Actress Bonnie Wright, who played Ginny in the beloved Harry Potter movies, admits “it was a little bit disappointing” when opening up about the issue with her character
Bonnie Wright has admitted she was ‘a little bit disappointed’ by something in the Harry Potter films.
The 33-year-old actress played Ginny Weasley in the Hogwarts movies – one of the highest-grossing film franchises of all time. She’s now a mum and welcomed her first child – Elio Ocean – back in 2023 with husband Andrew Lococo.
Bonnie, who turns 34 today (February 17), has addressed the upcoming Harry Potter reboot, a HBO TV series based on JK Rowling’s books. However, as much as she loved her time in the films, she’s admitted she was gutted about the lack of screen time Ginny got.
The star, who was just nine years old during the first Harry Potter film, admitted she felt a little ‘anxious’ about playing the character as she wanted to do her justice for fans of the books. So she struggled a lot when a lot of Ginny’s scenes were left out of the films.
Speaking to Michael Rosenbaum’s Inside of You podcast, Bonnie said: “I definitely feel there was anxiety toward performing and doing the best thing as my character built, for instance. Like, ‘Oh gosh, will I do justice to this character that people love?’.
“So that was always hard to do, especially when, inevitably, a lot of the scenes of every character were chopped down from the book to the film. So you didn’t really have as much to show in the film.
“Sometimes that was a little disappointing because there were parts of the character that just didn’t get to come through because there weren’t the scenes to do that,” she continued. “That made me feel a bit anxious or just frustrated, I guess.”
However, she never complained about Ginny’s reduced role in the films and understood producers wouldn’t be able to include everything. She said “there was no room for much change in those scripts.
“There were a million executives going through them all,” Bonnie said. “I think what I maybe took, which I don’t take so much to heart now, is I kind of felt that maybe my anxiety was about, ‘Oh, I’m going to be seen as badly portraying this character,’ rather than later realizing that I wasn’t really given the opportunity to do that. So it wasn’t really my fault, exactly.”
She added: “When fans do share that disappointment and they do it in a way that is like, ‘We know it wasn’t you. We just wanted more of you,’” she added. “And that’s the same of every character. If only they could be five-hour-long movies.”
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