What is it like working with Chris Columbus?
JI: Well he is a really family man and the reason he is not doing the third Harry Potter Film is so he can have dinner with his children. So the set always had children there, he would have his children there every day that I worked I brought huge bunches of kids with me, my Godchildren and my friends children all came and Chris would give them the headphones and let them shout ‘cut’ and ‘action’. I can’t imagine what kind of pressure you must be under when the first film was so successful and the second film the kids can only work a certain limited amount of hours every day and yet it never felt any more pressurized than us being in his back garden making a home video. He is a really really lovely man and that translated to screen. I think this film is much better than the first one. It is more exciting and it’s much funnier and I hope he comes back to do the fourth one. He really creates an atmosphere on set where you can do your best work. There is a really great line where I say, (
