Neverland

Can you tell us how you got the roles for Harry Potter?

James: Our friend had seen the advert in the paper. We’d never done any acting or anything so mom came into our room and said, “You fancy it? It’s there if you want to. It’s like near the end of school term and she says, “Unfortunately it’s a Wednesday. So that would mean you’re going to have to take a day off of school.” So we were like, “Oh, Gosh no!”

Oliver: Any fourteen year old would probably say the same thing. So we go to this audition and they’re auditioning for every single part in the film. There’s probably three thousand people there going for different parts. And I’ve never seen so many people with glasses with just frames, no lenses or anything. Kids walking around with lipstick lightning bolts on their head!

James: There were loads of guys there with huge portfolios from the acting schools and everything, and we turned up with nothing. We didn’t even have shirts that matched because we never ever wore the same thing, apart from our school uniform. So we quickly legged it over to the nearest department store and just grabbed two shirts off the rail. Then we waited for two and a half hours and eventually met the main casting director. Then six or seven auditions and screen tests later we got the parts. And that was nine years ago. [x]

If you open your eyes now for more than a second, you will die.

You can not open your eyes.

The question isn’t “what are we going to do,” the question is “what aren’t we going to do?”

Matthew: I like to get [Tom] to come in my dressing room sometimes and just play with him.