Friday, November 24, 2006


Harry Potter's First Kiss Goes Public!

Fans have waited a long time to see Harry Potter's kiss on the big screen. Now, with the fifth film ready and set to hit cinema screens next year, the wait will soon be over. And to give fans a feel of what Harry's first kiss is like, Studio Warner Brothers has released a still from the movie showing the boy wizard locking lips with his first girlfriend.Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe and his co-star Katie Leung, who plays his crush Cho Chang in 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', reportedly enjoyed the scene so much, that they needed 30 attempts to get it right.However, Radcliffe laughed off the reports, and revealed that though the kissing scene had required 30 takes, there was nothing unusual about the number, for normal scenes require that many takes as well."It was reported that we did a huge amount of takes, but actually you do that number on any scene. Once you have covered it from all the camera angles you've done about 30 takes," the Daily Mail quoted him, as saying. "But because it's the kiss, it was sort of made out that I had requested to do well over 30 takes," he said. And though he admits that the scene was "nerve wracking", he insists that having to kiss someone he didn't like would have been a worse experience. "It would have been more nerve wracking if I was doing it with someone I didn't like," Radcliffe said.And if nothing else about the movie works, the young actor is sure that the publicity the kissing scene has got will make sure that fans flock to theatres once the movie is released. "I guess if there's one thing that people will be coming to see the film for, it will be the kiss," he said. 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' hits theatres the world over in July next year.