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Video of Tom Felton in French exclusive “Half-Blood Prince” special

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An exclusive Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince special appeared on France’s 50min Inside and features 10 minutes of behind the scenes footage, interviews, and new scenes not previously released.

The special included interviews with Tom Felton, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Jessie Cave, and Bonnie Wright along with a variety of backstage personnel from producers to stunts to cameramen.

Tom is seen within the first minute with his short interview following around the 3 minute mark. I highly recommend watching the entire thing (even if you don’t speak French) for all the new never-before-seen footage that includes a small tidbit of Tom on the train and a slightly extended clip from the bathroom sequence.

The entirety is dubbed over in French, but if anyone wanted to translate what Tom says for us, you can send it in here. [Note: I had to edit the video to fit YouTube requirements (I did not delete any Tom, don’t worry). If you would like to watch it in its entirety, you can download it from UniversHarryPotter.com]

Thanks to Axelanderya, we have a partial translation, below:

[Sandrine Quétier] “Here we go? Come on, follow us.”

[off voice] It’s a scoop, ’50 minutes inside’ is the only french Tv show which could be introduce in this very secret set, here in London.The set of the sixth part of Harry Potter’s adventures.

[Nikos Aliagas] “What will I cook us?
[Sandrine Quétier] “For dinner? I don’t know, I would see that little thing, what’s in it?”
[Nikos Aliagas] “A soup of gnomes’ eyes.”
[Sandrine Quétier] “Oh yes it’s not bad.”

[off voice] Harry Potter and the Half blood Prince, the movie event of this summer.

[Dumbledore’s voice] “You’re the chosen one Harry”
[Hermione’s voice] “Be conscientious of who you are.”
[Dumbledore’s voice] “Without you, the fate will decide of the world destiny. You don’t have the choice.”
[unknow voices] “Harry!! Noooo!”
[Dumbledore’s voice] “You mustn’t fail.”
[Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson -N/A in french, wow] “Hello it’s… Daniel Radciffle, Rupert Grint et Emma Watson pour Harry Potter, pour 50 minutes inside. (applause) Yes!”

[off voice] Exceptionally we could meet the main actors of the movie and all the staff, they give us the secrets of a super-production and a world phenomenon. Harry Potter, 4 billion and half of ‘benefices’ for
the fifth first movies.

[off voices translating D.Radcliffe] “You know I spend plenty of time working with people who became my best friends. It really is a pleasure. Not everyone has this luck.”

[David Yates] “This movie is an interesting mixture between romantic comedy and mysterious murder.”

[Stephane Boudsocq] “It’s absolutely huge, Harry Potter arrives before the James Bond saga for instance, and before the Star Wars saga.”
[Harry] “I need to do it! Fight back, you’re a coward! Fight back!”

[off voice] What are the new Harry Potter’s secrets? Guided tour on the set.

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( Time mark : “Exclusif, les sercrets de Harry Potter” = Scoop, Harry Potter’s secrets)
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[Nikos Aliagas] “Here we are in one of the most famous Harry Potter streets…”
[Sandrine Quétier] “… A street that we find during all the six episodes, the famous Diagon Alley.
[Nikos Aliagas] “… Diagon Alley where you can find weird potions, magical formulas, not very worthy stuff…”

[off voice] We are in one of the biggest studios in Great Britain in London’s banlieue, a rebuilt castle, a park created for the occasion and a street more real than reality. It’s in that decor, protected as a fortress, that the Harry, Ron and Hermione adventures are directed, three
young wizards who ‘re study in a wizard school in a parallel world as Men’s.

[Harry] “Have you ever heard about this spell? Sectumsempra?
[Hermione] No, never! If you had a bit of self-esteem, you would bring this book back.
[Ron] You’re crazy or what? He’s the best of the class, he’s better than you.

[off voice] The young actors interprating that characters were unknow 7 years ago,
now they’re stars.

[Nikos Aliagas] “How do you handle the celebrity?”
[Daniel Radcliffe] “I don’t like to be treated as a star, people consider you as a star if you act as one of them. But if you don’t come into this ridiculous game, generally they don’t treat you differently. Which is great. For me, the most important is to not read what is written in the press.”
[Nikos Aliagas] “Nothing?”
[Tom Felton] “Nothing, it’s very weird for me who is a normal person, to receive that letter that say, “We love you!” It’s scary sometimes but I try to separate myself from gossip.”

[Hermione] “This guy has more tentacles than a ‘flaganouf’.”
[Server] “Dragon tartar?”
[Hermione] “Erf, no it’s okay. Thank you.”
[Server] “Great, it gives you horrible breath.”
[Hermione] “Actually… If it can push Cormac.”

[Emma Watson] “Being a part of that movie it’s really unbelievable, but it gives you lot of responsibilities.
So many people love the characters, you can’t disappoint them.”

[Hermione] “Excuse me. I have to vomit.”

[off voice] These teenagers are known in the whole world today, particularly Daniel Radcliffe. But the big news for these actors in this sixth opus is that their characters will discover love.

[Ginny] “Open your mouth, you don’t trust me?”

[off voice] And it’s in that huge frame that all will play.

[Sandrine Quétier, Nikos Aliagas] “Hello, hello, do you know them? No, I don’t know them.”

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( Time mark : “Les premiers amours” = Firsts loves)
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Anyone else have more? If not, stay tuned and we hope to have the rest soon!

Source: UHP

Tom Felton interviewed in Part 3 -The Making of “Half-Blood Prince” Videogame

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Instead of playing the host with the most, Tom was instead interviewed for the third edition of the Making of the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Videogame. He and fellow cast members Daniel Radcliffe, Evanna Lynch, Freddie Stroma, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint discuss dueling, potions, and quidditch.

Tom can be seen around the 2:20 mark.

A screen cap of Tom now in our galleries:

Thanks to our intrepid reporter Estrella89san for sending it the video, and thanks to Elbenstein for the cap!

Reader’s digest a new interview by Tom Felton

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As Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince nears its premiere, more interviews are released making extra Tom news the icing on the cake. Today’s interview is featured in the Reader’s Digest, July 2009 UK edition. In the interview, Tom mentions working with Michael Gambon for the first time, his wonder at the lack of brothel-going by his co-stars, and why driving the M25 brings the Draco out in him.

Tom gave this interview shortly after his trip to Majorca for the Pirates Adventure fundraising event held for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity, and the students he references are the one’s that interviewed him there.

“This was the first film where I was involved in the filming from start to finish and got to work closely with actors like Michael Gambon,” he says. “You have a certain sympathy for Draco because he’s just a child whose father Lucius has been in prison and has a huge mental battle with the task he’s been given. But this time he doesn’t just express his fragility by calling Harry an idiot. He breaks his nose.” Tom warms to his theme. “Filming that was cool. We had Dan [Daniel Radcliffe] lying on the floor with my foot just above his head, not quite hit­ting him. There were a couple of times I was tempted to lay the…nah, bless him, I didn’t touch him. He clearly loves playing the bad guy. “I get to act like a complete git. Who wouldn’t want that? It’s great fun scar­ing kids. I did an interview with a class­room of about 12 of them the other day and there was ten minutes of silence when they were keeping their eyes on me, not daring to speak. When young­sters are invited on set, they run up and hug Dan, but I don’t get any of that.”

The Half-Blood Prince, with its dra­matic deaths and romantic liaisons for several of the characters, is a grown-up film, reflecting how Radcliffe, Rupert Grint , Emma Watson and the rest of the cast have now become young adults. Tom is pleasantly surprised by how well everyone has turned out. “It seemed a certain bet that one of them would end up being a wild card, photographed at a brothel in Amsterdam. But they’ve all got their heads screwed on. I half-expected Dan to be a bit up in the air with it all, but he’s untainted. He never spends any money. You go round his house to watch The Apprentice and you could be with any other guy.”

It does seem, however, that girls like a bad boy. “Oh, there’s plenty of interest, not from actual women, but from the youngsters of the world. I like to think that it’s a purely aesthetic attraction, rather than Draco’s personality.” But although mischief flashes across his face as he describes his dubious alter ego, one is struck by how well ­adjusted and charming he is for a young man who’s spent his adolescence as a world-famous film character. ”As an actor, you get pleasure from doing something that’s completely different to who you are. I occasionally find myself acting like Draco, though it’s usually nothing magical, but some­thing to do with roads. My girlfriend Jade lives in north London and I live near Dorking so I spend a lot of time on the M25. Junction 9 at Leatherhead­, that can be a killer.”

Source: The Leaky Cauldron