Weekly Reader Interview

[cubfanbudwoman]

Cyndi wrote:
> > Tonight I read an interview with Dan Radcliffe that was printed in
> > the Weekly Reader.  I was really taken aback by something he said 
> > when asked about his co- stars in the films.  He said he and Emma 
> > are like brother and sister, but that he doesn't really know 
> > Rupert. There is something very unsettling about that for me. I 
> > hate that Hermione has so many of Ron's lines in the movies. This 
> > interview makes me think that in the GOF movie we will see more 
> > of "Super" Hermione and less of Ron. Ron is one of my favorite 
> > characters in the book, and it stinks that the movies show him as 
> > merely comic relief. 

Joj: 
> I don't think he meant he didn't know Rupert, I think he meant he 
> didn't know how to answer the question about his relationship with 
> him.  His answer was that he didn't spend a lot of time with him.  
> That doesn't mean they don't like each other.  Dan just confirmed 
> something many people had already noticed.  Dan and Emma are closer 
> to each other than they are with Rupert.  I'm sure they all get 
> along fine.

SSSusan:
I hope Joj is right, because I had the EXACT reaction Cyndi did.  It 
somehow almost stung to hear Dan say that, and I immediately started 
thinking of "Why might this be?"  It doesn't seem to jibe with things 
the trio has said in interviews in the past, so maybe Joj is correct 
in that he meant his "I don't know" as "I don't know how to describe 
it."

Like you, Cyndi, Super!Hermione bugged me to no end in PoA.  It 
wasn't just the lines taken from Ron and given to her, it was also 
the lines & decision-making taken from Harry and given to her.  I 
like Emma Watson -- 'tisn't *her* fault, after all -- but I would 
have preferred to have seen Hermione struggle more, the way she did 
in the book, to have seen Harry be decisive the way he was in the 
book, and to have kept Ron as our source of WW knowledge.

Something I see as a *good* sign for Ron in the GoF movie is that in 
the clips & stills I've seen so far, he seems to be doing a lot of 
BROODING.  And that's good!  In GoF he *should* be brooding.  It'll 
be nice to see him being something other than just, as Cyndi said, 
comic relief & rubber face.

Siriusly Snapey Susan