On the latest episode of Michael Rosenbaums Inside of You podcast (via Insider), Harry Potter actor Bonnie Wright admitted that her characters lack of screen time in the Warner Bros. film franchise was a little bit disappointing. Wright played Ginny Weasley across the eight Harry Potter movies, and she was just 9 years old when she filmed Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone. Little did she know then that Ginny Weasley would become a prominent supporting character and the wife of Harry Potter in the books.
I definitely feel there was anxiety toward performing and doing the best thing as my character built, for instance, Wright said. Like, Oh gosh, will I do justice to this character that people love? So that was always hard to do, especially when, inevitably, a lot of the scenes of every character were chopped down from the book to the film. So you didnt really have as much to show in the film.
Sometimes that was a little disappointing because there were parts of the character that just didnt get to come through because there werent the scenes to do that, she continued. That made me feel a bit anxious or just frustrated, I guess.
Wright never griped to the producers about Ginnys role being reduced in the translation from book to screen. The actor said there was no room for much change in those scripts.
There were a million executives going through them all, Wright explained. I think what I maybe took, which I dont take so much to heart now, is I kind of felt that maybe my anxiety was about, Oh, Im going to be seen as badly portraying this character, rather than later realizing that I wasnt really given the opportunity to do that. So it wasnt really my fault, exactly.
When fans do share that disappointment and they do it in a way that is like, We know it wasnt you. We just wanted more of you,' she added. And thats the same of every character. If only they could be five-hour-long movies.
Ginny Weasley is surely going to be a more fleshed out character in Maxs upcoming television adaptation of the Harry Potter novels, where each season will cover an entire book.