The cast reunite for the 20th anniversary of the TV special ‘Return to Hogwarts’ to air January 1 on HBO Max
Daniel Radcliffe recalls embarrassing haircuts, Emma Watson meeting his “Harry Potter” cast with “an unexpected joy”, and director Christopher Columbus calling the film’s set “the greatest playground in the world”. as remembered.
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Several cast members from the “Harry Potter” film franchise reunited for a 20th anniversary TV special titled “Return to Hogwarts”, which airs January 1 on HBO Max.
Radcliffe, 32, was just 11 years old when he was cast as an orphan boy with magical powers. He said at the reunion on set in Leavesden outside London that he would always be happy to talk about the film.
“Every part of my life is connected to Potter and Leavesden. My first kiss is related to someone here, my first girlfriend was here. … It all comes out of the potter somewhere,” he said, in an advance excerpt released Monday. according.
Radcliffe recalls how he and Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) hated being asked to grow out their hair for a shaggy look in the films later in the series.
“We’re like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. You’re not leaving us like that? We’re going to be teenagers and date girls in this movie! It’s not going to be the same, is it?’ So, I think we were very devastated because we realized it was there,” he said.
Radcliffe joins Grint, Watson (Hermione) and Columbus to reunite actors Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy), Gary Oldman (Sirius Black), Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange) and others.
Watson said she was overwhelmed with emotion at the reunion after all these years.
“Some of us haven’t seen each other for years. So it’s just been a joy. An unexpected joy,” she said.
Oldman said getting back together was a “weird experience because you met them as a child, and now some of them are married and have kids of their own.”
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” (“Philosopher’s Stone” in the UK) was released in November 2001. The eight-film franchise, based on the stories of JK Rowling, grossed approximately $7.8 billion at the global box office.
Rowling does not appear in person on the reunion special, but will appear in archive footage. Rowling’s opinions on transgender issues have been the subject of controversy over the past year, with some in the LGBTQ community accusing her of transphobia.
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