Published 16:27 IST, February 6th 2021
Evanna Lynch offered her 'Harry Potter' series paycheck for 'Dumbledore's funeral'
Evanna Lynch who played Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter movies offered her paycheck to the producer to keep Dumbledore's funeral in the movie.
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Actor Evanna Lynch is popularly known for her role as Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter movie series. Luna was a part of Dumbledore's army in movie and valued character a lot. In an interview with Weasley twin actors James and Oliver Phelps on ir podcast Normal Not Normal, she told that she wanted to have a proper Dumbledore's funeral in Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince. Take a look at what Evanna Lynch did to get makers to d Dumbledore's funeral in script.
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Evanna Lynch offered her paycheck to give Dumbledore a funeral
Evanna Lynch played Luna Lovegood who was sorted in Ravenclaw house. She joined Dumbledore's army in her fourth year which was led by Harry. Apart from her character's love and respect for Dumbledore, Evanna was very attached to Dumbledore's character according to Metro UK. She was heartbroken after death of Hogwarts hemaster played by Michael Gambon in almost all films.
Image source: Still from Harry Potter
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Harry Potter and Half-Blood Prince novel mentions lavish funeral of Dumbledore which he deserved as he was most renowned wizards on planet. However, scene is absent in 2009 movie aptation. director David Yates h shared that y faced financial concerns and thus h to cut down part from ir story. Evanna who first appeared in 5th part of Harry Potter told Weasley bror actors that she h tried to step in to make funeral happen.
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She shared that she wanted everyone to honour death of character that so many people h loved and who was a huge part of journey. Lynch said that she went up to producer David Heyman in order to convince him to feature scene from novel. In novel, an entire host of magical creatures pay ir respect to Dumbledore. But he told that y're short of budget and scene would cost a lot. Evanna even offered him a part of her paycheck but he told her that it wouldn't be enough.
Evanna also revealed that in scene to give Dumbledore a tribute, makers h to d CGI tears. y h to d CGI tears to every single character in scene because it did not look s enough for loss. In sequence, all characters raised ir wands in air to pay him a tribute.
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Image source: Still from Harry Potter
16:27 IST, February 6th 2021