After the film adaptations of the J.K. Rowling ’s Wizarding World books defined a generation of fantasy fans, Max has been developing a Harry Potter TV show .
Said series is set to take audiences through all the seven titles again and add more depth narrative-wise than the movies. As fans await casting information about the series’ new cast, Bonnie Wright weighed in on possibly giving advice to the new cast once they're hired, and I totally understand her take. When the Ginny Weasley actress spoke to Variety , she reflected on her own experience playing Harry Potter ’s love interest for a decade of her life.
Those recollections are ultimately what inform her thoughts on possibly advising the new actors. In her words: When we were making them, we didn’t know where ‘Harry Potter’ was going. And at the time, there wasn’t social media, and there wasn’t as much access to public opinion, so it was kind of a little bubble within itself.
But I also think it’s such a fun opportunity for these people, whether how they’re cast or how they perform their roles, to just have fun with it and have their interpretation of it. When the original Harry Potter cast ventured to the Hogwarts sets to film 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone , it was a different time -- one without social media. Sites like Instagram or Twitter hadn’t even been invented yet.
As Bonnie Wright explained, the ensemble had the privilege of being in their own bubbles on set while making t.