David Yates Talks 'Harry Potter 5'

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

David Yates, director of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, told reporters that he and star Daniel Radcliffe mined real-life grief scenarios to depict Harry's initial state of mind in the wake of the death of his friend at the end of the last movie.

"Dan's got an amazing, vivid imagination, and ... there's a moment we're doing at the beginning of the film, and he sat on the swings; he's had a long hot summer, and Harry's been kind of neglected by his friends, [and] he's feeling very lonely," Yates told reporters in a news conference in London. "And [Radcliffe] says, 'I think this is what it probably feels like to be a Vietnam vet, you know? One of those guys who came from the war, and no one understood them, and they're ignored by everybody.' And so he's really well-read and intuitive."

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