1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 3 00:00:15,432 --> 00:00:17,059 Some stories change us. 4 00:00:17,142 --> 00:00:18,560 Please travel in the front 5 00:00:18,644 --> 00:00:20,145 six coaches only. 6 00:00:20,229 --> 00:00:22,564 Some stories define us. 7 00:00:24,525 --> 00:00:26,568 But few stories live with us. 8 00:00:27,361 --> 00:00:28,570 And, action! 9 00:00:29,238 --> 00:00:31,532 Quite like the boy who lived. 10 00:00:32,574 --> 00:00:34,743 Soon to be told by HBO Max... 11 00:00:36,495 --> 00:00:37,913 ...like never before. 12 00:00:49,466 --> 00:00:53,095 Harry's story from J.K. Rowling's beloved book series 13 00:00:53,178 --> 00:00:55,222 is a truly immersive tale... 14 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,809 requiring incredible dedication 15 00:00:58,892 --> 00:01:03,814 to realize this mesmerizing, almost limitless magical world. 16 00:01:03,897 --> 00:01:07,359 To create a place so rich, complex, 17 00:01:07,442 --> 00:01:09,069 and expansive, 18 00:01:09,152 --> 00:01:12,114 building it in our world would be impossible... 19 00:01:13,448 --> 00:01:16,535 until the true wizards get to work. 20 00:01:23,041 --> 00:01:27,337 The Harry Potter stories are this extraordinary phenomenon 21 00:01:27,421 --> 00:01:29,715 from 30 years ago, 22 00:01:29,798 --> 00:01:31,758 for young people. 23 00:01:31,842 --> 00:01:34,928 But it struck a chord with people of all ages. 24 00:01:35,012 --> 00:01:39,558 And to reimagine the Harry Potter canon... 25 00:01:40,392 --> 00:01:41,852 to let it breathe, 26 00:01:41,935 --> 00:01:47,149 to tell a story in eight episodes rather than a single two-hour movie, 27 00:01:47,232 --> 00:01:50,527 to go down all the wonderful rabbit holes. 28 00:01:50,611 --> 00:01:55,157 The story is there, but we get to enact all the things 29 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,869 that you know are going on in the wings, but you don't see them. 30 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:03,332 You wait forever to do something that means that much to people. 31 00:02:03,415 --> 00:02:05,208 And I think this really will. 32 00:02:06,084 --> 00:02:12,090 And they have done a brilliant job of selecting this extraordinary ensemble. 33 00:02:20,349 --> 00:02:21,975 We stopped counting at 40,000. 34 00:02:22,059 --> 00:02:24,686 Yeah. It wasn't a good use of our time at that point 35 00:02:24,770 --> 00:02:26,480 to count, but we watched all of them. 36 00:02:26,563 --> 00:02:28,482 Yeah. We're looking for a child 37 00:02:28,565 --> 00:02:33,070 who he means so much to people in different ways. 38 00:02:33,153 --> 00:02:35,072 And so, you are looking for a kid 39 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:37,324 who perhaps on the face of it seems quite ordinary, 40 00:02:37,407 --> 00:02:40,243 but is ultimately very extraordinary. 41 00:02:40,327 --> 00:02:42,621 We wanted to make sure that all kids in the UK 42 00:02:42,704 --> 00:02:45,248 could audition by submitting their first auditions online. 43 00:02:45,332 --> 00:02:49,294 And then we went to Manchester, Scotland, Ireland, and... 44 00:02:49,378 --> 00:02:51,129 - Cardiff. - Cardiff, Wales. 45 00:02:54,466 --> 00:02:57,427 When we were auditioning children, we knew it was gonna be a long process. 46 00:02:57,511 --> 00:03:02,182 We started with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, and they are really good friends. 47 00:03:02,265 --> 00:03:04,518 And so, it was a really exciting challenge 48 00:03:04,601 --> 00:03:07,896 to find three kids that you would believe as friends 49 00:03:07,979 --> 00:03:10,524 with these very strong, different personalities. 50 00:03:10,607 --> 00:03:12,859 These are all ordinary kids, you know? 51 00:03:12,943 --> 00:03:15,904 But they are all extraordinary. There's magic in all of them. 52 00:03:18,990 --> 00:03:22,994 We saw Alastair in Manchester, and he was just funny and charming 53 00:03:23,078 --> 00:03:24,830 from the word "go." Yeah. 54 00:03:24,913 --> 00:03:26,498 This is him doing his... 55 00:03:26,581 --> 00:03:28,041 - His story. Poem. - ...his little story. 56 00:03:28,125 --> 00:03:29,418 Mother doesn't want a dog. 57 00:03:29,501 --> 00:03:30,627 She's making a mistake. 58 00:03:30,711 --> 00:03:34,923 'Cause more than a dog, I think she will not want this snake. 59 00:03:36,717 --> 00:03:38,051 That was first day of Alastair. 60 00:03:38,135 --> 00:03:42,055 And then, Arabella in London. 61 00:03:42,139 --> 00:03:45,308 "Hermione, lack of filter from being an only child. 62 00:03:45,392 --> 00:03:47,853 "Her superpower is her emotional intelligence. 63 00:03:47,936 --> 00:03:49,855 She's got main-character energy." 64 00:03:49,938 --> 00:03:53,066 So, this is Arabella's first audition. 65 00:03:53,150 --> 00:03:55,318 - Yeah. - So, she did the poem Invictus. 66 00:03:55,402 --> 00:03:57,446 It matters not how strait the gate, 67 00:03:57,529 --> 00:04:00,031 how charged with punishments the scroll, 68 00:04:00,115 --> 00:04:04,661 I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. 69 00:04:05,662 --> 00:04:07,038 Hermione has to be playful, 70 00:04:07,122 --> 00:04:10,250 so we got her in to do a scene where she's talking to her parents 71 00:04:10,333 --> 00:04:12,753 about Harry and Ron. 72 00:04:12,836 --> 00:04:14,296 And she got the giggles 73 00:04:14,379 --> 00:04:16,757 and did little snorts, and that's the take we used 74 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:18,258 to show them that she's playful. 75 00:04:18,341 --> 00:04:20,761 So, you're constantly using bits of the audition 76 00:04:20,844 --> 00:04:22,137 that you know is gonna help the kid 77 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:23,680 when you show it to the director and the showrunner. 78 00:04:23,764 --> 00:04:25,348 So, Arabella's snort was quite crucial 79 00:04:25,432 --> 00:04:26,975 - in her casting process. - Yeah. 80 00:04:28,602 --> 00:04:31,021 We met Dominic in Glasgow. 81 00:04:31,104 --> 00:04:32,564 What did we have about Harry? 82 00:04:32,647 --> 00:04:34,024 "He's skeptical of the adult world. 83 00:04:34,107 --> 00:04:36,485 He's got a vulnerability and a melancholy." 84 00:04:37,027 --> 00:04:39,613 - And a solitary quality to him. - A solitary quality. 85 00:04:39,696 --> 00:04:41,573 - He's grown up alone. - He's grown up alone, 86 00:04:41,656 --> 00:04:45,035 and he-- survival is his thing. 87 00:04:45,118 --> 00:04:46,870 Artful Dodger, not Oliver Twist. 88 00:04:46,953 --> 00:04:48,413 It's basically, find an incredible actor, 89 00:04:48,497 --> 00:04:49,623 - age ten. - Basically, yeah. 90 00:04:49,706 --> 00:04:50,874 - That was the brief. - Yeah, yeah. 91 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:53,960 He has so many different qualities. So many different qualities. 92 00:04:54,044 --> 00:04:57,047 Dominic came in and his piece was a poem 93 00:04:57,130 --> 00:04:58,590 about his weekend that he'd written himself, 94 00:04:58,673 --> 00:04:59,758 and it was rhyming. 95 00:04:59,841 --> 00:05:01,343 And we thought, "He's so interesting." 96 00:05:02,344 --> 00:05:05,055 "My Weekend" by Dominic. 97 00:05:05,138 --> 00:05:06,848 So, started off Saturday morning, 98 00:05:06,932 --> 00:05:10,769 I had a football game to play, and I can tell you, it went my way. 99 00:05:10,852 --> 00:05:12,813 Didn't really have anything to do after that, 100 00:05:12,896 --> 00:05:14,314 so I just slept the rest of the day. 101 00:05:14,397 --> 00:05:16,900 Dom just had this sort of quiet confidence in himself. 102 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:19,069 - Who do you live with? - Hey, I live with my mum, 103 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:21,571 my dad, and my two sisters. 104 00:05:21,655 --> 00:05:22,948 - Okay. - And my dog. 105 00:05:23,031 --> 00:05:24,699 And have you done any acting before? 106 00:05:25,867 --> 00:05:28,495 I did Macbeth in January. 107 00:05:28,578 --> 00:05:29,913 And were you one of Macduff's sons? 108 00:05:29,996 --> 00:05:31,206 Yeah, I was. 109 00:05:31,289 --> 00:05:32,582 Oh, you got killed, unfortunately. 110 00:05:32,666 --> 00:05:33,792 - Yeah. - Sorry to hear that. 111 00:05:34,543 --> 00:05:35,710 Okay. That's great. 112 00:05:35,794 --> 00:05:37,712 I really feel confident in these kids. 113 00:05:37,796 --> 00:05:39,381 I think they're incredible. 114 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,390 In a show of this scale, it's easy to get lost. 115 00:05:48,473 --> 00:05:50,350 You can go to the Great Hall, it's huge. 116 00:05:50,433 --> 00:05:52,477 You can go to the Quidditch pitch, it's massive. 117 00:05:52,561 --> 00:05:54,187 You can go to Diagon Alley. 118 00:05:54,271 --> 00:05:56,064 And we go back to the sets and we're revisiting them, 119 00:05:56,147 --> 00:05:57,190 adding a bit of detail. 120 00:05:57,274 --> 00:06:00,193 Sometimes, for example, I'll go to the Gryffindor common room 121 00:06:00,277 --> 00:06:02,946 or to the tower, and you're in there on your own, 122 00:06:03,029 --> 00:06:04,906 and you're looking around and you look at the noticeboard 123 00:06:04,990 --> 00:06:06,783 and you're looking at every little bit of detail 124 00:06:06,867 --> 00:06:11,246 on McGonagall's desk, of the books, on the spines, and you-- it's goosebumps. 125 00:06:15,458 --> 00:06:18,169 The volume of this is just so fun... 126 00:06:19,170 --> 00:06:21,131 to be able to build at a scale like this. 127 00:06:21,214 --> 00:06:26,177 It's just a designer's dream to play in a sandbox that's this big. 128 00:06:26,261 --> 00:06:28,430 We're trying to get in the joy and the playfulness 129 00:06:28,513 --> 00:06:30,599 of what it means to be a magical kid. 130 00:06:32,684 --> 00:06:38,189 When the first Harry Potter book came out, it really felt so novel and exciting. 131 00:06:38,273 --> 00:06:40,775 I think everyone had that shared experience 132 00:06:40,859 --> 00:06:44,029 of thinking what an incredible world, it would be so great to touch. 133 00:06:45,864 --> 00:06:48,408 And so, we're trying to capture those moments of discovery 134 00:06:48,491 --> 00:06:49,784 that you find within the books. 135 00:06:49,868 --> 00:06:52,370 We want you to have that same experience here. 136 00:06:53,788 --> 00:06:56,917 But we are adding a level of world-building 137 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,711 that is even beyond what the audience is familiar with. 138 00:07:01,838 --> 00:07:03,089 Harry's introduction 139 00:07:03,173 --> 00:07:05,300 to the physical space of the wizarding world 140 00:07:05,383 --> 00:07:07,052 starts with the Leaky Cauldron. 141 00:07:07,135 --> 00:07:10,972 And eventually, we come out the back and go into our Diagon Alley set. 142 00:07:12,474 --> 00:07:14,142 The elements that we see 143 00:07:14,225 --> 00:07:15,602 are all things that we would recognize, 144 00:07:15,685 --> 00:07:17,771 but how they combine and form 145 00:07:17,854 --> 00:07:19,940 is gonna be something really new and exciting. 146 00:07:21,650 --> 00:07:23,860 Privet Drive in our Muggle world, 147 00:07:23,944 --> 00:07:25,862 we really wanted to be rooted in reality. 148 00:07:25,946 --> 00:07:28,740 And part of that, I think, for someone as a fan 149 00:07:28,823 --> 00:07:31,326 and an audience member, is when your Muggle world 150 00:07:31,409 --> 00:07:34,329 is rooted in a reality that we're all familiar with, 151 00:07:34,412 --> 00:07:36,873 it makes the excitement of the wizarding world 152 00:07:36,957 --> 00:07:39,960 just being beyond our reach all the more enticing. 153 00:07:42,003 --> 00:07:44,255 There's really a ton of thought that's going into this, 154 00:07:44,339 --> 00:07:47,467 so that for the die-hard fans, we're trying to land it. 155 00:07:48,551 --> 00:07:50,011 We've created these spaces 156 00:07:50,095 --> 00:07:53,264 that I think are gonna give everybody a lot of joy 157 00:07:53,348 --> 00:07:55,100 to kind of be in and experience. 158 00:07:56,267 --> 00:07:58,812 It's just so exciting that everybody is so game 159 00:07:58,895 --> 00:08:00,730 to make these things come alive. 160 00:08:03,650 --> 00:08:06,444 Walking into the Great Hall that first time, where you go, 161 00:08:06,528 --> 00:08:08,279 "It's like walking into a cathedral." 162 00:08:08,363 --> 00:08:12,867 It was so magical. It's so huge. It's so beautiful. 163 00:08:12,951 --> 00:08:15,704 And the entrance of the children coming in, 164 00:08:15,787 --> 00:08:19,165 the first-years coming in, and then bringing them into that hall, 165 00:08:19,249 --> 00:08:23,169 was possibly my favorite set in that sense. 166 00:08:23,253 --> 00:08:27,382 It was just so iconic and so, kind of, symbolic of, 167 00:08:27,465 --> 00:08:28,717 "Right, here we go. 168 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,845 "Whole new bunch of kids, into this world we go. 169 00:08:31,928 --> 00:08:34,431 "And here we are in Hogwarts, and welcome, 170 00:08:34,514 --> 00:08:36,850 and a whole new mystery is unfolding for you." 171 00:08:37,726 --> 00:08:39,185 And sometimes, you're in your dressing room 172 00:08:39,269 --> 00:08:40,729 and you'll be sitting there, 173 00:08:40,812 --> 00:08:44,649 and then suddenly you hear this explosion of people outside 174 00:08:44,733 --> 00:08:46,026 as the children run in. 175 00:08:46,109 --> 00:08:47,610 You're thinking about your work or whatever, 176 00:08:47,694 --> 00:08:50,655 and they've just got their own thing with whatever it is that's going on, 177 00:08:50,739 --> 00:08:53,825 the way children do, it's just-- it's a real energy. 178 00:08:55,618 --> 00:08:58,663 Sometimes on a really tiring day, 179 00:08:58,747 --> 00:09:01,332 I always go, "Close your eyes, open them again, 180 00:09:01,416 --> 00:09:03,793 and look around. Wow!" 181 00:09:03,877 --> 00:09:08,048 You walk onto a set and you think, "Wow!" And it just ups your game. 182 00:09:09,340 --> 00:09:11,426 'Cause it's all just so beautiful. 183 00:09:11,509 --> 00:09:12,677 Beautiful. 184 00:09:17,307 --> 00:09:19,225 In the initial conversations with Mark and Francesca 185 00:09:19,309 --> 00:09:21,102 about the core values of our show, 186 00:09:21,186 --> 00:09:25,607 there was this kind of inherent desire to be rooted in naturalism. 187 00:09:25,690 --> 00:09:29,277 Also, in this idea at the core of Harry Potter, 188 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,988 nature is the root of magic. 189 00:09:32,072 --> 00:09:34,783 And so, magical realism, 190 00:09:34,866 --> 00:09:38,620 rooting things in principles that we find in nature 191 00:09:38,703 --> 00:09:41,122 and the phenomenon of the natural world. 192 00:09:43,208 --> 00:09:46,377 If we could harness those things, that's what magic is. 193 00:09:47,378 --> 00:09:49,881 These ideas of naturalism 194 00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:52,467 being this core principle within the wizarding world, 195 00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:55,553 is something that we're integrating into a lot of our sets. 196 00:09:55,637 --> 00:09:57,889 We have to bring the natural world to them. 197 00:09:58,681 --> 00:10:01,101 And to think that I'm at the helm of this, 198 00:10:01,184 --> 00:10:02,519 it really is incredible. 199 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:08,399 This project is so exciting that there's so much overlap 200 00:10:08,483 --> 00:10:09,984 and play between different departments 201 00:10:10,068 --> 00:10:12,237 to really capture these concepts and themes 202 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,781 and express them on so many different levels. 203 00:10:16,199 --> 00:10:19,536 As we designed these practical and visual effects, 204 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:22,330 we wanted there to be a deeply rooted logic 205 00:10:22,413 --> 00:10:23,581 to what was happening. 206 00:10:23,665 --> 00:10:25,291 Even though magic is not logical, 207 00:10:25,375 --> 00:10:27,710 for us, it's more of these, like, consequences of magic 208 00:10:27,794 --> 00:10:29,087 that we're interested in. 209 00:10:30,004 --> 00:10:32,298 For every expression of magic, 210 00:10:32,382 --> 00:10:36,177 we're trying to do that critical analysis of how does this tie back into 211 00:10:36,261 --> 00:10:38,179 what we're saying magic actually is. 212 00:10:39,097 --> 00:10:41,391 And we really wanted to celebrate it as a moment 213 00:10:41,474 --> 00:10:43,059 to do things a little bit differently. 214 00:10:46,563 --> 00:10:48,857 This is one of the most exciting conversations 215 00:10:48,940 --> 00:10:50,233 I've had as a designer, 216 00:10:50,316 --> 00:10:54,362 diving into the science of something that should be unexplainable. 217 00:10:55,697 --> 00:10:57,824 The joy of working on a project like this 218 00:10:57,907 --> 00:11:02,120 is that we have so many really creative and exciting department heads. 219 00:11:02,203 --> 00:11:06,082 It really is such a pleasure to work with such high-level craftsmen 220 00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:08,877 who also are genuinely excited about this. 221 00:11:09,711 --> 00:11:12,172 I can proudly say you've done a good job. 222 00:11:12,255 --> 00:11:13,756 - Thank you. - A very good job. 223 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,133 - Means a lot. Cheers. - Cheers. 224 00:11:15,216 --> 00:11:16,467 - Cheers. - Appreciate it. 225 00:11:20,972 --> 00:11:23,892 My father actually designed and painted 226 00:11:23,975 --> 00:11:26,936 the very first Quidditch box from the first film. 227 00:11:27,020 --> 00:11:30,481 And here I am, 26 years later, 228 00:11:30,565 --> 00:11:35,653 painting the new Quidditch box for the HBO production. 229 00:11:40,909 --> 00:11:44,871 I actually worked on Harry Potter three and four film, 25 years ago. 230 00:11:44,954 --> 00:11:46,497 And I was actually a trainee to some of the guys 231 00:11:46,581 --> 00:11:47,707 that are working here. 232 00:11:49,918 --> 00:11:52,629 Every creature we build within Creature Effects, 233 00:11:52,712 --> 00:11:56,966 whether it's an owl, a rat, whether it's a creature or a human being, 234 00:11:57,050 --> 00:11:58,468 all starts with the same process. 235 00:11:58,551 --> 00:12:01,763 Basically, extensive research into nature. 236 00:12:03,765 --> 00:12:06,684 Observing and looking at how an owl might move. 237 00:12:06,768 --> 00:12:08,436 They just look incredible. 238 00:12:08,519 --> 00:12:10,563 And it's our job to try and copy that movement 239 00:12:10,647 --> 00:12:12,815 and repeat that with the use of animatronics 240 00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:13,983 and creature effects. 241 00:12:14,067 --> 00:12:15,485 You can see within the animatronics, 242 00:12:15,568 --> 00:12:18,655 you've got all these pivot points, and pieces of metal and plastic, 243 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:20,240 and servo motors. 244 00:12:20,323 --> 00:12:23,076 And our job is to try and make that feel organic. 245 00:12:27,830 --> 00:12:31,751 We are looking at, essentially, the culmination of a lot of teamwork. 246 00:12:32,877 --> 00:12:35,088 These are some early prototypes we did 247 00:12:35,171 --> 00:12:37,924 of how we would create this incredible neck movement 248 00:12:38,007 --> 00:12:39,300 that you have within owls, 249 00:12:39,384 --> 00:12:41,761 how they move so much, this almost 360 movement, 250 00:12:41,844 --> 00:12:45,807 the up and down, the turning, that we put together in fabrication. 251 00:12:45,890 --> 00:12:49,769 And then, we hand these over to the wonderful feather team 252 00:12:49,852 --> 00:12:53,773 to do all their beautiful work-over so that we can fill these voids 253 00:12:53,856 --> 00:12:56,359 and have amazing feathers that all glide and move, 254 00:12:56,442 --> 00:12:59,779 and create that incredible motion that an owl's neck has. 255 00:13:00,655 --> 00:13:04,409 So, we then insert each and every feather individually 256 00:13:04,492 --> 00:13:06,703 in the net, and glue it down. 257 00:13:06,786 --> 00:13:09,455 And it's about 36,000 feathers per owl. 258 00:13:10,373 --> 00:13:14,043 And we made about ten owls for this show. 259 00:13:15,753 --> 00:13:17,422 Because technology's moved on, 260 00:13:17,505 --> 00:13:19,924 and we've actually got stronger and faster motors 261 00:13:20,008 --> 00:13:21,426 that we can actually fit inside, 262 00:13:21,509 --> 00:13:25,054 you can actually pick the rat neck up and push it around and bully it around. 263 00:13:25,138 --> 00:13:27,807 When Ron holds the animatronic, it actually pushes it aside 264 00:13:27,890 --> 00:13:30,476 rather than it feeling like a stuffed Scabbers. 265 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:33,354 Dan has actually put that into this animatronic here 266 00:13:33,438 --> 00:13:36,274 where, as you push the feet down, it actually compresses, 267 00:13:36,357 --> 00:13:38,109 and I can actually move this around. 268 00:13:38,192 --> 00:13:39,527 You can see here. 269 00:13:39,610 --> 00:13:42,447 So, it doesn't feel too robotic and rigid, 270 00:13:42,530 --> 00:13:44,949 which I think really helps the performance of, 271 00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:47,618 of a young boy who's probably never held an animatronic before 272 00:13:47,702 --> 00:13:49,162 in his life. 273 00:13:49,245 --> 00:13:52,165 And then, of course, when you put it into the sort of context of, 274 00:13:52,248 --> 00:13:56,878 you know, down on the floor like that, it's really believable. 275 00:13:59,172 --> 00:14:02,675 And we also made a biting Scabbers that Charlotte's gonna bring in now. 276 00:14:02,759 --> 00:14:05,345 Put your finger in his mouth and wiggle it around. 277 00:14:05,428 --> 00:14:06,721 That's it. 278 00:14:07,972 --> 00:14:10,141 There you go. Thank you very much. 279 00:14:12,643 --> 00:14:14,562 This is the Dugbog, which is a character 280 00:14:14,645 --> 00:14:16,731 that hasn't been seen in any of the films before. 281 00:14:16,814 --> 00:14:20,151 It's based on a toad that has 282 00:14:20,234 --> 00:14:21,819 movements that we've taken directly from nature, 283 00:14:21,903 --> 00:14:24,781 from toads, where the eyes pull in, retract inside. 284 00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:26,908 We've got a mechanical tongue. 285 00:14:27,950 --> 00:14:30,036 Nose movement, nostrils. 286 00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:34,791 We added this detail on top 287 00:14:34,874 --> 00:14:36,793 so the kids could actually snap the backs, 288 00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:38,544 the back off and pull these mollusks off 289 00:14:38,628 --> 00:14:41,381 so it doesn't feel damaging for the creature. 290 00:14:43,633 --> 00:14:45,468 It's actually an amazing opportunity for us 291 00:14:45,551 --> 00:14:46,886 to all come together, 292 00:14:46,969 --> 00:14:48,805 all departments, all disciplines, 293 00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:51,057 whether it was Creature Effects, Special Effects, 294 00:14:51,140 --> 00:14:54,185 Visual Effects, Model Making, Set Deck. 295 00:14:55,103 --> 00:14:59,190 We also created these flobberworms and characters like this 296 00:14:59,273 --> 00:15:01,359 that we didn't tell the kids 297 00:15:01,442 --> 00:15:06,072 that we're actually gonna be able to pick them up and slime. 298 00:15:06,155 --> 00:15:09,283 And we had these fire crabs 299 00:15:09,367 --> 00:15:12,995 that was actually working closely with Special Effects, 300 00:15:13,079 --> 00:15:18,334 and these two will actually blast fire out of their backsides at each other. 301 00:15:18,418 --> 00:15:21,295 So, we've got a self-contained animatronic here 302 00:15:21,379 --> 00:15:23,005 where all the motors are inside, 303 00:15:23,089 --> 00:15:25,383 and someone's actually operating that remotely. 304 00:15:30,179 --> 00:15:31,848 I'm shaking right now, just being in this room. 305 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:33,182 Like this is crazy. 306 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,352 I was the right age and it was always there. 307 00:15:36,436 --> 00:15:37,937 It was something I really-- 308 00:15:38,020 --> 00:15:40,523 I really bonded with my siblings over. 309 00:15:40,606 --> 00:15:42,442 I think my cousin first introduced me to it. 310 00:15:42,525 --> 00:15:43,776 So, we used to, 311 00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:45,445 I mean, we used to run home from primary school 312 00:15:45,528 --> 00:15:47,697 and change out of our primary-school clothes 313 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:49,282 and into our Hogwarts robes. 314 00:15:52,743 --> 00:15:54,537 We're set in 1991, 315 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:58,458 and we did a full study of what people were wearing in 1991, 316 00:15:58,541 --> 00:16:03,379 and we tried to make the Muggles feel as true 317 00:16:03,463 --> 00:16:05,381 as we possibly could make them. 318 00:16:05,465 --> 00:16:07,925 We've really sort of drawn out, you know, certain-- 319 00:16:08,009 --> 00:16:10,678 tried to sort of create real contrasts. 320 00:16:10,761 --> 00:16:15,224 The Muggle palette is pastel-orientated, very cold colors, 321 00:16:15,308 --> 00:16:17,477 and there's a big emphasis on synthetic fabrics. 322 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:20,104 As you can see here, it's really the period of shell suits. 323 00:16:20,188 --> 00:16:24,734 We call them shell suits. They're these crinkly tracksuit tops. 324 00:16:26,068 --> 00:16:29,071 I think in terms of finding Harry's look, 325 00:16:29,155 --> 00:16:33,117 he lives in a world where everyone is following the fashions. 326 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:36,412 He hasn't ever had the luxury of choosing his clothes. 327 00:16:36,496 --> 00:16:42,126 He's given these old castoffs by Petunia, which are Dudley's old clothes. 328 00:16:43,753 --> 00:16:47,340 His clothes just hang off him and they're just grayed out. 329 00:16:47,423 --> 00:16:49,675 Actually, everything that he wears, we found original-- 330 00:16:49,759 --> 00:16:51,594 Beth found original pieces, 331 00:16:51,677 --> 00:16:54,180 which we then meticulously recreated. 332 00:16:55,806 --> 00:17:01,145 We're finding real clothes, sort of trawling many vintage yards 333 00:17:01,229 --> 00:17:03,189 and wholesale scrapyards and just finding it. 334 00:17:03,272 --> 00:17:07,193 And the amount we've amassed as we've costumed thousands. 335 00:17:08,152 --> 00:17:11,489 And the more we found, this palette came naturally together. 336 00:17:11,572 --> 00:17:14,325 These are the colors of 1991. 337 00:17:14,408 --> 00:17:16,494 We want to time travel. 338 00:17:16,577 --> 00:17:19,038 We get to dive in and out of different time frames, 339 00:17:19,121 --> 00:17:20,706 different styles of costuming, 340 00:17:20,790 --> 00:17:21,958 and you can't time travel 341 00:17:22,041 --> 00:17:24,001 if they're not exactly the right thing. 342 00:17:26,420 --> 00:17:29,840 Our uniforms are all made of British wool, 343 00:17:29,924 --> 00:17:35,179 organic cotton, shell buttons, wooden buttons, Scottish tartan. 344 00:17:35,263 --> 00:17:37,807 Natural cloth is something that is almost rare. 345 00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:40,101 It's quite a radical act just to wear a jumper 346 00:17:40,184 --> 00:17:41,811 that's made of sheep's wool. 347 00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:43,229 Even though, you know, we live in a country 348 00:17:43,312 --> 00:17:45,273 that's like full of sheep. 349 00:17:50,611 --> 00:17:54,699 For magical people, we had to find how we present them, 350 00:17:54,782 --> 00:17:56,576 that feels somehow a little bit "other." 351 00:17:56,659 --> 00:18:00,204 What Francesca and Mark really wanted us to be bringing into the design, 352 00:18:00,288 --> 00:18:01,956 was with lots of nature. 353 00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:06,961 That when we decided to use all these very imperfect, 354 00:18:07,044 --> 00:18:08,504 natural processes, 355 00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:11,549 like leaf-printing, like hand-painting, 356 00:18:11,632 --> 00:18:13,426 - like marbling. - Marbling. 357 00:18:14,385 --> 00:18:16,220 When you print with leaves, 358 00:18:16,304 --> 00:18:18,598 there is this natural, magical process that happens. 359 00:18:18,681 --> 00:18:21,350 You don't know what you're going to get depending on the leaf, 360 00:18:21,434 --> 00:18:23,811 you just have to go with what you get. 361 00:18:23,894 --> 00:18:26,606 For Dumbledore, we wanted to use leaf-printing 362 00:18:26,689 --> 00:18:30,026 because we wanted to do this camo fabric for him to wear. 363 00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:33,529 And we wanted to create the sense of this natural, 364 00:18:33,613 --> 00:18:36,240 immediate unruly process. 365 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:39,952 It's the imperfection that brings the beauty. 366 00:18:40,036 --> 00:18:45,458 It's not kind of like a high fantasy. It's really rooted in "the real." 367 00:18:45,541 --> 00:18:49,003 And I think that would hopefully make people think, oh, maybe... 368 00:18:49,086 --> 00:18:51,047 - "Maybe it's real." - "Maybe it is around that corner," or... 369 00:18:51,130 --> 00:18:52,340 - Yeah. - ...look at a person 370 00:18:52,423 --> 00:18:54,091 walking down the street, and think, "Oh." 371 00:18:54,175 --> 00:18:58,262 I remember, we kept saying, "I've just seen a magical person." 372 00:18:58,346 --> 00:18:59,805 - I remember that. - "I've just seen a magical person." 373 00:18:59,889 --> 00:19:02,850 And we were photographing people, like on the tube or the bus, 374 00:19:02,933 --> 00:19:05,353 that we'd identify as sort of a "magical person." 375 00:19:05,436 --> 00:19:08,439 And so, it's this idea that magical people do exist 376 00:19:08,522 --> 00:19:09,774 and they are around, 377 00:19:09,857 --> 00:19:12,610 and we wanted that to be within all of them. 378 00:19:12,693 --> 00:19:14,111 Just a sort of... 379 00:19:15,279 --> 00:19:18,199 combination of elements that just made you look. 380 00:19:20,409 --> 00:19:25,414 And by complete contrast, we have created an inky, moody... 381 00:19:26,415 --> 00:19:28,709 natural palette for the magical people. 382 00:19:28,793 --> 00:19:32,546 So, that's one way that we've created a dichotomy. 383 00:19:34,382 --> 00:19:38,094 Everything is rooted in reality. 384 00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:42,848 Our Dumbledore, he is a little bit like Edwardian gentleman, 385 00:19:42,932 --> 00:19:46,936 because that's what we thought, knowing how old he is, we kind of work out 386 00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:49,230 that his height, his heyday. 387 00:19:49,313 --> 00:19:51,190 A little bit of Scottish tweed here, 388 00:19:51,273 --> 00:19:55,986 embroidered, as you can see, in a very unruly, not-too-perfect way. 389 00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:02,159 I mean, I love Harry Potter because I picked up the book 390 00:20:02,243 --> 00:20:04,245 when I had my children. 391 00:20:04,328 --> 00:20:10,751 And I got really into reading the books with my son Eric, who just loved them. 392 00:20:12,336 --> 00:20:15,339 He could really project himself into the story, 393 00:20:15,423 --> 00:20:20,136 and I think it was so good for him, and I could see how much he was loving it. 394 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:22,430 And we were loving it together. 395 00:20:22,513 --> 00:20:24,682 Our thing where we'd sit down together at night 396 00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:29,353 and read very intricate stories with quite complicated plots 397 00:20:29,437 --> 00:20:31,814 and lots and lots of things happening. 398 00:20:31,897 --> 00:20:33,941 And he said to me, 399 00:20:34,024 --> 00:20:36,360 "Mummy, is there a school that I can go to like this?" 400 00:20:37,778 --> 00:20:38,738 And... 401 00:20:38,821 --> 00:20:39,989 And I-- 402 00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:42,032 I thought, "I need to find this school. 403 00:20:42,116 --> 00:20:45,453 And if I can't find it, I need to try and create this school." 404 00:20:45,536 --> 00:20:48,414 It definitely feels like a big responsibility. 405 00:20:48,497 --> 00:20:52,168 I think it's a big responsibility to get it right, isn't it? 406 00:20:52,251 --> 00:20:58,549 To honor what has gone before, but to hopefully, like, find more detail. 407 00:21:05,306 --> 00:21:10,227 I think I was literally the same age as the kids in the book, you know? 408 00:21:10,311 --> 00:21:13,522 I think the first one came out in '97. I was seven. 409 00:21:14,523 --> 00:21:16,317 And I was definitely at the age 410 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,110 where, like, the books were still coming out 411 00:21:18,194 --> 00:21:19,570 when I was at school. 412 00:21:19,653 --> 00:21:21,155 So, it was actually really intense. 413 00:21:21,238 --> 00:21:22,907 I remember reading those books, 414 00:21:22,990 --> 00:21:26,160 and you wouldn't be able to talk to your mates at all. 415 00:21:26,243 --> 00:21:28,788 Because, like, if someone was reading faster than you were, 416 00:21:28,871 --> 00:21:30,414 they were gonna tell you what was gonna happen. 417 00:21:30,498 --> 00:21:32,500 And like, these stories are so important at that age, 418 00:21:32,583 --> 00:21:37,004 it wasn't worth, like, the conversation with your mates. 419 00:21:37,087 --> 00:21:40,007 At that age, you imagine yourself being a kid at Hogwarts, 420 00:21:40,090 --> 00:21:42,593 or you imagine yourself being in Harry's shoes. 421 00:21:44,887 --> 00:21:48,933 I remember on one day, I came in to see Mark, 422 00:21:49,016 --> 00:21:53,395 and they were shooting the scene on Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. 423 00:21:53,479 --> 00:21:56,482 And just walking in and seeing the real train, 424 00:21:56,565 --> 00:21:58,734 it was like being thrown into the book. 425 00:21:58,818 --> 00:22:01,070 It was like being thrown into it, it was real. 426 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:08,118 So, as you can see, 427 00:22:08,202 --> 00:22:11,121 though the world of Harry Potter is already legendary, 428 00:22:11,205 --> 00:22:13,332 its legacy is still growing. 429 00:22:14,750 --> 00:22:18,170 As a new generation discovers its magic, 430 00:22:18,254 --> 00:22:21,423 an exciting new era is upon us. 431 00:22:22,591 --> 00:22:26,804 I knew that while I did the first season of Harry Potter, 432 00:22:26,887 --> 00:22:29,348 I would be turning 80 years old. 433 00:22:30,683 --> 00:22:35,229 That meant that I would age to about 88 before it was all over. 434 00:22:35,312 --> 00:22:40,067 This is an extremely difficult thing to contemplate. 435 00:22:42,027 --> 00:22:44,613 They're just an amazing ensemble. 436 00:22:46,073 --> 00:22:47,867 All of them, Arabella, 437 00:22:47,950 --> 00:22:49,660 and Alastair, 438 00:22:49,743 --> 00:22:51,537 and Dom. 439 00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:53,372 - What you think? You excited? - Yeah. 440 00:22:53,455 --> 00:22:55,207 Do you want to come and sit down? 441 00:22:55,875 --> 00:22:58,460 And they all adore each other. 442 00:22:58,544 --> 00:23:02,214 I'm really excited to see how they grow and how their artistry grows 443 00:23:02,298 --> 00:23:04,466 and what kind of people they grow into. 444 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,095 They're gonna grow up in this. 445 00:23:10,556 --> 00:23:11,891 And... 446 00:23:11,974 --> 00:23:13,976 And I'm gonna grow old with them. 447 00:23:16,854 --> 00:23:20,107 Theoretically, we could be working for many years together 448 00:23:20,190 --> 00:23:21,901 and they'll be young adults by then. 449 00:23:23,819 --> 00:23:25,571 We want them to grow up thinking, "Wow! 450 00:23:25,654 --> 00:23:27,740 "It might have been hard, it might have been difficult, 451 00:23:27,823 --> 00:23:29,742 "it might have been tiring, but boy, it was good 452 00:23:29,825 --> 00:23:31,160 "and so glad I did it. 453 00:23:31,243 --> 00:23:33,996 It was so exciting to be a part of it." 454 00:23:37,249 --> 00:23:38,292 And here we are. 455 00:23:39,335 --> 00:23:43,172 What better place to end this journey into the heart of Harry Potter 456 00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:45,341 than where he begins his journey to Hogwarts? 457 00:23:46,091 --> 00:23:48,886 Here, we're surrounded by both unbelievable scale, 458 00:23:48,969 --> 00:23:52,973 along with the little things that make it all feel so real. 459 00:23:54,099 --> 00:23:56,226 Talking about mind-blowing detail, 460 00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:59,021 come and have a look at this, a tiny taste of what's to come. 461 00:24:05,903 --> 00:24:07,613 So, all aboard. 462 00:24:07,696 --> 00:24:10,741 You might wanna hold your ears. It's about to get very loud! 463 00:24:17,414 --> 00:24:19,208 This feels like my cue. 464 00:24:44,149 --> 00:24:48,529 So, my Dad was a prop master on all of the eight original movies. 465 00:24:48,612 --> 00:24:50,906 And I'm here to carry on the legacy. 466 00:24:51,949 --> 00:24:54,827 The next generation of fans being something very important to me 467 00:24:54,910 --> 00:24:58,372 because my son is a big Harry Potter fan. 468 00:24:58,455 --> 00:25:02,501 And so, I cannot let the little guys down, 469 00:25:02,584 --> 00:25:05,045 cannot let the new generation of fans down. 470 00:25:05,129 --> 00:25:07,339 I know it's really important. 471 00:25:07,423 --> 00:25:09,883 My family worked on the original Harry Potter 472 00:25:09,967 --> 00:25:11,677 and I get to carry on the legacy. 473 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:12,928 What a dream. 474 00:25:13,012 --> 00:25:17,808 I met my wife on the third Harry Potter, and now my son works for me. 475 00:25:17,891 --> 00:25:20,686 So, it's been our life, really. 476 00:25:20,769 --> 00:25:24,940 Well, I started my Harry Potter experience in 1999, 477 00:25:25,024 --> 00:25:28,402 and 27 years later, I'm still here. 478 00:25:28,485 --> 00:25:30,696 I remember the first day that I was filming, 479 00:25:30,779 --> 00:25:32,823 we were on set on Privet Drive, 480 00:25:32,906 --> 00:25:35,951 and we had Harry's owl with him, and I just sort of looked around 481 00:25:36,035 --> 00:25:37,578 and it was such a "pinch me" moment. 482 00:25:37,661 --> 00:25:39,705 There's been too many good moments to count, 483 00:25:39,788 --> 00:25:43,709 to be honest, this has been a year of highlights.