The Times Online recently interviewed Dame Maggie Smith, where she discussed her career, her role in the Potter films as Professor McGonagall, as well as her battle with breast cancer. Smith, who was diagnosed last year, tells the story of how she filmed her scenes for Half-Blood Prince mid-treatment. The actress is very candid in the interview, saying that she even accepted the possibility of dying. Thankfully, the doctors have given her an "all-clear," as she goes for a check-up later this month.
Smith is set to begin filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows shortly, but notes, "she is racked with doubt about her acting future after being 'knocked sideways' by her illness."
All of us here at MuggleNet wish Maggie a full and speedy recovery!
Fans joined forces to start a petition for the release of Cherrybomb--a film starring Rupert Grint--and succeeded. As the BBC reports, the film has found a distributor and will be released sometime in 2010.Rupert Grint was thrilled.
I'm delighted by the huge support the film has already received on the official Facebook page and other sites on the web and am so grateful to my fans in particular, who have travelled the world to support the film at festivals and preview screenings."
Harry Melling--the actor who plays Dudley Dursley--discussed his recent weight loss and his career in an interview with the Telegraph.On returning to the set of Deathly Hallows after his weight loss, Melling no longer looked like Dudley.
Dudley doesn't feature in the sixth Potter film, so there was a long gap between playing the butterball bully in the fifth, aged 16, and shooting the seventh film, this year. In the meantime, he had changed almost beyond recognition, to the producers' alarm. "They did this double-take, 'Oh my God, we are going to have to do something,' and I felt very guilty. They could have recast, but instead they padded me out."
Despite not being a lead in the movies, Melling is happy with his career.
"I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley."
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