Thirty first kisses for new Potter film
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has admitted that his first onscreen smooch deserves quite a bit of media publicity.The romantic kiss, which features in the fifth Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, reportedly took 30 takes to get right.Initially 17-year-old Radcliffe, who has starred as the teenage wizard in the preceding four films of the J. K. Rowling franchise, appeared rather pleased with himself that he had been forced to cope with a prolonged snogging session with co-star Katie Leung, 19, who plays Harry's love interest Cho Chang in the film."We probably got it on the 30th take. My God, it was fun. We were awkward and nervous at first but once we got it, it was fine," the Sun newspaper reports Radcliffe as saying.He then backtracked on this impression, however, suggesting that 30 attempts to create that first-kiss magic was nothing out of the ordinary."It was reported that we did a huge amount of takes, but actually you do that number on any scene," Radcliffe explained to the Daily Mail."Once you have covered it from all the camera angles you've done about 30 takes." Bottom of Form
