and just sort of built up my confidence in myself and being able to deal with it. I've also just been really well looked after. I have to say that Warner Brothers has just, from the beginning, really taken care of us ... not just as the kids from Harry Potter, but as individuals and as people that she's really fond of. The fact that we've had that kind of family ... they really genuinely care about us as people and not just vehicles ... That really helps, and I guess me, Dan, and Rupert all have really strong families around us as well, who have all just taken care of us ... I think that's what keeps all of us sane, and just having a really strong base and a really strong identity outside of the films ... Like all of us know that we're worth something, apart from what everyone thinks of us. We have stronger identies than about what people write about us in the press or what people think or ... I don't know, you just have to be sort of ... beyond it and above it. I think we're all strong enough [that] we can laugh about it ... Some of it's frustrating, some of it's annoying, some of it's freaky, some of it scares us ...
Daniel: But you do have to laugh about it ... Because it's bizarre, but it's funny. And actually, obviously, there will always be certain things that other people will be able to do that we can't do and that's fine. But also, loads of opprotunities have been extended to us through this and that's amazing ... so we're also very fortunate. It is obviously a very strange experience ... but what Emma said about not being thought of or treated as sort of ... intinties that will either sell a film or not sell a film ... is since ... we've actually been treated really fantastically. We're very, very lucky in that respect.
Emma: And to be fair, we've actually been treated fairly well by the press.
Daniel: Yeah, we absolutely have been.
Question: I assume you didn't know each other before you started this whole journey, but what's the one or two things you learned from each other?
Emma: That we've learned from each other?
Daniel: I've learned that I want an ice cream van! I don't know ... These guys have probably learned nothing but trivia from me, really, because that's sort of what I'm full of. To be honest, because we're all pretty much the same age, we've never really dained to give each other advice. It would be very odd for me to turn around to Rupert and say, "Rupert, now then!" It would just not ... because we're all the same age; advice is something that you get from people that are older than you, really ...
Emma: I don't think it's really learning from - I think it's more like ... we're friends! If I'm having boy troubles, I'll occasionally go and chat with Dan and Rupert and say "What is going on here? I do not understand!"
Daniel: Don't ask what she means by boy troubles, please!
Emma: Sort of banter and friendly advice ... Just supporting each other I guess. Sorry I can't give you a really deep answer. It just doesn't exist!
Daniel and Emma: Ordrum? says we've learned nothing from each other!
Mediator: That's all the time there is - thank you very much, everybody!
Daniel: Thank you very much indeed, everybody!
Emma: Thank you!