Harry Potter star is still dissatisfied with her role, even though she is a fan favorite from the very beginning

Not all stars who achieve worldwide fame are subsequently satisfied with their iconic appearance. Lord of the Rings star Hugo Weaving recently called himself a “clotheshorse” in disillusionment, and a Harry Potter actress Bonnie Wright had to swallow a lot of frustration as Ginny Weasley.

Ginny actress Bonnie Wright openly criticizes her Harry Potter role

According to Screen Rant, Bonnie Wright went to the Harry Potter casting because she reminded her brother of Ginny Weasley. Fans of the series later criticized the film Ginny as a helpless, timid and even boring girl with no chemistry with Daniel Radcliffe. In JK Rowling’s books, Ron’s sister was an enormously popular character from the start and grew into a spirited and courageous young woman with a mind of her own. What happened?

In the cast of celebrated Hogwarts stars, Bonnie Wright rarely comes away as the favorite character. Which is surprising when Ginny blossomed into Harry Potter’s ideal love interest in the novel series. The now 32-year-old actress of the only Weasley daughter spoke to EW twelve years after the end of the cinematic adventures about how the Harry Potter films handled Ginny wrongly:

I was worried about whether I could give the much-loved character [der Ginny Weasley] This has always been difficult, but especially because many of the scenes in the adaptation from book to film were left out. In the film you couldn’t show so much. That was sometimes a bit disappointing because parts of the character just didn’t come throughbecause the scenes were simply missing. […] I guess that made me feel worried or just frustratedWas Ginny Weasley neglected in the Harry Potter films?

What Bonnie Wright describes is a common Illness of minor characters in filmswhich in the (limited in their running time) screen adventures in contrast to the novel less well worked out as main characters. When the young actress auditioned for the role of Ginny, the character didn’t even have a single line of dialogue in the first film, so she had to audition with a few sentences from Hermione Granger instead. At that time, no one (except the author) knew that Ginny would end up as Harry Potter’s wife.

Wright says there wasn’t much room for change in the scripts and no one from the producers talked to her about developing her role.

At the time, I thought I would be seen as a bad actress in the role, instead of realizing that I was not given the opportunity to [gut] close. So it wasn’t really my fault.

According to Bonnie Wright, when Potter fans express their disappointment with the actress, they usually add that they know it wasn’t her fault and that they would have just liked to have seen more of the role.

Despite this partial disappointment, Bonnie Wright did not let her participation in the reunion special Return to Hogwarts: 20 Years of Harry Potter stop her. Despite smaller films such as A Christmas Carol in the mid-2010s, the actress was able to build on her Hogwarts fame after the end of the fantasy series. no major acting career (like the main trio). Instead, she tried her hand at directing short films, became a climate activist and gave birth to her first child in 2023.

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