About the Cookbook Page said:
Dan was extremely grateful and he is just amazed by the outpouring of his fans. As you know, the cookbook project was made up of over 800 recipes from over 70 different countries and locations. Dan is holding the cookbook below, which also includes two CD's containing all the recipes, one CD for Dan, and one CD especially made for his mum.
Back then this site didn't excist. I decided to add 'archive news' like this as much as possible. I thought it might be interesting to read for you all.
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The interview recorded during the visit, a transcript:
Page: How are you?
Dan: I'm very well thank you, how are you?
Page: I'm fine! Just wanted to ask you a couple of questions. To begin with, there's quite a number of new actors on this film. Emma Thompson, David Thewlis, Gary Oldman, of all of the actors that are new on this film, which one has most inspired you and what have you learned from them?
Dan: It was probably... the two people that I've found most inspiring, have been David Thewlis and Gary Oldman. Gary Oldman because I've just always been such a fan of all his films, from like The Professional, and The Fifth Element. I mean basically the thing with Gary, that with any film that he's in, his performances will always stand out. It will always carry the film. And like the thing that I never... I don't even know if it went to the States at all, it was a British TV Film called "The Firm" which he was in, and it's about football hooliganism and it's absolutely amazing, I mean he's just so terrifying in it. So he was, it was amazing for me to get a chance to work with him. And David Thewlis because like Gary Oldman he's just a fantastic actor and it's just a privilege to watch them, and to be in the same room with them as they work. They think about the scene and how they approach it, it's just amazing to watch their techniques and watch how they work.
Page: Which scenes in Prisoner of Azkaban did you most enjoying filming?
Dan: Probably again, the Shrieking Shack scene, because I'm in a room with Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Alan Rickman, and Timothy Spall, so it's just like such amazing actors, again it's just such a privilege to work with them. But also, the Buckbeak stuff was great, all the stuff, running around being chased by werewolves was fantastic as well, it was really fun, really great.
Page: Tell me about Quidditch in the rain..
Dan: Quidditch in the rain? (We both laugh)
Page: You gave us a little hint of the stunt work,
Dan: Yeah!
Page: in the 100 Questions that you answered for the fans, how physically hard was that in the rain?
Dan: It was just basically like normal Quidditch in terms of like comfort levels, of Quidditch which is never incredibly comfortable, but luckily they heated the water they were using which was quite nice so it wasn't freezing cold water they were throwing on me or anything. I've now actually seen the film a couple of days ago for the first time all finished and everything and it is amazing and Quidditch is a really fantastic scene. It's really very intense, it's the most intense we've seen Quidditch be, but it is a really fantastic scene and all the hard work that everyone on the set put into it, it's really paid off because it does look amazing.
Page: Of all of the different magical creatures that you've come across, Fluffy, Fawkes, and of course in this film we get our first look at Buckbeak and from all the images that we've seen so far, you appear to be quite fond of him. Is he your favorite now?
Dan: I still really like Dobby!
Page: Okay
Dan: I really like Dobby as a character, because I just think he's hysterical. But I think Buckbeak is just, there's something about Buckbeak; it's like he's an animal that doesn't talk, but it's amazing and it's in the book. The writing of the character of Buckbeak in the book, it's amazing because it's not just an animal, it's a character who you do come to feel really sorry for even though you don't know it that well. I think that does comes across in the film because you do feel a kind of upset, sort of attachment to that. You feel really kind of helpless and you want to do something to prevent the execution, so I think Buckbeak is a great character and the effects of Buckbeak are astonishing. They look absolutely unbelievable, like it's there, it really is.
Page: If you are offered the part of Harry for all anticipated films, seven films, do you want to be Harry?
Dan: I, that's like, so far away. I mean we're a week into filming the fourth one, and each film takes a year so it's going to be a year and a bit until I even start to contemplate whether I'm going to do the fifth film or not. So we've always really said I've got to take them just one film at a time and concentrate on the one at hand.
Page: Fans have such different opinions about how they want all of these books to end. Naturally when we get to the last book, the seventh book, everyone's got their own opinions about what they want to happen to Harry or Voldemort's characters. If it were up to you to write that last book, what would you do with Harry or Voldemort's characters?
Dan: Um, I don't know if I can, I think there's going to be something, and I'd like to say before I answer this, that this is completely unfounded. Jo Rowling has told me absolutely nothing I promise, but I think because of the link between Harry and Voldemort's wands, there's going to be something, whereby, Harry, I mean I don't want to cause a big out cry. But I've got really bad feelings that something not so good's going to happen to Harry. Because maybe like if he died that's the only way Voldemort could die as well and so they cancel each other out. I think people are going to go mad when I've said that I'm sure. Or he would become a Quidditch player. It's a happier ending. (Everyone laughs)
Page: And go on to play World Cup Quidditch!
Dan: Yeah
Page: Moving forward towards filming Goblet of Fire, what are your expectations of the Triwizard Tournament tasks, and the Quidditch World Cup are you looking forward to any particular task? I mean personally I'm looking forward to you fighting the dragon.
Dan: I've seen clips of what that's going to be like, and it is going to be fantastic! It's going to be really good. I don't know if you know this, but I've started scuba diving for the underwater task. The thing I am looking forward to is the maze. Because the maze, whereas, in the book you've got a Sphinx in the maze, and there are other things that Harry's fighting off, in the film it's going to be a much more a psychological thing. Basically the only things that are in the maze are, the only things living that are in the maze are Harry, Fleur, Viktor, Cedric and also the maze itself is almost alive and so you've got, it's almost as if, the walls are kind of breathing. And if Harry goes down one corridor of the maze, one passage of the maze, and turns around, the bit where he came in there it's closed up again, so he has to keep thinking of new ways to go. It's a much more psychological thing than a physical thing. I think there's a line in the script that Dumbledore says, it's something like, "be careful not to lose yourself in the maze, as you can possibly go insane, as I think many people have in the past", so I think that's going to be the real one to watch. And Quidditch World Cup should be really good because you know, we've seen school boys playing Quidditch, it's like school boys playing soccer or football or whatever. It's not the same as when you get out there and you've got fully grown adults playing as professionals, so I think Quidditch World Cup is going to take Quidditch to a new level in terms of some of the stuff they are going to see.
Page: I have to admit I was completely addicted to that chapter in Goblet of Fire, just loved it, I just couldn't tear myself away from it. Now that you've read five books, which one is your favorite?
Dan: My favorite is the third, is the third book.
Page: Still the third?
Dan: The third film with Harry, my favorite script, however, is the fourth, I think it's a masterpiece, I really do. And I think Steve Kloves, the screenwriter, is a genius because how he's managed to squeeze the fourth book into, about a hundred and twenty one pages or something, and manage to keep all the really important stuff that is completely necessary to have in there, it's amazing just so much stuff that goes on.
Page: I feel like I've practically grown up with him (looking at another person present in the room..) in two and a half years since these films began, and I've noticed that every time a new film is released, you come across more professional and more comfortable in your role. Do you feel that comfort level as well, that you have grown professionally and it just comes easier and natural to you?
Dan: I think I have yeah, but I mean I think anybody would have, I think we all have. It's just from being on the set for four and a half years now. You just learn alot, and we've learned loads from Chris, we've learned even more from Alfonso and we're going to learn even more with Mike Newell. The thing I'm really excited about is Mike, because Alfonso and Chris were absolutely fantastic, but I'm quite excited because this is the first British director of the Harry Potter films, and that's quite a big thing for me, I'm quite pleased about that.
Page: Believe it or not I've gotten emails from teachers all over the place who've been writing to me regarding your involvement with that Mind Reading DVD by Human Emotions?
Dan: Oh Yeah!
Page: Just fantastic teacher reviews of that using it in their school classrooms, saying it's just making such a difference because you're face is there.
Dan: (Exhibits a pleasing smile) Wow!
Page: Do you have any idea what kind of an effect that's having on children, and do you anticipate that you'll do any more volunteer work like that in the future?
Dan: I don't know, I mean I had no idea it was having that kind of affect, I mean that's brilliant! I mean because I just literally went in for a day and did it all in the one day and it was great, I had a really good time. And it was really fun because I've always been interested in Autism and that was what the video was originally designed for, and so no I'm so pleased that it's having that sort of affect that's absolutely brilliant, and any other volunteer work, yeah I hope so it'd be fantastic.
Page: Yeah, it's just now getting licensed in schools to use over in the States. Thank you Dan.
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