
"I said 'no' to a lot of things," she said.įamed director Steven Spielberg, who was originally slated to lead the first film, wanted Haley Joel Osment from "The Sixth Sense" to play the title role.īut Spielberg dropped out and later told the BBC that while he knew the film would be a hit, it just didn't touch his heart the way it did for fans. In 2010, Rowling told Oprah Winfrey that Michael Jackson wanted "Potter" to be a musical. Rowling picked the name Harry Potter because Harry "has always been my favorite boy's name, so if my daughter had been a son, he would have been Harry Rowling," she told in 2000.Īs for Potter, it "was the surname of a family who used to live near me when I was 7 years old and I always liked the name, so I borrowed it," she said. Hermione and Harry might have been a better match, she added. That’s how it was conceived, really, for reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it," she told the paper. "I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. Rupert Grint and Emma Watson in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2." One of the actors who played young Tom Riddle, the orphaned boy who eventually became the dreaded Voldemeort, is actually Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, the nephew of Ralph Fiennes, who played the dark wizard.
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So he took them out for the rest of the movie and the rest of the franchise. "I realized that she's never going to be able to perform with these huge fake teeth in her mouth for the rest of the movie," he told EW. Christopher Columbus, the director of the first two films, said fake teeth were only used for one scene in the very first film. “Robin had called because he really wanted to be in the movie, but it was a British-only edict, and once he said no to Robin, he wasn’t going to say yes to anybody else, that’s for sure,” casting director Janet Hirshenson told the Huffington Post last year.ģ - What's up with Hermione Granger's teeth?Īnother change from the book was Hermione's buck teeth. Yep, the late Oscar winner wanted to play Hagrid in the movies, but apparently there was a Brits-only rule by the producers.
