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Driving Lessons
Launch date: unknown
Public showings: the movie was shown in April at the Tribeca Film Festival, in New York, and then it was bought by Sony, that will launch as one of their independent titles.
Studio: Sony
Director: Jeremy Brock
Cast: Rupert Grint, Julie Walters, Laura Linney, Nicholas Farrell, Oliver Milburn, Michelle Duncan, Tamsin Egerton
Genre: Comedy
While Driving Lessons isn’t here…
A tip to wait for Driving Lessons is to watch Harold and Maude, a movie with a similar plot outline, with the actress Ruth Gordon and actor Bud Cort. She is Maude, an 80 year old lady who enjoys every day of her life to do new and fun things. He is Harold Parker Chasen, that on his 20 years became a specialist on performing death scenes. He’s obsessed by death, loves going to funerals and drives a funeral car. When he met Maude, he discovers that there are people more insane than him, but those people live much happier. Harold becomes enchanted by Maude and announces, full of decision, that he’ll marry her.
The movie is from 1971 and can be found on blockbuster. It’s worth the try, check it out!
Learning to Drive
In Driving Lessons, Ben will learn how to become an adult and face real life with Evie. And Rupert shows that he learned to act with different actors and interpret main characters. Check out what the actor said about his experience:
Did you watch the movie with the public?
Rup: Not yet. Just with my family.
Why did you want to do this movie, the second out of the Harry Potter series?
Rup: I was in the middle of the fourth Harry Potter movie when I read the script. I really liked it. I thought it would be cool. Then I met the director, and every one was cool. It worked. It was something different from Harry Potter, which was also a reason for me to accept the project, because it wasn’t a movie full of special effects and yet it was a low budget production. I’m learning to drive in real life too. It worked very well because it was a break between the two Harry Potter movies.
We are used to see you and Julie Walters in comical scenes, but, in this movie you’ll be more serious and she’ll be funnier. Was it hard to control your comedic instincts?
Rup: Sure. It’s another difference that I liked very much. Ben is very different from Ron, yeah.
This was the first movie for Jeremy Brock as a director. How was he in relation with the more experienced ones?
Rup: There is no difference, really. Jeremy is really good, especially because he also wrote the script. He knew exactly what he wanted. He’s a nice guy, I liked him very much. He’s cool.
Are there any experiences from your life that helped you to give Ben life?
Rup: Obviously I look more like Ron, but I think every adolescent has something from Ben, because the story is about growing up. I identified with him, yeah.
As much as in Harry Potter as in Driving Lessons you are playing very well the part of the clumsy boy, kind of uncomfortable with things. Are you like this in real life or do these characters have nothing to do with you?
Rup: They have a little, yeah. To Ron, it's real hard to dance, and Ben doesn’t have much style with girls either. There are similar things with each character, but I think that that’s part of being adolescent.
You are going on 18. Do you think you’re going to do more films like Driving Lessons?
Rup: I think so. It’ll be interesting because Harry Potter is a giant event, and thousands see the movies. It’ll be weird.
How is the shooting of Order of the Phoenix?
Rup: We’ve done almost half of it. But there’s a long way ahead. We’re going well.
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He’s got it all!
The new Harry Potter movie comes out with a special attention to Ron. And who celebrates it but Rupert, who has grown up in the role.
Birthday, pre-launching of a new movie and the re-start of the Order of the Phoenix shootings are some of Rupert’s things to do in the month of July and August. Easy, huh? Ron’s character has grown in Goblet of Fire and will keep on growing in Order of the Phoenix. For those who haven’t read the book yet, we’ll give some cool data: he finally gets on the Quiditch team and will become a Head Boy with Hermione.
Rupert says the shootings are half way through, but scratches his head when commenting that there is still much to be done. Who already has read the book knows, innit? “The shooting is going well, I think, but we have many things yet, but the rhythm is good. We’ll go back to shoot in the beginning of July.
Rupert says that the script from this episode, the first one not to come out of Steven Kloves’ hand, responsible for scripting all the other episodes, is very loyal to J.K. Rowling’s work. The actor says he thinks it’s interesting having different directors for the movies. The exception was Chris Columbus, who directed both The Philosopher’s Stone and The Chamber of Secrets.
“Of course, having a different director for each movie is kinda scary. But we’ve been lucky because so far the results have being great.”
Rup says that his character keeps on winning places while he grows. For him, this is the movie in which Ron becomes an independent boy and with his own life distant from Harry’s. One of the differences on the filming process for Rupert, this year, is that he won’t have anymore classes during the shooting. Dan, Emma and Rup had tutors that gave them classes between takes.
The schedule and compromising of the actors to the movie is big, so the actors couldn’t follow traditional schooling. “Ah, I finished my course and now I’m free from classes”, he celebrates, already informing that he has no intention of going to university.
Rupert says he misses the set and the chat with his cast and crew mates, from whom he became friends with after four years of working together. He says that even if the filming takes a lot of his time, the weekends he lives a pretty normal life. “Above it all, there’s a huge break between the movies, so you can do a lot of things during that time, such as travel, relax, take care of life.”
The actor lives only half hour from the studios where the filming is made and he loves it. “Many people here come from Leeds and Ireland, so they have to be happy with hotels, while I have my own room and we share a game salon with a ping-pong table.” He still manages to find time to play the guitar and practice in the spare time between shots.
When the Harry Potter phenomenon began, Rup said that the weight of being a famous guy was really low. Now, he says he feels sick, sometimes, at being so recognized anywhere he goes. “As a matter of fact, my life is pretty normal. The only difference is that I end up being recognized in public places, which isn’t really a big problem, it’s just kinda weird. Nothing ever goes out of control; I don’t need to go out disguised or something. Even though if I had it would be hard, since I can’t really hide my long red hair.”
Rupert likes Ron very much. And he says that after all these years he learned to understand his questions and clumsiness: “Me and the other actors are acting together for so long now that we don’t have to pretend we’re friends anymore.”
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Things that should happen on the last book
Harry and Ron will appear and disappear(apparate). If that ability is anyhow related with flying, Harry will be good on that, while Ron will need to have more caution and work a little harder.
Harry will have to pass on his uncle’s house one last time.
The three of them will go to Bill and Fleur’s wedding before going after horcruxes.
If they go back to school, they’ll have to face the final and most hard exams of the school routine.
There will be no Quiditch matches.
The final battle between Harry and Voldemort will happen. We hope Harry wins.
Harry and Ron will never read “Hogwarts: a History”, Hermione. Never.
Snape goes to Edinburgh.
The actor Alan Rickman, Professor Snape, is taking to Edinburgh the theatre play 'My name is Rachel Corrie', that he directs and helped writing. Besides, he’s getting ready to begin the filming of The Villa Golitsyn. Part of the shooting will begin now, before the cast re-starts The Order of the Phoenix.
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Rupert from A to Z
Know all about the actor.
A- The Noah’s Ark was one of the first productions Rupert was in. He played a fish.
B- Sponge Bob Square Pants is Rupert’s favorite cartoon.
C- Hair: the cut and the color are Rupert’s trademark.
D- Candy. He loves chocolate, cookies, everything that’s sweet.
E- School he attended: Richard Hale School, in Hertford, England.
F- Football is one of the sports he likes.
G- Star Wars is one of the movies he likes the most.
H- Hamburger and fries is his favorite food.
I- Invisibility is the power he’d like to have.
J- Jeans, shirts and a good pair of shoes are basic pieces of his wardrobe. If it’s cold, a jacket completes the look.
L- Book. One of his favorites is 'Of Mice and Men', by John Steinbeck.
M- He is scared of spiders, like his character Ron.
N- Need for Speed is one of the games that he plays the most on his PlayStation 2. He has to wait to buy the PlayStation 3 since it hasn’t been launched on the market yet.
O- Rupert’s most loved possession is his bike. He bought one very powerful and light.
P- Magic power. He’d like to have a flying car.
Q- Dumb & Dumber is one of the top 10 comedies on Rupert’s list.
R- Rock is his music style. Nothing heavy or punk. Rupert likes pop.
S- Sympathy is one of his greatest qualities.
T- Terror is the book genre he likes the most.
U- University isn’t in the boy’s plans.
V- Green is his favorite color.
X- He shares his name with another actor, Rupert Everett
Z- Joke was what he set up for his cast mate Alan Rickman, Professor Snape. “I was drawing a picture of him and only after I finished it I saw he was behind me watching me the whole time. Good for me he didn’t care!”
Last edited by darcybennett : 07-10-2006 at 08:53 AM.
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