Heather Newgen
Wednesday: Jul 8 2009
Bonnie Wright
gives her take on the love scenes between her character Ginny and Harry
Potter to ComingSoon.net when we sat down with her on the set of
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Q: You get to have a romantic scene this time around. Can
you talk about that?
Bonnie Wright: Yeah, well there's two. The second one
is obviously much more romantic and how it comes. It's changed the film
quite a lot for me and more kind of development of what she entails and what
she has to do. I've enjoyed it.
Q: How was it shooting the scene with your character and
Harry's character together?
Wright: It was great. It's weird, I guess, after
you've known someone for a long time, it's quite weird to do that, but it
was fine. It wasn't too bad. It was better than I expected which is good.
Q: Were you excited about the outcome in book seven?
Wright: Yeah. I really enjoyed what happen, the final
half ending that happens, so to speak. Obviously there's a large part of
time in which they've spent apart. I also thought also actually while I was
reading it that it was a short thing and it'll never go back to how it was
and so I was happy when it did.
Q: Even more than the romance you and Harry become more
of a integral part of the storyline. How has that changing for you as you
play that?
Wright: Shooting this one there's been much for me to
do. I guess there's been much more of the character to dig into and get
myself into. There's even more scenes that build up in moments, for
instance, in the relationship with Harry. They kind of build up and make it
something more special for the characters. I think the character development
has been good for me and I don't think that she's really ever been able to
have that much in the films. I had more in the last one and obviously had a
part in the second one, but I think it'll definitely come across to the
audience in this one that she's much more developed.
Q: What do you think are her most important attributes?
Wright: I think that considering, obviously, that
she's known Harry since she was really young that she understands from a
friendly side that he's within the
family. She obviously understands what he goes through and she's not
always thinking about if he's the chosen one or what his motives are. I
think that she kind of loves him for who he is, kind of like in a family way
in which like Mrs. Weasley does.
Q: When they get together at this point do you think she
feels that it's a true love, kind of lifelong thing?
Wright: I don't think she's the kind of person that
holds onto something or thinks so much of something and kind of builds
something up in her head. I think that she just waits and sees and is quite
patient. For instance, we know that she's liked Harry since they were quite
young and she's been patient and waiting, holding off and has never really
been that bothered. So I don't think in this first relationship that she
ever thinks it's something that as we know develops into the seventh.
Q: What's been the most exciting thing for you on this
film so far or what are you looking forward to the most?
Wright: I really enjoyed, or well so far I've really
liked doing all the scenes at the Weasley
house. That was really fun and kind of humorous to film and it was a
really interesting scene that we did out in the weeds around the Weasley
house at night. That was exciting because it had a lot of action in it
without being really action packed in the sense of magic and different
things. It was much more serious and quiet and really scary, obviously, in
the middle of the night and being surrounded by people that we can't
actually see. I'm also really looking forward to also the Christmas party.
It'll be fun to dress up and everyone will be in that. It feels like we've
shot loads of things, but there's so much to come.
Q: What do you think it is that brings Harry around this
time and makes him see her in a different, especially considering that she's
liked him all this time?
Wright: I think it comes quite as a surprise to him that he starts to
see her in a different light and starts to think, "Oh, wait a minute. I
can't do this because she's the little sister of my best friend." It's that
kind of weird issue and getting past that. I don't know. I think in order
for him to recognize her she's obviously come a lot more out of her shell
and she's not that shy person that we saw in book one and two. I think that
just stepping out obviously made him realize someone who he always saw just
around the house, a sort of sisterly kind of thing.
Q: How does she handle it at first when she realizes that Harry does have
feelings for her?
Wright: I think at first she almost casts it
off as him being generally nice and friendly and being how he's always been.
I think she does start to realize it and I think that it also rekindles
things that she likes in him as well because I think that for a time she's
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tried to forget about him, in a sense.
Q: Have you shot the Quidditch scenes?
Wright: Yeah, we've done some of the scenes and we've
got some more of them to do. I've done some of the flying, but not stuck on
the ground.
Q: How was that for you?
Wright: It was fun. I never really realized how much
they really, or how quite powerful the machines were that you go up on and
how much they spin you around. It's such a weird idea. I'm standing up
there, sitting on a broom and I'm meant to be flying. It's really weird.
Q: Rupert [Grint] was complaining that it's quite
painful.
Wright: You do get quite sore. You don't really
realize how much, like I say, that it throws you around. I did one where I
was spinning completely, horizontally, three hundred and sixty degrees and I
was like, "Ah, this hurts." You're obviously strapped in, but it's still
quite a weird experience.
Q: What are most looking forward to filming in the next
movie and how do you feel about it being the last film in the series?
Wright: I guess it'll be interesting to see how in
the seventh one they'll do the epilogue and those parts of the scene. I
think there's that moment in the seventh one where he's at the house at
Christmas, I think, where they exchange gifts or something. I don't know
what I'm looking forward to. It depends. There's just so much in the seventh
one that it'll be interesting to see how they portray it.
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Q: You have a steamy moment with Harry in that one as
well.
Wright: Yeah. I don't know how they'll portray that.
I wonder.
Q: When the Weasleys are all together do you guys feel
like a family on set?
Wright: Yeah, I think so. There's obviously a big
family here and so all of us together in the Weasley house there is that.
Also the set is amazing and it's really colorful and very different from the
other much darker sets that are really kind of bare like Hogwarts,
obviously. It's just fun because Julie Walters who plays Mrs. Weasley is so
much fun to be with. I've always known that I'm going to laugh loads when
we're doing those scenes. I've never had a dull day at the Weasley house.
It's always fun.
Q: Do you want to continue acting after these series of
movies?
Wright: Yeah, definitely. I've really enjoyed it and
I'd never done it before we started on these films. So I've really enjoyed
it and it's opened up a lot for me. I never knew anything about the film
industry at all, what's involved. There are so many things to it with all
the things that go behind it, all the sets and the costumes. You just don't
realize it and that's really interesting to me as well.
Q: What sort of films do you think you'd like to do
afterwards?
Wright: Well, I guess after playing the same
character for quite a while I'd be interested in playing really different
characters. After playing someone for so long you're quite stuck with that
same character. So it'd be interesting to do someone that was drastically
different. I’m quite interested in characters that you almost have to, not
research into them, but that they're so unlike yourself that you almost have
to look into them and what goes on in their minds.
Q: What kinds of films do you like to watch yourself?
Wright: I like loads of films. I'm not really into
one thing. I do like action, but not like thriller ones. I kind of like the
more independent films. I guess this is very much a blockbuster film, "Harry
Potter," but I think it does have aspects of much more individual films. I
think definitely the last one, how David Yates did it, was more low key and
more about character. I like things with a lot of character development.
Q: What's been the best acting advice anyone's giving
you?
Wright: Well, I think that a lot of time in acting
there can be so much going on in your mind that you're thinking about the
process of what you're doing. In life you're never really thinking about
what you're doing in the day to day, what you're feeling – you just feel it.
You don't think about being angry. You feel being angry. So in a sense those
two opposites, don't think, but feel what you're thinking.
Q: Who told you that?
Wright: Quite a lot of people have told me that.
David Yates taught me quite a lot.
Q: What did you learn by working with him?
Wright: I definitely think that he opened up the idea
of a kind of actor/director who's really into knowing your ideas behind your
character. He's obviously thinking about the whole picture and every other
character whereas we're just thinking almost about ourselves, our own
characters. So it was having the idea that you can give as much as you can.
David likes to build a relationship with you and know what you believe about
your character. Since I've been doing this since I was nine you kind of feel
that you know what you should be doing in that scene or how you should be
acting. So it's giving your own kind of thoughts was something that I was
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