A lot of exciting things are coming up at the moment Behind the scenes stories to the Harry Potter films to light. The reason for this is the release of Beyond The Wand: The Magic and Mayhem Of Growing Up A Wizard*, the memoir of Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton. It also unexpectedly mentions Cameron Diaz.
Diaz wasn’t present as an actress on a single Harry Potter set and yet she made an important contribution to the fact that the elaborate Quidditch scenes in particular worked so well. As AV Club summarizes, a Picture of her taped to a poleto direct the actors’ eyes.
Without Cameron Diaz, the Quidditch scenes in Harry Potter would look a lot more chaotic
With big fantasy blockbusters like Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, a lot of work is done with digital effects, which only find their way into the film during post-production. So that the actors during the shooting nevertheless to be able to point to somethingtennis balls are often held up.
This is where Cameron Diaz came in, as Tom Felton writes:
Sometimes there was more than just a tennis ball up there, and since one looked very similar to the other, after a while they gave us more individual objects to stare at. We have selected images of something or someone close to our hearts. Daniel Radcliffe had a picture of a particularly beautiful Cameron Diaz. Of course, there is nothing to be found by Diaz in the finished film. Now, the next time we watch the Quidditch match in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, we can assume that Daniel Radcliffe’s gaze will not be focused on the golden snitch, but on one Image by Cameron Diaz on a pole.
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Have you checked out Tom Felton’s memoir yet?