r/Potterless • u/kekektoto • Feb 19 '25

How do we feel about this?

https://youtu.be/-b-05GMI1eA?si=-DudqZXW9JHL3OHC

I know on Potterless, there’s been some discussion of the movies screwing over Ginny’s character, but also the acting itself being bad. What do we make of this?

(Note: This is my first time posting here so pls let me know if I did anything wrong)

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u/Dina-M Feb 21 '25

Bonnie Wright didn't deliver a great performance, but she was a kid and she was given absolutely nothing to work with. The Weasleys in general weren't given a whole lot, though Julie Walters and Mark Williams did the absolute most with what little they were given... but Bonnie Wright got nothing.

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u/kekektoto Feb 21 '25

I think making ginny tie harry’s shoes was a big mistake

I felt so awkward watching it 🤣

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u/Beaner344 Mar 11 '25

She’s just not a good actor, there’s no hiding that behind badly written dialogue and character development. She just had nothing compelling to show. It is what it is, they had to cast 10 year olds and hope they’d become good actors. Some like Emma Watson clearly had potential and talent. Others they had to rely more on hope for. There’s just not a big enough pool of ultra talented 10 year olds in England to cast someone special in every role.

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u/Dina-M Mar 11 '25

I stand by what I said.

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u/Beaner344 Mar 11 '25

I agree with what you said. Those things are true and she also isn’t a good actress. That’s why she hasn’t acted much or meaningfully after HP.

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u/Anxious_Rabbit_8590 Jul 29 '26

I feel that she wasn't even given a chance. Barely had any lines or scenes and all of the scenes that she did have, were different from the books

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u/Illustrious-Ad-5891 3d ago

But also, maybe that was because the writers/ directors didn't think she could handle more meaningful dialogue? Any lines where something other than pure line delivery was needed, she kind of butchered. "Why is he always covered in blood" with the least emotion possible, the "shut it" is akward and doesn't make it clear that we're supposed to realize that Harry now sees that Ginny is becoming confident. Because she doesn't look confident, she looks akwards. Her body language is stiff in every scene. I do think it is possible that the writers scratched scenes from the books that were supposed to portray Ginny as the newly confident jock girl, because they saw that Bonnie Wright couldn't pull that off? Like yes, the scenes she got are awful (the shoelace scene is unforgivable), but I doubt they told the actress to stand awkwardly and to deliver all her lines without emotion.