PotterCast 153: SuperCon Florida Show Transcript

Part 1 (0:00 - 15:21)

John Noe (JN): Aw, Sue's not here, but hey, guys! (Audience cheers)

Melissa Anelli (MA): Hello!

JN: What's going on?

MA: Thank you, guys, for coming out to this very special first live show since last summer.

JN: Since last summer! Gosh, all the Book Seven (MA: Yep.) live shows that we did. That was crazy.

MA: So please forgive us if we're a little, a little rusty in the chains here. (JN: Yes.) So before the actors get here, we're told they're coming soon, we just want to talk to you for a brief bit about this conference. We're new to it. We haven't really been able to see much yet. What are you guys doing here? Are you all here for Potter or are you here for other fandoms as well? (Audience: Potter.) Potter, Potter?

Audience Member: Kingdom Hearts.

JN: Yeah, Kingdom Hearts! That's a cool game. (laughs)

MA: Kingdom Hearts!

JN: I love that game!

MA: Nice! Nice crossover! Very nice. (JN: Very cool.) What other stuff are you waiting to see here? Who else is gonna go see the Wiz Rockumentary later? Yeah. Eleven O'clock in this room, right? Yeah. We're excited for that. What else Potter is happening here this weekend?

Audience Member: There's a ball.

JN: Oh, that's right, the Wizard Rock Ball.

MA: There's a ball? I don't have a dress! (Audience laughs)

JN: There are some other Wizard Rock bands, I think from Florida, here.

MA: Oh! What are there names?

Audience Member: (inaudible)

MA: Who?

JN: Whithered Wings?

MA: Witherwings. I've never seen Witherwings. What kind of music is it?

Audience Member: Wizard Rock. (All laugh)

JN: Wizard Rock.

MA: Thank you! Well, there's wiz-hop now and there's wizard rap and there's- (laughs) we haven't done this in so long!

JN: It brings me back! (MA laughs) Because before we did this, we could say, "Okay, Severus Snape: Live or Die!" (Audience laughs) And here we're...

MA: Severus Snape: live or die.

JN: Yeah!

Audience Member: Lie!

MA: See, I knew somebody was gonna say that!

JN: Oh, my gosh!

MA: It's not a lie. A lot of people seem to thing that she was just kidding! Big fake out!

Audience Member: (inaudible) (JN laughs)

MA: Don't start that!

Audience Member: Spin off!

JN: The Snape Series? The Chronicles of Severus?

Audience Member: Yeah! (laughs)

JN: That would be fun.

MA: If I had to put money right now, I would put it on Albus Severus Potter's Chronicles.

JN: Hm.

Audience Member: (inaudible)

MA: It means ASP! A - S - P, Albus Severus Potter. Asp! Do you think she knew?

JN: Not as catchy as HP.

MA: Asp? (makes hissing noise) Asp! Hello.

JN: Hi, Come on in.

MA: Hello. Okay. Welcome everybody.

JN: Here we are! Everybody's here. (Audience applauds)

MA: Welcome to Natalia Tena. (JN: Come on up.) Mr. Devon Murray. Mr. Hugh Mitchell, Colin Creevey and Where's our Angelina? Is she here? She not here? (inaudible) Oh yeah, come on up here. We've never met, well I've met him. We're going to have them introduce themselves to you guys. These are- why don't we start with Mr. Hugh?

Hugh Mitchell (HM): I'm introducing myself? (MA: Yes.) I'm Hugh and I was Colin in the second film. So...

Natalia Tena (NT): I'm Natalia Tena and I was Nymphadora Tonks.

Devon Murray (DM): I'm Devon Murray and I was Seamus Finnigan.

Danielle Tabor (DT): I'm Danielle Tabor and I was the first Angelina Johnson.

MA: Well, welcome guys.

JN: Welcome, welcome. (Applause)

MA: This is a little weird for us because we haven't met three of these guys. I'm Melissa and this is John (JN: Hello.) and we do a Harry Potter podcast called PotterCast which is what you are on right now. Later on this will be transmitted on the Internet so nothing is secret and nothing is safe. (DM: No cursing.) It is very nice to see old Potter faces. You look like nothing like you looked.

HM: It's been like five years, it's been more than that. It has been six years. (JN: Six year, jeez.) It came out when I was twelve.

MA: Does anybody recognize you anymore. Or do...

HM: When people find out, like they don't look at me and go, "That was Colin". When people already know and they see me and they go, "Oh yeah." (MA laughs) It varies.

MA: They do the squinty eyes and all, "Ah, I can see."

HM: It is kind of fun to watch, especially when they have a picture of Colin and they look at me and are like, "What the.."

MA: We actually- you were a section of discussion a couple months- a couple of weeks back, because one of our fans found your MySpace for your band. I apologize that we sent a whole bunch of Harry Potter fans to control your space.

HM: That's okay. I have about- I always just have new messages of people like- these are Harry Potter people. Oh, yeah- these people have found my MySpace. But, that's okay. It's all right.

MA: Can you tell us a little bit about what you're doing now? What your band is like?

HM: Well, I've just finished college. (JN: Excellent! Congrats.) Thank you. (Audience applauds) Well, anyway. Yeah, (laughs) it's kind of easy. I just sort of finished. It's not really an achievement, but that's okay. (JN laughs) I appreciate it, anyway. And now I'm just really working on acting when I can and music when I can. (JN: Very cool.) Those are my two passions.

MA: Well, we'll get back to you. Ms. Tena, very nice to meet you.

NT: Hi!

MA: I've been talking awhile, so I'll pass it on to John, who knows your character very well.

JN: Oh, gosh. Tonks. Wow. Well we have to ask you first, of course, have you read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book of the series?

NT: Yeah.

JN: So we know what's coming for you. (NT: Mm-hm.) Wow. This is so cool! (laughs) Okay. Is there anything you can tell us about what you've filmed so far for Half-Blood Prince.

NT: For Half-Blood Prince? I have to kind of fight invisi- oh, am I allowed to say that? I don't know. (MA: We won't tell.) I don't know how much I'm allowed to say about the next movie. (MA: We won't tell.) (JN laughs) (Audience cheers) But I have to kill some fire snakes. That's about it. (JN: Sweet.) Yeah.

MA: "That's about it"? That sounds pretty awesome. (Audience laughs)

NT: It was wicked. I got home at like five in the morning to my ex-boyfriend, and he's like, "How was your day?" And I was like, "Yeah, I killed some snakes." (Audience laughs) So it's good.

MA: Now, is that in that whole- we've seen, it's been officially revealed that there's a new scene in Half-Blood Prince which is where there's an attack on The Burrow. (NT: Mm-hm.) Is that part of all that? Because that's...

NT: Yeah, yeah. That's the bit.

MA: That's great. That's pretty awesome.

JN: That's gonna be so cool. (JN and MA laugh) We really like this stuff. (MA: Yeah, yeah.) We've been talking about it every week for two or three years now. So- (NT: Wow.) Yeah, this is our hundred and fifty-second show of this, but okay. Anyway. There's something you've said recently that got all of the fans in a tizzy, I guess, is relating to the end of the movie with Dumbledore's funeral, or lack thereof. Everybody's was wondering how that changes the movie, and if it has a different impact on how the movie ends and everybody...

NT: Yeah. Yeah, I was really sad, because I got the script and I really wanted that last bit. In the book, that's the point when, the whole film, she's been depressed, and that's the moment, when someone's just died, she's like (gasps) "I love you!" to the wolf dude. (JN and Audience laugh) (JN: Yes.) But they cut it all out, and I was really sad about that, because I really wanted to snog him in it. (Audience laughs) It'd be quite cool. But that's all gone now.

JN: Oh, it's all gone? (NT: Yeah.) Your relationship with Lupin?

NT: Well, now it's just kind of a given. In the middle, when they attack the Weasley house, I'm kinda with him.

JN: You're- (laughs) wow.

MA: (laughs) It's all off-script direction, just kind of...

NT: Yeah, it's meant to be a subtle thing, I touch his shoulder, or something, like we've obviously gone to bed a few times, (Audience laughs) or I don't know. (MA: Definitely.) Anyway. (MA laughs) Next question. (All laugh)

MA: PG-13 podcast today. No, but it's good that they're bringing it out, because as you know, you do have an off-page death scene in Deathly Hallows. It doesn't even- we just find out about it.

NT: Oh, yeah, I get pregnant!

MA: And you- that's right! (Audience laughs) (JN: Yeah.) You also get pregnant! (laughs)

JN: There's that. And then you're dead.

NT: And then I die.

MA: And then you get abandoned!

JN: Yeah.

NT: It's pretty epic.

JN: It's pretty- yeah. (laughs)

MA: As far as dramatic endings go for characters, I think yours is pretty up there.

NT: I really hope there's a battle scene. I really wanted something really bad to happen to me. Blow up or something. (Audience laughs) But I think it might just be like in the book, all you hear is that you just see her dead body somewhere.

MA: Mm-hm.

JN: Well, they tend to amp things up, I guess, for the movies, so we might see this huge thing in the Great Hall (NT: Yeah.) where everybody's in there. (Audience laughs) (MA: Yeah.) I'd welcome that. I think that'd be pretty cool.

MA: What are you hoping happens for you in the next movie, Devon? Everybody, this is Devon Murray.

DM: Sorry? I don't know. Well, in this movie that we've just done, Seamus isn't in it, pretty much, hardly in the movie. But no, he's still up to his old tricks, being a stupid little wizard and having a bit of fun. (Audience and JN laugh) So...

MA: (laughs) A stupid little wizard?

DM: He is, though! He's actually the stupidest wizard in Hogwarts. (All laugh) He's never once got a spell right, and he doesn't in this movie, either, so I don't know, he's still a pretty cool character to play. (JN: Yeah.) Real random. Which is pretty cool. So... (JN laughs)

MA: Are we going to see anymore of Seamus the accidental pyromaniac?

DM: We might do in this movie. (MA and JN laugh)

MA: Excellent! I love that Seamus! Blowing things up.

DM: I know, it's great, isn't it? (MA: Yeah, yeah.) He's just sort of- you don't know what to expect of him when he's doing a spell. Whether he's gonna actually get it right, or whether he's just going to mess it all up and- (MA: Or hurt everybody.) Exactly! It'd be great (MA: Yeah.) just to blow up the whole place! No, it wouldn't be really good, would it? (MA laughs) It would be pretty bad.

MA: We don't hear much about what happens to him at the end of the series. (DM: That's right, yeah.) Yeah. Do you have any plans, any grand ideas for him?

DM: Not really, not yet. I was thinking about a few different things there, what could happen, what couldn't happen, but I reckon he'd probably die, blowing himself up, probably, as usual. Or else trying to fly on the broomsticks, because Seamus is suppose to be the worst person on a broomstick, as well, which we find out in this movie, as well. So yeah. (MA: Quidditch, I'm imagining.) Just for all the tryouts, and everything, so...

MA: And we have our first Angelina! (JN laughs) Can you tell us what you've been up to since the first film?

DT: Yeah, just been doing acting here and there, so in between when I was at college, I was doing the first three Harry Potters, and then, in England, doing a lot of kids TV, because I look really young, even though I'm twenty-three. So I did a lot of BBC stuff for children's TV and things.

MA: What's been your favorite thing you've done since?

DT: Since Harry Potter? I did a show called The Mysti Show, which was about fairies, so I was a fairy with dreadlocks, which was wicked. (Audience laughs) So that was cool.

JN: (laughs) That's awesome!

MA: That's awesome! Very cool. (DT laughs) What's your dream role? What are you hoping for in the future?

DT: Literally just to get another acting job. It's literally, always, you never know. You go for so many auditions, you're not necessarily going to get one. So to really just get another role, to do a good drama series would be good, or more theater, that would be cool.

JN: Shall we open up for questions yet, or do we want to go through everybody one more time?

MA: I think if you guys have any thoughts on the series as a whole and- especially you guys who are still filming, and still part of it, and the direction it's going in. Do you know what I'm trying to say? (laughs)

NT: I'm not sure.

MA: Yeah, neither am I, really. (JN laughs)

NT: About anything.

MA: We're getting close to the end of this humongous series, (NT: Yeah, yeah.) and how do you feel this movie is setting us up for that? This Half-Blood Prince, coming...

NT: I don't know. You don't actually know, at all, anything, until you see it. Because when you do it, you just do so many weird little bits. And even the script, they give out not a full script, do they?

JN: Oh! Really?

MA: Wow.

NT: I don't think they do, because actually, someone could sell it, and stuff like that. Everyone's got different numbers on their scripts, and you don't even get to read the whole thing, so you have no idea what's going to happen until you go in to premiere, and you've got to watch it. It's terrifying. (All laugh) And that's when you know what it's about. So I don't know.

JN: (laughs) So much of these movies now are done in front of the bluescreen, where you don't know where you're at. You don't know what you're looking at, even. And with Deathly Hallows, splitting it into two movies, and Deathly Hallows being as big as it is, do you think that they'll be able to tell the whole story, to get everybody's bits in there, because there's so much wrapping up for every character to do.

NT: I reckon they will. But I was thinking about it. I don't know if they're going to film the whole thing in one go, and then split it up in the cinema. That could be quite cool. If one came out, and then a month later, the other one. But I think they should make it quite close together, personally.

DM: They have to, really, yeah. (NT: Yeah.) Definitely. I think they definitely do. They have to have the last movie in two actual parts.

MA: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

JN: Yeah. I think- well, when we found out they were going to split it in two, we were trying to figure out where would that splitting point be. What would be the big dramatic ending for one, Part One, the cliffhanger? And then, it's hard to have a cliffhanger when everybody knows what's coming next. (All laugh) But...

MA: Shh. The Kingdom Hearts guy doesn't.

JN: (laughs) Oh, yeah. (Audience laughs)

MA: Okay. We're going to open up for questions, whatever questions you guys have for these folks.

Audience Member: A lot of us were frustrated at the end of the seventh book, because we didn't know what happened with some of the characters. And J.K.R. was really nice to, in all those subsequent interviews, to tell us. And Angelina ends up with George. So I wondered how you felt about that.

DT: Yeah. That's cool. That's fine by me. (All laugh) Yeah. Why not? You want to end up with someone that's fun and got a good character in the films. So yeah.

Audience Member: (inaudible)

DT: Yeah. Exactly. Me, too.

Audience Member: (inaudible) (DT laughs)

MA: Well, she was with Fred for a while. (DT: Really?) She was with Fred before that. (DT: Uh-huh.) And then Fred dies. So, that...

DT: Have a bit of both? (MA: Yeah.) Best of both! Fair enough. (MA and JN laugh) Yeah. I'm pleased with that.

Audience Member: For Devon, you've been with all the films. Is there a certain scene out of any of them that you might have been in, or haven't been, that was your favorite?