- In his memoir, Beyond the Wand, Tom Felton recounts his memories of the set of the Harry Potter movies.
- To shoot the flight scene, the actors had to look at the tennis ball and pretend it was something else.
- Felton said co-star Daniel Radcliffe saw “a particularly beautiful picture of Cameron Diaz.”
Tom Felton ‘Harry Potter’ co-star Daniel Radcliffe’s crush on Cameron Diaz was evident on the set of a fantasy movie.
In his new memoir, Felton explains that the broomstick scene was the magic of the film. ”Beyond Wands: Magic and Mayhem, Growing as a Wizard Released on Tuesday.
The actor who played Draco Malfoy wrote in Chapter 13: It was the early days when the visual effects team didn’t have the advanced technology at their disposal. ”
Flying, a key aspect of the franchise’s Quidditch scene, took place in a studio in a room covered with a blue or green screen so that backgrounds could be added digitally in post-production.
“The broomstick was a metal pole with a very uncomfortable bicycle saddle attached,” explained Felton. “They had stirrups on their legs and harnesses to keep them from falling. They tied themselves to poles to keep them from falling and had more elaborate seesaws to move them up and down and side to side. Put a fan in your face to make it look like the wind is blowing in your hair.”
The scene was later adjusted, so “it was important that all the players were facing the right direction of the shot”. It is said to have been achieved by holding a tennis ball on a long pole that was held in place.
“When the first assistant director shouted ‘Dragon!’
Felton continued: Daniel Radcliffe had a particularly beautiful picture of Cameron Diaz.”
Felton, an avid fishing fan, said, “I chose the more beautiful carp pictures.”
Radcliffe, who starred as the iconic Harry Potter character in all eight films released between 2001 and 2011, I talked about my unrequited love for Diaz before.
“Cameron Diaz is still high on the list and Drew Barrymore is up there,” Radcliffe said of his celebrity crush in an interview with the radio show.breakfast of capital April 2022.
He shared a similar reaction in a 2014 interview every week“A picture of her and Drew Barrymore was taped to my bedroom wall.”