It turns out that in the first few movies, a ton of the scenes featuring Harry, Ron and Hermione were actually filmed using "very small adults" wearing wigs.
Emma: I had to wear a wig. I was trying right up until the last second to persuade Simon Curtis (director) that I should have short hair but he said it was too sophisticated.
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint were played by small adults in wigs in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'.
But fans of the film may be surprised to learn that all is not as it seemed with their favourite characters in the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint were in fact played by “very small adults” wearing wigs for parts of the film, Alan Rickman has revealed.
Her initially messy hair appeared to be an intentional nod to the description of the character in the books, as Hermione is described from her very first appearance on as having bushy hair. She's also supposed to have "large front teeth," but that physical trait never made it into the movies.
Harry plays a flute he has brought, putting Fluffy to sleep and allowing his gang to go through the trapdoor. They land on some sort of plant with twisting tendrils that wrap around Harry and Ron. Hermione gets out immediately and uses fire from her wand to stave off the plant.
Throughout the films, if you notice, Hermione wears pink repeatedly. Something similar was done for Harry and Ron, they wore blue (Harry) and red (Ron) as a subtle way of distinguishing characters. This is why it makes sense for Hermione to wear pink.
Before she was a household name, Emma Watson was a normal 10-year-old and with it, she had a normal 10-year-old's haircut: natural light brown hair with a straight fringe and her natural curls coming through.
Actor Tom Felton had his naturally brown hair dyed on a weekly basis to maintain Draco's white-silver locks while shooting. Only in one film, out of the whole series, did he opt for wearing a wig.
Hermione is portrayed by actress Emma Watson in the film adaptations of Harry Potter. Emma Watson actually had to dye her hair darker for the first three movies. Emma naturally has light brown hair.
“After about a year and a half, my hair started to fall out because I was parting it in the same place everyday. That's why I invested in a good wig. It is so much easier, and it gives a sense of consistency to the character, Emma Wiggle,” Watkins said.
You know, that Goblet of Fire wig? In the book, Harry has longer hair. So rather than Rupert and Daniel growing out their hair, wigs were seemingly used in place of the stars just growing out their actual hair.
In the books it is described as “bushy.” In the movies, Hermione's hair is partly wavy and partly curly. In the last two Harry Potter movies, Hermione's hair seemed to straighten out.
It turns out that in the first few movies, a ton of the scenes featuring Harry, Ron and Hermione were actually filmed using "very small adults" wearing wigs.
With The iPod In The Great Hall. The actor, wearing a long, bulky cape, hid his iPod to listen to music while filming the scenes in the Great Hall. The wig he had to wear to play Snape also helps him keep his headphones out of sight.
There's no way he would cut his hair like a Muggle, or dress like a Muggle." So Isaacs suggested instead that he wear a long white wig, and a particularly ostentatious wizard-like ensemble. "In order to keep the hair straight, I had to tip my head back, so I was looking down my nose at everyone.
Bellatrix Lestrange – played by Helena Bonham Carter – wore one of the most expensive wigs. All the wigs were made with human hair and knotted strand by strand. The more hair the artists needed to use, the more expensive each wig became. Bellatrix also wore false teeth and fake nails.
He wears diapers and struggles with his fear of the potty throughout his first year, constantly mocked by his peers. Draco is quite proud of his artistic talents and regularly draws pictures to illustrate various activities, such as playing Quidditch and using the potty.
When Harry wrestles Draco's “everyday” wand out of his hand at the Malfoy's mansion, he conquers Draco, and therefore the Elder Wand — hidden in Dumbledore's tomb at the time — transfers its allegiance to Harry.
Emma Watson
"I'll use that anywhere, from the ends of my hair to my eyebrows to my pubic hair," she said in an interview with Into The Gloss. "It's an amazing, all-purpose product." Photo: Gregory Pace/REX/Shutterstock.
Lily James shows off her natural curly hair texture in beach pic.
In the Harry Potter books, the brilliant Hermione Granger is described as having frizzy, untamable dark hair, brown eyes, and protruding teeth, but more often is defined by her intellect and devotion to her friends.
White skin was never specified. Rowling loves black Hermione,” she wrote. But the casting decision and Rowling's follow-up statement were not a surprise to some fans. For years, a community of readers have wondered whether Hermione Granger was indeed written as a black or mixed-race character all along.
Remember in the last Harry Potter film, when Hermione takes Polyjuice Potion and magically transforms into an exact replica of Bellatrix Lestrange? Well, our real life Hermione, Emma Watson, just did the exact same thing – but on the red carpet.
The author reiterated in the interview what she's pointed out before: Hermione's skin color was never mentioned in the books, even though some readers have debated even the most minuscule mentions of the character's appearance for signs that might identify her race.