‘Harry Potter’ Stars: The place Are They Now?

All aboard the Hogwarts categorical! Over the course of 10 years, the celebrities of Harry Potter introduced magic, mischief and extra to hundreds of thousands of followers around the globe.

Primarily based on the sequence of seven books by J.Okay. Rowling, stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint captured the hearts of viewers between 2001 and 2011. The eight motion pictures raked in additional than $7.5 billion worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing movie franchise of all time behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Star Wars. Although their time at Hogwarts has come to an finish, the facility trio will at all times cherish the years they spent collectively.

“We’re all very busy, off doing various things and barely appear to cross [paths],” Radcliffe mentioned throughout a Q&A with Warmth Radio in August 2019. “However , there may be at all times this factor and this expertise that may without end bond us. We’ll actually at all times have that.”

The Hogwarts college students grew up within the highlight, which didn’t come with out its challenges. Within the December 2019 cowl story of British Vogue, Watson opened up about struggling to separate her time as Hermione Granger from her personal identification.

“It’s so weird and otherworldly, what occurred to me,” she advised the publication on the time. “There’s been moments when all the things simply obtained so huge, the place I nearly had vertigo alone life and it’s obtained so huge I felt disconnected. … There’s a complete existence and identification that I’ve, really, that’s actually essential and weighted and stable that has nothing to do with any of that.”

Although every of the franchise’s stars has taken their careers in new instructions for the reason that ultimate film hit theaters, they nonetheless have loads of love for each other. Bonnie Wright, who performed Ginny Weasley all through the sequence, gushed over her colleagues whereas talking to Us Weekly solely in February 2020.

“It’s superb,” she mentioned of the moments she’s shared along with her forged members over time, each on and off display screen. “Very highly effective.”

Evanna Lynch, who performed Luna Lovegood all through a number of of the movies, fondly recalled her first on-set reminiscences.

“I actually preferred the scene within the woods with the festivals as a result of that was considered one of my first ones and it was on location. So it was huge and kind of an journey. And we had been all on this very peaceable, stunning woods collectively. And it’s only a quiet second between the characters,” Lynch advised Us in June 2021. “And I feel up till that time, Harry’s been kind of seeing her as this odd [person] to keep away from. After which they’ve this second and I feel he sees, ‘Oh, there’s extra to her. She has all this depth. And he or she’s really been via some fairly nicely, very unhappy issues in her life.’ And that’s when their relationship and their friendship develops. I really like that scene.”

The franchise’s forged reunited for a retrospective particular to rejoice the twentieth anniversary of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which aired in January 2022, on HBO Max. The principle trio of Hogwarts alums — Radcliffe, Watson and Grint — had been joined by lots of their former costars, together with Lynch, Tom Felton, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Gary Oldman, Alfred Enoch, director Chris Columbus and extra acquainted faces.

“It seems like no time has handed and a great deal of time has handed,” the Bling Ring star mentioned through a voiceover within the reunion’s official trailer.

Scroll right down to see what the forged of the Harry Potter franchise is so far!