‘There’s so much magic!’: how we made Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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‘The ripple of energy and anticipation from the audience was almost visual. It was like opening a new Star Wars film – I didn’t hear a phone go off once’
My initial response when I was asked if I was interested in the role was confusion – I felt a bit long in the tooth to play a teenager. I had read the first Harry Potter book and seen a few of the movies, but was just past the right age when it was all kicking off. I didn’t know that there was the coda in the final book that places the action 19 years later, and that’s where the play would be picking up from.
To read the full story from the source: The Guardian – International
