Daniel Radcliffe Struggled With Harry Potter’s Most Challenging Scene That Took Almost 100 Takes

Summary:

• Harry Potter ’s film series is a real storehouse of visually impressive scenes that turned out this way thanks to the advanced technology and the actors’ persistent work.
• One of such scenes appears in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and the process of filming it was much more complicated than it seemed to be.
• Daniel Radcliffe, who got to portray Harry Potter, later revealed that, though making the scene perfect took the crew almost 100 takes in total, it was all worth it as this moment turned out to be the film’s most fascinating scene.

Harry Potter’s franchise has surely enriched the cinematic world with a myriad of fascinating scenes that couldn’t have made it to the screen without a very special equipment or the actors’ challenging role.

In some cases both of these things were required — and, if it hadn’t been for them, one of the franchise’s most jaw-dropping scenes would’ve never been possible.

The beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 features Harry’s reunion with his friends and the Order of the Phoenix members while they try to decide how to transport Harry to Ron Weasley’s family house without any jeopardy of exposing his location to Voldemort.

As Harry’s mother’s protective spell is about to end, he can’t rely on this anymore — instead, there’s another, quite challenging, method.

After everyone who got to Privet Drive uses a Polyjuice potion, the room isn’t full of Harry’s friends, but rather of seven Harry Potters who are just dressed differently. Although the scene may seem like something that mostly needed Photoshop skills, for Daniel Radcliffe it became a real ordeal.

The first thing that the actor had to do was to study his co-stars’ manners and gaits so that he could later make an embodiment that wouldn’t feel unnatural.

Radcliffe revealed that he had been watching his colleagues perform to grasp their way of talking and acting in front of the camera and that had made him notice little distinctive features of each of them — like, as the actor put it, Rupert Grint walking with “real wiggle in his hips”.

What followed later was even more arduous — Radcliffe had to impersonate each character on his own while also applying all the knowledge about his co-stars that he had got during his study process.

According to the actor, each character turned out to require at least 10-12 takes which in total came to more than 95, as there were seven characters he had to bring to the screen himself.

The painstaking process of filming just one scene was worth a shot as the movie’s stunning success showcased — and seems like fans didn’t even notice Radcliffe struggling in this case.

Daniel Radcliffe can’t complain here either — as he admitted, seeing seven versions of him on the screen was indeed any actor’s dream.

Source: Collider