Leading actors of the play Harry Potter franchise Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint worked with each other for over a decade, spanning their entire childhoods. The actors became comfortable with each other after being on set every day for ten years, and recalled many instances of co-stars making fun of each other during filming.
Actor Daniel Radcliffe once said in an interview that his co-star Emma Watson pulled a prank on the actor that nearly brought her to tears.
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Emma Watson’s cruel joke on Daniel Radcliffe
Anyone who watched Harry Potter In the series, we can agree that actress Emma Watson perfectly embodied the constantly studying and following the rules of Hermione Granger. Watson was so suited to her character that she reportedly even memorized her co-stars’ lines and could be seen saying them under her breath during filming.
However, despite her reputation as a perfect student, her co-star admitted that she also has a mischievous side. In an interview with the Express in 2014, Radcliffe mentioned that when he was fourteen, Watson woke him up early in the morning to tell him that his favorite band, The Libertines, had broken up. Radcliffe described the prank:
“Emma Watson told me when I was about 14 that one of my favorite bands had broken up. It was very early in the morning, so I didn’t even realize it was April 1st… I was a fan of a band called The Libertines, they were very moody and could break up at any moment, and she came and said: “This happened, it finally happened!”
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The garage rock band was known for its extreme internal conflicts, and the prospect of breaking up could become a reality at any moment. Consequently, Radcliffe believed it and allegedly immediately began to lose his temper. This bothered Emma Watson so much that she immediately stopped her joke and revealed the truth to him.
“And she just had to immediately say: “No, no, no, this is a joke, this is an April Fool’s joke,” because I wasn’t crying, but my face was so ashen… My lip was trembling, for sure!”
Daniel Radcliffe appears to have gotten back at Emma Watson for this joke on several occasions, as he reportedly ruined a take of Hermione and Ron’s kiss in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II, when an actor invited himself while filming a scene.
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Alan Rickman and Michael Gambon played Daniel Radcliffe
Besides headlining the fantasy franchise as the boy who loved, Daniel Radcliffe also seemed to be the main target of all the pranks on set. According to him, Emma Watson made fun of him when he was fourteen, and he expressed this during the filming of the film. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban. Many actors managed to get up to mischief on the set of Alfonso Cuaron’s film, with a particularly hilarious film created by the late actor Alan Rickman and Dumbledore actor Michael Gambon.
In a behind-the-scenes featurette for the film (via YouTube), Daniel Radcliffe mentioned that the prank included a scene where all the children are sleeping in the Great Hall of Hogwarts, as Sirius Black is rumored to be on the loose at the school. . The prank was reportedly orchestrated by Rickman, Alfonso Cuaron and Gambon. Radcliffe spoke about this.
“There was one time where Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman and I think Alfonso were kind of coordinating an opportunity to make fun of me… We had just finished a take and it took a long time to get it, and they put a fart machine in my sleeping bag. And Michael Gambon pressed it during a take that I recognized.”
According to Alfonso Cuarón, Daniel Radcliffe asked to be placed next to “a girl he liked” during a scene, prompting the actors to prank him. Radcliffe admitted in a Reddit AMA that it was the best prank ever pulled on set.
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Source: Express, Reddit, YouTube.