Katie Leung (Cho Chang)

Shiralee · Volleerd Tovenaar Verdiend: 0 Sikkels Woonplaats: Zaandijk

@rembrandt; waarom vind je dat niet, misschien is het handig om eerst even de regels door voordat je een bericht plaatst. (:

Goed, even om on-topic te blijven! Ik vind Katie echt schattig en een lief karakter hebben en dat laat ze ook goed zin in de film. En dat is ook Ã©Ã©n van de redenen waarom ik haar wel goed vind. De andere reden is gewoon, ik vind het haar wel leuk doen. Niets meer en niets minder. (: '

ronfreak · Dreuzel Verdiend: 45 Sikkels

Ik vond haar accent van haar wel leuk. Maar wat Cho in deel 5 doet vind ik niet zo leuk van haar dus mag de personage Cho niet echt. Dus ik kijk daarom een beetje negatief naar haar.

Addiie · Laatst aangepast door Addiie op Za Jun 16, 2007 10:06; in totaal 1 keer bewerkt

Ik vind Cho een beetje tÃ© dramatisch. Ze snijdt steeds een gesprek aan dat haar in een menselijke tuinsproeier verandert en ze denkt ook niet echt aan de gevoelens van Harry, door steeds over Carlo Kannewasser te beginnen. Alsof Harry dÃ¡Ã¡r aan herinnert wil worden. Rolling Eyes

Helen

Eh, dat is Cho. Niet Katie en als je Katie een menselijke tuinsproeier vind doet ze toch iets goed.
Het zal mij benieuwen hoe ze het in deze film doet. Of ze echt zo irritant is als in het boek (ik vind haar irritant. Cho dus)
Als dat zo is heeft ze haar rol goed gespeelt

Addiie

Ja, daar heb je gelijk in. Ze is echt ongelooflijk irritant en ik snap ook niet dat ze bevriend kan zijn met die Marina Elsdonk Confused

't Zal wel aan mij liggen...

Hermione

Addiie, dit topic gaat niet over de boeken, maar over de actrice die Cho Chang speelt, Katie Leung.
Dit topic gaat dus niet over Cho Chang.
Over zo'n dingen kan je discussiÃ«ren in het Boekenboard.

Wink

Carla · Geplaatst: Za Jun 16, 2007 10:02

Er is in de Schotsman een nieuw intervieuw met Katie verschenen. Er staat niet echt veel nieuws in, maar het is wel een leuk intervieuw. Er kunnen spoilers inzitten, want het gaat natuurlijk over de vijfde film.

When Harry met Cho
RACHEL ROBERTS

Kissing a boy is a big enough deal when you're a teenage girl. So those butterflies must have been turning somersaults when Katie Leung puckered up for this year's most hotly-anticipated cinematic smooch. Scots-born Katie plays Cho Chang, the Ravenclaw quidditch player who captures Harry Potter's heart in the fifth instalment of JK Rowling's series. With Amazon reporting one million pre-ordered copies of the final book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the obsession with the teenage wizard shows no sign of diminishing.

So it's a no brainer that this year's big screen offering, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, is set to become one of the summer's blockbusters. Especially with such a tantalising kiss to tempt cinemagoers. Nineteen-year-old Katie dissolves into girlie giggles when the "K" word is mentioned.

"Of course I was nervous about it," she says, her soft tones betraying a Motherwell twang. "I blame it on the crew because they made it impossible for me to forget. Every day, somebody would come up and say things like 'Are you looking forward to it?' Or 'Euwww, it's going to be really wet!'"

Luckily, co-star Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the eponymous wizard, admitted he was feeling just as anxious. His confession helped calm those frantic butterflies.

"He admitted that he was nervous too, which made me feel better because I was a bag of nerves," says Katie. "We joked around, saying 'Have you brushed your teeth?' and 'Have you eaten your mints?' So we were much more relaxed when we came to do it."

Katie was famously plucked from obscurity - and 5,000 other girls - three years ago to make her debut as the student who catches Harry Potter's bespectacled eye. Her rise to fame was even more astonishing when it emerged that she hadn't even had a walk-on part in a school play.

And her relative lack of experience when dealing with the publicity machine becomes endearingly obvious during our strictly allocated press time.

The hawk-like Warner Bros press officer - on hand to deflect unwanted questions from nosey journalists - swoops down immediately when I ask Katie to describe the kind of kiss the young sweethearts share. "We want to save that to surprise the audience," she instructs.

But Katie innocently answers the question anyway.

"It is supposed to be an awkward moment because it's Harry's first kiss," she says. "So it's very endearing and sweet. I think the director, David Yates, wants the audience to be taken back to the memories of their first kiss."

With her delicate doll-like features - all wide eyes and mirror-shine hair - it's not hard to see why Harry falls underneath her spell. But when she won the coveted role in 2004, several "I Hate Katie" websites sprung up.

A the time, Katie shrugged off the comments posted from fans possessed by the green-eyed monster. "That kind of stuff is inevitable because Dan has so many female fans - millions of them - so I'm not surprised some of them don't like me. But I don't think it's all based on jealousy. I'm not going to satisfy everyone's preconceptions of Cho."

But there were also uncomfortable undertones of racism. Some fans of established Chinese and Korean actresses poked fun at Leung's Scottish accent. This, despite the fact that Motherwell-born Katie was chosen precisely because of her Scottish-Asian heritage. And her casting had been sanctioned by Rowling herself.

Katie has her father Peter, a millionaire Hong Kong businessman, to thank for the part. After hearing about the search for Cho Chang on a Chinese cable channel, he whisked his daughter down to London to audition. Quite apart from leapfrogging so many others to the part, what makes Katie's story even more remarkable is that the fashion-obsessed teenager very nearly abandoned the whole thing to go shopping.

"I took one look at this huge queue and begged my dad to let us go shopping instead. Luckily, he insisted we stayed and I got my turn four hours later."

These days, Katie can shop to her heart's content in the capital city.

"I've just moved to London. Well, I am 19. A lot older. It's important for my independence," she says.

But for all of her brightness, it's almost like the teenager is trying to convince herself. "I couldn't live at home all of my life - although my parents are really protective - so you've got to move out some day, haven't you?"

So what will Katie miss most about Scotland, apart from her dad, her two brothers and sister? She's already used to dealing with distance between herself and mum Kar Wai Li, who moved back to Hong Kong after separating from Peter.

"The peacefulness," she says without hesitation. "I lived on the outskirts of Motherwell, in amongst the fields and stuff, and it's really difficult to get that kind of quiet in London."

Although many outside scenes featured in the Â£75 million film were shot in Scotland, Katie spent all of her time cooped up inside Leavesden Studios, near Watford.

The snow-capped mountains and glens that fill the breathtaking opening scenes can be found in Fort William. Further aerial shots were filmed in Glen Etive and Harry skims stones on Loch Shiel in front of the striking Glenfinnan Monument.

But most of Katie's scenes - including "The Kiss" - take place in The Room of Requirement, where the scholarly sorcerers learn the magical tricks of their trade. In breaks between filming, chocolate and favourite spells from the books were shared. So what was Katie's choice?

"I'm not fond of nosey people, so I loved the one in The Curse of the Half-Blood Prince. It is called Muffliato, and you cast it on people who are trying to listen in. It fills the ears of those near the witch or wizard with a buzzing that can't be heard by anyone else. It would be great to be able to do that one."

If Katie is suffering from any homesickness, she's doing a very good job of covering it up. And hooking up again with EastEnders actress Tiana Benjamin is a great distraction. The pair originally met on the set of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when Tiana made a fleeting appearance. She's now a household name, thanks to her role as Chelsea Fox in the BBC soap.

The pair are trying to sort out dates for a serious vintage clothes-shopping mission to London's Portabello and Spitalfields markets.

Although Katie seems genuinely chuffed about her pal's good fortune and fame, she admits that she's not been that enamoured with her own experiences.

"I've had some odd people approach me," she says. "These old men - I think they were about 40 - shouted to me when I was outside Motherwell station. One shouted 'There's Harry Potter's girlfriend! Where's your wand?'

"I found it really strange because I would have expected their children to spot me, but not them."

You get the feeling that it is experiences like this that have contributed to Katie's change of heart about pursuing acting full time. When Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire hit cinemas, she was positively giddy about a dazzling future on the big screen.

Despite gaining five Highers at Â£6,500-a-year Hamilton College, in Hamilton, her ambitions to go to university to study interior design were put on ice so that she could film Order of the Phoenix. Now, Katie seems to have had a change of heart as she reveals her plans to apply to several London Universities.

"I want to start in September, although I'm torn between graphic design or media," she says.

But is Katie just hedging her bets? She hesitates.

"I would love to carry on with the acting, but you're not guaranteed anything. It's very unstable - one minute it's up, the next it's down."

One definite plan in the near future is to visit her mother and her great, great grandmother in Hong Kong. She'll need the break after the whirlwind worldwide promotional tour.

Her eyes light up as she talks about it.

"I only get to see my great, great gran every five years or so," she says. "But Hong Kong is amazing, I love it. Every time I go back, my Cantonese improves a little bit. And the markets are just phenomenal. A lot of shopping goes on!"

Whether a Hollywood offer will materialise in the wake of her second outing as Cho Chan and turn her plans upside down again remains to be seen. In the meantime, Katie positively glows when she talks about her co-stars.

With each Harry Potter film, the star quotient sparkles even more brightly. And the fifth screen outing is no exception. Imelda Staunton is the personification of evil as new defence against the dark arts teacher Dolores Umbridge, hellbent on returning Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) to sinister supremacy.

"I was a little bit starstruck when I met her," says Katie. "I'd seen her in Vera Drake and thought she was amazing. But I properly despised her character in this film. Dolores is vile and it was incredible watching Imelda - who is so lovely - create this twisted person."

And Dolores isn't the only cloud of doom on the horizon. Despite locking lips with our hero Harry, Cho Chung is still grieving for ex beau Cedric Diggory.

In a shocking twist to the ending of the last film, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the handsome young sorcerer lost his life in The Triwizard Tournament. With Cho struggling to accept Cedric's premature death - she is in equal turns depressed and angry - her relationship with Harry looks set for a rocky ride.

While Cho is sworn to secrecy - the press officer is circling again - about the eventual outcome of the young lovebirds' relationship, she's more than happy to talk about magic. Unsurprisingly, this girl is a firm believer in the supernatural art these days.

"Of course I think it's true," she grins. "When I beat all of those other girls to get this part, that felt like pure magic. I couldn't believe it was happening, so when it did, it felt like fate." sm

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is released on 12 July.

Addiie · Geplaatst: Za Jun 16, 2007 10:08

Katie is precies zoals ik me Cho had voorgesteld. Als ze dan ook zo dramatisch gaat spelen als Cho klopt het helemaal en dan is ze ook een erg goede actrice Rolling Eyes

Kevin. · Geplaatst: Di Jun 19, 2007 13:50

Ik vind Katie echt wel een goeie Cho Chang spelen. Je ziet echt in de film dat ze Cho speelt als een meisje dat snel huilt en dat dramatische liet ze al een beetje in film 4 naar voren komen. Dus ik hoop dat ze in Film 5 Ch ook weer als een dramatisch iemand speelt. En Katie Leung is een knap meisje.

Edit: ook met Katie Leung is er een vraag en antwoord Interview afgenomen:

KATIE LEUNG plays Cho Chang, Harry's first girlfriend, with whom he shares his first kiss

Was Daniel Radcliffe a good kisser?
Yes he was.

Did you have to practise first?
No. I think itâ€™s better that we didnâ€™t practise because it is supposed to be a pretty awkward moment. But very sweet at the same time. It is his first kiss, so itâ€™s not perfect, but hopefully when people see it theyâ€™ll be reminded of their first kiss.

Did they make a big thing of it on the set?
Yes. They were reminding me about it every five minutes, which didnâ€™t help at all because I was nervous. But when the time actually came it wasnâ€™t so bad. It took about 20 takes to get it right. But thatâ€™s pretty standard for any scene. Though it is a bit odd when youâ€™re trying to concentrate on kissing and thereâ€™s a cameraman moving around you.

How will you feel when your family watch that scene?
Iâ€™ve never thought about that. Oh God. Well, thereâ€™s nothing I can do about it now. Iâ€™ll just have to watch the reaction on their faces when they see it.

Have you had any hate mail from jealous girls?
Actually, theyâ€™re all really nice. Most of my fan mail is from girls. Theyâ€™re all really supportive and tell me how lucky I am. Which I already know.

There have been rumours that youâ€™ve been tapped for the role of Mulan in a forthcoming film. Are they true?
No. I had my neighbours asking me about that and Iâ€™ve read about it in the newspapers but itâ€™s not true at all. It would be cool if it was though.

Will you be in the next Harry Potter film?
I donâ€™t think so. Choâ€™s mentioned briefly in the books, but they try to cram so much into the films that I donâ€™t think thereâ€™ll be room for her.

Kevin. · Geplaatst: Zo Jul 01, 2007 10:22

Sorry voor de dubbele post, maar er is een nieuw interview met katie Leung gehouden en hier is het:

What Katie did next
SIOBHAN SYNNOT

HE HAS faced giant snakes, life-sucking Dementors, and Lord Voldemort. But teen love? Now there's a menace to challenge Harry Potter's mighty wand. Before Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter fans were angsting over who would land the pivotal role of Cho Chang, Harry's first love in the wizardly series. After an audition of Gone With The Wind proportions, Scottish-born Katie Leung nabbed the honour, and in Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix she raises Harry's game a notch by finally giving the teen wizard the chance to wrap his lips around something other than butter beer.

There hasn't been such a fuss about a kiss since Richard Gere and Shilpa Shetty. "It didn't help that everyone kept reminding me every five minutes that it was coming up," says Leung.

One of the worst kept secrets of the series is that love finally blooms for Harry and Cho under the mistletoe; an adolescent moment that even Leung admits is "not a particularly sexy or exciting kiss - it's very sweet and very clumsy, like all first kisses are. Especially since in reality, Daniel and I were a bit nervous and got a little giggly having to do it again and again".

Thirty takes is what we've been told. "Oh not as many as that," she says.

An interview with a Hogwarts pupil tends to be like the Potter stars themselves; polite, serene and a bit short. In the background hovers Leung's publicist, who seems far less at ease than Leung herself as she negotiates the diplomatic minefield that is kissing Harry Potter. "Daniel was a very good kisser - he pays me to say that," she says cheerfully, and the PR shifts and coughs a bit more behind her.

The experience of the two films - not just acting but touring the world to promote the movies - has boosted Leung's confidence, and facing the press and meeting fans has made her more outgoing. "If you'd met me before, I was unbelievably shy at school," she says. "You always get that one person who can go through a whole week without talking to anyone and that was me, sitting in the corner all by myself. It's pretty sad really. It got to the extent where I would be too scared to ask for help if I was stuck in class. I was that kind of girl. But doing this film has definitely brought out my confidence."

Later, she adds: "My favourite thing about playing Cho was being able to be popular. She's popular among the boys and the girls and, um, that's not something that happens in real life."

JK Rowling apparently insisted that, just as Harry, Ron and Hermione had been, Quidditch star Cho Chang should also be played by an unknown. The casting criteria were that the successful actress should be 16 and of Oriental appearance - two qualifications Katie happened to fit at the time. "Is there anyone here from Scotland?" asked the casting director at the start of the audition, and only Leung raised her hand.

Winning the role over 3,000 other hopefuls was a surprise since Leung had never acted before, even at school. It was her father Peter Leung, a Motherwell-based businessman, who saw the ad on a Chinese TV channel and told his daughter they should go to London and have a shot.

"When he asked me to go down for audition, he wasn't really forcing me or anything, he was just suggesting," says Leung. "Although, when I got down to the last 100 people, he started to get kind of serious and he was like, 'Yeah, you've got to try your hardest.'"

Pottermania has been a double-edged sword for Leung. She enjoys the work, the travel and the dressing up for premieres, but shortly after landing the part, a mean-spirited campaign against her kicked off on the internet.

"This kind of stuff is inevitable because Dan has so many female fans - millions of them - so I'm not surprised some of them didn't like me," says Leung, who is now weighing up a career in art and design, or pursuing other acting prospects. Last year she moved to London and shares a flat with a friend, not far from her agent.

"I have applied to a university in London but the decision is really hard because I have opinions from so many different people."

Recently it was mooted that she could be cast as the lead in a live action version of Mulan, the Chinese cross-dressing warrior. "I've just read about that in the papers too. As did my neighbours," she says. "It's not true at all, although it would have been cool if it was."

Meanwhile, the Cho Chang chapter of her life ends with Order Of The Phoenix. "Cho's mentioned briefly in the books," she says, "but they try to cram so much into the films that I don't think there'll be room for her. Besides, Harry's all about Ginny now, isn't he?"

Veel leesplezier.

Chaja-girl · 3e jaars Verdiend: 223 Sikkels

Ik vind Katie zeer goed als Cho! Ilk had haar me wel iets anders voor gesteld, met (dit klinkt heel vaag) een minder breed hoofd ofsow XD

Maar ik vind dat ze het erg goed doet!

muisS · Geplaatst: Di Jul 10, 2007 22:13

Katie, vind ik heel goed bij de personage Cho passen. Haar uiterlijk ook, dat was echt zoals ik me had voorgesteld. Ze speelt ook heel goed en geeft ook het beeld dat ik heb van het boek ook in de film. Heel goed dus Wink

missme98 · Geplaatst: Ma Jul 16, 2007 16:15

Katie vind ik wel goed, maar ik denk dat een ander chinees meisje ook goed was. Ik ben niet overdonderd door haar acteerwerk, maar in film 5 was ze wel lief.

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eigenlijk hoort ze niet zo lief te zijn, want ze liep toch altijd te jnaken? en hier eigenlijk helemaal niet, raar ook dat zei de verrader bleek te zijn, maar ze keek wel schuldig
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Kelly Griffel · Geplaatst: Ma Jul 16, 2007 22:46

Ik irriteer me wel aan Cho in de boeken, maar ik moet zeggen dat Katie Cho wel goed speelt in de films. We hebben ze eigenlijk helemaal nog niet veel gezien, maar ik ben wel tevreden met haar. Ze heeft ook zo'n leuk accent en dat had ik me nooit voorgesteld eigenlijk ^^"

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In de film komt ze wel zo verlegen over en dat is ze in het boek niet echt eigenlijk. Tenminste, ze is zo erg populair en ziet eerst Harry niet staan en daarna wel. En daarna word ze wel verlegen als hij in de buurt komt. Maar omdat we haar daarvoor niet veel gezien hebben, maakt dat niet zo veel uit denk ik. Maar goed, in film 5 vind ik haar wel goed acteren.
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**Witch_Eva** · Geplaatst: Ma Jul 16, 2007 22:48

Ik vind Katie een hele goede Cho. Ik vind haar inderdaad ook leuker in de films dan in de boeken. Al vind ik Cho in de boeken ook wel redelijk leuk. Dat Schotse accent is inderdaad heel schattig bij haar, en ergens past het ook wel. Ze is een Ravenklauwer en Rowena was ook Schots ^^

@Kelly

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Ze is verlegen ja, maar dat komt denk ik ook voornamelijk omdat ze verliefd is. Dan ben je ook niet echt heel populair, maar voornamelijk verlegen als je dan bij je grote liefde staat. Al moet ik wel eerlijk toegeven dat ze inderdaad wel een beetje meer als een introvert overkomt dan in het boek.
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