TheDailySnitcher had the pleasure of touring a traveling display of Harry Potter memorabilia today, as well as interviewing Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom) who was there to donate his character's wand to the exhibit. The Boston Museum of Science is hosting the second venue for Harry Potter: The Exhibition, currently touring the U.S., with plans to go international in the future. You can view loads of photos from the exhibit here, which opens to the public this Sunday. You can purchase tickets at the museum's website link above.
Matthew told us that he'll start filming on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 next week, and will continue on through May or June of next year. He also told us a couple of humorous stories about scenes that he worked hard on but were cut from both Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix.
We've done a bunch of stuff that we shoot or don't get around to shooting, but we rehearse for, that end up on the cutting room floor. Stuff in particular that I was reminded of in the Neville Longbottom (section of the display) was they've got the dancing shoes. I remember when I first put those on for dancing rehearsals. I can't dance. I never have been able to - never will be able to. But they told me Neville's a good dancer. It's something he's actually found a passion for. Great. (rolls eyes) For two months we learned how to dance. My partner was Bonnie, who plays Ginny Weasley. We learned to waltz...we had to learn a tango. The other guys, like Rupert and Dan, were fine because they were told they were supposed to be rubbish. Neville, however, was supposed to look like Fred Astaire. I wore those (shoes) for a long time. I'm assuming you sprayed them well.
They've got my cactus in the exhibit as well. The Mimbulus Mimbletonia and all the herbology tools we used to mess around with the cactus - and again (that scene) got cut. There's a really lovel scene where Neville starts playing around with his cactus - and there's a big special effect where there's some piping below it - shoots stinksap all over me...my face, my chest, everywhere. David Yates, the director, said, "Wouldn't it be really funny if Neville's totally dumbstruck by this - if he didn't even flinch?" Everytime, I'd just jump and leap out. It hit me with such force I couldn't do it. The whole crew had to wait 10-15 minutes for me to change and come back, but the worse thing was a couple behind me who'd only just met and they'd been asked to kiss in the scene. They were getting covered with the same stinksap, but from a machine about 10 times bigger than mine and they got absolutely covered in it. But because I was messing up, they had to go and suffer as well. And, again, it never made it into the film.
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