1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:05,964 --> 00:00:09,134 [♪ soft, mystical music playing] 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 4 00:00:15,474 --> 00:00:17,100 [narrator] Some stories change us. 5 00:00:17,142 --> 00:00:18,602 [station announcer] Please travel in the front 6 00:00:18,644 --> 00:00:20,187 six coaches only. 7 00:00:20,229 --> 00:00:22,564 [narrator] Some stories define us. 8 00:00:24,525 --> 00:00:26,568 But few stories live with us. 9 00:00:27,361 --> 00:00:28,362 And, action! 10 00:00:29,238 --> 00:00:31,532 [narrator] Quite like the boy who lived. 11 00:00:32,574 --> 00:00:34,785 Soon to be told by HBO Max... 12 00:00:34,826 --> 00:00:36,453 ♪♪ 13 00:00:36,495 --> 00:00:37,955 ...like never before. 14 00:00:37,996 --> 00:00:40,749 [♪ epic music playing] 15 00:00:49,466 --> 00:00:53,136 [narrator] Harry's story from J.K. Rowling's beloved book series 16 00:00:53,178 --> 00:00:55,222 is a truly immersive tale... 17 00:00:56,682 --> 00:00:58,850 requiring incredible dedication 18 00:00:58,892 --> 00:01:01,311 to realize this mesmerizing, 19 00:01:01,353 --> 00:01:03,855 almost limitless magical world. 20 00:01:03,897 --> 00:01:07,401 To create a place so rich, complex, 21 00:01:07,442 --> 00:01:09,152 and expansive, 22 00:01:09,194 --> 00:01:12,114 building it in our world would be impossible... 23 00:01:13,448 --> 00:01:16,577 until the true wizards get to work. 24 00:01:16,618 --> 00:01:18,620 ♪♪ 25 00:01:23,041 --> 00:01:24,710 [John Lithgow] The Harry Potter stories 26 00:01:24,751 --> 00:01:27,379 are-- are this extraordinary phenomenon 27 00:01:27,421 --> 00:01:29,756 from 30 years ago, 28 00:01:29,798 --> 00:01:31,842 for young people. 29 00:01:31,842 --> 00:01:35,012 But it struck a chord with people of all ages. 30 00:01:35,053 --> 00:01:39,558 And to reimagine the Harry Potter canon... 31 00:01:40,392 --> 00:01:41,893 to let it breathe, 32 00:01:41,935 --> 00:01:44,855 to tell a story in eight episodes 33 00:01:44,896 --> 00:01:47,190 rather than a single two-hour movie, 34 00:01:47,232 --> 00:01:50,569 to go down all the wonderful rabbit holes. 35 00:01:50,611 --> 00:01:52,446 The story is there, 36 00:01:52,487 --> 00:01:55,198 but we get to enact all the things 37 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,867 that you know are going on in the wings, 38 00:01:56,908 --> 00:01:58,910 but you don't see them. 39 00:01:58,952 --> 00:02:00,787 You wait forever to do something 40 00:02:00,829 --> 00:02:03,373 that-- that means that much to people. 41 00:02:03,415 --> 00:02:05,250 And I think-- I think this really will. 42 00:02:06,084 --> 00:02:08,545 And they have done a brilliant job 43 00:02:08,587 --> 00:02:12,090 of selecting this extraordinary ensemble. 44 00:02:14,468 --> 00:02:16,386 [♪ soft music playing] 45 00:02:16,428 --> 00:02:18,639 [quiet chattering] 46 00:02:20,349 --> 00:02:22,059 We stopped counting at 40,000. 47 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:24,728 Yeah. It wasn't a good use of our time at that point 48 00:02:24,770 --> 00:02:26,563 to count, but we watched all of them. 49 00:02:26,605 --> 00:02:28,565 Yeah. We're looking for a child 50 00:02:28,565 --> 00:02:33,111 who he-- he means so much to people in different ways. 51 00:02:33,153 --> 00:02:35,113 And so, you are looking for a kid 52 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:37,407 who perhaps on the face of it seems quite ordinary, 53 00:02:37,407 --> 00:02:40,285 but is ultimately very extraordinary. 54 00:02:40,327 --> 00:02:42,663 We wanted to make sure that all kids in the UK 55 00:02:42,704 --> 00:02:45,290 could audition by submitting their first auditions online. 56 00:02:45,332 --> 00:02:49,336 And then we went to Manchester, Scotland, Ireland, and... 57 00:02:49,378 --> 00:02:51,171 - Cardiff. - Cardiff, Wales. 58 00:02:51,213 --> 00:02:53,423 [indistinct chatter] 59 00:02:54,466 --> 00:02:55,801 [Emily Brockmann] When we were auditioning children, 60 00:02:55,842 --> 00:02:57,469 we knew it was gonna be a long process. 61 00:02:57,511 --> 00:03:00,430 [Lucy Bevan] We started with Harry, Ron, and Hermione, 62 00:03:00,472 --> 00:03:02,265 and they are really good friends. 63 00:03:02,307 --> 00:03:04,601 And so, it was a really exciting challenge 64 00:03:04,643 --> 00:03:06,103 to find three kids 65 00:03:06,144 --> 00:03:07,938 that you would believe as friends 66 00:03:07,979 --> 00:03:10,607 with these very strong, different personalities. 67 00:03:10,649 --> 00:03:12,943 These are all ordinary kids, you know? 68 00:03:12,984 --> 00:03:14,444 But they are all extraordinary. 69 00:03:14,486 --> 00:03:15,946 There's magic in all of them. 70 00:03:15,987 --> 00:03:17,989 [♪ cheerful music playing] 71 00:03:18,990 --> 00:03:20,701 We saw Alastair in Manchester, 72 00:03:20,742 --> 00:03:23,036 and he was just funny and charming 73 00:03:23,078 --> 00:03:24,871 from the word "go." Yeah. 74 00:03:24,913 --> 00:03:26,540 This is him doing his, um... 75 00:03:26,581 --> 00:03:28,125 - His story. Poem. - ...his little story. 76 00:03:28,166 --> 00:03:29,459 Mother doesn't want a dog. 77 00:03:29,501 --> 00:03:32,003 She's making a mistake. 'Cause more than a dog, 78 00:03:32,045 --> 00:03:34,965 I think she will not want this snake. 79 00:03:35,006 --> 00:03:36,675 [Emily chuckling] 80 00:03:36,717 --> 00:03:38,135 That was first day of Alastair. 81 00:03:38,176 --> 00:03:42,139 And then, Arabella in London. 82 00:03:42,180 --> 00:03:45,350 "Hermione, lack of filter from being an only child. 83 00:03:45,392 --> 00:03:47,894 "Her superpower is her emotional intelligence. 84 00:03:47,936 --> 00:03:49,896 She's got main-character energy." 85 00:03:49,938 --> 00:03:53,150 So, this is Arabella's first audition. 86 00:03:53,191 --> 00:03:55,360 - [Emily] Yeah. - So, she did the poem Invictus. 87 00:03:55,402 --> 00:03:57,487 It matters not how strait the gate, 88 00:03:57,529 --> 00:04:00,073 how charged with punishments the scroll, 89 00:04:00,115 --> 00:04:02,409 I am the master of my fate, 90 00:04:02,451 --> 00:04:04,703 I am the captain of my soul. 91 00:04:05,704 --> 00:04:07,080 [Lucy] Hermione has to be playful, 92 00:04:07,122 --> 00:04:08,707 so we got her in to do a scene 93 00:04:08,749 --> 00:04:10,333 where she's talking to her parents 94 00:04:10,375 --> 00:04:12,836 about, um, Harry and Ron. 95 00:04:12,878 --> 00:04:14,337 And she was-- got-- got the giggles 96 00:04:14,379 --> 00:04:16,840 and did little snorts, and that's the take we used 97 00:04:16,882 --> 00:04:18,341 to show them that she's playful. 98 00:04:18,383 --> 00:04:20,844 So, you're constantly using bits of the audition 99 00:04:20,886 --> 00:04:22,179 that you know is gonna help the kid 100 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:23,722 when you show it to the director and the showrunner. 101 00:04:23,764 --> 00:04:25,390 So, Arabella's snort was quite crucial 102 00:04:25,432 --> 00:04:27,058 - in her casting process. - [Emily] Yeah. 103 00:04:28,602 --> 00:04:31,062 [Lucy] We met Dominic in Glasgow. 104 00:04:31,104 --> 00:04:32,606 What did we have about Harry? 105 00:04:32,647 --> 00:04:34,065 "He's skeptical of the adult world. 106 00:04:34,107 --> 00:04:36,526 He's got a vulnerability and a melancholy." 107 00:04:36,568 --> 00:04:38,028 - And-- - And a solitary-- 108 00:04:38,069 --> 00:04:39,696 - a solitary quality to him. - A solitary quality. 109 00:04:39,738 --> 00:04:41,615 - He's grown up alone. - He's grown up alone, 110 00:04:41,656 --> 00:04:45,076 and he-- he's-- survival is his thing. 111 00:04:45,118 --> 00:04:46,912 Artful Dodger, not Oliver Twist. 112 00:04:46,953 --> 00:04:48,455 It's basically, find an incredible actor, 113 00:04:48,497 --> 00:04:49,706 - age ten. - [Emily] Basically, yeah. 114 00:04:49,748 --> 00:04:50,916 - That was the brief. - Yeah, yeah. 115 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:52,375 [Emily] He has so many different qualities. 116 00:04:52,417 --> 00:04:54,044 [Lucy] So many different qualities. 117 00:04:54,085 --> 00:04:57,088 Dominic came in and his piece was a poem 118 00:04:57,130 --> 00:04:58,632 about his weekend that he'd written himself, 119 00:04:58,673 --> 00:04:59,800 and it was rhyming. 120 00:04:59,841 --> 00:05:01,426 And we thought, "He's so interesting." 121 00:05:02,344 --> 00:05:05,096 "My Weekend" by Dominic. 122 00:05:05,138 --> 00:05:06,890 So, started off Saturday morning, 123 00:05:06,932 --> 00:05:08,558 I had a football game to play, 124 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,811 and I can tell you, it went my way. 125 00:05:10,852 --> 00:05:12,896 Didn't really have anything to do after that, 126 00:05:12,938 --> 00:05:14,397 so I just slept the rest of the day. 127 00:05:14,439 --> 00:05:16,942 Dom just had this sort of quiet confidence in himself. 128 00:05:16,983 --> 00:05:19,110 - Who do you live with? - Hey, I live with my mum, 129 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:21,613 my dad, and my two sisters. 130 00:05:21,655 --> 00:05:22,989 - [Lucy] Okay. - And my dog. 131 00:05:23,031 --> 00:05:24,741 [Lucy] And have you done any acting before? 132 00:05:24,783 --> 00:05:28,578 Um, I did Macbeth in January. 133 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:29,955 [Lucy] And were you one of Macduff's sons? 134 00:05:29,996 --> 00:05:31,248 [Dominic] Yeah, I was. 135 00:05:31,289 --> 00:05:32,624 [Lucy] Oh, you got killed, unfortunately. 136 00:05:32,666 --> 00:05:33,834 - [chuckles] Yeah. - [Lucy] Sorry to hear that. 137 00:05:33,875 --> 00:05:35,752 [laughs] Okay. That's great. 138 00:05:35,794 --> 00:05:37,754 I really feel confident in these kids. 139 00:05:37,796 --> 00:05:39,464 I think they're incredible. 140 00:05:42,968 --> 00:05:45,679 [♪ soft, mystical music playing] 141 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:48,431 In a show of this scale, it's easy to get lost. 142 00:05:48,473 --> 00:05:50,433 You can go to the Great Hall, it's huge. 143 00:05:50,475 --> 00:05:52,519 You can go to the Quidditch pitch, it's massive. 144 00:05:52,561 --> 00:05:54,271 You can go to, uh, Diagon Alley. 145 00:05:54,312 --> 00:05:56,106 And we go back to the sets and we're revisiting them, 146 00:05:56,147 --> 00:05:57,274 adding a bit of detail. 147 00:05:57,315 --> 00:05:58,441 Sometimes, for example, 148 00:05:58,483 --> 00:06:00,277 I'll go to the Gryffindor common room 149 00:06:00,318 --> 00:06:01,486 or to the tower, 150 00:06:01,528 --> 00:06:02,988 and you're in there on your own, 151 00:06:03,029 --> 00:06:04,948 and you're looking around and you look at the noticeboard 152 00:06:04,990 --> 00:06:06,825 and you're looking at every little bit of detail 153 00:06:06,867 --> 00:06:09,286 on McGonagall's desk, of the, uh, books, 154 00:06:09,327 --> 00:06:11,288 on the spines, and you-- it's goosebumps. 155 00:06:11,329 --> 00:06:13,331 [♪ magical music playing] 156 00:06:15,458 --> 00:06:19,129 [Mara LePere-Schloop] The volume of this is just so fun... 157 00:06:19,170 --> 00:06:21,172 to be able to build at a scale like this. 158 00:06:21,214 --> 00:06:23,633 It's just a designer's dream 159 00:06:23,675 --> 00:06:26,219 to play in a sandbox that's this big. 160 00:06:26,261 --> 00:06:28,471 We're trying to get in the joy and the playfulness 161 00:06:28,513 --> 00:06:30,599 of what it means to be a magical kid. 162 00:06:32,684 --> 00:06:34,978 When the first Harry Potter book came out, 163 00:06:35,020 --> 00:06:38,231 it really felt so novel and exciting. 164 00:06:38,273 --> 00:06:40,817 I think everyone had that shared experience 165 00:06:40,859 --> 00:06:42,652 of thinking what an incredible world, 166 00:06:42,694 --> 00:06:44,070 it would be so great to touch. 167 00:06:45,864 --> 00:06:48,491 And so, we're trying to capture those moments of discovery 168 00:06:48,533 --> 00:06:49,826 that you find within the books. 169 00:06:49,868 --> 00:06:52,370 We want you to have that same experience here. 170 00:06:53,788 --> 00:06:57,000 But we are adding a level of world-building 171 00:06:57,042 --> 00:06:59,753 that is even beyond what the audience is familiar with. 172 00:06:59,794 --> 00:07:01,838 [♪ thrilling music playing] 173 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:03,173 Harry's introduction 174 00:07:03,214 --> 00:07:05,342 to the physical space of the wizarding world 175 00:07:05,383 --> 00:07:07,093 starts with the Leaky Cauldron. 176 00:07:07,135 --> 00:07:08,595 And eventually, we come out the back 177 00:07:08,637 --> 00:07:11,014 and go into our Diagon Alley set. 178 00:07:11,056 --> 00:07:12,432 ♪♪ 179 00:07:12,474 --> 00:07:14,184 The elements that we see 180 00:07:14,225 --> 00:07:15,685 are all things that we would recognize, 181 00:07:15,727 --> 00:07:17,854 but how they combine and form 182 00:07:17,854 --> 00:07:20,023 is gonna be something really new and exciting. 183 00:07:20,065 --> 00:07:21,608 [♪ thrilling music continues] 184 00:07:21,650 --> 00:07:23,902 Privet Drive in our Muggle world, 185 00:07:23,944 --> 00:07:25,904 we really wanted to be rooted in reality. 186 00:07:25,946 --> 00:07:28,782 And part of that, I think, for someone as a fan 187 00:07:28,823 --> 00:07:31,368 and an audience member, is when your Muggle world 188 00:07:31,409 --> 00:07:34,371 is rooted in a reality that we're all familiar with, 189 00:07:34,412 --> 00:07:36,915 it makes the excitement of the wizarding world 190 00:07:36,957 --> 00:07:40,001 just being beyond our reach all the more enticing. 191 00:07:42,003 --> 00:07:44,297 There's really a ton of thought that's going into this, 192 00:07:44,339 --> 00:07:47,467 so that for the die-hard fans, we're trying to land it. 193 00:07:48,593 --> 00:07:50,053 We've created these spaces 194 00:07:50,095 --> 00:07:53,306 that I think are gonna give everybody a lot of joy 195 00:07:53,348 --> 00:07:55,100 to kind of be in and experience. 196 00:07:56,267 --> 00:07:58,895 It's just so exciting that everybody is so game 197 00:07:58,937 --> 00:08:00,772 to make these things come alive. 198 00:08:03,650 --> 00:08:06,486 Walking into the Great Hall that first time, where you go, 199 00:08:06,528 --> 00:08:08,321 "It's like walking into a cathedral." 200 00:08:08,363 --> 00:08:10,573 It was so magical. 201 00:08:10,615 --> 00:08:12,909 It's so huge. It's so beautiful. 202 00:08:12,951 --> 00:08:15,745 And the entrance of the children coming in, 203 00:08:15,787 --> 00:08:17,122 the first-years coming in, 204 00:08:17,163 --> 00:08:19,249 and then bringing them into that hall, 205 00:08:19,290 --> 00:08:23,253 was possibly my favorite set in that sense. 206 00:08:23,294 --> 00:08:24,963 It was just so iconic 207 00:08:25,005 --> 00:08:27,424 and so, kind of, uh, symbolic of, 208 00:08:27,465 --> 00:08:28,758 "Right, here we go. 209 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,928 "Whole new bunch of kids, into this world we go. 210 00:08:31,970 --> 00:08:34,472 "And here we are in Hogwarts, and welcome, 211 00:08:34,514 --> 00:08:36,850 and a whole new mystery is unfolding for you." 212 00:08:37,726 --> 00:08:39,269 And sometimes, you're in your dressing room 213 00:08:39,310 --> 00:08:40,770 and you'll be sitting there, 214 00:08:40,812 --> 00:08:44,691 and then suddenly you hear this explosion of people outside 215 00:08:44,733 --> 00:08:46,109 as the children run in. 216 00:08:46,151 --> 00:08:47,652 You're thinking about your work or whatever, 217 00:08:47,694 --> 00:08:49,195 and they're just-- they've just got their own thing 218 00:08:49,237 --> 00:08:50,697 with whatever it is that's going on, 219 00:08:50,739 --> 00:08:52,365 the way children do, it's just-- 220 00:08:52,407 --> 00:08:53,867 it's a real energy. 221 00:08:53,908 --> 00:08:55,618 ♪♪ 222 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:58,705 Sometimes on a really tiring day, 223 00:08:58,747 --> 00:09:01,374 I always go, "Close your eyes, open them again, 224 00:09:01,416 --> 00:09:03,835 and look around. Wow!" 225 00:09:03,877 --> 00:09:06,379 You walk onto a set and you think, "Wow!" 226 00:09:06,421 --> 00:09:08,048 And it just ups your game. 227 00:09:09,340 --> 00:09:11,468 'Cause it's all just so beautiful. 228 00:09:11,509 --> 00:09:12,677 Beautiful. 229 00:09:14,012 --> 00:09:16,264 [♪ intriguing music playing] 230 00:09:17,307 --> 00:09:19,309 [Mara] In the initial conversations with Mark and Francesca 231 00:09:19,309 --> 00:09:21,144 about the core values of our show, 232 00:09:21,186 --> 00:09:23,188 there was this kind of inherent desire 233 00:09:23,229 --> 00:09:25,648 to be rooted in naturalism. 234 00:09:25,690 --> 00:09:29,319 Also, in this idea at the core of Harry Potter, 235 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,030 nature is the root of magic. 236 00:09:32,072 --> 00:09:34,824 And so, magical realism, 237 00:09:34,866 --> 00:09:38,661 rooting things in principles that we find in nature 238 00:09:38,703 --> 00:09:41,164 and the phenomenon of the natural world. 239 00:09:41,206 --> 00:09:43,166 ♪♪ 240 00:09:43,208 --> 00:09:45,168 If we could harness those things, 241 00:09:45,210 --> 00:09:46,377 that's what magic is. 242 00:09:47,378 --> 00:09:49,923 These ideas of naturalism 243 00:09:49,964 --> 00:09:52,509 being this core principle within the wizarding world, 244 00:09:52,550 --> 00:09:54,052 is something that we're integrating 245 00:09:54,094 --> 00:09:55,595 into a lot of our sets. 246 00:09:55,637 --> 00:09:57,972 We have to bring the natural world to them. 247 00:09:58,723 --> 00:10:01,184 And to think that I'm at the helm of this, 248 00:10:01,226 --> 00:10:02,560 it really is incredible. 249 00:10:02,602 --> 00:10:05,230 [♪ mystical music playing] 250 00:10:05,271 --> 00:10:06,856 This project is so exciting 251 00:10:06,898 --> 00:10:08,441 that there's so much overlap 252 00:10:08,483 --> 00:10:10,026 and play between different departments 253 00:10:10,068 --> 00:10:12,278 to really capture these concepts and themes 254 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,781 and express them on so many different levels. 255 00:10:16,241 --> 00:10:19,577 As we designed these practical and visual effects, 256 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:22,372 we wanted there to be a deeply rooted logic 257 00:10:22,413 --> 00:10:23,623 to what was happening. 258 00:10:23,665 --> 00:10:25,375 Even though magic is not logical, 259 00:10:25,416 --> 00:10:27,752 for us, it's more of these, like, consequences of magic 260 00:10:27,794 --> 00:10:29,087 that we're interested in. 261 00:10:30,004 --> 00:10:32,382 For every expression of magic, 262 00:10:32,382 --> 00:10:34,259 we're trying to do that critical analysis 263 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:36,219 of how does this tie back into 264 00:10:36,261 --> 00:10:38,221 what we're saying magic actually is. 265 00:10:39,097 --> 00:10:41,432 And we really wanted to celebrate it as a moment 266 00:10:41,474 --> 00:10:43,101 to do things a little bit differently. 267 00:10:44,602 --> 00:10:46,563 [♪ mystical music playing] 268 00:10:46,563 --> 00:10:48,898 This is one of the most exciting conversations 269 00:10:48,940 --> 00:10:50,275 I've had as a designer, 270 00:10:50,316 --> 00:10:52,485 diving into the science of something 271 00:10:52,527 --> 00:10:54,362 that should be unexplainable. 272 00:10:55,697 --> 00:10:57,907 The joy of working on a project like this 273 00:10:57,949 --> 00:10:59,909 is that we have so many really creative 274 00:10:59,951 --> 00:11:02,162 and exciting department heads. 275 00:11:02,203 --> 00:11:04,080 It really is such a pleasure to work 276 00:11:04,122 --> 00:11:06,124 with such high-level craftsmen 277 00:11:06,166 --> 00:11:08,877 who also are genuinely excited about this. 278 00:11:09,711 --> 00:11:12,255 I-- I can proudly say you've done a good job. 279 00:11:12,297 --> 00:11:13,798 - Thank you. - A very good job. 280 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,175 - Means a lot. Cheers. - Cheers. 281 00:11:15,216 --> 00:11:16,467 - Cheers. - Appreciate it. 282 00:11:20,972 --> 00:11:23,933 My father actually designed and painted 283 00:11:23,975 --> 00:11:26,978 the very first Quidditch box from the first film. 284 00:11:27,020 --> 00:11:30,523 And here I am, um, uh, 26 years later, 285 00:11:30,565 --> 00:11:33,526 painting the new Quidditch box, 286 00:11:33,568 --> 00:11:35,653 uh, for the HBO production. 287 00:11:36,863 --> 00:11:38,865 [♪ light music playing] 288 00:11:40,909 --> 00:11:42,702 [John Nolan] I actually worked on Harry Potter three 289 00:11:42,744 --> 00:11:44,954 and four film, 25 years ago. 290 00:11:44,996 --> 00:11:46,539 And I was actually a trainee to some of the guys 291 00:11:46,581 --> 00:11:47,749 that are working here. 292 00:11:49,918 --> 00:11:52,670 Every creature we build within Creature Effects, 293 00:11:52,712 --> 00:11:55,006 whether it's, uh, an owl, a rat, 294 00:11:55,048 --> 00:11:57,008 whether it's a creature or a human being, 295 00:11:57,050 --> 00:11:58,509 all starts with the same process. 296 00:11:58,551 --> 00:12:01,846 Basically, extensive research into nature. 297 00:12:03,765 --> 00:12:06,726 Observing and looking at how an owl might move. 298 00:12:06,768 --> 00:12:08,478 They just look incredible. 299 00:12:08,519 --> 00:12:10,647 And it's our job to try and copy that movement 300 00:12:10,647 --> 00:12:12,857 and repeat that with, um, the use of animatronics 301 00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:14,025 and creature effects. 302 00:12:14,067 --> 00:12:15,526 You can see within the animatronics, 303 00:12:15,568 --> 00:12:16,819 you've got all these pivot points, 304 00:12:16,861 --> 00:12:18,696 and pieces of metal and plastic, 305 00:12:18,738 --> 00:12:20,323 and servo motors. 306 00:12:20,365 --> 00:12:23,076 And our job is to try and make that feel organic. 307 00:12:25,912 --> 00:12:27,830 [♪ light, upbeat music playing] 308 00:12:27,872 --> 00:12:29,374 [Laura Sindall] We are looking at, essentially, 309 00:12:29,415 --> 00:12:31,751 the culmination of a lot of teamwork. 310 00:12:32,877 --> 00:12:35,171 These are some early prototypes we did 311 00:12:35,213 --> 00:12:38,007 of how we would create this incredible neck movement 312 00:12:38,049 --> 00:12:39,342 that you have within owls, 313 00:12:39,384 --> 00:12:41,844 how they move so much, this almost 360 movement, 314 00:12:41,886 --> 00:12:43,513 the up and down, the turning, 315 00:12:43,554 --> 00:12:45,848 that we put together in fabrication. 316 00:12:45,890 --> 00:12:49,852 And then, we hand these over to the wonderful feather team 317 00:12:49,894 --> 00:12:51,938 to do all their beautiful work-over 318 00:12:51,980 --> 00:12:53,856 so that we can fill these voids 319 00:12:53,898 --> 00:12:56,401 and have amazing feathers that all glide and move, 320 00:12:56,442 --> 00:12:59,779 and create that incredible motion that an owl's neck has. 321 00:13:00,655 --> 00:13:04,450 So, we then insert each and every feather individually 322 00:13:04,492 --> 00:13:06,744 in the net, and glue it down. 323 00:13:06,786 --> 00:13:10,373 And it's about 36,000 feathers per owl. 324 00:13:10,373 --> 00:13:14,085 And we made about ten owls for this show. 325 00:13:14,127 --> 00:13:15,712 [♪ upbeat music playing] 326 00:13:15,753 --> 00:13:17,463 [John Nolan] Because technology's moved on, 327 00:13:17,505 --> 00:13:19,966 and we've actually got stronger and faster motors 328 00:13:20,008 --> 00:13:21,467 that we can actually fit inside, 329 00:13:21,509 --> 00:13:23,219 you can actually pick the rat neck up 330 00:13:23,261 --> 00:13:25,096 and push it around and bully it around. 331 00:13:25,138 --> 00:13:27,890 When Ron holds the animatronic, it actually pushes it aside 332 00:13:27,932 --> 00:13:30,560 rather than it feeling like a, a stuffed Scabbers. 333 00:13:30,601 --> 00:13:33,396 Dan has actually put that into this animatronic here 334 00:13:33,438 --> 00:13:35,064 where, as you push the feet down, 335 00:13:35,106 --> 00:13:36,316 it actually compresses, 336 00:13:36,357 --> 00:13:38,151 and I can actually move this around. 337 00:13:38,192 --> 00:13:39,569 You can see here. 338 00:13:39,610 --> 00:13:42,488 So, it doesn't feel too robotic and-- and rigid, 339 00:13:42,530 --> 00:13:44,991 which I think really helps the performance of-- 340 00:13:45,033 --> 00:13:47,660 of a young boy who's probably never held an animatronic before 341 00:13:47,702 --> 00:13:49,245 in his life. 342 00:13:49,287 --> 00:13:50,747 Um, and then, of course, when you put it 343 00:13:50,788 --> 00:13:52,248 into the sort of context of, 344 00:13:52,248 --> 00:13:55,251 uh, you know, down on the floor like that, 345 00:13:55,293 --> 00:13:56,878 it's-- it's really believable. 346 00:13:59,172 --> 00:14:01,007 And we also made a biting Scabbers 347 00:14:01,049 --> 00:14:02,759 that Charlotte's gonna bring in now. 348 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,428 Put your finger in his mouth and wiggle it around. 349 00:14:05,470 --> 00:14:06,721 That's it. 350 00:14:07,972 --> 00:14:10,183 There you go. Thank you very much. 351 00:14:10,224 --> 00:14:12,602 [♪ creepy music playing] 352 00:14:12,643 --> 00:14:14,604 This is the Dugbog, which is a character 353 00:14:14,645 --> 00:14:16,773 that hasn't been seen in any of the films before. 354 00:14:16,814 --> 00:14:20,193 It's, um, based on a toad that has, uh, 355 00:14:20,234 --> 00:14:21,861 movements that we've taken directly from nature, 356 00:14:21,903 --> 00:14:24,822 from toads, where the eyes pull in, retract inside. 357 00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:26,991 We've got a mechanical tongue. 358 00:14:27,992 --> 00:14:30,036 Nose movement, nostrils. 359 00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:34,832 We added, uh, this detail on top 360 00:14:34,874 --> 00:14:36,834 so the kids could actually snap the backs-- 361 00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:38,628 the back off and pull these mollusks off 362 00:14:38,669 --> 00:14:41,381 so it doesn't feel damaging for the creature. 363 00:14:43,674 --> 00:14:45,510 It's actually an amazing opportunity for us 364 00:14:45,551 --> 00:14:46,969 to all come together, 365 00:14:47,011 --> 00:14:48,846 all departments, all disciplines, 366 00:14:48,888 --> 00:14:51,140 whether it was Creature Effects, Special Effects, 367 00:14:51,182 --> 00:14:54,185 Visual Effects, Model Making, Set Deck. 368 00:14:55,103 --> 00:14:57,230 We also created these flobberworms 369 00:14:57,271 --> 00:14:59,232 and characters like this 370 00:14:59,273 --> 00:15:01,401 that we didn't tell the-- the kids 371 00:15:01,442 --> 00:15:04,320 that we're actually gonna be able to pick them up 372 00:15:04,362 --> 00:15:06,155 and, uh, add slime. 373 00:15:06,197 --> 00:15:09,325 And we had these fire crabs 374 00:15:09,367 --> 00:15:13,037 that was actually working closely with Special Effects, 375 00:15:13,079 --> 00:15:16,207 and these two will actually blast fire 376 00:15:16,249 --> 00:15:18,376 out of their backsides at each other. 377 00:15:18,418 --> 00:15:21,337 So, we've got a self-contained animatronic here 378 00:15:21,379 --> 00:15:23,047 where all the motors are inside, 379 00:15:23,089 --> 00:15:25,425 and someone's actually operating that remotely. 380 00:15:26,217 --> 00:15:27,969 [flames whooshing] 381 00:15:30,179 --> 00:15:31,889 I'm shaking right now, just being in this room. 382 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:33,224 Like this is-- this is crazy. 383 00:15:33,266 --> 00:15:34,559 [♪ exciting music playing] 384 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,394 I was the right age and it was always there. 385 00:15:36,436 --> 00:15:38,020 And I sort of-- it was something I really-- 386 00:15:38,062 --> 00:15:40,565 I really bonded with my siblings over. 387 00:15:40,606 --> 00:15:42,525 I think my cousin first introduced me to it. 388 00:15:42,567 --> 00:15:43,860 So, we used to-- 389 00:15:43,860 --> 00:15:45,528 I mean, we used to run home from primary school 390 00:15:45,570 --> 00:15:47,738 and change out of our-- our primary-school clothes 391 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:49,365 and into our Hogwarts robes. 392 00:15:49,407 --> 00:15:51,409 [♪ exciting music continues] 393 00:15:52,743 --> 00:15:54,579 [Holly Waddington] We're set in 1991, 394 00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:58,541 and we did a full study of what people were wearing in 1991, 395 00:15:58,583 --> 00:16:03,421 um, and we tried to make the Muggles feel as true 396 00:16:03,463 --> 00:16:05,423 as we possibly could make them. 397 00:16:05,465 --> 00:16:07,967 We've really sort of drawn out, you know, certain-- 398 00:16:08,009 --> 00:16:10,720 tried to sort of create real contrasts. 399 00:16:10,761 --> 00:16:13,556 The Muggle palette is pastel-orientated, 400 00:16:13,598 --> 00:16:15,266 very cold colors, 401 00:16:15,308 --> 00:16:17,560 and there's a big emphasis on synthetic fabrics. 402 00:16:17,602 --> 00:16:20,146 As you can see here, it's really the period of shell suits. 403 00:16:20,188 --> 00:16:21,981 I don't-- We call them shell suits. 404 00:16:22,023 --> 00:16:24,775 They're these crinkly tracksuit tops. 405 00:16:26,068 --> 00:16:29,113 [Jason Airey] I think in terms of finding Harry's look, 406 00:16:29,155 --> 00:16:31,073 he lives in a world where everyone 407 00:16:31,115 --> 00:16:33,159 is following the fashions. 408 00:16:33,993 --> 00:16:36,454 He hasn't ever had the luxury of choosing his clothes. 409 00:16:36,496 --> 00:16:37,830 He's-- he's given-- 410 00:16:37,872 --> 00:16:40,249 he's given these old castoffs by Petunia, 411 00:16:40,291 --> 00:16:42,168 which are Dudley's old clothes. 412 00:16:43,753 --> 00:16:47,423 His clothes just hang off him and they're just grayed out. 413 00:16:47,423 --> 00:16:49,759 Actually, everything that he wears, we found original-- 414 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:51,636 Beth found original pieces, 415 00:16:51,677 --> 00:16:54,222 which we then meticulously recreated. 416 00:16:55,806 --> 00:16:58,100 [Beth Collins] We're finding real clothes, 417 00:16:58,142 --> 00:17:01,187 sort of trawling many vintage yards 418 00:17:01,229 --> 00:17:03,272 and wholesale scrapyards and just finding it. 419 00:17:03,314 --> 00:17:07,193 And the amount we've amassed as we've costumed thousands. 420 00:17:08,152 --> 00:17:09,487 And the more we found, 421 00:17:09,529 --> 00:17:11,531 this palette came naturally together. 422 00:17:11,572 --> 00:17:14,367 These are the-- the colors of 1991. 423 00:17:14,408 --> 00:17:16,536 [Holly] We want to time travel. 424 00:17:16,577 --> 00:17:19,121 We get to dive in and out of different time frames, 425 00:17:19,163 --> 00:17:20,790 different styles of costuming, 426 00:17:20,831 --> 00:17:21,999 and you can't time travel 427 00:17:22,041 --> 00:17:24,043 if they're not exactly the right thing. 428 00:17:26,420 --> 00:17:29,882 Our uniforms are all made of British wool, 429 00:17:29,924 --> 00:17:32,510 organic cotton, shell buttons, 430 00:17:32,552 --> 00:17:35,221 wooden buttons, Scottish tartan. 431 00:17:35,263 --> 00:17:37,848 Natural cloth is-- is something that is almost rare. 432 00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:40,142 It's quite a radical act just to wear a-- a jumper 433 00:17:40,184 --> 00:17:41,852 that's made of sheep's wool. 434 00:17:41,894 --> 00:17:43,312 Even though, you know, we live in a country 435 00:17:43,354 --> 00:17:45,314 that's like full of sheep. 436 00:17:45,356 --> 00:17:47,024 [soft chuckling] 437 00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:49,110 [all laughing] 438 00:17:50,611 --> 00:17:54,740 For magical people, we had to find how we present them, 439 00:17:54,782 --> 00:17:56,659 that feels somehow a little bit "other." 440 00:17:56,659 --> 00:17:58,578 What Francesca and Mark really wanted us 441 00:17:58,619 --> 00:18:00,246 to be bringing into the design, 442 00:18:00,288 --> 00:18:01,998 was with lots of nature. 443 00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:04,500 That-- that when-- when we decided to use 444 00:18:04,542 --> 00:18:07,003 all these very imperfect, 445 00:18:07,044 --> 00:18:08,546 natural processes, 446 00:18:08,588 --> 00:18:11,591 like leaf-printing, like hand-painting, 447 00:18:11,632 --> 00:18:13,467 - like marbling. - [Beth] Marbling. 448 00:18:14,385 --> 00:18:16,262 [Holly] When you print with leaves, 449 00:18:16,304 --> 00:18:18,681 there is this natural, magical process that happens. 450 00:18:18,681 --> 00:18:21,392 You don't know what you're going to get depending on the leaf, 451 00:18:21,434 --> 00:18:23,853 you just have to go with what you get. 452 00:18:23,894 --> 00:18:26,689 For Dumbledore, we wanted to use leaf-printing 453 00:18:26,731 --> 00:18:30,067 because we wanted to do this camo fabric for him to wear. 454 00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:33,571 And we wanted to create the sense of this natural, 455 00:18:33,613 --> 00:18:36,282 immediate, um, unruly process. 456 00:18:37,742 --> 00:18:40,036 It's the imperfection that brings the beauty. 457 00:18:40,036 --> 00:18:43,289 [Jason] It's not kind of like a high fantasy. 458 00:18:43,331 --> 00:18:45,541 It's really rooted in "the real." 459 00:18:45,541 --> 00:18:49,045 And I think that would hopefully make people think, oh, maybe... 460 00:18:49,086 --> 00:18:51,088 - "Maybe it's real." - "Maybe it is around that corner," or... 461 00:18:51,130 --> 00:18:52,381 - Yeah. - ...look at a person 462 00:18:52,423 --> 00:18:54,133 walking down the street, and think, "Oh." 463 00:18:54,175 --> 00:18:56,552 I remember, we kept saying, 464 00:18:56,594 --> 00:18:58,304 "I've just seen a magical person." 465 00:18:58,346 --> 00:18:59,889 - I remember that. - "I've just seen a magical person." 466 00:18:59,930 --> 00:19:01,265 And we were photographing people, 467 00:19:01,307 --> 00:19:02,892 like on the tube or the bus, 468 00:19:02,933 --> 00:19:05,394 that we'd identify as sort of a "magical person." 469 00:19:05,436 --> 00:19:08,481 And so, it's this idea that magical people do exist 470 00:19:08,522 --> 00:19:09,815 and they are around, 471 00:19:09,857 --> 00:19:12,652 and we wanted that to be within all of them. 472 00:19:12,693 --> 00:19:16,781 Just a sort of... combination of elements 473 00:19:16,822 --> 00:19:18,240 that just made you look. 474 00:19:18,282 --> 00:19:20,409 [♪ soft, mystical music playing] 475 00:19:20,451 --> 00:19:22,119 And by complete contrast, 476 00:19:22,161 --> 00:19:25,456 we have created an inky, moody... 477 00:19:26,457 --> 00:19:28,751 natural palette for the magical people. 478 00:19:28,793 --> 00:19:32,630 So, that's one way that we've created, um, a dichotomy. 479 00:19:34,382 --> 00:19:38,135 [Basia Kuznar] Everything is rooted in reality. 480 00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:39,512 Our Dumbledore, 481 00:19:39,553 --> 00:19:42,932 he is a little bit like Edwardian gentleman, 482 00:19:42,973 --> 00:19:44,600 because that's what we thought, 483 00:19:44,642 --> 00:19:46,977 knowing how old he is, we kind of work out 484 00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:49,271 that his height, his heyday. 485 00:19:49,313 --> 00:19:51,273 [Holly] A little bit of Scottish tweed here, 486 00:19:51,273 --> 00:19:54,193 embroidered, as you can see, in a very unruly, 487 00:19:54,235 --> 00:19:56,028 not-too-perfect way. 488 00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:02,201 I mean, I love Harry Potter because I picked up the book 489 00:20:02,243 --> 00:20:04,286 when-- when I had my children. 490 00:20:04,328 --> 00:20:07,331 And I got really into reading the books 491 00:20:07,373 --> 00:20:10,793 with my son Eric, who just loved them. 492 00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:12,294 [♪ heartwarming music playing] 493 00:20:12,336 --> 00:20:15,381 He could really project himself into the story, 494 00:20:15,423 --> 00:20:17,550 and I think it was so good for him, 495 00:20:17,591 --> 00:20:20,177 and I could see how much he was loving it. 496 00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:22,471 And-- and we were loving it together. 497 00:20:22,513 --> 00:20:24,724 Our thing where we'd sit down together at night 498 00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:29,395 and read very intricate stories with quite complicated plots 499 00:20:29,437 --> 00:20:31,856 and lots and lots of things happening. 500 00:20:31,897 --> 00:20:33,983 And he said to me, 501 00:20:34,024 --> 00:20:36,360 "Mummy, is there a school that I can go to like this?" 502 00:20:37,778 --> 00:20:40,030 And, um, and I-- 503 00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:42,074 I thought, "I need to find this school. 504 00:20:42,116 --> 00:20:45,494 And if I can't find it, I need to try and create this school." 505 00:20:45,536 --> 00:20:48,497 It definitely feels like a big responsibility. 506 00:20:48,497 --> 00:20:49,999 [Holly] I think it's a big responsibility 507 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,209 to get it right, isn't it? 508 00:20:52,251 --> 00:20:55,087 To honor what has gone before, 509 00:20:55,129 --> 00:20:58,591 but to hopefully, like, find more detail. 510 00:20:58,632 --> 00:21:00,259 ♪♪ 511 00:21:05,306 --> 00:21:08,100 I think I was literally the same age 512 00:21:08,142 --> 00:21:10,269 as the kids in the book, you know? 513 00:21:10,311 --> 00:21:13,564 I think the first one came out in '97. I was seven. 514 00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:16,358 Um, and I was definitely at the age 515 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:18,194 where, like, the books were still coming out 516 00:21:18,235 --> 00:21:19,612 when I was at school. 517 00:21:19,653 --> 00:21:21,197 So, it was actually really intense. 518 00:21:21,238 --> 00:21:22,948 I remember reading those books, 519 00:21:22,990 --> 00:21:26,202 and you wouldn't be able to talk to your mates at all. 520 00:21:26,243 --> 00:21:28,871 Because, like, if someone was reading faster than you were, 521 00:21:28,913 --> 00:21:30,456 they were gonna tell you what was gonna happen. 522 00:21:30,498 --> 00:21:32,541 And like, these stories are so important at that age, 523 00:21:32,583 --> 00:21:35,252 it wasn't worth, like, the conversation 524 00:21:35,294 --> 00:21:37,046 with your mates. 525 00:21:37,087 --> 00:21:38,297 At that age, you-- 526 00:21:38,339 --> 00:21:40,049 you imagine yourself being a kid at Hogwarts, 527 00:21:40,090 --> 00:21:42,593 or you imagine yourself being in Harry's shoes. 528 00:21:44,929 --> 00:21:48,974 I remember on one day, I came in to see, uh, Mark, 529 00:21:49,016 --> 00:21:50,976 and they were shooting the scene 530 00:21:51,018 --> 00:21:53,437 on Platform Nine and Three-Quarters. 531 00:21:53,479 --> 00:21:56,565 And just walking in and seeing the real train, 532 00:21:56,607 --> 00:21:58,776 it was like being thrown into the book. 533 00:21:58,818 --> 00:22:01,111 It was like being thrown into it, it was real. 534 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:08,160 [narrator] So, as you can see, 535 00:22:08,202 --> 00:22:09,578 though the world of Harry Potter 536 00:22:09,620 --> 00:22:11,163 is already legendary, 537 00:22:11,205 --> 00:22:13,332 its legacy is still growing. 538 00:22:14,792 --> 00:22:18,254 As a new generation discovers its magic, 539 00:22:18,295 --> 00:22:21,465 an exciting new era is upon us. 540 00:22:22,591 --> 00:22:24,593 [John Lithgow] I knew that while I did 541 00:22:24,635 --> 00:22:26,846 the first season of Harry Potter, 542 00:22:26,887 --> 00:22:29,390 I would be turning 80 years old. [chuckles] 543 00:22:30,683 --> 00:22:33,769 That meant that I would age to about 88 544 00:22:33,811 --> 00:22:35,271 before it was all over. 545 00:22:35,312 --> 00:22:40,109 This is an extremely difficult thing to contemplate. 546 00:22:40,150 --> 00:22:41,986 [♪ light, upbeat music playing] 547 00:22:42,027 --> 00:22:44,655 They're just an amazing ensemble. 548 00:22:46,073 --> 00:22:47,950 All of them, Arabella, 549 00:22:47,992 --> 00:22:49,702 and Alastair, 550 00:22:49,743 --> 00:22:51,620 and Dom. 551 00:22:51,620 --> 00:22:53,455 - [Lucy] What you think? You excited? - Yeah. 552 00:22:53,497 --> 00:22:55,291 Do you want to come and sit down? 553 00:22:55,332 --> 00:22:57,835 [John Lithgow] And they all adore each other. 554 00:22:58,544 --> 00:23:00,504 I'm really excited to see how they grow 555 00:23:00,546 --> 00:23:02,298 and how their artistry grows 556 00:23:02,339 --> 00:23:04,508 and what kind of people they grow into. 557 00:23:04,550 --> 00:23:06,719 ♪♪ 558 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,178 [John Lithgow] They're gonna grow up in this. 559 00:23:10,556 --> 00:23:13,893 And, uh, and I'm gonna grow old with them. 560 00:23:13,934 --> 00:23:15,561 [laughing] 561 00:23:16,854 --> 00:23:18,188 [Janet McTeer] Theoretically, we could be working 562 00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:20,149 for many years together 563 00:23:20,190 --> 00:23:21,901 and they'll be young adults by then. 564 00:23:23,861 --> 00:23:25,654 We want them to grow up thinking, "Wow! 565 00:23:25,696 --> 00:23:27,823 "It might have been hard, it might have been difficult, 566 00:23:27,823 --> 00:23:29,825 "it might have been tiring, but boy, it was good 567 00:23:29,867 --> 00:23:31,201 "and so glad I did it. 568 00:23:31,243 --> 00:23:34,038 It was so exciting to be a part of it." 569 00:23:35,873 --> 00:23:38,375 - [train tracks rattling] - [narrator] And here we are. 570 00:23:39,335 --> 00:23:41,045 What better place to end this journey 571 00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:43,213 into the heart of Harry Potter 572 00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:45,382 than where he begins his journey to Hogwarts? 573 00:23:46,091 --> 00:23:48,928 Here, we're surrounded by both unbelievable scale, 574 00:23:48,969 --> 00:23:52,973 along with the little things that make it all feel so real. 575 00:23:54,099 --> 00:23:56,268 Talking about mind-blowing detail, 576 00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:59,063 come and have a look at this, a tiny taste of what's to come. 577 00:23:59,104 --> 00:24:01,899 [♪ majestic music playing] 578 00:24:05,903 --> 00:24:07,696 [narrator] So, all aboard. 579 00:24:07,738 --> 00:24:09,198 You might wanna hold your ears. 580 00:24:09,198 --> 00:24:10,783 [shouting] It's about to get very loud! 581 00:24:10,824 --> 00:24:13,077 [steam hissing] 582 00:24:15,579 --> 00:24:17,373 [train whistle blowing] 583 00:24:17,414 --> 00:24:19,249 This feels like my cue. 584 00:24:19,291 --> 00:24:22,795 [♪ majestic music continues] 585 00:24:22,836 --> 00:24:24,838 [train bell dinging] 586 00:24:30,135 --> 00:24:32,137 [train whistle blowing] 587 00:24:44,149 --> 00:24:46,318 So, my Dad was a prop master 588 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,570 on all of the, uh, eight original movies. 589 00:24:48,612 --> 00:24:50,948 And I'm here to carry on the legacy. 590 00:24:51,949 --> 00:24:53,242 The next generation of fans 591 00:24:53,283 --> 00:24:54,910 being something very important to me 592 00:24:54,910 --> 00:24:58,414 because my son is a big Harry Potter fan. 593 00:24:58,455 --> 00:25:02,584 Uh, and so, I cannot let the little guys down, 594 00:25:02,626 --> 00:25:05,087 cannot let the new generation of fans down. 595 00:25:05,129 --> 00:25:07,423 I know it's really important. 596 00:25:07,464 --> 00:25:09,925 My family worked on the original Harry Potter 597 00:25:09,967 --> 00:25:11,760 and I get to carry on the legacy. 598 00:25:11,802 --> 00:25:12,970 What a dream. 599 00:25:13,012 --> 00:25:15,514 I met my wife on the third Harry Potter, 600 00:25:15,556 --> 00:25:17,850 um, and now my son works for me. 601 00:25:17,891 --> 00:25:20,769 So, it's-- it's been our life, really. 602 00:25:20,769 --> 00:25:24,982 Well, I started my Harry Potter experience in 1999, 603 00:25:25,024 --> 00:25:28,444 and 27 years later, I'm still here. [chuckles] 604 00:25:28,485 --> 00:25:30,779 I remember the first day that I was filming, 605 00:25:30,821 --> 00:25:32,865 we were on set on-- on Privet Drive, 606 00:25:32,906 --> 00:25:34,616 and we had-- we had Harry's owl with him, 607 00:25:34,658 --> 00:25:35,993 and I just sort of looked around 608 00:25:36,035 --> 00:25:37,619 and it was such a "pinch me" moment. 609 00:25:37,661 --> 00:25:39,788 There's been too many good moments to count, 610 00:25:39,830 --> 00:25:41,206 to be honest, it's-- 611 00:25:41,248 --> 00:25:43,709 this has been a-- a year of highlights.