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masterofmystery · 10-23-2011, 04:19 PM

Bonnie Wright was featured as one of three young British stars from Next Models shoot for The Indepedent's Sunday magazine, along with model Tali Lennox and singer Rita Ora. Photos of their shoot, as well as a short interview with Bonnie about her future as an actor and in the movie business were released by the publication and SunShine81, and can be seen here.

What is there left to do when you have scaled the dizzying heights of celebrity by the age of 16? Plenty, says Bonnie Wright, now 20, who entered the public eye aged nine, when she landed the role of Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter franchise.

"I'm in the last year of a film degree," she says. "I'll graduate as a director, but it takes years to get the stories and the confidence to be a good director, and I'm scared to do it immediately. So I'm acting for now, stretching myself."

There aren't many students who spend their final year starring in blockbusters while pondering their coursework, but in the past 12 months, Wright has not only written and directed her own film, inspired by the countryside around Dungeness in Kent, where she spent much of her childhood, she has also taken a role in an independent movie filmed in Indonesia about thought experimentation. The Philosophers will be released next summer.

Since her parents are behind the jewellery label Wright & Teague, based on London's Dover Street, she is also well versed in the fashion canon, and has become a front-row regular since she came of age, when she took up her place as one of the industry's favourite clothes horses. "I love costume in film and how it develops characters," she says, "and, of course, some of the shows are very theatrical. When I was young, I used to love dressing up."

Wright claims she had no inkling that she would get the part in the Harry Potter films; her brother, meanwhile, was convinced she was the girl for the role and it was his idea that she audition. "I'd love to do theatre," she adds. "It's another experience, isn't it? Something different every night."

HPluver4evs · 10-24-2011, 08:36 AM

First of all these pics are amazing. Bonnie looks amazing, and second of all i can't believe how much she has grown. Seeing her grow over the course of the HP films is an honour to me (and everyone else i guess) much like the rest of the HP crew. I just cant get over the fact that i still see them as the children from Hogwarts that i and a lot of people have watched over the years mature and grow even though i'm only 15 so technically HP has been a part of my life since i watched the first movie and read the first book its like a part of me is missing now but HP lives on forever..... long live Harry Potter!!!!!

Seeing these pics made me think all of that and i just wanted to share it....