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PRISONER OF AZKABAN – Behind the Scenes

Filming: 17 February 2003 – 28 November 2003
Budget: $ 130 Million

Behind the Scenes

Rupert’s favourite scene to film: being pulled into the tunnel by Sirius Black, although he “ate a lot of grass” while filming this scene.

Rupert was so fond of the rat who played Scabbers that he took it – and the stunt rat – home after completing the film. The rats came from a Berlin zoo and bits of fur had to be shaved off in order to make them look manky enough.

Rupert started playing golf with cast and crew while filming in Scotland.

Rupert and Dan tried to make a crazy golf course, with a six-foot windmill out of massive cardboard boxes.

Alfonso Cuarón asked the kids to wear their uniform the way their characters would wear them. Rupert did his “scruffy” and Dan’s was a bit tidier, whille Emma, being Hermione, was perfectly done up.

Rupert revealed that several “hug scenes” of him and Emma were cut, and that it was awkward to have so many hand-holding moments.

In order to acquaint himself with his three lead actors, director Alfonso Cuarón had each of them write an essay about their characters, from a first-person point of view. Emma Watson, in true Hermione fashion, went a little overboard and wrote a 16-page essay. Daniel Radcliffe wrote a simple one-page summary, and Rupert Grint never even turned his essay in.

A clause in Alfonso Cuarón’s contract forbade the director from cursing in front of the kids on set.

The rating in the Netherlands for this film is “not under 9″. This rating was created especially for the film, since it was judged to be too scary for 6 year olds and the next rating, “not under 12″, would exclude too much of the target audience.

Rowling said she “got goosebumps” when she saw several moments in the film, as they inadvertently referred to events in the final two books, she stated “people are going to look back on the film and think that those were put in deliberately as clues.”