- [Director] We're rolling.
- [Host] Can I just start talking
any time you're up there, basically?
- [Director] Yes.
- So admittedly, I'm not the
biggest Harry Potter expert,
but I don't think that this castle
should be where it is, Dan.
(laughing)
- Right, I see what you mean.
It should be in the
Highlands of Scotland, yes.
- Right?
- I know, but it has been
moved magically to be here.
- We're in 90-degree Orlando.
- I know, but it's, and
yet snow is still...
- It's called magic, Dan.
- It is magic snow, yes, it's incredible,
and no, I know, this is kind
of pretty amazing actually,
I have to - I was very, very
keen that the castle be
as impressive as it should be
and it really, I think, is, frankly.
- I can vouch for it, too.
- It is kind of, it does look like
700 foot of rock and castle.
- And we're gonna actually
take a look inside the castle
and we've got the man,
the myth, the legend,
Mr. Radcliffe, you're
gonna do it with me, right?
- Absolutely, yeah.
- You're gonna show me around?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll give you a tour.
- All right, let's go.
(magical music)
- [Daniel] Actually, it was quite good.
I had my trusty laser pointer.
(laughing)
- Do you always carry that with you?
- I got given it about a
week ago and I love it.
(laughing)
- [Host] This, obviously moving portraits,
we are familiar with this.
- Moving portraits, I believe
that is Helga Hufflepuff
and Rowena Ravenclaw having
a bit of a conflab there
and Salazar Slytherin, of course.
Now if I just use my trusty
laser pointer for a moment,
this man, this portrait, I don't know
how clearly you can see it,
but that is actually based
on our production designer, Stuart Craig.
A lot of the portraits
are actually based on,
a lot of the portraits
you see in the films,
are actually based on crew members
and my dad is, he'll kill
me for actually saying this,
but my dad is in one on the third film,
he was with him, who else was in it?
I think it was him, Barry
Wilkinson, our prop master,
our lighting cameraman, but yeah,
he was very embarrassed.
- Is there any way I can get a portrait?
I know we're down to the end--
- It’s a little late, dude! Sorry, man.
- Does this feel like, anything
like the sets you were on?
- Yes, absolutely. Well
this is what I was saying,
was that kind of what's amazing
about this place overall,
not just this ride and everything
but the place overall, is
that it's actually sort of more complete
than the film sets because, you know,
you're in the Great Hall
and you walk outside
and you see it's, in fact,
made of wood and scaffold
and, you know, as Tom Felton
said, he's expecting to see
a bit of green screen at any moment,
whereas here, it is all just
here and it is kind of amazing,
and me and Rupert Grint stood
outside Ollivander's wand shop
for five minutes going, "Wow,
that's great, isn't it?"
Didn't realize we could go inside.
Didn't realize it was a fully functioning
kind of bit inside.
- Just thought it was a facade,
just three inches thick.
- Yeah exactly, like we're used to.
'Cause that's what we normally do,
it's like 'Blazing Saddles.'
We just get the front of buildings.
- So this next room we're coming
to, I'm very excited about.
- OK, what's the next room?
- So I was saying I was
really excited about this one.
We're in Dumbledore's
office. This is insane.
- I know, it's great, isn't it?
This is, yeah, this is the
real Dumbledore's office.
I mean, it is an incredible exact replica,
I mean, you can't see this
from where you guys are,
so it's useless, me telling you,
but there's the - you've got the Pensieve
and everything behind and loads
of sort of weird astrolabes
and different kind of, all the various
sort of astronomical
equipment that Dumbledore has
in his office.
- Was there one scene in
particular that you remember
that resonates with you from this setting?
- I mean, I think the,
well, I mean, yeah, there was,
actually the one that, you know what?
The one that honestly
came first to mind then
was at the end of [‘Chamber of Secrets’],
where Jason Isaacs and
Richard Harris are having
their kind of heated exchange at the end,
and so that very vividly came back to me,
and I think one of the
key scenes in the series
happens in this room, which is
towards the end of [‘Deathly Hallows — Part 1’], where Harry learns
something about Snape's
past in relation to him,
and that takes place in
this room. In fact, actually,
it takes place pretty much here.
- Oh, am I Snape or am I you?
- No, Snape's not here.
There's just a Pensieve, and
I'm going into it like that.
(laughing)
And yeah, possibly the
key scene in the series,
you might say.
Certainly you could put an
argument forward for that.
So, yeah, that's gonna
be a pretty amazing -
I hope, if I've done my job, it should be
a pretty good scene.
- [Host] When you walk
into a setting like this,
like, do memories just come flooding in?
I mean, what does?
- Yeah, it's in a way,
'cause I've only sort
of just left Potter's,
the memories are still all very vivid
but yeah, I know that I'm
gonna, I'm definitely,
somebody asked me a
question outside actually
that was saying,
you know, "Do you think you'll
ever bring your kids here?"
If I have kids, which I hope
to, one day, not for a while,
and yeah, I'd love to, and then it would be
a real, real nostalgia
trip to come back here.
