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Josh Herdman & Chris Rankin Tell Untold Harry Potter Set Stories | Corpus Christi Comic Con 2024
Jul 26, 2025
What was it like working alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Felton? What Harry Potter scene was so funny the cast couldn’t stop laughing? Chris Rankin (Percy Weasley) and Josh Herdman (Gregory Goyle) reunite at Corpus Christi Comic Con to share rare behind-the-scenes stories from their time on the Harry Potter films.
In this candid Q&A panel, Chris and Josh reflect on:
Working with the Weasley family actors and Tom Felton
Deleted scenes featuring Peeves the Poltergeist
Filming on-location at King’s Cross
On-set pranks with replica prop guns
Their friendships behind the scenes
Daniel Radcliffe’s performance in Equus
Set atmosphere during emotional moments like Sirius Black’s death
Plus, they field fun fan questions, share memories of cast bonding, and reveal what it was really like growing up in the Wizarding World.
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your name and your question, please.
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Um, my name is uh
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Can you can bring the mic down a little
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if you want.
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Sorry.
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And my question is, this is for both of
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y'all. Um, what was your favorite moment
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in filming the Harry Potter movies?
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Favorite moment?
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Favorite moment?
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Oh my god, there's so I mean I Yeah,
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random. I'm going to pick a random one
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cuz I It is a question I get asked a
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lot. I'm sure you do as well. Um, and I
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try and answer it differently, but Peace
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the Poltergeist was my favorite bit to
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film, which none of you ever saw. Um,
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but we just had so much fun doing it.
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And, uh, the actor who was playing Peace
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the Poltergeist was a guy called Rick
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Male. And if you haven't seen any of his
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work, and he's sadly no longer with us
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either. Um, he is one of the funniest,
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rudest, but kindest people I've had the
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joy of meeting and working with. He was
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absolutely brilliant. Um he's in some of
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he's just in some of the best British
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comedy that was made. How old are you?
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Uh
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don't watch it yet. Um says lots of
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words that you don't need to know right
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now. Um but he's very very funny and he
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was absolutely the perfect thief. So we
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filmed a whole bit in um where Percy's
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taken the Gryffindors to the common room
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for the first time in the first movie.
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We filmed a whole bit where he was like
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hurling tennis balls and sticks and all
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sorts of stuff at us. But I think
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honestly I think they cut it because
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none of us could keep a straight face.
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Um, apparently it was because they
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couldn't afford any more ghosts. But I
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think it was I genuinely think it's cuz
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every time he opened his mouth we all
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just went
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there behind the scenes cut footage
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deleted scenes stuff like that's what I
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always say from those movies.
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So cool that you got
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Thank you so much for your question.
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Wait, we got to get Josh back. You get
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your answer to that portion of that.
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What was your favorite moment?
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Um,
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well, a really special moment for me was
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I had done the first movie and I had
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I don't think I they actually gave me a
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script of Philosopher Stone to read.
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pretty sure I didn't
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I'm pretty sure I might be wrong. I
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might have got that really wrong. But
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anyway, I've done the first movie and I
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kind of just felt a glorified extra. I
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was like I remember prior to I got the
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part I was like
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and then sort of like stand there in the
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background, you know, and walk past
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there and as I finished the first movie
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and I was I felt not ungrateful. I I was
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a little bit disheartened. I that there
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wasn't that much for Quil to do and
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Quill's part is much bigger in the
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books. Um so then when the Chamber of
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Secrets and the Poly Juice Potion scene
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came and then all of a sudden I'm I'm in
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the um the
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girls bathroom.
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Oh yeah. You know, and I've got a
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closeup and you know there's only me on
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set or Chris Glover. He's directing me
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and only me like talking in my ear while
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I close up. I was like wow. Yeah.
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That was a special moment. I was like
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now now now I feel like a real actor.
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I know. And you can do you very play
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also. Anyway, just interesting.
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It's such a Yeah, you do. You guys did
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so well with that.
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Cuz we had the body juice potion bit
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where I find you guys in the dungeon and
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like the way that you and Jamie managed
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to do Ron and well Dan Robert
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doing you. It was brilliant.
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And as a kid doing that, like that's a
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nuance thing you had to like get into.
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That's really cool.
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Well, I mean, we had to be put a lot of
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work into it though. It was there was a
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lot of prep for that. Um,
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yeah,
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that's a lot to ask of like 14y olds and
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yeah,
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you played it, killed it. It was
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awesome.
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Uh, next question. Your name.
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All right. So, my name's Lucky. Um, so
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my question is, so I actually have one
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for each of you guys, so I'll try to
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keep this quick. Um Josh, um what is the
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most memorable time you had working with
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Tom Felton? And for you, Chris, um what
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was the most memorable time you had
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working with the cast of the Weasley
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family like Rupert Grant, um James and
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Oliver?
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Well, me and John met like a few
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memorable moments. Some I can tell you
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about, some I can't. Uh I'm going to I'm
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going to tell you one which is actually
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he wrote about in his book. Um, which I
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was really surprised that he put this in
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his book to be honest because it's not
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something like if it wasn't in his book
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I wouldn't be telling you now. But
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anyway, we was filming in Oxford I think
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it was and I was quite
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I've always liked weapons and knives and
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guns and things and uh at that time you
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could there was a shop near me where you
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could buy replica replica um guns
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handguns. Uh there was no there was no
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law against they they were selling there
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was like a loophole in in British law
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where you could buy these and you would
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they felt the way gun but the the bow
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was filled with with with metal so
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nothing could come out of it so they
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just sounded looked and felt like real
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guns.
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I thought it'd be a good idea to take
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one to the to the hotel in Oxford. I
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know. So, actually, in my defense, I
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think I told Tom Jamie about these guns
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and I was like, "Yeah, bring bring one.
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We bring to Oxford next week and I I
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stupidly did." Um, and uh yeah, so we
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get to the hotel in the hotel and man,
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maybe we could fire him. So,
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don't know why we thought this was a
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good idea, but there was a multi-story
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car park next to the hotel, attached to
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part of the hotel. this multi-story car
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park and did not think about acoustics
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at all. We got to the bottom of the of
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the multi-story car park
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and let let it off and Tom was actually
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filming it with his account at the time.
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He didn't doesn't mention that in his
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book, but he was filing it. So somewhere
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there may be footage of this and we've
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let it off and it's just you can imagine
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the whole and we've we've just cracked
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cracked our pants and just run for the
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hills and I think for a good couple of
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weeks after that I was just dreading
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that I was going to get call from
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producers. We've had these reports CCTV
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footage of you and Tom wearing a gun.
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There's no bad I mean, uh,
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bad press.
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That might have been cursed. I don't
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know. Maybe in another time, they
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probably would have been for me.
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You You'd have had to take the blame for
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it for sure. Um, yeah. I mean, the
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Weasley family obviously didn't go
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around firing weapons in garages.
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Um, but I think my we had I think my
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favorite point with the Weasley's, and
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it wasn't even all of us, actually. It
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was when we were filming um platform 9
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and 3/4 on actually both of the first
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two films. um just because it was it was
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really cool to be filming on location.
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We didn't get out very much from the
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studio. You know, a lot of a lot of what
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we did certainly after the first movie
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was a lot of it was filmed at the
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studios. Um so getting to go to King's
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Cross Station and actually film on it's
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not platform, it was platforms three and
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four I think. Um was really cool. There
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was a great big steam train there which
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was really cool. But also it was just
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the Weasley's and Dan. So, it was it was
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really special just to kind of just have
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all of us and be on this little sort of
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almost like a little mini break really.
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It was really cool. Um, and also because
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when this sounds really awful to say
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this out loud really, but when you're
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filming, it's really cool to be filming
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somewhere where people can see what
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you're doing because when we were in the
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way of the studios, nobody ever saw
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anything. There's always like this big
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secretive world behind the leaves and
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studios doors. But um yeah, when you're
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sort of when you're out at King's Cross,
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everybody can see the Hogwarts Express
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and everybody can see you and there's
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people everywhere and it's it's just
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really fun. And just getting to run
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around with owls in cages on luggage tr
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and be the first person to run through
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the platform was yeah pretty cool,
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which is why Universal Studios exists
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cuz we all want that same experience. I
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got to go and it was incredible. So just
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a taste of that. Thank you so much for
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your question. We have time for maybe
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one more question you guys. I'm so sorry
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we're being a little short on time, but
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go ahead and give your name and your
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question. We'll see if we get to it, but
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more like one.
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Well, hopefully this my name is Brian
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and my question for both of y'all is
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what is your Daniel Radcliffe story?
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Daniel Radcliffe story.
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Let's get a good one. Let's get a juicy
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one.
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I've got a great one. Um so many years
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ago he he did a play called Equas in
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London. I think he bought it to Broadway
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as well. um with Richard Griffith who
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played um Uncle Veron um and famously
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there's a scene in which he gets totally
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stark naked and does very strange
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fantasy things with a fantasy horse in
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the play. Um, it's a play that I
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studied, so I was really keen. I never,
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it doesn't get produced very often, so I
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went to see it. I went to support my
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friend in it, you know. Um, sat next to
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his dad.
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Really awkward. Never sit next to
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somebody's dad while they're taking
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their clothes off. It's really Yeah.
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It's the most awfully awkward. Like,
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what do you say your son? Your son is um
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very talented.
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Oh, I love you. Um, and Allan is like
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Alan Dan's dad is a really lovely guy,
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but it's just a really weird experience.
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Yeah. So, that's my that's my random
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story. Anyway,
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I don't have one to be honest. Um, they
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don't really
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besides screen test with him. Um, I
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don't know whether he had Harry yet. I
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think he may have been conditioning for
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his screen test. Not really a story, but
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and other than that and that, you know,
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uh we used to smoke cigarettes together.
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That's about it really to be honest. And
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he's got a real sort of a real dark
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sense of humor. Yeah. Told me some of
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some of the darkest jokes I've heard,
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which is unexpected. Don't expect that
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from
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from that from Yeah.
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Very nice. Well, thank you for your
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question, guys. I think we're pretty
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much wrapped up. I'm so sorry. I know I
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wanted to get to your question. Well,
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you know what? Let's do one more
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question. Quick question.
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I love what you're wearing. Thank you. I
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love it. So, go ahead.
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My name is McKenzie and I actually
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brought my one, too.
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But, um, my question is kind of for both
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of you on this about on the set. Um, I
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watched a video quite a while back and
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it was about the the scene where Sirius
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dies
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and it's about um I don't know if it's
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true cuz it's just a like video I came
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across. It it was a video where it was
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about the set where Harry um Daniel's
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Daniel actually went through a loss
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right when that scene was being filmed.
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What was set like when that was going
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on?
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You know what? Unfortunately, I don't
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remember and I wasn't there at the time.
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Um yeah, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. I
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wasn't Christian. It's about Sirius's
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death, but but I wasn't there, so I'm
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really sorry.
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Are you going to be going to the U ball
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this evening?
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Actually, yes.
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Yes. All right, guys. Well, let's I'm
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going to wrap by just saying we have an
11:37
incredible event this evening at 8:00.
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The U Ball and
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Chris and Josh are going to join us,
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guys.
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Are you all excited?
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You're so sweet. Can we do one more
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question?
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Just cuz you're so sweet. Go ahead.
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What's your name and your question?
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My name is Natala and I have a question.
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Wait, sorry. I'm coming over here
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because it's really echoy and it's
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really hard to hear. So yeah, ask a
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question.
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My name's Natala and I have a question.
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Who was your best friend while filming?
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Who was your best friend while filming?
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For me personally, I would say Tom,
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but
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I I don't think I was his best friend.
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He was, let's say, he was the person I
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probably liked the most on set.
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Offense,
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who was your bestie? Who was your best?
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I know we should. I thought I thought he
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was off. That's it. So, um, it's funny
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is it though because like doing these
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things later in life, like it's you do
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end up sort of hanging out with people
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you really wouldn't have thought you'd
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been hanging out with when you were 15.
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Um, but
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uh, me and Sean, we played Oliver Wood,
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the Quidditch captain. Uh, because we
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were basically the same age. He's like 4
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months older than me. Neither of us had
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to do school. Like all the kids had to
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be in school for 4 hours a day because
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it's the law and they're kids. We were
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adults because we were just over 16. So,
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we didn't have to prevent that while
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these poor kids were having to do their
13:18
homework and learn science and English
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and math, we were just hanging out
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watching films. And while Sean was
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telling me how bad my music taste was
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and making me listen to stuff that he
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thought was better than my musical
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theater taste, but
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I love it. Thank you so much for your
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question. That was a great question.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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All right, guys. Well, we're going to go
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ahead and wrap it up again. Check out
13:40
the U ball this evening. These guys will
13:42
be joining us for the U ball. Now, the
13:44
Witch Sisters will not be playing. This
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is my band t-shirt. I was really proud
13:48
that I got this band t-shirt. Uh,
13:49
something Wicked Tour 94. Um, but we
13:52
will have an amazing DJ who's going to
13:54
be here. It's going to be a lot of fun.
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Come check out the Eagle Bowl. And one
13:57
more time, give it up for Chris and
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John.
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Thank you.
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Thank you all so much.
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