Bonnie Wright says that Ginny Weasley’s lack of display screen time within the Harry Potter franchise was disappointing.
Ginny Weasley was a distinguished supporting character within the Harry Potter novels, however the huge display screen variations didn’t precisely do justice to the character. Whereas showing on Michael Rosenbaum’s Within You podcast (through Leisure Weekly), Bonnie Wright expressed disappointment at how her character was dealt with within the films.
“I positively really feel there was anxiousness towards performing and doing the most effective factor as my character constructed,” Wright mentioned. “Like, Oh gosh, will I do justice to this character that folks love? In order that was all the time arduous to do, particularly when, inevitably, a variety of the scenes of each character have been chopped down from the e-book to the movie. So that you didn’t actually have as a lot to point out within the movie. Generally that was just a little disappointing as a result of there have been components of the character that simply didn’t get to return by as a result of there weren’t the scenes to do this.“
Bonnie Wright made her first look as Ginny Weasley in Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone when she was simply 9 years outdated. She wasn’t even presupposed to have any traces till director Chris Columbus insisted. “The precise first line I had within the movie, which was one line, was given to me on the day, [and director Chris Columbus] was like, ‘I believe you want a line,’ which is my ‘good luck’ to Harry,” Wright mentioned.
On the time, J.Ok. Rowling was nonetheless within the midst of writing the novels, so Wright wasn’t conscious that her character would go on to have an even bigger position and find yourself marrying Harry Potter. So far as elevating considerations about her character, Wright defined that “there was no room for a lot change in these scripts. There have been 1,000,000 executives going by all of them. I believe what I possibly took, which I don’t take a lot to coronary heart now, is I form of felt that possibly my anxiousness was about, Oh, I’m going to be seen as badly portraying this character, fairly than later realizing that I wasn’t actually given the chance to do this. So it wasn’t actually my fault, precisely.“
Whereas the Harry Potter films might not have had the foresight to develop Ginny Weasley correctly, maybe the Harry Potter TV sequence will be capable of flesh out the character. The plan is for every season of the sequence to concentrate on one novel, which is able to depart loads of display screen time for all concerned, even Ginny.