Actor Rhys Ifans was interviewed recently to promote his upcoming feature, Greenberg, and spoke about being cast as Xeno Lovegood in Deathly Hallows and working with Evanna Lynch, who plays Luna.
"This is the first film that I've ever done that I'm not really allowed to talk about. But it's great. I play Luna Lovegood's (Evanna Lynch) father (and editor of the Quibbler), Xenophilius Lovegood. And it was a thrill."
When you're an English actor and you get the call from Harry Potter, that is like getting your stripes. It was great. You end up on set and there's all these actors that you've worked with before or crossed paths with. So we'd all be sitting there in our chairs eating our soggy English sandwiches, pumping it up, dressed up like wizards. It was a pleasantly surreal experience."
On working with Evanna, Rhys said:
"She's amazing," he said. "If there's a question on set -- and they have a plethora of researchers and people who've read the books -- but if anyone needs to know ANY miniscule detail about anything that has happened in any Harry Potter novel from start to finish, they ask her. She knows it all. So it was quite intimidating. I was working with this expert in Harry Potter. But she was a joy to work with. All of them, all of the kids or whatever you call them, it was just a great couple of weeks."
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