First Look at Harry Potter and His Family in HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD
The story of Harry Potter will continue in a new story from J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany. The story is called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and it's being developed as a stage production in London. The script for that play will also be published so that fans around the world can read it.
Today we have out first look at the Potter family 19 years after the events of The Deathly Hallows. We've got photos of Harry, who is being played by Jamie Parker, his wife Ginny, who is being played by Poppy Miller, and their son Albus, who is being played by Sam Clemmett. They really nailed the looks of Harry and Ginny! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is one week out from its first preview performance.
When talking about Parker's portrayal as Harry in an interview with Pottermore, Rowling says “There's a kind of relief in watching him, he gets it so right.” Parker went on to talk about the outfit Harry is wearing, explaining:
“He’s wearing a suit because he’s a Ministry man, but he’s not just a bloke in a suit, that’s way too anonymous. And it sounds strange but we talked around a lot of different suits, because there are suits and suits, and a lot of them we put on and we went ‘Mmm it’s just not right.’
“With all the character’s costumes we want them to be instantly familiar when people see them, so that people feel like the story’s safe in our hands, and that we’re taking that responsibility seriously.”
He goes on to talk about the recognizable features of Harry such as the scar and the glasses and what it feels like to be playing such an iconic character:
“They’re just iconic,. These are stories that people have lived with for their whole lives, they’ve grown up with and now they’re adults re-joining the tale, picking it up where they left off and I’m one of them. In a sense you don’t need more than the scar and the glasses, you kind of go, ‘there it is’ and I don’t really know how to put it into words, it’s just immeasurably exciting and I can’t wait to show it to people.
“It’s a unique gig in the sense that you have seven volumes of backstory that you get to bring on with you. And we were all very keen to make sure that the first time you see Harry it just feels right.”
Pottermore will reveal more photos featuring other characters from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child throughout the rest of the week. Here's the synopsis for the upcoming two-part play that was previously released:
It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.
I'd really love to see this play so hopefully one day it makes its way over to the U.S. What do you think of the looks of these three characters?