Several members from the cast of the award-winning Harry Potter and the Cursed Child reveal their fondest memories from 2016.
Whatever else it was, 2016 was a huge year for the Harry Potter franchise. There was a new play, a new book (script book, whatever), a new movie and just a general return to the Pottermania that defined the first decade of the century.
Of all the Harry Potter-related goodness we got in 2016, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child may have been the most notable. The play is currently selling out the London stage before it’s reproduced on Broadway in 2018. It picked up the stories of the main Harry Potter cast years after we left them at the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It also made stars of its actors, whether they wanted it or not. In this video, several of those actors recall their fondest memories from an eventful year.
Cast Moments
- Paul Thornley (Ron Weasley): “Highlight of my year was my daughter Florence meeting the great J.K. Rowling at the first night. And it’s the first time in her life that she’s ever been speechless.”
- Anthony Boyle (Scorpius Malfoy): “The first time we found the wig that is now the Scorpius wig was a real moment in finding the character.”
- Jamie Parker (Harry Potter): “Discovering that I can actually do a surprising number of tricks with my glasses on stage by mistake. I got particularly emotional in one scene and accidentally sent them flying across the stage and had to go very sorrowfully pick them up again and do the acting again.”
- Noma Dumezweni (Hermione Granger): “My daughter and Paul Thornley’s daughter watching the show, and, at the end of the curtain call, they went rushing down the aisle, applauding all of us with absolute joy and glee. I cannot tell you how beautiful that was, and we both choked up as we were doing the curtain call.”
Here’s to 2017 being just as memorable for the franchise. May the Scorpius wig give us strength.
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