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With most of young America in the grip of J. K. Rowling’s best-selling series, the movie of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which may cost as much as $150 million, has the potential to be a monster hit—but some die-hard fans may be hard to please. Every adult involved, from Rowling herself to Home Alone director Chris Columbus, swears their first rule was fidelity to the book. In this exclusive 22-page portfolio, Annie Leibovitz gets a preview, while the author reveals the challenges of choosing the Hogwarts location, filming a Quidditch game, and finding the perfect Harry to star alongside John Cleese, Dame Maggie Smith, Richard Harris, and Alan Rickman.

source: vanityfair.com

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Below you find pbs.org's interview with Daniel regarding David Copperfield, but they also talk a bit about Harry Potter.

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Dan, you just recently had a birthday...
Yes, I turned 12 in July (of 2001). We were on holiday at the time; we were in Spain. I opened all my cards and presents... well, most of my presents, before I went on holiday, so I had a chance to play with them a bit ... but I opened cards and things there and it was really, really fun.

Did you have a birthday cake?
I'm not much of a cake person.

Have you always wanted to be an actor?
Well, I haven't really decided what I want to be yet... I'm definitely very interested in it, but there are a number of other things I'm very interested in as well -- music, writing... scripts and things, but especially autism which I want to go to the university maybe, and study.

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Daniel, who had come straight from the Harry Potter (Philosopher's Stone) set, was asked about Harry's scar, "I see no scar, are you really the boy who defeated the Dark One?" asked Stephen Fry. Daniel replied "Yes, but I've left it in the dressing room".

When asked about how filming was going, and if he was enjoying himself, he replied, "Yeah, its really, really fantastic".

  source: killermovies.com

A photo of Daniel and the Comic Relief books (13th March 2001) via Fanpop.

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US trailer:


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Photos: Terry O'Neill

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Update: 24th August 2016. From BBC Archive.

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