Chris Rankin (Percy Wemel)

dark_moonlight · 4e jaars Verdiend: 5 Sikkels Woonplaats: Edinburgh Castle

ik vind dat Chris het wel goed doet. ik vind het personage ook wel goed, omdat in elkgezin wel iemand moet zitten die anders en zij familie de rug toe keert. en hier is Percy een goed voorbeeld voor Smile

HARRY/RON/HERMELIEN · Geplaatst: Do Jul 27, 2006 19:52

Ik vind hem echt niet leuk, dat personage.
Echt vreselijk bazig, en dan verwonderd afvragen waarom hij geen vrienden heeft. Rolling Eyes

Verder heeft hij ook niet veel te doen in de films, in film 2 hoefde hij alleen een brief te pakken van een uil en malfidus even zeggen dat hij niet op de gang moet lopen...Echt nutteloos

Helen · Geplaatst: Zo Nov 05, 2006 22:19

Er is een klein interviewtje geweest met Chris

Citaat:

Chris Rankin (Percy Weasley) updated his official site recently, saying that he completed filming on the fifth Harry Potter movie on Friday and that it's "looking to be pretty amazing" and is "going to be a brilliant movie." Chris began work on the movie in May.

Vrije vertaling:

Citaat:

Chris Ranking (Percy Wemel) heeft zijn officiÃ«le site ge-update. Hij verteld dat hij de de 5e Harry Potter film op vrijdag heeft afgerond en dat het "helemaal geweldig gaat worden" en "het wordt echt een briljante film" Chris is begonnen met filmen in mei

Hij is dus ook klaar met filmen en zegt wat ze allemaal al zeggen "het wordt fantastisch" Ik ben benieuwd Very Happy

Bron

Narcissa · Geplaatst: Di Nov 07, 2006 23:56

Zoo..na dat stukje van hem..Wil ik de film meteen gaan kijken.. Boh jah dan ren ik na een lange tijd weer vlug naar de bioscoop.^^ Ik heb het gevoel dat de 5de film misschien nog leuker gaat worden dan deel 4 ^^
Maar dan komt hij ook in deel 5 voor. Zal wel maar een klein stukje zijn maargoed Smile

WizardRA · 5e jaars Verdiend: 67 Sikkels

Ik vind dat hij Percy goed speelt, echt een nerd. Ik kon foto 2 ook niet zien, maar als ik de 1e zie vind ik hem eigenlijk wel een nerd. In iedergeval speelt hij zijn personage goed en kan hij ook goed acteren.

Carla

Er is op Mugglenet een intervieuw verschenen met Chris Rankin (Percy Wemel). Ik vond het heel interessant om te lezen. Het is jammer genoeg wel in het Engels. Hierin geeft hij onder andere aan dat hij al een HP-fan was voordat hij in de film ging spelen.

New Chris Rankin interview
We now have a new interview with actor Chris Rankin, who played Percy Weasley in every Potter movie but the fourth. In this interview, Percy discusses the fifth movie, the seventh book, and more.
New contributor Jeff Renaud speaks with Percy Weasley himself, British actor Chris Rankin, about the Order of the Phoenix movie and Book 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

JR: When did you originally land the role of Percy Weasley?

CR: It was in 2000, seven years ago.

JR: Can you believe it was that long ago?

CR: No. I was just 16 at the time. But it seems like yesterday. I was at home one evening watching the TV. I put the TV early on to watch a show called Neighbours, which is awful. It's an awful programme but I kind of like it in its cheesiness. And I caught the last five minutes of programme that's on the BBC called Newsround, which is a news programme for 12- to 14-year-olds, I guess. And the last piece of news for the programme was that they were finally making a movie for Harry Potter in September and they are looking for people to act and to apply because they don't want actor kids; they want to find new people, who have not necessarily acted before. And I thought why not? I think I had read two or three books at that time.

JR: So you knew of Harry Potter and were reading the books?

CR: Yes, I was a Harry Potter fan. My mum is an English teacher and she came back from school one day and said, "You have got to read this." And I was kind of hooked from the start. So I applied and they had said at the end of the report that if you haven't heard anything in a few weeks, basically tough luck because so many people are going to apply and they want to find a cast as soon as they can. So if you haven't heard anything in two weeks, you haven't got a chance, basically. And two weeks came and went and I heard nothing so I kind of forgot about it. I had my exams to do at the end of high school because it was end of May, beginning of June so I think I was studying for them. And I turned up from holidays in August and I had a voice mail saying this is somebody from David Heyman's production office and they want to see me for the role of Percy, which I had applied for. I wrote this cheesy letter saying I am too old for Harry and Ron and I can't really play Hermione and I am prefect at school, so I might kind of qualify for Percy. And then we rang them back and they faxed over a couple pages of script and said, "Learn these over the next one or two days."

JR: And had you done any acting at all previously, school productions or anything?

CR: I had been in all the school productions since I was 11. I kind of had the acting bug. I was quite shy when I started high school but I quickly discovered by acting, it got me over my shyness. It made me do something that wasn't really me. I think a lot of actors say that. It is quite easy to be confident when you are not being yourself, when you are playing another character or whatever. And so I had done a lot of stuff at school. I had three lead roles that year in school shows. I played Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, and I had done a lot of musicals.

So, I went to the audition two days after that and met Janet Hirshenson, who was the casting director for America, and she said, "Thank you very much and what are you doing in two days' time? Do you want to come and meet Chris Columbus and producers and everyone at the studio?"

And I said, "Yes." (laughs) So I did that and I did the same audition again for them and then Chris Columbus did a bit of improvisation to kind of test me, I guess, and Janet rang me the next day, or the day after I think, and my mum answered the phone and said, "It's for you," and I picked up the phone and Janet said, "I am speaking to Percy Weasley?"

And I started about a week later. It was insane. When it happened, it happened really quickly. And the next week, I got into costume and I was in a read-through all of a sudden, we were laughing really.

JR: Is it difficult playing Percy, who, by end of Order of the Phoenix, has been basically ostracized by the Weasley family? And secondly, are you personally hoping Percy gets his head back on right in Deathly Hallows?

CR: I actually hope that he doesn't. I think quite a lot of actors will agree with this that playing bad characters is much more enjoyable than playing the goodies. You look at Ralph Fiennes and how well he plays Voldemort. There is so much meat and so much depth to his character, certainly more with villains than there is with the good guys. The good guys just get to save the day and get the girl, but the baddies, I just love it.

We have this thing in England called Pantomime, which is a children's shows and they are always done at Christmas. And it's usually based on fairy tales and I have done five or six of them now and I always play the villain in those. I guess knowing where that's where you have been going for a long while. You have kind of been seeing it since the Goblet of Fire when the book came out for that. Percy wasn't possibly everything that he should be and he's starting to show signs of not quite being with Harry.

So having a head's up on that was fun because the fourth book came out the summer of 2000, I think, so you have known Percy is going bad right from the beginning of the filming, literally. So it's been nice, having that in mind kind of hinted at through everything. Certainly, in Chamber of Secrets, when there's a few moments when you think Percy might be the one opening the chamber when he is lurking in the dungeon and gets caught by Harry and Ron with the Polyjuice and all that. Knowing that he is not quite as goodie-goodie as you thought he might be. I mean he is a goodie, but he's power-hungry, I think.

JR: What is your relationship with the other actors on set? Does the fact Percy is on the outs with the Weasleys affect you at all?

CR: Mostly, it's a very happy bunch on set. I think we all say this and it's cheesy, but we've been saying it for years: it's like a very large family. We have all been doing it for such a long time now that most of us have learned together. A lot of us had never professionally acted before. We started at the same point and have worked up from there.

The only time it started to get weird to me was on Prisoner of Azkaban because I am slightly older than most of the kids and quite a bit younger than most of the adults so I was in that mid-way section. For the first two films, Sean Biggerstaff (Oliver Wood) was the same age as me and the twins, so we kind of hung out together but on the third film Sean had gone and everyone else was in exams and in schooling and I'd left school by then and so I was old enough to go hanging out with the famous actors (laughs), because you don't, you don't hang out with Alan Rickman, do you? But it didn't affect my enjoyment of the job at all. It just meant that when everyone was in school, I just sat in the dressing room or the trailer watching DVDs. But on set, the atmosphere is great. Everyone is doing the same thing.

JR: You don't get a preview copy of the seventh book, do you?

CR: No, I think the only person to have read it, apart from all of Jo's team of editors and all that, is perhaps Stephen Fry and Jim Dale, who read the audiobooks. They are probably the only other two who know what happens. So no, we don't get any clues at all. But we are always trying.

JR: Have you met J.K. Rowling before?

CR: Yes, three or four times.

JR: And are people always trying to find out some hints?

CR: Well some people have more success with that than others. I remember when the fifth book came out around the time of the second premiere, I guess, I had a word with her about Percy and the fact that I was getting hate mail from avid fans of the book. For some people, they are so into it, they think I actually am Percy. I get Percy's hate mail! They say, "I can't believe you have disowned your family." It's not my fault! (screams) And she said in the sixth book he does kind of redeem himself. And that's all she would tell me. And he did come home on Christmas Day but he brought the Minister of Magic with him so it was not the redemption we were hoping for.

JR: So will you line up with the rest of us when the seventh book comes out?

CR: Oh yes, I will.

JR: And will you race through it so it does the ending is not spoiled by media reports?

CR: The last time, when the sixth one came out, the BBC asked me to write a review for it. It came out on Saturday and they wanted it for the Monday. So I read the book in 13 hours. I stayed up all night, read it, took notes, put pages turned over, and wrote this thing. And I went out in the middle of the afternoon and fortunately I had finished it by then because I went out and already people were wearing T-shirts that said, "Dumbledore dies on page 596 [and I just saved you Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£16]."

It's cruel but yes, I'll be there at midnight at Borders or wherever and getting my copy and not sleeping for three days.

JR: Was that unexpected, being asked to write for BBC?

CR: I have quite a good relationship with the BBC actually. Lizo Mzimba, who presents Newsround and who as you know, has quite an involvement with the Harry Potter world, I have been mates with Lizo for quite a while now. Our local BBC station in Norwich, I have had a very good relationship with them for years. And I'm not sure why they asked me! Chris will do it.

JR: Would you like to do some more writing?

CR: It's something I'd be open to doing. Like I said, I like to do things that I haven't done before. There's something else that might be happening with the BBC, as well on BBC 1. Like I said, they have been very good to me over the last six or seven years.

JR: Is there anything else that you are working on?

CR: Yeah, some bits and bites. I've just gotten a new agent. He's been very proactive over here and getting things happening. There are a few things that aren't confirmed yet. There's a film possibly happening over the summer which is completely different from Harry Potter and will be a lot of fun. And this thing with the BBC that might be happening but like I said, nothing has been signed. Nothing is happening until the papers are signed.

So yeah, this potential film and this thing with the Beeb and I've got another pantomime that I am definitely doing this Christmas, a production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves just outside London. Alarmingly, the part is called Percy. And I can't think why that would be? It's getting busier now. When Goblet of Fire was happening, and I didn't do that one, because I don't know what happened there but there wasn't much for Percy. I had a couple of years of not doing very much and then last year was insanely busy because I was doing Order of the Phoenix and I was on tour with a production so I was doing the film during the day and the theatre at night. Then go back to the hotel, and do filming all day and the theatre at night, so that was insane. I did this thing, this war programme for TV and that was filming in Spain for the week so that was nice. And then I did a couple of conventions and then it was Pantomime and then I went to America and now we are here so, you know, it's getting busier now.

JR: And are you signed on for the sixth and seventh movies, as well?

CR: If they want me, yes. Nothing confirmed but if they offer, I will say yes. It really depends on the script. They option us. This is the contract, if we need you. And obviously, that's always depending on the script.

If Percy turns out to be Lord Voldemort or something, yeah if they want me, I'll do it. It would be great fun.

JR: Do you have any guesses for Book 7?

CR: This is where fans want to kill me for things I say. I want Harry and Ginny to get back together. I think that really has to happen. I don't know. I am very unsure of who is going to die. I wouldn't put it past her to kill Harry off. I don't think she will, but it wouldn't surprise me if she did because she has said all these things about this being definitely the last Harry Potter book - ever. She mentioned that after a few years she might do one of those mystical creatures type book kind of things. There certainly won't be any more Harry Potter books.

JR: But couldn't she bring Harry back? People always come back from the dead.

CR: Well Dumbledore is definitely dead. I know she said that. A couple of years ago, I was in Salem for the Halloween parade and I did one of the conventions that same weekend and I did a panel and this woman was convinced, utterly convinced that Dumbledore wasn't dead and actually when he had gone over the edge of the tower, and he was an Animagus and he turned himself into a beetle and had flown down to the ground and had a dragon's blood pellet in his mouth, so he got the trickle of blood and he was actually alive and it was all a big hoax. It was completely demented.

JR: But it's nice, in a way, that people put that much thought into it.

CR: I know. I don't know what I'd like to see. Obviously, I'd like to see something major for Percy.

JR: I am assuming you would like to see Percy back together with his family?

CR: No, I wouldn't, actually. I'd like to see something awful happen to him - a horrible death.

JR: You would like him to be Voldemort, wouldn't you?

CR: Yes! But if that doesn't happen, I would be quite happy to accidentally end up being a Death Eater and get attacked and killed and have some tragic death scene where he admits he's really, really sorry and then dies in the arms of his mother.

I would like to see the book be all that we expect it to be. I mean, the poor woman must be quite terrified because there is so much, more than any of the other books ever, there has been so much resting on this one remaining book.

JR: You are still a relatively young actor. Has participating in the Potter movies hurt your career in any way or has it been all good?

CR: I am 23 years old and of course, it's been an amazing thing. When you have Harry Potter on your resume, that's pretty good. It's not a car insurance advert or something, it's a good starting block really. I have never had any professional training. I have been full-time acting since I was 16. And I haven't stopped since. But I am working with the best actors in the U.K., some of the best actors in the world, people like Maggie Smith and Alan Rickman and all that. It's really best training I could ever have. It has caused a few hurdles over the years, where I have ended up doing some things purely because of Harry Potter and kind of getting typecast into that but it's still work at the end of the day. It's only recently that I signed up with Stacy Castro Media and I just spent five weeks over in L.A. It was interesting to go and see what America has. And it's been proving quite successful so far.

JR: Would you like to do more genre/fantasy work or would you prefer a comedy or a drama? Perhaps a role as a non-magical person?

CR: I love doing Harry Potter and I really enjoyed Lord of the Rings and I haven't seen Eragon but I want to and there's the Philip Pullman stuff, all those kinds of things I really enjoy but I feel at the moment, I have kind of done that. I have been doing that for six or seven years now. And I want to try doing something else for a while and see how that suits me.

I spent the last year touring the U.K. in a theatre production of Wuthering Heights. It's a classic drama, costume drama period piece. Which is completely different then anything I have ever done before and last Autumn, I did a TV documentary drama about people who won the Victoria Cross medal for bravery during the Crimean War in 1856. That was something I hadn't done with guns and swords and getting shot and doing complete action stuff. I try to vary what I do as much as possible because it keeps your brain working. If I could do Potter full-time, I'd be very happy but when I'm not doing Potter, I like doing things that aren't Potter. It's quite important to me to get out and try another character.

JR: That's great, Chris. Thanks for doing this. I know it's late there. Have a great evening. And as you wish, I hope Percy enjoys a horrible death in Deathly Hallows.

CR: Thank you, Jeff. I am sure you meant that in the nicest possible way.

For more on Chris, please visit his website at http://www.chrisrankin.com/

Jeff Renaud is a freelance writer. His words have appeared in Geek Monthly, Starlog, Cult Times, Comics International and on the popular comic book website www.comicbookresources.com

missme98 · Geplaatst: Ma Jul 16, 2007 16:05

Ik vind hem echt goed chris, hij lijkt gewoon op percy. Maar in film5 is hij echt te erg. In boek 4 mocht ik hem nog wel, vond het wel grappig hoe gedreven hij was en hoe serieus hij zichzelf nam.

Kevin. · Geplaatst: Di Jul 17, 2007 22:00

Hier is een nieuw Interview met Chris Rankin:

Harry Potter: Percy's back
By Martin Barber

Percy Weasley, former head-boy at Hogwarts, has a new job in the Ministry Of Magic. Norfolk actor Chris Rankin is delighted to have reprised Weasley's role in The Order Of The Phoenix, watch our exclusive webTV interview.

When it comes to the magical world of Harry Potter, the Norfolk-born muggle actor Chris Rankin, has something of a charmed life.

Most of us can only dream of being part of J.K. Rowling's wizarding world - where the post arrives by owl, shopping trips are taken in Diagon Alley and you drink butterbeer in The Leaky Cauldron.

But for Chris, the last seven years have seen him walking the corridors of Hogwarts, enjoy life in the Burrow and stroll around the Ministry Of Magic as Percy Weasley.

The Order Of The Phoenix
Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix (OOTP), the latest film installment of J.K. Rowling's magical seven-part series, sees Chris return to his role of the pompous Percy.

Starring the much-loved magical trio of Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, the OOTP also features Potter newbies Imelda Staunton (Professor Umbridge) and Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange).

webTV interview
In a webTV interview with BBC Norfolk, Chris told Martin Barber he was delighted to return to the world of Harry Potter.

CR: It was great to be back and get to do something a bit different. Percy isn't at Hogwarts, he's gone off and joined the Ministry Of Magic.

It's great to be back and see all the old folks again. It was a lot of fun this one as Percy's gone on to bigger and better things now, which means I got to work with the grown-ups.

Imelda Staunton as Professor Umbridge
Imelda Staunton as Professor Umbridge, Michael Gambon as Dumbledore and Robert Hardy as the Minister Of Magic - these are people that I've grown up respecting and wanting to be like and here I am acting with them.

It suddenly becomes quite a challenge and quite daunting to be on set everyday and think 'Ive got to be as good as they are'.

MB: After seven years, have your feelings changed towards working on Harry Potter?
CR: It's less daunting in the sense in that I know what itâ€™s like to work on a film now and I know the character inside out. But it's daunting in that you go in everyday and youâ€™re working with some of the best actors in the world.

But it's a lot of fun. You're made to feel very welcome and at ease.

MB: What's the best thing about going back to the world of Potter?
CR: Itâ€™s many things. Working on Potter is something that I've always enjoyed.

Playing Percy is a character that I really enjoy doing. He's so horrible, sleazy and slimy that I really enjoy playing him, so I kind of missed playing him [Percy's character wasn't required for The Goblet Of Fire].

Also, working on Potter, has been the same set of people for the last seven years. So you're going back to work with the people you know, the people you're friends with.

MB: You spent a lot of time on the set for the Ministry Of Magic.
CR: Yes, that was the set where I did 50 per cent of the scenes I'm in. It was huge and stunning. It was like an old fashioned underground station.

Martin Barber interviews Chris Rankin
The weird thing was we filmed the battle scene â€“ where the ministry arrives at the end of the big fight and the whole place is covered in smashed glass - it was bizarre as we did that first.

Then the props and set people came in and made it all tidy again and did the other stuff afterwards â€“ but that's the weird way films work.

MB: What was it like being in a scene with Lord Voldemort?
CR: I was lucky, I got to do one scene with him [Ralph Fiennes]. He's a lovely, lovely guy but when he's in character you don't want to go anywhere near him. He's terrifying, he does his job great.

MB: You have a good relationship with the rest of the cast...
CR: Yeah, sadly I didn't see anything of Rupert this time, or the Weasley family as they've disowned Percy.

I did quite a lot of work with Daniel, he's a really nice guy. I went to see him in his play in London and saw him afterwards.

He's so nice, which is weird as he's probably the most famous kid in the world and you'd expect him to have an ego and bodyguards â€“ but he's just like any normal guy you'd meet on the street.

MB: You've struggled in your Hogwarts' robes in the past, which has resulted in a few scrapes and bruises. You had some stunt work in this film.
CR: Yeah, its in the scene of Dumbledore's arrest and we're all there. Harry is there and I've got hold of the scruff of his neck.

Professor Dumbledore
Fawkes the phoenix arrives and takes Dumbledore off in a gust of wind which blows all the Ministry people over â€“ I didn't know this was happening as it wasn't in the script directions.

It was only falling over backwards, but where I was standing, right next to me there was a burning fire.

So Greg the stunt director stood just off camera with a fire extinguisher. It was very reassuring!

MB: Do you still have to pinch yourself in that you're in one of the biggest movie franchises in the world, or are you just so at home with it now?
CR: I don't really know any different. But when it gets to the time when the film is released, it does get pretty insane.

I'm sitting here now and there's people looking at me, and that gets a bit weird.

This will sound a bit actory and lovey, but I go into Chris Rankin 'the famous person mode' and he becomes a character that I play.

I'm not reclusive, but I'm quiet and I like my own company. You won't see me at every event under the sun, I like my privacy a bit. But it's a lot of fun doing things [personal appearances] like this.

I applied for Harry Potter as I'm a Harry Potter fan. So with the film coming out and the book coming out I'm very excited. It's exciting for me and to see what the other fans think.

Chris Rankin appeared at the BBC Studio at the Royal Norfolk Show 2007.
Harry Potter characters, names and related indicia are trademarks of and Â© Warner
Bros. Ent. All Rights Reserved. Harry Potter Publishing Rights Â© J.K. Rowling.

Via deze link kan je Chris zien: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediasele.....mp;bbram=1

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Master of Magic · Geplaatst: Zo Aug 05, 2007 11:59

Chris vind ik erg goed spelen. Hij heeft zo een Percy look. Erg aan de regels houdend enzo. Ik vind hem overtuigend spelen.

Jammer dat hij zo weinig in film 5 voor kwam - ook al kan ik niet meer tegen Percy sinds het vijfde boek. Ik had verwacht dat hij iets langer in beeld zou zijn (ook al komt hij wel weinig voor in boek 5).

missme98 · Geplaatst: Zo Aug 05, 2007 12:07

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SPOILERS!

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Ja dat van film5 was wel iriitant, je weet helemaal niet wat hij daar deed, en het kwam helemaal niet naar voren dat hij ruzie had, en opeens was hij voor omber
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riccmaster · Geplaatst: Za Aug 25, 2007 16:26

hij valt echt goed voor percy wemel
maar vor percy wemel echt in het boek is hij een rare kwast
hij had bijna ron gedwongen om niet meer bevriend te worden met harry potter!
en werkt op het ministerie met de rug tegen zijn familie
dat is niet mooui
maar voor het echt is hij wel goed