Fleur Delacour doesn’t know her own fate — at least, Clémence Poésy, the actress who played her in “Goblet of Fire,” hasn’t read beyond that book yet. Poesy told MTV News that she’s not back in what she calls “Harry Potter world” just yet and won’t be appearing in “Half-Blood Prince” — which probably means that the subplot of her character’s engagement to Bill Weasley has been cut out or is only a mention, no actual scenes.
Still, there’s hope for Phlegm — we mean, Fleur — in “Hallows,” since the couple’s wedding is a major action sequence when it’s disrupted by Death Eaters, and the newlywed’s home at Shell Cottage becomes a place of refuge — but don’t tell her that.
“Somebody already told me the end of ‘Order of the Phoenix,’ and I was like, ‘You’re ruining everything!’” Poésy laughed, since she plans to read the remaining books on her next vacation “back to back.” Still, she can’t resist asking for one spoiler: “Has Harry done some bad things?”
Maybe that’s the influence of her latest film “In Bruges” speaking. Reunited with several of her Potter castmates, including Brendan Gleeson, Mad-Eye Moody in Potter, now as a hitman named Ken, and Ralph Fiennes, who as Voldemort is always trying to kill Harry, now playing a hitman boss named …Harry. “Isn’t that funny?” exclaimed Poésy. “We didn’t tease [Ralph] about it, but maybe we will now. I had met Brendan before, and he was really sweet. He liked scaring kids with his costume, showing it to all the extras, who were like, ‘How do you do that with your eye?’”
Not that Poésy isn’t above scaring the kids as well. “It would be nice of you not to write that,” she teased. “The kids think I have powers, so I can say, ‘Be careful, otherwise I can turn you into a frog! I’ve learned.’ So don’t tell anyone I don’t have witchcraft powers.”
In “In Bruges,” Poésy has powers of a different sort - she’s able to magnetically attract Colin Farrell, who plays yet another hitman, when he crashes a film set she’s on. Her character Chloe’s not an actress though. “She tells him she sells drugs to film crews, and he doesn’t believe her,” Poesy said. “He says, ‘I murder people for money,’ she says, ‘I sell drugs,’ and nobody believes the other. I think she just likes him. He seems innocent, childish, talking about midgets, and his eyes, they’re so big and completely innocent for a hitman who’s just committed a huge murder.”
And compared to her character’s ex-boyfriend, with whom Chloe scams tourists, Farrell’s Ray seems “kind of nice.” Can she say the same thing for Colin? “I know he kills people for money, but he never tells anyone,” she joked. “It would be very presumptious of me to tell you what else Colin is like.”
Despite their characters crimes, they remain pretty likeable, well, save for Fiennes’ Harry. “They’re doing bad things with a good heart,” Poésy said.
“It’s never black or white. It’s all greys. If we were all perfect, it wouldn’t be as beautiful. Even in simple fairy tales, you’ve got some awful things.”
It’s a running joke in “In Bruges” that Harry set Ken and Ray there because the town is like a “f–king fairy tale.” But Poésy thinks perhaps her character was the only one who got a happy ending. And as for her Potter world counterpart, she’s hoping for a happy ending there as well. “They get married, have lots of kids, never have a fight, and never divorce,” she guesses. We don’t want to spoil it for her, but let’s just say Fleur makes it to the epilogue. “It’d be a pleasure,” Poésy said, “to go back and pop in before it all finishes.”




February 24th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
now i am going to see the other movie what was it “In Bruges”lol.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:29 am
ginny/harry in and harry/draco bridge…!!! my to
how are you feeling picture as togther wedding is
or missing made bed light good morning and the all
good night…am/pm-out-time!!!harry/draco=sexy of
daddy/daddy….end tv-dvd-co!!!
February 26th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Well…I am a bit upset…but if they’re sure to mention it i suppose it might be fine…[*sigh*]. Though i was looking forward to Phlegm. By the way does anyone actually get the Phlegm joke? It just confused me…it must be a British thing!
March 21st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Omg you guys.. don’t blame the director.. You’ve got it wrong, The director has no say in what happens with the story line. It’s the Screen writers’ and Jo’s decision not the Director’s… You have to remember that not EVERYTHING is going to beable to be put into the movies.. I think they do it so when the people who haven’t read it hear about their friends complaining about something not in the book they’ll get curious and go out and buy the books to find out what they missed… plus everyone knows that the movies are always worse than the books they were based off of. Get over it already, there’s nothing you can really do about it…
April 17th, 2008 at 7:29 am
I agree with Angel….. Fire that Director. We have better Directors out there who would work hard enough to ensure all the juicy parts of the booki are in.
I can even work better than him……..
April 17th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Ok Stormey since u say that is is the screen writers, then why can’t JKR do the screen writing. After all I think the movies will be great since it was her idea in the first place.
April 18th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
aaaw man! i mean, how is there gonna be any bill if theres no fleur? and what about the 7th movie? how’re they gonna do the wedding if they dont mention her in the 6th? T^T so kitty’s right. Hey, if they’re gonna make a movie out of a book, they shouldnt cut off stuff or add stff whenever they want to!
April 20th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
They can’t just not put her in, the wedding in the 7th book is a major part! How are they going to do that now? This really doesn’t make sense.