What the actors knew or what we thought they knew

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:

> I recall Robbie Coltrane saying that JKR had given him 
> some background information. I remember in the interview 
> he was joking that he wouldn't dare reveal what the information 
> was. 
 
> But now that it's over...what could JKR have told RC that 
> would be such a big secret? There wasn't any surprise about 
> Hagrid. 


zanooda:

I have no idea what JKR could have told him. What, that Hagrid was half-giant? This big secret didn't play out in the movie at all. That Hagrid will carry "dead" Harry out of the forest? I don't see how this information could change anything in the way the actor played the character. I believe that the only actors who needed "the talk" were Rickman and Gambon.



> potioncat wrote:

> I'm beginning to wonder if the shrunken heads were the least 
> Cuaron's ideas and JKR had to pick her battles.


zanooda:

LOL! I remember JKR saying that Cuaron wanted some little people (whatever this means) in Hogwarts, and that she said no :-). The man has a lot of imagination :-). The only other Cuaron film that I saw was "A Little Princess", and I actually liked it very much, but I'm starting to think that maybe it was only because I haven't read the book, LOL! 

I also remember JKR saying that Cuaron wanted to make Hagrid much taller than he is, and that she was very surprised to hear it, because Columbus wanted a taller Hagrid as well, at first. I guess both of them took JKR's description of Hagrid (almost twice as tall and five times as wide as a normal man) way too seriously :-).