Someone reblogged that ‘HP ships wars’ second round post, asking why anyone could possibly vote for Romione over H*rmione, because Ron and Hermione are apparently an “awful” couple, and that Harry and Hermione would make way more sense.
I’m like… well, judging by the fact that over a thousand people voted for Romione compared to barely a couple hundred voting for H*rmione, I’m guessing most people who voted don’t agree with you.
Presumably the majority of people voting on it agreed with Harry when he said that he loved her “like a sister”.
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Sure. Apparently, it happened on the set of ‘Order of the Phoenix’; Emma Watson didn’t enjoy doing lots of takes for her scenes. David Yates typically likes to do a fair few just to make sure they get it perfect. Watson got into an argument with him about it, apparently asking whether she was contractually obligated to do repeat takes, and he ‘politely’ responded that she was.
Judging by the fact that OOTP was filmed during 2006, and the article (from what I can remember) mentioned the factoid being from behind-the-scenes, I’d say this interview was sometime during that time or just afterwards.
To be fair, it took me forever to find the article, and I couldn’t even find the interview transcript. Which is weird, because I remember reading it a couple of months ago. Maybe it got deleted?
I distinctly remember him commenting that it seemed weird to him that they were ‘paying you [Watson] all this money for these films’, and that the least she could do was do some repeat takes. Now granted, Yates does like doing roughly 30 takes a time, but that doesn’t seem too bad when you factor in that most scenes with lots of talking tend to be only a few minutes long in the HP film series.
Also, Emma Watson is an actor; surely it’s pretty commonplace for actors to do lots of takes for films?
Having said that, whilst looking for the article, I did come across a GQ article about Dan Radcliffe where he talked about how he got sick of the repeat takes during HP. I don’t think he ever argued with David Yates about it, though.
@ronandhappiness You’re more up to date with Emma Watson critiques than I am. Do you know a link to the interview?
Thanks for the ask, anon. Hope that cleared things up.
No idea. I’ve never heard of Yates saying anything negative about Watson.
I didn’t know this. I’ ve always read that the nickname “onetake watson” was because her scenes didn’t need to be done again. And I remember Rupert was “re-redo Grint” or something like this
I can understand that misconception. It’s not that Emma Watson didn’t need to do her lines again; it’s that she didn’t want to do her lines again. She often believedshe’d gotten her lines right in the first take, and hated doing repeat takes.
Rupert got the name ‘Go-again Grint’ because he liked doing repeat takes just so he could get it as perfect as he could. Same with Daniel Radcliffe and the ‘Redo Radcliffe’ nickname.
From an outside perspective, it would seem that someone considering their performance perfect on the first take would be a good thing. But the vast majority of actors are surprisingly self-critical, and are constantly trying to push themselves to do better.
JK Rowling has some interesting names going on;
Diagon Alley. Diagonally.
Nocturne Alley. Nocturnally.
That werewolf guy? Remus Lupin.
That outdoorsy teacher who’s tough? Grubbly-Plank.
That stuck-in-their-ways politician? Fudge.
The head of house for the Snake house? Snape.
The Herbology teacher who works with plants? Sprout.
So you could forgive me for thinking that Luna Lovegood was going to end up marrying Harry.
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