talking about back at Shakespeare, the entitlement Then
you go onto set with Michael Gambit, and you know, you are always only this far
away from him making you laugh, so you know you are proud that you’ve got a
take that he hasn’t cracked you up.
Q: Snape ________
said: “Turn to page 394.” To have any quicking and eye
boots to the children at Hogwarts. To what degree is the voice—King, to this forbidden
character?
AR: Well, if you’re playing somebody, you don’t judge them.
So I don’t know about things like forbidding or scary or mysterious or any of
that. You take the information you’ve got in the writing, and Jo Rowling is
quite clear, she said that he never raises his voice.[Laughs] Well that’s
helpful, [shrugs] okay, I’ll do that then.
Q: Well, Dan, Emma
and Rupert did admit a while back to being a little bit scared of you and real letters, and yet anything I’ve seen from the
film, from the i-tech, you’re laughing, you’re in good form. But did you keep a
bit of a strand countenance for them for their sake of dramatic arch.
AR: I think there was nothing ever deliberate, but you know the
nature filming is that there’s little or no rehearsal, you’re straight into it.
That means, and you are starting with three 12 year olds and I walk onto the
set with black lens in my eyes, and all black outfit and a black wig. And one thing
I can say for sure is that as soon as you put that costume on, something
happens. You can’t be someone else inside that outline. It has an effect on me.
And also you don’t have time because you are looking for real concentration,
and you’re trying to be as helpful to these three young people as possible; so
it’s better that I’m focused and not mucking about. So I’m not surprised if
they’ve got a bit alarmed. But it was just the nature of the beast.
Q: Your own
background, the background of art and fine arts of attending Royal College of
Arts. How important does the earlier aesthetic throughout the project, like
Harry Potter, to you? The look, the
design, the theatre, does that all hugely support the character of the work you
do.
AR: Absolutely crucial and I suppose is the, in a way, the
one shame of the advance of CGI. You know, we started this whole thing going
off to locations, Oxford, Glouster and various
Gothic corridors. And by the end, 10 years later, the technique is so
sophisticated that you end the film on the palpable grass with the football
stadium and the lights around, knowing they are going to fill in the background;
so your imagination really has to work hard by the end of it. But the interiors,
we’re completely blessed by having absolute genius in (____________). And there’s
still a child in me that goes up to a pillar, that I’m this far away with it,
and I know it’s made out of polystyrene because it’s so real. I don’t know; it’s
crucial because your imagination is fed.