Interview with the Gryffindors
James and Oliver Phelps, Matthew Lewis, Devon Murray
Transcript written by Steph of Veritaserum.com
Interviewer: Where you big fans of Harry Potter before you got involved in this?
Oliver Phelps: Well. We read the books didn't we?
James Phelps: Yeah.
Oliver Phelps: So um...
James Phelps: I'd read half, I had just finished the first one when we heard there were auditions for the, for the film, so. So we thought, hmm. [Nodding his head.]
Oliver Phelps: And like, and honestly I didn't realize how much of a big scale it was on. But, I knew that there was definitely something about them, cause...
Interviewer: You thought it was going to be a low budget number.
Oliver Phelps: Well, I... [Laughs]
Interviewer: So what about you, at all?
Devon Murray: I just read the first one and then as James and Oliver said, the auditions came up and then have to read. Keep on reading more and more and more, finding out more about the film.
Shrunken Head: Is it true for your part in Harry Potter you were cast by head hunters?
Interviewer: No, that was only you, wasn't it?
Shrunken Head: Well how did you get your style parts?
Oliver Phelps: Well, we heard there was an open audition for a few leads, and, we thought, well, why not go for it, you know.
Interviewer: What about you?
Matthew Lewis: Mine was pretty much the same, because I'm from leads, and I was at the open audition as well. And I remember all the people queuing up the stairs and everyone was there with the Harry Potter books. And they put glasses on me without lenses, and it was just, and I was just there with, I had the little small T.V., and I'm like, Okay, I've got no chance at this, at all."
Interviewer: What about you?
Devon Murray: My manager was onto the casting...
Interviewer: Oh, "My Manager," Woohoo!
Devon Murray: [Laughing]...and he was onto the casting directors and all that about, so, I went for an audition in New Orleans. Then I was asked to come over here for a screen test for either Seamus or Neville Longbottom, so I was there all nice, and like, "I might get a part in it."
Shrunken Head: Ah, agreed. And how did they actually break this wonderful news to you?
Devon Murray: I didn't know I had the part until the actual read through. I had to read for, I was told then, I was going to read for Seamus, and then they said, "well, you've read it all real well, so we would like to take you on" and all that, so I went on and off from there again.
Interviewer: Okay, when did you hear?
Matthew Lewis: Mine was about two or three days after the screen test, and suddenly my mum got a phone call, and I just carried on playing, and she just opened the door. I say, "Who is it?" and she says, "It's Sitch Lin from your agency," and I said, "Oh, okay. Well?" and she went, she gave me the thumbs up, and I just run in the room and start jumping up and down on the cell phone with my friend. It was really cool.
Interviewer: What about you, fellas?
Oliver Phelps: Um, well, we were just in the front room, and the phone rang so my mum answered it and apparently this lady on the other end said, "Hi, is the mother of the Weasley Twins there?
James Phelps: And she said, "No, I think you got the wrong number," or something like that.
Interviewer: Your mum blew it for you, that was it!
Shrunken Head: Hey! Johnny, Johnny! You want to know how I got the part?
Interviewer: No.
Shrunken Head: Hang on, hang on. Hey guys, want to know how I got the part?
Boys: Hmm. No, not really.
Shrunken Head: Ooooo.
Interviewer: Sorry about that, fellas. Now, if you could play any other characters in the Harry Potter films, who do you think you'd like to play?
Matthew Lewis: I guess a bad guy would be pretty cool, like Draco Malfoy. But I remember the first time I read Philosopher's Stone, I put my dressing gown on and so I pretended to be Harry, running around the house, and I can't believe I just told you that, but...
Interviewer: I'm good, aren't I?
Matthew Lewis: Yeah.
Interviewer: What's the strangest thing fans have ever asked you?
Devon Murray: Well, they all ask can we get them a part in the film, but.
Matthew Lewis: Yeah.
Devon Murray: What else do they ask...?
Interviewer: Do they? They ask you for employment?
Devon Murray: Yeah. "Will you be able to get me a job on Harry Potter?"
Interviewer: If it's a lady, I bet you say, "Well, you know..."
Devon Murray: Give me your number there, and I'll get back to...
Interviewer: Oh, yeah. But have you any really bizarre hings happen to you?
Matthew Lewis: Somebody game me a pepper at the Collectormania that we did.
Interviewer: Collectormania?
Matthew Lewis: Collectormania, it was a signing... event.
Devon Murray: Convention.
Matthew Lewis: Convention. Thank you. And yeah, somebody gave me a pepper, and you got something even stranger.
Oliver Phelps: Yeah, we got a bra, with potatoes in it. So then like...
James Phelps: Still to this day, trying to figure out why.
Interviewer: What kind of tribute is that? What was going through someone's head, "I know what's going to really impress the twins!
Shrunken Head: I know what's going through my head.
Interviewer: How do we tell you apart?
James Phelps: Um...
Interviewer: What would you say the key, I mean, how does your mum do it?
Oliver Phelps: I got a mole on my neck, there, and James...
James Phelps: I haven't.
Interviewer: That's it, we look for the mole? 'Cause you aren't actually gingers are you?
James and Oliver Phelps: No.
James Phelps: It's dyed hair.
Oliver Phelps: We're dark brown normally.
Interviewer: What did you think or how did you feel being ginger?
James Phelps: I've gotten use to it now, almost three years. When we told people, that we told our close friends that we were in Harry Potter, they're like, "Yeah, yeah. Sure, sure, yeah." And we talk in school with ginger hair and everyone's like, [bites lip.] "What we do?"
Interviewer: No one would do that. Who would dye their hair ginger?
Shrunken Head: Hey Johnny. I could play a Weasley in the next film.
Interviewer: No you couldn't.
Shrunken Head: What's the problem?
Interviewer: Okay, do you have a twin?
Shrunken Head: No.
Interviewer: Do you have ginger hair?
Shrunken Head: No, but I've got a bra full of potatoes.
Boys: [Laugh]
Interviewer: Matt, your character, Neville, they've sort of clowned you up a bit for this film. What have they done to you, you looked a bit different when I was looking at some of the rushes there.
Matthew Lewis: Yeah, there's the false teeth. Yellow and crooked. And we've got the two-sizes-too-big shoes.
Interviewer: They've gone for the big clown shoes? What about, there's something with the ears.
Matthew Lewis: Yeah, they pit plastic, behind the ears to make them stick out more.
Interviewer: Now, in Lupin's class this time, we learn about the boggart, which is obviously the thing you fear the most, that's what the boggart turns into. What would be your own, personal boggart.
Oliver Phelps: I'd say a big hair rat.
Interviewer: The rats?
Oliver Phelps: Mmm. I can't stand them. Or mice.
Interviewer: Did you have to use, did you ever have to come up to rats in this? I know your brothers got to.
Oliver Phelps: Only on the Kings Cross station last year, and it's an animatronic one. Until they did the real thing, where it's a real one, and I still thought it was an animatronic one until this thing jumps at me.
Interviewer: They made a real rat jump at you?
Oliver Phelps: Well, it didn't do it 'cause they told it to, it just looked at me.
Interviewer: 'Cause it was genuinely vicious?
Oliver Phelps: Yeah, but it didn't bite me, yeah.
Interviewer: What magical power or spell would really come in handy in everyday life?
Devon Murray: Mine would probably be just so, all the girls. Just so I can get every single one of them.
Interviewer: He says with an Irish twinkle in his eye, "All the girls Johnny, all the girls!" Ok, well listen fellas, thank you very much for talking to me.
Shrunken Head: He doesn't have many friends. It means a lot to him.
Boys: Thank you.
Shrunken Head: [Cackling]
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