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DR : the stuff actually in Gringott's bank, in the Lestrange vault, where all the treasure is multiplying and multiplying, that was very hard, because I was having to scale this... the way we did it was we had moving platforms, on the set, so that, as the treasure multiplied, these platforms would move up, and I would struggle onto the next one and onto the next one and onto the next one... and, yes, I don't think my calf muscles have ever worked quite so hard... so, that was physically a very challenging scene...

Q : what was it like to film the scene with Helena Bonham Carter playing Hermione as Bellatrix? DR : it was very, very funny! It was actually, it was one of my favourite scenes on the film to do... was all of us, Warwick Davis, myself and Helena and Rupert, all on the cart, going into Gringott's bank... because Helena and Warwick are hysterically funny, both of them, and... I basically became Helena Bonham Carter's PA on this film... I was going, 'Helena, you're gonna hold that coffee? You want that coffee in the shot, or do you want me to move it somewhere else, for you? Are you going to use that character thing you're doing, now?' Because she's mad and brilliant and wonderful, and everything I love about the English people, and... so that was great fun.... and actually, the scene then, when she transforms back into Emma, was also hilarious, because on that cart, me, Rupert and Emma were all soaking wet, and it was great fun... it was, you know, very, very funny... yes, Helena as Hermione was very, very funny, and um... and or, rather, Hermione as Helena... it's all very confusing...

Q : did she have to be a bit more conservative? DR : it's a very... it's a bizarre thing... particularly... it wasn't so much the courtyard scene, the battle, which was emotional, it was actually seeing the Great Hall destroyed and turned into a kind of field hospital, um, which would be kind of the slightly more emotionally shocking moment... because the Great Hall is such an iconic set, and seeing it destroyed is bizarre, um, so yeah, I think, you know, the emotions for us all at that... that really brought home the fact that these films are coming to a close, I think... as sad as that was, it gave us all a kind of awareness of how... how much it mattered that we get this right... and how much we owe it to all the people that have gone to these films, for supporting us, for so long... to get it right, as well as for ourselves, which was a huge motivation, because you know, we've been there for so many years, and we don’t want to go out, you know, in any other way than spectacularly... but also, for the people that have watched for so long, we know we owe it to the, as well, to make this film the best we can...

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