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Evanna moves in with Glee cast

2012-01-20T12:30:00.000-08:00

By Adelina Campos

Friday January 20 2012

HARRY Potter's Evanna Lynch has found herself some magical new housemates in Los Angeles in the form of the Glee cast.

And while most would be daunted by a move from Louth to LA, she has settled in well.

The Irish actress is expected to return to the UK next month after filming for Sky.

"Los Angeles is not a kind place to everyone but she's been very sensible and she's sharing with a few people from Glee who she gets on with very well," an insider told the Herald.

"They understand one another because they've all had to deal with a lot of exposure so they're all very friendly. She's given herself a year or so to see how she gets on with her acting career and the fact that she was cast in Sinbad is already a good sign.

Blockbuster

"The whole Harry Potter cast have been doing a lot of promotion for their last film together ahead of the awards season so it's also a good idea for her to be in LA when the blockbuster franchise is still fresh in people's minds."

She is also set to return to the small screen after landing a part on the highly anticipated series Sinbad.

Evanna is currently in Malta where the Sky programme is being shot and the Herald can reveal that the 20-year-old was invited to make a special guest appearance on the final episode of the show.

"She didn't actually audition for a part, [TV producers] just invited her to join the cast a few months ago," a well-informed source told the Herald.

"She will have a major role in the last episode and there is the potential of her returning as a regular character if the series proves as successful as Sky's other original series like Mad Dogs.

"Her character is not all it appears and the series ends on a cliff-hanger so hopefully viewers will get to see more of her."

With its extravagant costumes and exotic set, Sinbad is Sky's biggest drama commission to date.

The 12-part series rediscovers the legend of the Persian sailor, who encounters mystical creatures and characters on his voyages.

hnews@herald.ie

Taken from: HERE

Two new Luna Lovegood Promotional images

2012-01-02T12:33:00.000-08:00

Evanna Lynch interview at Temple Street Children's Hospital. (December 21st)

2011-12-29T03:50:00.001-08:00

Evanna says she's working on a new secret project!

How exciting :)

xxx

2011-12-10T11:40:00.000-08:00

It was also recently revealed that Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch would be heading to the nation of Malta in the coming weeks, where she will be filming a TV series for Sky One. The name of the series was not confirmed, though Sky stated that they are shooting modern-day version of Sinbad in Malta currently; SnitchSeeker asked Sky One if Evanna was taking part, to which they said they were "unable to confirm or deny" her participation at this time but that "Sky 1 HD is currently only filming Sinbad in Malta." Timothy Spall (Wormtail), will be costarring in Sinbad, as well.

-Snitchseeker.

Evanna Lynch in HF Magazine!

2011-11-30T10:02:00.000-08:00

Evanna Lynch was interviewed for HF Magazine.

Photos from the HF Magazine photoshoot:

Exclusive interview with Evanna Lynch:

HF: What do art and commerce mean to you?

EL: I don’t really think about the commerce side, there’s too much thinking in that and thinking is what kills art. To me, art is about constantly stepping out from your comfort zone, being always on your toes, learning and growing. It never ever ends and it’s therefore kind of torturous but then so rewarding. I think real artists are the bravest people as it is such a solo and precarious journey. There’s no wrong or right. There is no recommended route and no template for what’s good and what’s bad in art, and that’s kind of terrifying.

Personally I think I’ve always been attracted to art because of how its pursuit can transform you as a person. When I was younger I was naturally very shy and held back by so many self-generated fears. But I also had this desire to express myself and my ideas; to create. But it’s impossible to create and even consider that your own ideas matter enough to be expressed if you’re crippled by shyness and fear and self-doubt. Fear will stop you from ever putting a pen to paper. So, eventually if you let that need to express become strong enough, you’re forced to grow into a confident, assertive individual. You have to keep telling yourself your voice matters or you will fail altogether.

HF: What and who inspires you?

EL: People who can be completely content and creative by themselves, who don’t need others to feel inspired. As an actor, I spend a lot of time travelling alone and living alone and it used to make me very lonely but you have to turn that loneliness into a chance to discover your individuality and be a consistently positive, creative person. You can’t find that in other people. I think people who crave attention, those girls that go from one guy to the next and are never alone, are shying away from their own creative purpose because they can’t stand the oddness of their own company. That’s why I find myself inspired by people like Michael Jackson and my character from Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood; they’re oddballs to our society, but in truth they’re completely natural and self possessed. Both of them are strong and bold enough not to conform to what their peers expect of them. That’s why Michael Jackson exceeded everyone else’s expectations creatively. He brought something new and radical to his music and performances; he brought himself.

I read a lot of artists’ biographies, too. I’m kind of fascinated by their arrogance. That’s one trait that almost every great artist possesses. Van Gogh was a great artist but he wasn’t arrogant and I think the lack of that quality is why his life was so tortured and painful. Artists are such sensitive souls that if they listened to their own rational minds, the fearful, paranoid part that tells them they suck, they would never be crazy enough to paint. That’s why they need a steely shell of arrogance that tells them they can produce something fresh and original. I’m a sensitive person but I could never be arrogant enough to be a good artist. But I like reading about those people in the hope that eventually I may pick up some of their steeliness.

HF: Can you name an actor that you would love to work with?

EL: I’d love to work with Kirsten Dunst. She is so talented. I’ve admired her for years. You think she’s this fun, light-hearted blonde at first but underneath that she can portray such profound sadness and pain and damage. You can tell she’s had her ups and downs and she’s not afraid to pour all that into her work. I also really admire Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He’s brilliant in everything. And I read an article about him recently that mentioned a production company he runs that gets people to collaborate on projects via the Internet. I was so impressed by that because he’s breaking down the idea that the film industry, Hollywood, all that gab, is impenetrable. People have this false idea that it’s composed of an elite group of powerful people, when really it’s all just about creative people working their asses off.

Mostly I’d like to work with my friends again. I’d love to work with anyone from Harry Potter again as we had such an unbelievable time together. I think the reason the Potter films are so good, too, is because everyone gelled so well. When you’re with people you trust, you don’t care how ridiculous you look. I’d love to work with my Potter friends again because the trust is already there and we could be as ridiculous as possible.

HF: Aside from acting, what is your preferred method of artistic expression, if anything?

EL: Dancing! I love dancing. It kills me that I’m under 21 and can’t go out and dance in America!! It’s so freeing and fun and is a much more effective way of bonding with people than talking. Dancing really brought me out of myself when I was younger because you have to be confident to be a good dancer. You have to do the moves with heart or you end up looking really foolish. I’m dying to be in a musical someday! I think musicals are the most complete form of art because of all the movement and dance. I tried to get into dance college a few years ago but was rejected. I guess my style was a bit too alternative. But I still love dancing.

HF: What is the best life lesson you have learned from a fellow actor?

EL: Stop thinking.

HF: What is the best acting lesson you have learned from a non-actor?

EL: Take care of yourself, respect yourself, be happy with yourself. When you’re happy with yourself, then you can forget yourself and truly inhabit another character’s mind. I think insecurities set actors at a huge disadvantage as it’s then impossible to detach from your own mind and be someone else. Little things, like when I neglect my appearance, I find it difficult to have a conversation with someone because I’m thinking about myself, not the other person. And acting is all about thinking about the other person, letting the external become more important than the internal. You have to be a generous person. Personally, I consider it part of my job to look after my health and happiness. It takes discipline but it’s the only way you can be free of yourself enough to act.

HF: If you could be anything but an actor, what would you choose to be?

EL: I would love to be in the circus. I’d most love to be an acrobat, but really anything in the circus would be amazing. I just adore that lifestyle. Moving from place to place, never settling, working constantly on your craft, performing unbelievable acts for people all over the world. Never being in a secure situation. Always learning. I have so much respect for the circus performers and for the lack of ego in that profession. They are the best at what they do, so incredibly talented and hard working and they’re doing it just for the love of it, not for acclaim or accolades. The film industry frustrates me in that sense. It forces you to want to impress everyone and care what others think. To be successful in film you have to have impressed a lot of people. And thinking too much about what others think drives you crazy, you have to learn to detach from that when you leave an audition or a meeting but it’s hard. So to me, the circus seems like the ideal form of performance art, because it’s based solely on your talent and how hard you’re prepared to work to be on that stage. It’s basically just you and your craft.

HF: Is there a performance that you have seen, either from your childhood or more recently, that has stuck with you more than any other?

EL: I will never forget my first Cirque du Soleil experience, at Quidam in Dublin about four years ago. There was one act, a contortionist elevated up above the audience, entwined in two long pieces of silk, raveling and unraveling and bending and twisting and falling so gracefully to a song called “Let Me Fall.” It was so breathtaking. And I remember watching the girl making these incredible, terrifying shapes with her body and a piece of silk and it occurred to me that no one in the audience even knew her name. And I felt ashamed that some people knew who I am when I haven’t a fraction of that kind of talent. But then I realized that those performers are above all that, they don’t need the approval and support of the masses, and that must be the most wonderful, freeing, blissful feeling in the world. Watching people like that inspires me to work hard.

HF: Where would you like to find yourself in 5 years? In 15 years?

EL: I want to be surprised by whatever I’m doing. I’d like to look back in 5 years time and laugh because I could never imagine I’d be doing what I’m doing. You never anticipate the best things that happen in life. Like when an amazing new friend or guy comes into your life but you never could have dreamed them up and you didn’t realize they were missing in your life. I think what I want most out of life is adventure and learning. I kind of like my life to be unpredictable so I’m always being pushed. I’d like to be happy, too, but really learning and growing is paramount and you have to be ok with a certain level of discomfort for that.

Although, I have some conventional ambitions, too. I’d definitely like to be married in 10-15 years. I’d like to have a partner in crime. I’d love to have made more movies and have a strong network of friends within the industry who I can be creative with. I’d like to have written a book too, though maybe I’ll give myself 20 years for that… And I hope to be a better driver. I just got my license a few months ago and as it stands, lives are at risk.

Link to the HF Magazine website: Here.

New picture: Behind the scenes at the wedding.

2011-11-29T11:40:00.000-08:00

New picture! :)

2011-11-25T10:14:00.000-08:00

Extended look at Evanna Lynch & Daniel Radcliffe in Luna's screen test.

2011-11-21T13:25:00.001-08:00

This has just made me SO happy. Ah, wow, it's like falling in love with luna all over again. wowowow. <3

xxx

Being Ethereal!

2011-11-18T10:59:00.000-08:00

"The nargles told me to do it!" - I think this may be my new catchphase :3

ENJOY, LOONIES!

xxxx :)

Evanna Lynch at 18th Annual Women in Hollywood Tribute, LA

2011-11-14T10:43:00.000-08:00

Evanna Lynch attended the 18th Annual ELLE Women in Hollywood Tribute in LA. She wore a stunning yellow dress, as you can see above. :)

Evanna Lynch on Facebook!

2011-11-14T10:23:00.000-08:00

Evanna Lynch now has a official 'like' page on Facebook!

Click here to like it :)

Evanna at the Deathly Hallows Part 2 BluRay/DVD celebration.

2011-11-14T09:53:00.000-08:00

Evanna Lynch went to the Deathly Hallows part 2 Celebration red carpet event in honor of the American release of the DVD! Evanna wore a beautiful dress and heels.

Evanna, Rupert and Jason on The Today Show.

2011-11-14T09:41:00.000-08:00

Evanna Lynch and the HP Cast in Orlando, Florida

2011-11-14T09:24:00.000-08:00

Evanna Lynch gets her wand in Ollivander's;

Evanna in Deathly Hallows Bluray!

2011-11-14T09:21:00.000-08:00

Tell me what you think! :)

xxx

Evanna Lynch to be in A Very Potter 3!!!!

2011-08-28T07:57:00.000-07:00

Eeeep! <3

Evanna Lynch and Derek Nandy talk about their involvement in this year's MS READaTHON.

2011-08-25T12:59:00.000-07:00

Credit to France (PrettyLynch) who also helps run a brilliant Evanna Lynch fansite: Here!

2011-08-25T02:18:00.000-07:00

THE last few years have been such a magical experience it is perhaps understandable that Evanna Lynch is not quite ready to turn her back on a promising acting career for full-time study.

The young actress, from Termonfeckin in Louth, who played Luna Lovegood in four of the 'Harry Potter' films, has decided to defer an offer of a place at Trinity College, and will instead look to break into the acting scene in the US.

The 20-year-old did her Leaving Certificate this year after completing the last in the series of blockbuster films. Yesterday, she was coy about revealing her score but said she had been accepted into Trinity to study History of Art and French.

"It's a subject that really interests me so I've deferred it because I think it's something I can always come back and do.

"I have a new manager in the States and I think it's a good time to see how far I can go. I'm looking at a few scripts at the minute," she said.

Lynch was in the The Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin yesterday at the launch of this year's MS Readathon, the annual fundraising campaign of Multiple Sclerosis Ireland.

Last year more than 20,500 children in 630 schools read over 500,000 books between them, raising a total of almost €1m.

{Credit}

Evanna is off to LA to do more acting!!

2011-08-24T12:55:00.000-07:00

HARRY POTTER star Evanna Lynch is heading to Hollywood to make her dreams of becoming an A-list actress come true.

The Louth native has already had massive publicity for her role as Luna Lovegood in the most successful movie franchise. But now Evanna (20) says she's ready to take the next step and leave her friends and family behind to move to LA.

Evanna will be heading to the bright lights of Hollywood next month and admits it shouldn't be too hard to land a movie role.

"I'm going to the States for a few moths to start auditioning out there, I've just got a manager sorted. I'll be moving to LA next month and staying there for a couple of months at least. I'm sure I'll miss Ireland, but I've always loved travelling." she explained

"It won't be so hard for me, I won't have to start from the bottom, I've got my foot in there but at the same time I still have to prove myself," she said.

Evanna revealed that although she had massive exposure with the Harry Potter films and plenty of experience on set, she now wants to push herself further and get a bigger role.

"Harry Potter was such an amazing experience but I didn't do so much acting, I probably did more promotion work for the films than anything. So I want to do bigger roles," she said.

And it looks like her former co-stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint are set to give her a helping hand in the coming months.

"We are all still in touch using social networks and emails. It is hard to keep in touch with everyone all the time, and some of the cast are just rubbish at it. But I have stayed in contact with all my closest friends from the films," she said.

Evanna made the comments at the launch of the Go Rockets For Reading campaign at Dublin bookshop The Winding Stair which promotes reading in schools and is currently fundraising for Multiple Sclerosis Ireland.

From: HERE x

Evanna Lynch as Cousin Geneva on Pindippy's Flat Whites!

2011-08-24T05:04:00.000-07:00

The Making of Harry Potter.

2011-08-16T04:49:00.000-07:00

Hello again :)

It has been announced that Evanna Lynch will be on stage at the O2 Arena for 'The Making Of Harry Potter' Event!

Tickets for the Event are available from October 13 2011.

Visit http://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/ for more details!

Pictures:

Credit to Melissa Anelli for the pictures.

Evanna Lynch on being Luna: (from the Leaky Cauldron).

Evanna described briefly how she got the role of being Luna, that she was a "professional fan" rather than a professional actor and had seen the casting call on fan sites (a cheer from the audience at the mention of The Leaky Cauldron!). She described her first moment on set, being overwhelmed that she was standing next to Daniel Radcliffe, but then asking him to step aside so that she could admire the set! She echoed previous statements of how much detail on the set goes unnoticed in the films, especially on props such as the Quibbler. She spoke about the wedding scene set, and that it was uniquely wizardly in that it was like no ordinary wedding. She then performed the Wrackspurt dance and spoke of the inspiration for choreography of that and that it was Rhys Ifans's (Xenophilius Lovegood) idea to add the up and down motion. Although she didn't film there, she also liked the Lovegood house set and the drawings on the wall as it explains why Luna is the way she is. She spoke about Luna's outfits and how she thinks she wouldn't have been able to play Luna properly without the embarrassing outfits as they set her apart because she can't possibly care what she looks like, just like Luna wouldn't. Her favourite outfit was the "Christmas Tree" dress she wore to Slughorn's party, even though she couldn't sit down in it. She also liked the Lion Hat, which was displayed on stage, as it blinked and moved.

Evanna then spoke about how Harry Potter has changed her life, due to the poignant message in the books of the trio coming through the great burdens by having a lot of determination and teamwork, which she said was also given on the film set. Being a latecomer into the filming she had a lot of support from the friends she made during filming.

Lastly, Evanna announced that tickets for the Studio Tour will go on sale on Thursday, 13th October 2011 at wbstudiotour.co.uk . You WILL be required to pre-book tickets to get in to the studio. They will not be selling tickets on site. Evanna joked they have the protective spells surrounding the studios so no one can get there by broom or Thestral without a ticket.

Taken from LeakyCauldron <3

xxx

Evanna Lynch has joined The Pindippy Flat Whites!!!

2011-08-16T04:41:00.000-07:00

The one and only Evanna Lynch had joined the Pindippy Flat Whites.

Here are some cryptic clues to her cousin name. Whoever guesses her name correctly will win a life-times supply of stickers, skittles AND cotton balls dipped in Arcrylic paint:

I should add, I know these make very little sense.

Never minus 2 and plus 3
Aladin had a genie and a lamp which some mistake for a...
Switzerland, Frankenstein, water
I'm a ---erous person

There will also be a brand new HOME for the Flat Whites very soon on Pindippy, so stay tuned for Evanna's video and lots of other new stuff VERY soon!

~Taken from: 1http://www.pindippy.com/blog/2011/08/16/guess-who-1 :)

xxx

Interview with Evanna and Matt (DH Part 1)

2011-07-30T05:35:00.001-07:00

Interview with Evanna and Mark in Sweden!

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Please like my Evanna Lynch Fan page on FaceBook!

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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Evanna-Lynch-is-the-perfect-Luna-Lovegood/206519839396958

New Pictures of Evanna at LeakyCon and WWoHP!

2011-07-19T06:29:00.000-07:00

Evanna playing bass on stage for Harry and the Potters!

Evanna on stage at LeakyCon!

Evanna dancing with one of the starkids :) (you can see her amazing MJ eyes tattoo!)

Scarlett and Evanna with their Pyrmy Puffs from WWoHP!!!

Scarlett and Evanna with their Spectrespecs from the Quibbler you can get at WWoHP!

Interview with Evanna at LeakyCon!!!

2011-07-19T06:25:00.000-07:00

Pictures i've found of Evanna at LeakyCon!

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Evanna and Joe Walker :)

Evanna and the Starkids! Evanna signing :)

On stage :)

LeakyCon stage~

More coming soon!

Evanna and Scarlett Bryne Interviewed at LeakyCon!

2011-07-18T07:28:00.000-07:00

Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) and Scarlett Byrne (Pansy Parkinson) were at this year’s LeakyCon in Orlando. They’d shown up there in time to join fans for the midnight premiere at Universal Citywalk, had toured the Wizarding World and ridden the rides after hours. And STILL they got up in time to chat with the press. TROUPERS.

Evanna: “I don’t know how I’m going to feel NEXT week.

Scarlett: “We’ll have a lot of time to think about that.”

Evanna: “Next week is going to be SO quiet.”

Scarlett: “I KNOW.”

Evanna: “It’s going to be this post-Potter trauma for all us, I think. With all the running around to premieres, and the high emotions of the cast and the fans — everybody so happy and excited, it’s going to be a bit of a let-down. We went to a screening (Thursday night) here with the BIGGEST fans in the world. Much better than the premiere, because the reactions were so huge. Just so much fun.

“But now, I’m on Twitter, and everyone is saying how sad they’re becoming that it’s all over. This thing we’ve all been going through is over, and now we’re going through the grief of losing it together. But, it’s OK.

What about the future? Any hope on your part that the story will somehow go on? Done any arm-twisting on Jo Rowling?

Evanna: I don’t know. At the premiere, she kind of became overwhelmed and said, ‘Oh Hell, I’ll just write ANOTHER one!’” She didn’t mean that. Joking. She’s been saying all along that this was it.

I don’t know where she would go with this because Harry Potter’s story is a very important period in wizarding history. It’s the Ultimate Battle in wizarding history. No one else’s story will be quite so extraordinary. We will have to guess what happens to the other kids. I think she’ll leave it there. But I would LOVE a Luna spinoff series. But I don’t see her doing it. Do you?

Scarlett : The whole thing’s just been so overwhelming that i haven’t had time to think about it. It’s been extraordinary, coming out here. Just meeting the most passionate fans and realizing this work we did means the world to them. At the screening here at midnight, I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life. It’s so special. But we’ll see.

Evanna: Journalists keep saying, ‘This is the END.’ Like it’s truly over. But it’s not. Because I’ve made so many friends through Harry Potter. I am such a fan, a geek. I’d probably be here even if I hadn’t been in the movies. I’m enjoying this convention because it brings out my inner geek, the one I pretend to not be. That’s who I was all those years I was pretending I was already cast in the movies before I actually tried for it.

“I don’t feel it’s going to have some abrupt end. I feel that this is the height. It’s in vogue at the moment. But everyone just loves it so much that you can’t just cut that part of your life out.

Scarlett – It’s not the end, because the film will come out on DVD and there’ll be another mass of attention. And this theme park is pretty nice, so that will keep it alive.

Evanna: There’s an exhibition going ’round, too.

What do you think of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter?

Scarlett: It looks like it does on the set. And since we saw it at night, it looks even more like the real thing.

Evanna: The sets are all in different parts of this huge warehouse. The best sets only have three walls on them. So it doesn’t look as real. But here, you get this amazing feeling as you actually walk into the castle — into Hogwarts, or down to the sweet shop or Ollivander’s in the village.

Scarlett: It felt very authentic.

Evanna: EXCEPT for the temperature.

You two have been VERY spoiled. You have been able to make a series of films with the cream of British and Irish acting. Acting royalty. How do you follow this?

Evanna: don’t think there’s any point WORRYING about what’s next and being sad about it. We’ve been so privileged. And we’ve gotten such a brilliant start to our acting careers — I want to continue, I don’t know if Scarlett does — a good head start, that even if it is hard to work your way into other roles, we have no room to complain.

“I came onto this with no acting experience. Most actors have to work their way up through TV commercials and plays. I didn’t have any of that. I got this part and it came with this amazing fan-base of support. I feel positive about the future. Yeah, it might be hard to break out of this iconic role. But we’ve got time. And we’ve been given this great opportunity. I am just so grateful to be associated with Harry Potter.

Scarlett: I’m just thrilled to have been a part of it all. I never would have dreamed that I would get to be a part of something that’s so huge, a phenomenon. To get your first experiences with this amazing cast and this huge crew, you have to know how lucky you’ve been and appreciate it.

You’ve been sharing scenes with some of the greatest actors who have ever lived. Anything you picked up from any of your co-stars that will help you in your future careers? Who inspired you?

Evanna: “I really love Jason Isaacs and Mark Williams. LOVE them. Such nice guys. Very friendly. No airs put on. We were in the same makeup room every morning for the big Hogwarts battle scenes. I’d be half-asleep, exhausted, and they were just BRIGHT and upbeat and funny. They were chirpy and alive and how playful. They were getting to ACT. My [actor] parents are about the same age as them, and they’re not like that at all. They’re serious, rationalizing why a character would do this or that. But seeing Jason and Mark go with their guts and play. PLAY. they sing. They break into accents. They give each other a terrible time. Because it’s fun. I’ve been on tour with them to premieres and all and I’ve learned so much from them. When we were preparing for the French premiere, Mark was singing. He was getting us all worked up. ‘What can we SING? Something FRENCH!’

“That’s what I learned from them. Be playful. Be yourself. Be experimental. Have fun with it.

“Jason Isaacs quoted this line to me, ‘Perfectionism is the enemy of creativity.’ That’s so true. You can’t be worrying about hitting that one perfect take.

Scarlett: Watching everyone was the best acting school you could ever want. It was like a huge playground on the set, and in the dressing rooms, you’ve never seen such happy people. No matter what role they had, everyone seemed so grateful to be there and that showed, I think. I came in on the sixth film and I was a bit nervous, at the beginning. But they welcomed me into the family. If nothing else happens, I’ll still have those amazing experiences in my life to remember.

Conventions — fans. Can you envision yourself meeting fans, talking about this, 34 years later, the way Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and those “Star Wars” folks do at the Star Wars Celebrations they have here in Orlando?

Scarlett: Has it been 34 years? How many show up?

Over 30,000 for the last one.

Scarlett: Oh my GOD.

Evanna: I LOVE that idea. The premieres are all very lovely and all, but you don’t get to interact with the fans. There’s a barrier between you and you’re meant to keep that there.

Scarlett: But we’ve been mingling with people, fans who know the characters, know the books and movies.

Evanna: I think a lot of fans, they might look at us as a couple of movie stars dropping in on them. But we’re fans, too. Geeks, actually. And you see how creative all these other people are.

Scarlett: We met all these artists, bands, all these creative people. People doing Harry Potter origami. I don’t want to leave!

Taken from: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/2011/07/potters-evanna-lynch-and-scarlett-byrne-at-leakycon.html

xoxo

Evanna dances to I do believe in Nargles by The Whomping Willow at LeakyCon!!!

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(Unrelated news) Me dressed up as Luna Lovegood! x

2011-07-17T07:30:00.000-07:00

Evanna attends LeakyCon 2011!!!!!

2011-07-17T06:45:00.000-07:00

Evanna doing the Lovegood dance:

Evanna dancing with Brian Rosenthal (Professor Quirrel in AVPM):

LeakyCon Open at the Close - Evanna Lynch talks with Pottercast

2011-07-17T06:23:00.000-07:00

Luna Lovegood (Evanna Lynch) - Deathly Hallows Part 2

2011-07-17T06:20:00.000-07:00

Evanna Lynch attends Premiere in Paris.

2011-07-17T05:48:00.000-07:00

Evanna Lynch attended the premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part II, held at Palais Omnisports de Bercy in Paris, France on Tuesday evening (12th July).

Evanna was joined by James Phelps, Mark Williams, Oliver Phelps, Clémence Poésy, Natalia Tena, Jason Isaacs and Domhnall Gleeson at the event.

Pictures and videos of the event are below:

Video!:

Evanna Lynch at the London Premiere!

2011-07-17T05:42:00.000-07:00

Sorry, this is so late, i've been on holiday and such (:

Evanna Lynch, along with every other cast member attended the last Harry Potter Premiere in Trafalgar Square. She wore a beautiful dress, take a look;

Watch Evanna at the Premiere:

There's loads more news coming! :) xo

New Luna Lovegood picture~!!!!!!

2011-06-17T15:51:00.000-07:00

Evanna Lynch Interview~

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2011-04-05T23:21:00.001-07:00

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2011-04-04T23:55:00.000-07:00

The DVD Premiere of Harry Potter the Deathly Hallows : I took place in NYC last night.

Evanna Lynch attended the premiere along with David Thewlis, Natalia Tena, Bonnie Wright, James and Oliver Phelps, Clemence Poesy and more!

Apple Store.

2011-04-04T23:51:00.000-07:00

Evanna Lynch attended the Deathly Hallows panel discussion at the Apple Store in Soho a while ago. Audio of the discussion can be heard, courtesy Snitchseeker.

Evanna Lynch liked the background aspect of Bill and Fleur’s wedding, where people are dancing and chatting, and enjoyed the wizard wedding aspect of it, which she thought it was natural

If the actors could portray another character: James jokingly said George; Bonnie said Hagrid; Warwick said Snape; Natalia, Evanna, and David Barron said Bellatrix; Thewlis said Luna Lovegood; Michael Gambon said Harry; Heyman said Lupin.

Evanna Lynch attends Daniel Radcliffe’s ‘How to Succeed’ Sunday show

2011-04-04T23:41:00.000-07:00

While in NYC, Evanna Lynch went to go see Dan in 'How To Succeed' as shes says on her Twitter:

@evy_lynch: Then we went to Dan’s show ‘How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying’. A-MAY-ZING. He smashed it! You’d be DAFT not to check it out.

Evanna Lynch to attend the Deathly Hallows DVD Launch

2011-04-04T23:38:00.000-07:00

The Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : I DVD will be out on April 15, and Evanna Lynch will be attending Harry Potter : The Exhibition New York City on April 4 and DVD release in at HMV Oxford on April 10.

MTV will be holding the live stream for the NYC launch:

On April 4 at 7 p.m. ET, MTV News’ own Josh Horowitz will head down the block (seriously, we’re that close to the Potter magic) for the red carpet event. In addition to chatting with some of your fave “Potter” stars, Josh will take you behind the scenes of the exhibition and inside the new DVD.

But we need your help! Send your best questions to @mtvnews using #askpotter, and Josh could just ask them of Hogwarts’ finest!

Here’s a rundown of who will be in attendance: Michael Gambon (Dumbledore), Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Helen McCrory (Narcissa Malfoy), Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley), James and Oliver Phelps (Weasley Twins), Dohmnal Gleeson (Bill Weasley), Mark Williams (Arthur Weasley), Evanna Lynch (Luna), David Thewliss (Lupin), Nat Tena (Tonks), Producers David Heyman and David Baron and many more to come.

I wish i could go! ):

Evanna asks fans about Quest!

2011-04-04T23:33:00.000-07:00

Harry Potter UK’s facebook page is now hosting a Fanday Friday, where this time around, the cast asks the fans questions.

There’s a new video where Evanna Lynch puts up a question to fans.

Hi, Potter Facebook fans! My name is Evanna Lynch, and I play Luna Lovegood. My question to you is: have you ever been on a quest with your friends? Where did you go?

Evanna Lynch joins Twitter and talks Harry Potter!

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The real Evanna Lynch has joined Twitter! Hooray! You can follow her here @Evy_Lynch!
I'm really glad, because there's been so many fakes, which really is very sad.

Also, Evanna Lynch spoke to class of about 30 students, aged between eight and 12, who have been studying the Harry Potter books as part of a course in Dublin City University organized by the Centre for Talented Youth, Ireland – of which Evanna herself has been a part.

Had she been a few years younger, Lynch would probably have been sitting in the same class. She is also a former protege of the centre.

“I don’t think she is weird, she is completely herself. She is okay with being eccentric and a little different,” she said of the character who made her name.

Lynch wrote to the casting agent and to author JK Rowling before landing the part in 2006. With 15,000 other hopefuls in the frame, she got the role because the producer believed she personified what Luna Lovegood was about.

Lynch is just 19 but she told the class she could remember a time when the Harry Potter books were not the big deal they are now. The students would have no conception of a time before Harry Potter.

There was no shortage of questions for the actor, who will sit her Leaving Certificate and intends to emigrate to London during the summer to pursue an acting career.

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Lynch also provided some insights into the cast and characters of the film franchise that fans will find interesting.

She met author JK Rowling about five times and had written to her before getting the part. “She’s so warm. I’m going to write to her and tell her about this course. She would be really chuffed about it.”

Actor Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the title role, is unspoilt by his fame and never complains, although he has not had a normal life since he was 11. “He really appreciates that he has been given so much. You could have had an actor who said he was sick of being typecast.”

She does not know what Alan Rickman, who plays the sarcastic teacher Professor Snape, is really like because he is a method actor who is never out of character. “I hear he is a nice guy.”

Info Taken from LunaFans.

Killing Bono Premeire!

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On March 15th Evanna attended the Killing Bono Premeire in Dublin with Domnhall Gleeson and Jamie Campbell Bower. Evanna's new hair is blonde and brown, and i think it looks beautiful (: She has extentions in again, aswell :)
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How far will Fudge go to gain Gringotts?

2011-03-13T09:04:00.000-07:00

Hello!!!
I've decided, because there is not much news about evanna at the moment, i shall use this as my blog too! I'll post pictures of me dressing up as luna seeing as i'm always doing that, and anything else wizardy like that <3 I hope you enjoy it! :)
Right now i'm making another quibbler as i only have one. i'm making the one luna has in OotP (:
I'll post pictures of it when i'm done ^_^
I'll be updating this blog as much as i can <3
Love you guys :3
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Evanna Lynch attends the Irish Film and Television Awards.

2011-02-13T08:58:00.000-08:00

Evanna Lynch attended the Irish Film And Television Awards last night in Dublin.

Why the Body Bind is My Nightmare. - By Evanna Lynch

2011-01-18T12:19:00.000-08:00

What would your Dementor be? I’ve no doubt that all of you have pondered this question many a time and come up with a plethora of suggestions. Spiders, failure, heights, ghosts, rejection, fear itself (oh, how noble of you!)–these are just a few Dementors that spring to mind. Personally, I have an acute fear of being paralysed, like being hit with a permanent Body Bind curse. I have a recurring nightmare of suddenly being totally paralysed. In my dream, people I know keep appearing and saying provocative things to me. My mind is screaming replies but my body just can’t deliver. For this blog I have decided to elucidate on the reasoning behind this fear (though fear is never truly reasonable, when you break it down).

I don’t believe in mental blocks. I don’t believe in what other people tell me I can and can’t do. Basically, I have very little regard for the idea of “can’t”. Take the example of running a marathon: your mind tells you that you can’t do it, and other people may laugh and scoff when you tell them your ambition. But the truth of the matter is these statements are just illusions. You can run the marathon regardless of the naysayers. However, if you break both legs two days before the aforementioned marathon I don’t think anyone will contest that “can’t” becomes the cold hard truth.

This reality is why the physical body bind is my greatest fear and it is also why I think it’s so important that we love and care for our bodies as best as we can. It’s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the wider world. It is nothing but a vehicle for our greater creative purpose but if we don’t give it fuel and keep it in good working order it instead becomes another obstacle to transcend, a physical one, as well as the many million fictitious mental ones that society presents.

Unfortunately so, so many people are letting their own Negative Body Image be another type of body-bind that prevents them from living their life to the fullest. We feed ourselves negative thoughts about our body, thoughts like “I’m too fat”, “I’m too short”, “I’m too ugly.” Very quickly we glumly accept them as the truth, and thus we become imprisoned in our own body. We use them as excuses NOT to fulfill certain ambitions and lock ourselves into a cosy self-contained prism of isolation and fear. While writing this blog, the song by Arcade Fire, “My Body is a Cage” is playing in my mind. My body is a cage that keeps me / from dancing with the one I love / But my mind holds the key.” I’m no genius at interpreting indie band lyrics, but to me this song summed up the pain and frustration of someone who is in love with someone else but who refuses to act on these feelings because they feel their body isn’t good enough. They can’t let themselves be free. To anyone who has let their body cage their dream, I say to you, isn’t it true you might as well have been paralysed, hit with the curse?

These are harsh words, I realise, though I want them to be a wake up call to you. If you don’t use your body to its full potential, as a means of achieving your dreams, you are wasting it. You are no better off than someone who is locked in a total body bind curse. At the same time I realise how difficult it is to overcome this state of mind, and I know what a firm, unrelenting grip these thoughts can get on you. A few years ago I was haunted by destructive, negative thoughts like these. I used to get so angry and frustrated because I felt my mind didn’t match up with my body and that it prevented me from things I knew I was capable of doing. It took me a while to realise that all of this was an illusion. If I continued to abuse my body by giving in to my negative thoughts, I didn’t deserve to have the health and fitness I was blessed with. I would recommend all of you watch the film of “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” a story about a man who suffers a terrible accident that leaves him paralysed. He is left with only the use of his left eyelid, and yet, all the odds against him, the man wrote a book about his life and journey by dictating it to a transcriber through that one left eyelid. That story really spoke to me and put things in such clear perspective. Continuing to allow such trivial things as body insecurities to control and dictate your day-to-day behaviour is continuing down a road of destruction and cowardice.

On the other hand, I don’t believe in sweeping these insecurities under the carpet. Doing that is almost as destructive as obsessing over these insecurities. Perhaps many of you bookish individuals who come from bookish families have been brought up to believe that beautifying oneself is a vain, self-seeking, and wasteful practise, as it does nothing to enhance one’s knowledge of the world. My mother grew up in a very loving, intelligent family, but she was not brought up to believe she was beautiful. Sometimes I ask her about her youth and the things she did, and so often her reply is “I didn’t have the confidence for that.” I’m trying to tell you that ignoring them is not the right way to deal with insecurities! Ignoring pain or problems doesn’t make them go away. The fact is you have a body and, as it encases the rest of you, it’s important that you are happy with it.

So I am giving you permission to make yourself feel beautiful! Do whatever it is you have to do to make yourself feel beautiful. If that’s keeping fit and healthy then go for a walk or run in the mornings and be determined to keep it up. Do your makeup, or if you’re bored and want to change your appearance, then dye your hair a different colour. Eventually, by doing these little things and feeling more beautiful, you will break through all the self doubt and find the negative obsession fading away. Don’t get lazy and tell yourself there’s no point; it’s important! Nowadays I know what I need to do to be happy with my appearance: I spend a few minutes in the morning picking out an outfit that will make me feel confident, and then I have the rest of the day, free from the old destructive thoughts, to pursue my creative pursuits– the most important thing!! But I know that if I didn’t take care of my body, I would get really down and feel incapacitated to do even the most menial everyday tasks. Do you ever have a day when you aren’t happy with your hair, or you get a spot, and then for the rest of the day that’s all you can think about?! Basically, my view on taking care of one’s appearance is that it’s important insofar as it helps you to forget your appearance!

We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet. I hope you realise how powerful they are and decide that today you’re going to start treating it with love and kindness. Think of it like a child; if you were to continue to feed it on mental and physical abuse, and starve it of love and nourishment, how would it grow into anything other than an angry, embittered, cold-hearted delinquent? Whereas if you tell that child everyday that it’s beautiful, loved, and can do anything, there’s no limits on what it can grow up to be. It’s pretty simple: Serve your body best so it can serve YOU best.

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Deathly Hallows part 1 film poster book!

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Evanna talks about Luna Lovegood ♥

2010-12-03T00:55:00.000-08:00

‘Harry Potter’: Luna Lovegood actress says she was born for the loopy role.

Evanna Lynch as Luna Lovegood in "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part I." (Warner Bros.)

Always sunny and usually daft, Luna Lovegood seems awed by the world around her in “Harry Potter.” It’s a comfortable mode for Evanna Lynch, the young actress who has portrayed Luna in the film series and has been called the “perfect” choice by author J.K. Rowling.

“I just felt that if anyone was to play her, it should be me,” Lynch said. “It was like studying for a math exam. I studied to be her. I really, really like her. I think that parts of me are like [Luna], but I am different. I had to be in the audition. I said ‘I know that you may have ideas of who Luna is, but here is how I see her.’ “

Lynch spoke after visiting Tokyo, one of her favorite places on this “Potter” ride of promotion and premieres “because it’s so different.” Lynch’s Luna doesn’t have a huge role in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1,” but has always been a favorite. Lynch has seen the overwhelming reaction from fans, and she often muses about how her character might handle all of the publicity that she has been getting.

“She wouldn’t avoid it. She rather likes talking to people. But I think that she would find it alarming — all these people shouting her name.”

Lynch herself has changed and learned to deal with the “Potter” phenom that has engulfed her. Before being cast as Luna, Lynch was part of the hysteria as a super-fan. Painted face and nails, homemade T-shirts, and trips to numerous locales just to celebrate Pottermania were a part of her pre-movie life. “I started reading the books when I was about 8 and didn’t get cast until I was 14. One of the producers came to my house and saw all of the posters on the wall and said that I had her life up on that wall.”

In “Deathly Hallows,” Luna’s famously positive attitude and demeanor is tested, but she remains steadfast in her optimism and detached calmness even while imprisoned in the dungeon-like gloom of the Malfoy Mansion basement. ”I don’t think Luna changes. The thing about her is that she’s so relaxed about herself. She has to be a bit more serious than normal [in "Deathly Hallows"] and has to accept that times are dark. She always sees the positive and has a spirituality about herself. She doesn’t think that death is the end.”

Evanna in a magazine!

2010-12-01T23:29:00.000-08:00

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH MAGIC

Evanna Lynch is living the life she used to dream of: this Irish Harry Potter fan gets a role as Luna Lovegood in her favorite series.

PORTRAITS LORENZO AGIUS

She was chosen out of 15,000 contenders who joined the audition for the part of the kooky Ravenclaw. Her audition drove producer David Heyman to say, “Many people can play Luna, but Evanna Lynch is Luna Lovegood.” Although she was without previous acting experience prior to joining the Potter cast for the first time in Order Of The Phoenix, the 19-year-old doesn’t really need to pick her character’s brain. After all, Lynch is the resident Potter expert on set.

Her involvement in the production of these films that began in 2007 didn’t just stop at acting. She also pitched ideas for the unique design for fashion a la Luna in the movies: radish earrings and lion hats. We’re rather curious about her Lady Gaga-esque fashion sense so naturally our first question of Lynch was…

With her fashion sense, she’s a bit of the Lady Gaga of Hogwarts…
(laughs) Lady Gaga has nothing on Luna!

So, if she met Lady Gaga…
She was there first!

That’s very true. Well, if she met Lady Gaga, what would she say to her? Would she say, “I was here first”?
She wouldn’t… nothing shocks her, you know. Some people are like, “what are you wearing?” Luna would admire it. She’d be interested. She’d like diversity in everything. To be honest, I wouldn’t wear her things. Her clothes are fun to wear but I would feel too much looked at. But Luna is not doing it to make a fashion statement. She thinks radishes look nice on earrings so she’ll wear them. So I wonder what Lady Gaga would think of her. To be honest, I like Lady Gaga, but I think it’s more of an act. She does it for show business. Luna wouldn’t. That’s just herself.

Have you ever met anyone who copies her clothes?
No. Luna’s colour scheme is like purple and turquoise and I think it’s just something you have to be really confident wearing, really. Luna’s not over confident; she’s just secure. I think most people my age, they’re either doing it to make a statement, like, “I’m going to be looked at”, or else they don’t care. I would like to be like that but to be honest, I’m a bit shy… I don’t like to be stared at, so much.

Anyway, in Deathly Hallows, there’s Luna’s dad…
Yeah! That was nice. It was nice that everyone was back, everyone had their moment… You do feel it’s the whole Potter family all coming together… [Rhys Ifans] was fab to work with. He was great. I like that they showed more of Luna’s story because everyone’s like, “Where’d she come from? She’s so different!” And I also like how, at the very end, they’re forgetting who’s fighting with who… Harry and Malfoy have a moment where they understand each other… it’s nice. There’s a bit of Luna, at the end, who is sort of out of character as she has to shout at Harry a bit…

Luna, Neville and Ginny are leading the resistance at Hogwarts. Can you tell us a bit about that? Did you enjoy that character journey?
Yeah, that was really fun. I love how they sort of take over… when Harry comes back, and he and Ron comes into the Room of Requirement, and they’re like, “Oh, look at what they did!” It’s sort of like, um, I can’t remember … boys in a tree house and they have all these sleeping bags and these little statues in it… it’s really exciting. Harry’s the one who’s always taken the initiative. Harry, Ron and Hermione, they’re like… “we have to fight”… but now they’re gone and Luna, Neville and Ginny, they do take over. They realize, they can do something, and what they do is very valuable. All their contribution… so that was nice. It’s not like in the fifth book, where we’re just introducing her. Oh, look that’s Luna, she’s kooky, she’s fun. Luna’s just not in the background. She’s there, she’s helping and she’s fighting.

The scale of these films are much bigger than before. How was it different from you this time?
There was a whole different feel to them. Like they’re the end ones so nobody is going to be spared. We were all aware it was the end – there was a good spirit, we wanted to make it better and everything. It’s very hard to encompass that feeling.

You’re the biggest fan on the set and the fans next summer are going to have to go through a horrible withdrawal next summer with no more films coming out. But you’ve had your withdrawal this summer. Any advice for the fans?
It will be a shock. It was a shock for me. I’ve been with everyone for so long. We’ve always had this question, what’s it going to be like when it ends. And then on the last day, I was, like, “Oh, what’s going to happen now?” But what I realized was that it did end but I was still talking to all my friends. I think that’s what they’ll realize, that yeah, sure, officially it’s ending but because you have all these friends who are passionate about the same thing you’ll still be alive and you’ll still talking about it. So, yeah, just enjoy it and don’t… I wouldn’t think about the end until it comes.

Who are your friends on the set?
You know Katie [Leung]? She plays Cho Chang. She doesn’t have a lot of lines in this one but she’s going to be in it for a little bit. And Bonnie… and Afshan [Azad, who plays Padma Patil].

If you could change the ending, would you?
No. Everyone’s happy and… (laughs) I know people complain about the epilogue, but I really liked it. A lot of people say it’s too nice, too cheesy, but the whole story is one big bloodbath, you know, there’s stress the whole time. There’s not one bit where Harry’s just like relaxed, and he’s watching TV, he’s not just playing on the Playstation, like most people have those moments. He’s always worrying and he’s always, like, “What does the prophecy mean? How can I do this? Horcruxes…everything!” I really like the end, that it ends nice, and he has children. I’d like to know more about Luna.

Some have even thought she might end up with Harry…
I got a question back in there (she points to previous interview room): would you like it to be more raunchy? I was like, “oh, you’re mixing series here!” No, I don’t think Luna and Harry would at all. I just think she thinks differently to everyone. She’s really open minded. I think Harry would… I imagine him and Ginny. While they’re great together, I imagine they have a really stormy sort of thing… argue a lot… throw things and shout. I think Luna wouldn’t be so much the romance and passion. She’d be more about exploring things, like she’d get really excited about a creature, and she’d want to share that with someone, so it’d be more a friendship. And I think Harry’s more about the passion.

Do you want to continue acting when you’re finished Harry Potter?
Yeah, I’d love to. For the first time, I came in as a Harry Potter fan and I wasn’t sure… but then towards the end, I definitely don’t want to give this up so that’s why… I’ve learned so much from this, I’ve changed a lot. Like I was real shy before, I didn’t know acting and I think I would be so different if I hadn’t got this. For a young person to be traveling the world and meeting new people from all these different cultures… talking about yourself to remote strangers… it really makes you grow. And I think I like the idea you’re not in your head the whole time… because when you’re just studying in school, you’re obsessed with yourself, like “oh, I have to make an impact” And then when I go back to the films and I’m playing Luna, I’m like, “OK, here’s another person who has a different life and they’re just as important” and that’s what’s fun. And I like that. So yeah, I don’t want to give it up.

You can now look back at everything you’ve done with Harry Potter. So what kind of impact in particular has that had on you, in terms of values or how you think about life?
People say, “Oh, it hasn’t changed. I’m still with my friends and family.” In that sense, yes, you’re still you. But it’s definitely changed how I look at life and how I approach things now. Before Harry Potter, it was something out there. It was a dream, it was something I couldn’t touch… and those people, I had them on pedestals. And since I’ve been on this, and I’ve seen how it all happens, and I’ve seen how the magic happens. But anyway, it makes you realize, oh, I’m just another person, I can do that. They’re just people doing this. I’ve seen the way people, like fans… when I go to premieres, the way they treat me was the way I would’ve been then, but no, that’s an illusion. I used to think, like, “Oh, I would love to someday be a writer” and used to go, like, “that’s won’t happen”. But now I’m like, “No, that can”. You just take initiative and you just believe in yourself, and believe that you’re as good as anyone else and as able to do it as everyone else. So yeah, I hope people will see us, “Oh, she’s a normal girl. If she can do that, I can do that.”

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Evy on Deathly hallows part 1 behind the magic!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgK2Kg6nTZ0

RTE Radio 1 Talks to Evanna Lynch and her parents!

2010-11-23T11:29:00.001-08:00

RTE Radio 1′s presenter Miriam O’Callaghan recently talked to Evanna Lynch and her parents Donal and Marguerite Lynch.

Evanna explained to Miriam that her last day of filming on the Harry Potter films was on June the first of this year. It was an unexpectedly emotional day. Her father Donal was there too, with her on the last day of an adventure that had started in the same studios five years before.

Evanna doesn’t think that she is like Luna, but says that playing the role has had a big impact on her life. She has travelled alot and met new people. She used to by shy, but now she knows that she has to make the first move in conversation as many people assume because she has been part of something as big as Harry Potter that she mightn’t be interested in talking to them. So if she doesn’t make the first move, she could be very lonely. Her mothr Margueriet says that the experience has enriched the life of the whole family.

Marguerite tells Miriam about growing up in Dublin and the influence of her father on the family. He loved reading Joyce and was very interested in Picasso – an interest his grand daughter Evanna shares.

Donal tells Miriam about growing up in County Limerick where his father was the local postman who had a passion for books. Donal wanted to become a priest, but changed his mind six months before ordination. This broke his mother’s heart.

Many years later, Donal met Marguerite and proposed marriage to her within a month at the Liath Fail, the stone of destiny on the Mound of the Hostages at Tara. Although only acquainted a short while, Marguerite accepted. Evanna explains that her parents are great friends to each other. She spends a lot of time away from home, but it is always good to know that home is there and never changes. Her parents have influenced her in different ways. Her mother shares her interest in reading and in art while her father has shown her how important it is not to be snobby and to treat everyone equally well.

Evanna explains to Miriam that she had corresponded with JK Rowling for years before she got the role of Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films. JK had taken a great interest in her, especially when she was sick when she was younger. She got the role of Luna through open auditions, but when JK found out that the girl cast was the little girl she had corresponded with, she wrote her a letter of congratulations. It was the best letter ever, Evanna tells Miriam.

JK Rowling saved Evanna Lynch from Anorexia!

2010-11-23T11:16:00.000-08:00

Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch has revealed how the books'' author saved her from anorexia.
The Irish actress had the deadly eating disorder for two years from 11 and wrote to J K Rowling begging for help, reports the Sun.

"I told her the books gave me hope, particularly Luna Lovegood," said Evanna, who went on to play the character in the films.

"I told how I looked up to her. She wrote back and was like a counsellor. She told me anorexia is destructive, not creative, and the brave thing was not to succumb to it," she added.

"I told her I''d love to be in the films and she encouraged that but said I''d need to be well to do so. In the end I think that''s why I recovered," said Evanna

Read more: Rowling saves Potter star from anorexia - The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/news-interviews/Rowling-saves-Potter-star-from-anorexia/articleshow/6970017.cms#ixzz168Ph6S3p

Evanna at the French premiere

2010-11-23T08:24:00.001-08:00

Evanna Lynch attended the French premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : I in Tours yesterday.

Along with Evanna, Potter co-stars Mark Williams, James and Oliver Phelps, Clemence Poesy and Matthew Lewis attended the event.

Evanna Lynch at the Irish premiere!

2010-11-16T10:38:00.000-08:00

Evanna Lynch attended the Irish premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows : I yesterday in Dundrum, Dublin. Along with Evanna, Potter co-star Domhnall Gleeson, who plays Bill Weasley, was also in attendance.

Thanks to LunaFans :)

Also, if you look at the second to last picture, you can see Evy's tattoo of michael jackson's eyes on the back of her neck~!! how amazing? :D
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Evanna Lynch at Deathly Hallows Norway Premiere.

2010-11-14T08:19:00.000-08:00

The Norwegian premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows took place on November 12, and Evanna Lynch along with Mark Williams attended it.

“Luna is not strange. She is genuine and does not care about what others may think about her. It is very necessary to have little sense of confidence and I like that she does not think that way. She is who she is,” says Lynch.

“I read the books as soon as they came out, and they inspired me so much. My life changed so strongly, that I do not know how things would be without Harry Potter. I was almost obsessed,” said Lynch

Monster Island News posted an article on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and Evanna Lynch is mentioned, along with a description of the

Lovegood House:

Dominating the main floor of the house is an old-fashioned printing press, with belts of paper running the length of the ceiling. Since it is also the home of Luna Lovegood, her artwork i

s proudly displayed on every wall. Evanna Lynch was also asked to lend her inspiration to the décor. McMillan says, “Evanna has a wonderful eye and came up with some great ideas. The end result is wonderfully eclectic, but homey.”
More Norway pictures:

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Evanna and Mark at the Norway Premiere!

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thanks to JustEvanna for the pictures :)
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Evanna Lynch at the London Premiere of Deathly Hallows Part 1!

2010-11-13T09:58:00.000-08:00

New video of Evanna at the London premiere here and here!

Spell Bound.

2010-11-13T09:45:00.000-08:00

Spell Bound

She’s being playing airy fairy Luna Lovegood for almost four years, but with the Harry Potter franchise coming to an end, what’s next for talented Irish girl, Evanna Lynch?
Hi Evanna, what are you upto at the moment?
I’m repeating my Leaving Cert. I was so busy filming last year that I missed out on a lot, so I wanted to go back. I’m actually planning to go to art college and acting more, so a lot of my friends are wondering why I’m bothering becuse they are more portfolio based. But it’s like an insurance policy in case things don’t pan out with acting. I’m going to a different school to do my Leaving again because I need a push. In my old school, everyone was so lovely and accommodating about me not having homework done because I was so busy, but now I need someone to say, “No, that’s no excuse, do it.” No mercy!
Have you any acting roles lined up?
Not at the momet, because I’m repeating the exams. I’m taking a year off, but next year I’d like to start going for auditions. The final film is coming out next summer so I’ll still be on the radar hopefully, and I’ll be free and have a closure from Harry Potter.
Are you sad that it’s all coming to an end?
Oh, yes. It’s been a gradual thing because since the seventh book came out I’ve been thinking about “the end”. But on the very last day of the filming I was very emotional. That was around the time I was finishing school too, so I did feel very adrift at that time. There’s no clear end though, we’ve still got premieres and parties and press so I’ll be seeing all the gang and living in Harry Potter land for a while yet.
Are you still a Harry Potter super fan?
Yes! I’m still very passionate about the books. I always feel like I’m coming home when I read them because they’re so familiar. I like to touch base with them. I still love Luna as well! I have to keep myself to separate myself from the character, because to me she’s an idol. I feel so lucky.
Do you still have to pinch yourself when you remember that you’ve gone from fan to film star?
When I really think about it, yeah I do. I’m confronted with it all the time, so it tends to just become normal, but when I’m away from it all and remember that I’ve actually been a part of this phenomenon that’s so special to me. It’s very strange and amazing!
Is it weird to think that another girl reading the book would imagine Luna as you?
Oh God, yes! Sometimes, when I was reading the later books, I’d imagine the characters to look like the actors that play them, but never with me. That’s too weird! I think my hair is a bit too blonde in the films. I imagine Luna to be more white-haired, earthy, ethereal and natural looking than I look in the films; less colourful, more spiritual and just more in touch with nature. I know that’s probably not very cinematic, but that’s how I see her in my head.
Are you happy that Deathly Hallows has been split into two films?
I think we all are. The story needs time to unfold. You an’t put in all the emotions of the book if you don’t have time, so yes it was a relief that we don’t have to rush anything. The first one is mainly focused on Harry, Ron and Hermione, so you’ll see more of the rest of us students in part two.
J.K. Rowling has hinted that she might return to Harry at some point. Would that make you happy?
Completely! I would love it if she chose to do that, but if she doesn’t I totally understand.

New Luna stills and videos!

2010-11-13T09:33:00.000-08:00

New (very spoilery) videos!!

Behind the scenes with Evanna: here!

New clips of xeno and luna in DH: here!

New Lovegood dance and Xeno clips in DH: here!

PS. i haven't watched the 3 videos above, because i don't want to spoil all the luna bits before i see the film, so don't watch them if you want to wait till the film to see luna's parts :)

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Interview~!!

2010-11-13T09:16:00.000-08:00

Interview with Evanna Lynch.

Question: I’m curious if you could talk a little bit about when you first got the seventh book. Where were you? What was your reaction to reading it?
Evanna Lynch: Yeah, I was invited to J.K. Rowling’s big thing in the History Museum. You know in London. And yeah, I went all dressed up and everything as usual and didn’t get recognized. Lucky. And, yeah, I read it in my hotel really quickly. My reaction, yeah, I was a bit overwhelmed. You know when you’re a fan you want to take it all in but you feel guilty when you put the book down because it’s like, there’s stuff I don’t know in there. I read it in a rush and sort of cried for ages after.
You’re sort of the ultimate dream come true fan because you became a character in the films and now you’re seeing it to the end here. What’s that like for you? I mean, this was kind of your first acting job. You’ve been with this franchise for a while now and now it’s coming to an end, what does that feel like for you?
Lynch: Yeah, weird I know. Someone asked me on set do you still get excited coming on – and I don’t get used to it at all. And I feel really sad because I don’t feel like I was one of the actors. I feel like I was a really big fan. You know, sure I could act but I don’t know what will happen, whether I’ll be back in films again. You know I hope so. Yeah it is like it’s a dream. What’s going to happen after? My whole life has been structured around it.
Has it sunk in quite yet?
Lynch: It did a while ago because in all the interviews we do people ask us how you are feeling now that it’s ending. But then one of the days we were watching the Half Blood Prince, the DVD, and I was watching it and there was just loads of scenes of us together and I just started crying and I just couldn’t stop because we were doing these at the moment. We were in the Room of Requirement and it feels like there was sort of symbolism because my first scene when I started was in the Room of Requirement and I was just really shy and everyone was learning. That’s the thing. Everyone has their wands [casting] the Patronus and that time we were doing the last scenes in the Room of Requirement and I just feel that it’s like a room where they learn everything, where they all grow up. They all leave the room, they are all sort of going into battle and it’s sort of like … to me it seems like leaving childhood, like leaving Harry Potter and going out into the adult world and battling. So yeah that really upset me.
We can see already that you have filmed Dobby’s death scene it looks like with Harry – Dan actually – when Book 7 came out it was the big question, who’s going to die, who’s going to live, were you as surprised as many of us were at how it ended up?
Lynch: At the death scene?
The death scene … everything.
Lynch: I suppose but she [J.K. Rowling] did say it was going to be a bloodbath or something. I was expecting everything, a massacre. I didn’t really predict any deaths; I didn’t like to do that. I was not surprised that Snape died, that was one thing I was pretty sure about. I was surprised in that it was a really nice ending. You know the way at the end of most books authors feel they have to have a massive sense of regret and everything, to complete it or something? You weren’t left with that. Sure everyone died but Harry, he finally got away from being such a, you know, freak and being looked at by everyone and he just has a normal life. Yeah, that was a surprise but it was nice.
Now, we were told that you sort of came up with a dance that Luna does with her father. Can you talk about that and what’s the dance?
Lynch: Yeah, it didn’t take much coming up with [laughs]. In the book, the day before the wedding scene, it’s Luna and her Dad I think, and I was wondering what we were going to have to do. I read through the chapter and it said that she was off in the corner by herself and she’s spinning. Harry thinks she’s batting away Wrackspurts. I was doing a few things how it could be and the next day we were on set. We do this whole thing where her Dad is talking to Harry and I have to drag him away, embarrassing Dad. Although it doesn’t really matter because we then go on to the dance floor. We just do this thing where we’re spinning and closing our eyes and everyone clears, you know. Everyone is sort of doing this step, this ballroom dancing thing, and they had this choreographer there and he was saying, what could we do? Because he was too experienced to put something that wacky [laughs]. We just did it, yeah.
What was it like working with him as your father?
Lynch: Oh, it was brilliant. Yeah, I thought he was just perfect. Sometimes when I’m playing Luna I feel like, in her clothes – she’s always wearing all this purple and her hair and all these funny things – I sometimes feel a bit like everyone else is in their Hogwarts robes [and I’m] a bit of an outsider and that’s how she’s meant to feel. And then when he came along it was like we were alone together because he’s in this yellow mad stuff. Yeah, it felt really relaxed. It was nice.
You also play a prisoner in this film, could you talk a little about filming those scenes and how intense are they?
Lynch: Yeah, it was with John Hurt, who plays Ollivander. It’s a really spooky place because the ceilings are so low. Oh, and he has to be sort of frail and everything. And Harry comes down and then there’s Bellatrix torturing Hermione – you can hear the screams. You just get the feeling like how can you get out of here and none of them have their wands. Yeah, it’s horrible.
Do you prefer playing the Luna that gets to dress up, for example Slughorn’s party and the wedding, or being captive and in battle? Which side do you prefer?
Lynch: I find it weird playing her in battle because … she’s so sort of Zen, she’s really calm and when she’s in battle like does she struggle? I think she really believes in fate and she doesn’t worry so much and yet everyone else is. I think she’s more in her zone. Yeah, being there and it’s not like dressed up for her, it’s just her. Yeah, I asked David Yates a few times what does she do when she’s worried? And he’s like, well she’s not worried about her own death but she’s worried for her friends. So we kind of played with that a bit but it still feels a bit weird.
Is this your first time seeing a lot of these photos [the Deathly Hallows promotional stills that were in the room]?
Lynch: Yeah, I’ve never seen them. I want to go around and see them [laughs].
So you’re just as much of a fan as all of us looking at photos like this?
Lynch: Yeah.
Have you seen any footage? Do you watch playback when you’re acting? Did you watch that stuff or is this your first time really seeing it?
Lynch: We don’t really get a chance to, no. I don’t think they like you doing that. Sometimes we see it when we’re doing ADR, the voiceover, we see it then. Most of it’s a surprise. Yeah, it’s nice to keep it to the premiere. When you have to do interviews on the red carpet they’re like what was your reaction to this and when you’ve just seen it you really do feel excited and so it’s nice that it’s all a surprise then.
Is Luna much different in these two films than she has been in the past couple or is she sort of still the same?
Lynch: She’s always going to be the same [laughs]. Yeah she doesn’t change, that’s the thing about her, she knows herself so well. Most of them, they go through all these stages, where they’re like battling with themselves, but she’s so happy with herself that I think the only thing that changes is her surroundings. Like, you know, she has her friends this time and it makes her happier but it doesn’t really change her.
One of the most touching scenes early in the book is when Harry looks up and sees the ceiling that Luna has painted in her house with all of her friends. Is that in the movie?
Lynch: I don’t think so. The house is in there … I think Harry knows by this stage how much it [the friendship] means to her and like the way she sort of brushed it off in the last film where she says it’s a nice feeling that we were friends. I think he realises then but it was a pity that scene got cut out.
I guess the question I had is: she seems to be one of the few calming influences that Harry has in this book where she can bring him some relief, like after Dobby dies. Do you have a couple of key scenes with Daniel like that?
Lynch: Yeah, when Dobby dies everyone is really upset and everything. She says something like, oh he’s only sleeping, you know, if you close his eyes it looks like he’s sleeping. He worries so much, they’re sort of opposites in their attitudes to life and whatever because he’s always worried [with] things that don’t concern him. He thinks he has to [worry about them] and she just lets it breeze by. There is one scene where she’s not like herself actually, back to your other question. She feels she has to do something when she knows about where the Ravenclaw Horcrux is. Harry is getting distracted and he is running up the stairs and she’s like, Harry I need to show you something and he’s kind of thinking, here we go again I need some space because he’s in a hurry. She knows he’s going wrong, so I have to scream at him because he just keeps going and I have to actually shout. I thought it was really weird. I didn’t know how to shout.
A little out of character.
Lynch: Yeah. When needs be.
At the end of the day, how much of your own personality do you feel you’ve been able to inject into Luna or is it completely from the novels or is it sort of a marriage of both?
Lynch: Yeah, a marriage of both. I still would read the books and think I’m not playing her exactly the same. We’re not the same and you sort of have to find a balance. If I was too much like her I just wouldn’t be able to be objective. I think in the films a lot of the lines are trying to bring out the funny side in Luna. I always notice that kids always love Luna’s character. A lot of kids say she’s my favourite because she’s really kooky. I just think she’s really wise as well. It’s not that her head’s in the clouds – she sees that everyone talks about her. She knows she’s a bit weird and she’s so settled in herself and I think that’s really mature. Wise, yeah, I try to push that a bit but sometimes it’s impossible with the lines.
What’s something that you’re really going to take away from your several years now of being here and what are your plans for the future?
Lynch: I think more of a sense of belonging now. I’ll take that away because before when I came onto the set I really idolised the others and I just kept feeling unworthy. I didn’t know how to talk to them or anything. I used to be like, when people would say are you going to do more work, I’d be like no, I’m just a fan. I’ve seen more of the actors and you don’t have to be perfect all the time, it’s not like you’re born knowing all this stuff. Acting is just like having life experience. I’ll take that and feeling like I’ve been a part of this film. When I watch the film I’m proud because I had something to do with it and, yeah, I’d love to do more acting. I don’t know yet, I’m going to go to a performing arts college. I just feel like I cheated my way in a bit [laughs].

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Evanna Lynch, 19, from Leinster, Ireland, who plays Luna, is one of the finest examples of casting in the entire franchise. With her huge eyes, wonderfully guileless approach and charm it is easy to see why producer David Heyman picked her out of 15,000 other Luna-wannabes. “The others could play Luna; Evanna Lynch is Luna,” he said at the time.
“I’m not Luna, although a lot of people think I am,” Lynch says. “When I was younger I used to be a little more like her. I’m like her in that I don’t like to judge people and I keep an open mind. She’s so free spirited, she wouldn’t judge someone by their clothes or demeanour and I like that way of looking at life.”
Lynch went along to the audition as a “professional Luna fan” and made her first appearance in the fifth Harry Potter film. She seems to have had a lot of fun with the character and tells me she particularly enjoys wearing Luna’s oversized cork hat and radish earrings.
Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna’s father, makes his debut in Hallows – Part 1. After huge deliberation Rhys Ifans was cast to play him. “They were casting my dad for ages and then someone said Rhys. I was like, ‘Oh my god this is perfect,’ why did no-one think of this before?”
Lynch tells me that all her friends really fancy Ifans: “It’s because of Notting Hill and his grey underwear,” she explains grinning. “Ifans was great to work with. Just nice, you know. We had fun. And he was totally up for the Lovegood dance. He had no reservations.”
The billboards advertising the final Harry Potter films are emblazoned with the words “It all ends here…” The Phelps twins, Lewis and Lynch all express their deep sadness that after a decade of attending wizard school they’re being booted out into the real world. But it also sounds like a bit of a relief.
“There are two sides to it,” Lynch explains. “On the one hand I love it and don’t want it to end. But then again you’re tied to it. It’s a contract. Yeah you can try and do other things at the same time, but Harry Potter has to come first.”
The four actors have all expressed a desire to stay in the film business. Lewis has been acting since he was five years old (“It’s all I know”), the Phelps twins would like to try a Bond film (“I’d be the evil twin,” Oliver says. “Just like real life,” James adds) and Lynch says she’d happily drop her studies for another year for the right role.

She may have spent the past five years playing an ace magic student in the Harry Potter movies, but there's no spell that can save Evanna Lynch from a fate even more terrifying than facing down Lord Voldemort: sitting the Leaving Cert.
"I'm supposed to be starting today in the Institute, but I had to call and explain that I needed another week for work," the 19-year-old said when the Irish Independent met her in London in September.
"I decided to repeat the Leaving Cert because I was so distracted with these films. I knew I wasn't studying hard enough. We'd be on set, having a laugh in the green room, and I'd be saying to myself: 'I should be studying.' But then I thought: 'I can re-sit the exams -- I can't re-sit Harry Potter.' Besides, there'll be no more filming this year, just a bit of press, so now it's all about the exams."
The Termonfeckin native's time starring as ethereal spacer Luna Lovegood is now coming to an end with the premiere next week of part one of the final movie in the series, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows (with part two to follow next summer).
It's a bittersweet moment for the young star, but she admitted that there are also positives to finishing up the series.
"I can dye my hair now," she laughed, and indeed she's quite unrecognisable today, her trademark blonde mane now replaced by long, red curls.
"I'm doing things now that I should have done a few years ago, like getting braces on my teeth, and learning to drive a car, and being with friends in one place for a fixed set of time."
Lynch's last day of shooting on the movie series was on June 1 this year.
"It was a big crowd scene that we had started in January, but had to re-film because Emma (Watson, who plays Hermione) was away in college. All the cast was there for it, so it was lovely.
"I'd always hoped my last scene would be one like that rather than just a shot of my hand or something. They took a huge photo of the whole cast and crew.
"It didn't really hit me until I was going into the producers to say goodbye and thank them that I felt this big rush of emotion. I couldn't contain it. But I felt like it had come full circle: my first encounter with Harry Potter was going into the producers' office to introduce myself and explain why I was suited for the role."
Lynch was discovered by the series producers at a casting call in London in early 2006 for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth movie adaptation. She was 14 at the time, and after doing a screen test with Daniel Radcliffe, she beat out 15,000 other girls to land the role.
"My best memories from all four movies are ones that involve the young cast," she said. "It's like school, though they're probably not the people I'd sit with in school. They'd be way too cool for me, and I'd be one of the weird people.
'But those scenes are just so much fun. We played jokes all the time. Like in the Hogwarts train scenes, they have this odd food that looks nice but tastes horrible. We'd convince new actors on set to try it -- one girl drank this tomato juice thing that had been out on the set for about three weeks. She spat it all over the place. You forget you're on a job and it's just fun."
She added that the movies' three main stars never expected, or indeed received, special treatment.
"When I first came on set, I expected to be told 'You can't talk to or approach them', but it wasn't like that. They're not precious about themselves. They are like normal people, and the people around them treat them normally too.
"Rupert has a great laugh with everyone, while Daniel (Radcliffe) is just a cool guy. There's no pretension with him, or strategising when it comes to careers and things like that. I really admire Emma for going to university in New York. She's doing that, even though she doesn't need to. She's realised that she doesn't know enough about the world or herself so wants to study more."
Although the series author JK Rowling had no say in casting, she later praised Lynch as being perfect for the role of Luna. However, the multi-millionaire writer stayed clear of the set during filming on the final movies.
"She trusts the film-makers," Lynch explained. "If they change any little thing in the script, they send it out to her for her approval, so she doesn't need to be there. I think she's busy. I write to her now and then, and she'll say, 'I've been writing' but she won't tell me what.
"It's cool for her because she can come to the premiere and see what people have made of her books. Besides, when she was on set, she couldn't stay long because she was too distracting. Everyone was looking for autographs. It was like the Queen coming to visit."
As for what comes after her exams, Lynch is staying open-minded. Has she considered drama school?
"I thought about it for a while," she replied. "My agent said to me that I've gotten a lot of great experience on these movies.
"It's not just the acting, but being on a set and meeting all these people, as well as doing interviews and learning to be confident enough to talk about yourself.
"So I think drama school is not for me personally. I know some girls who have experience in movies who then audition for these places and they're picked apart for every move they make. They're told 'Sorry, you've learned all these bad techniques from film', and I don't like that. It's good for some people, but I'm critical of myself enough already. I don't need that."
Anything that Lynch does will be borne of her passions and interests. She loves jazz and ballet dancing, and is a voracious reader; right now, she's reading Nabokov's Laughter In The Dark.
"I'd like to go to art college," she added. "I like art because you don't have any instruction for it. That's something that you have to be confident to do. It's not methodical, where something is right or wrong. It's scary, but you have to be your own judge. That's very freeing."
She paused before continuing: "A lot of young actors are trying to have it all. They think: 'I want to go to college, have a career, have a life.' This year will just be about studying. It's not like I'm going to be off the radar because the second film comes out in July and I'll be finished my exams then.
"After that, I might take a year out and try acting. You have to pursue it. You can't just be sitting on your ass crying over the phone because your agent isn't ringing. You have to be quite pushy."

Evanna and Matt in Finland~

2010-11-05T12:02:00.000-07:00

thanks to JustEvanna for these :)

Evanna Lynch and Matthew Lewis in Helsinki, Finland!!

2010-11-04T14:40:00.000-07:00

2010-10-26T06:14:00.000-07:00

Evanna Lynch is in a bit of a panic. “I’m so, so sorry,” she says, rushing to my table in a hotel café in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland – 35 miles from Dublin. “I’ve been getting a reputation for being late. I slept in. I’m really sorry.” It’s an anxiousness at odds with the calm and collected Luna Lovegood, the pale-skinned school outcast she’s played in the Harry Potter moves since 2006.

A Potter obsessive since the age of eight, Lynch’s story is the stuff of fairytales. Six years after falling in love with J.K. Rowling’s novels, she was plucked from 15,000 hopefuls to join the Potter world, a journey that’s perhaps the equivalent of being asked to join the band you obsessed over as a teenager.

We’re meeting at a similarly transitional stage in her life. It’s the day after her 19th birthday and the day before she gets her Leaving Cert results, the Irish equivalent of high school graduation. Two months ago her Harry Potter adventure finally came to an end, when filming finished on the two-part finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part one of which opens next month (fans must wait for the second part until summer 2011).

“It’s really sad,” she says in her soft, dreamy voice of the end of the series. “Harry Potter was like a security thing. It was like school. Every year you’d know you’d have school at the start of September and then you’d have Harry Potter a few months later. And then to have it suddenly gone…. It’s kind of scary.”

Lynch is striking in many regards, and the recently acquired braces on her teeth accentuate her charming teenage awkwardness. She describes herself as “the arty one” in her family of six and speaks so passionately and knowledgeably about art and culture, it’s almost disconcerting; it’s rare to meet a teenager who can hold forth so authoritatively on modern dance, Shaolin Monks, Michael Jackson (“I got a tattoo of his eyes on the back of my neck”), Belgian writers, and her love for Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (she read it after “becoming annoyed by fashion magazines when they’re like, ‘Channel you inner Lolita.’ I was like, ‘Has anyone actually read this book?’”)

And her talents won’t end there. Last June, Lynch won Ireland’s Mary Barrett Portfolio Award for painting. Potter fans might be aware of the fashion accessories she designed for Luna – a pair of radish-shaped earrings and a lion-head hat – though she modestly insists “people make too much of a big deal of that.” Then there’s her admittance to Dublin’s Centre for the Talented Youth of Ireland, a summer school where she studied speculative fiction. “Again,” she says with an embarrassed smile, “every little thing gets blown up. Suddenly I was getting fan mail going, ‘I can’t wait to read your book!’”

She’s a busy girl, Lynch. Dance is also a huge passion: She credits it – along with her casting in the Potter films – with helping her conquer a crippling shyness. If she hadn’t won the role of Lovegood, she says, “I’d be a lot different. I think I’d be very shy, and shyness is such a barrier.”

So with such a wealth of creative aspirations – “my ambitions change every five minutes,” she confesses – will she continue to act? “Definitely,” she says confidently. “When I started, I didn’t think I wanted to. I just wanted to do Luna. But on the last day I was like, ‘I definitely don’t want to stop this.’”
--STEVE CUMMINS, PHOTOGRAPHED BY STEFAN ZSHERNITZ

Vote for Evanna Lynch here!

LOST.

2010-10-24T05:03:00.000-07:00

Keep off the Dirigible Plums.

2010-10-23T12:35:00.001-07:00

26 DAYS TILL DEATHLY HALLOWS PART ONE!!!!!

New Evanna Lynch News.

2010-10-10T10:06:00.000-07:00

An excerpt from the interview follows below while you can check out the scan in the LunaFans gallery here!

Lynch is striking in many regards, and the recently acquired braces on her teeth accentuate her charming teenage awkwardness. She describes herself as “the arty one” in her family of six and speaks so passionately and knowledgeably about art and culture, it’s almost disconcerting; it’s rare to meet a teenager who can hold forth so authoritatively on modern dance, Shaolin Monks, Michael Jackson (“I got a tattoo of his eyes on the back of my neck”), Belgian writers, and her love of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita (she read it after “becoming annoyed by fashion magazines when they’re like ‘Channel your inner Lolita.’ I was like ‘Has anyone actually ever read the book?’”).

Read on more here!

Thanks to EvannaDaily.net and LunaFans.net

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Evanna with long red hair, xeno, wedding dress luna and lovegood house!!!

2010-09-25T02:20:00.001-07:00

New Luna photoshoot for HP 6 and first look at luna at the wedding!!!

2010-09-23T10:07:00.001-07:00

oh look~!!

2010-09-06T07:42:00.000-07:00

Oh look, it's luna in the right corner! :)
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Evanna Launches her art exhibition!!

2010-09-03T05:34:00.001-07:00

Evanna LaunchesUrban Ruin Art Exhibition. Here she is with the 19 year old artist, Shauna Blanchfield.

More pictures from the MS readathon~

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Evanna Lynch (MS readathon)

2010-09-01T05:13:00.000-07:00

So, what does everyone think of her new hair? :)
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Evanna Lynch has RED HAIR!!! ♥

2010-09-01T05:03:00.000-07:00

Evanna Lynch launched the 23rd annual MS Readathon in Ireland the gone weekend.

Luna Lovegood, AKA Evanna Lynch, joined some Harry Potter fans to launch the 23rd MS READaTHON. Evanna took part in the MS READaTHON in her school in Carlow and encourages all kids and teens to get involved!
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Evanna Lynch to do reading of Foster on the radio~!!

2010-09-01T05:02:00.000-07:00

Evanna Lynch shall be reading the book Foster by Claire Keagan on BBC Radio 4 FM from tomorrow till Thursday.

The story will air in three 15-minute segments, August 31 through September 2, at 3:30 p.m.

A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland’s most acclaimed writers. A small girl is sent to live with her mother’s people on a farm in rural Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the strangers’ house, she finds a warmth and affection she has not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. And then a secret is revealed, and suddenly, she realizes how fragile her idyll is.

Good news for fans outside the UK is that they will be able to hear it on BBC Radio, after airing, online here on the BBC iPlayer for one week.

Taken from LunaFans.net :)

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lalalaaa~

2010-08-28T08:59:00.000-07:00

How cute is this drawing of luna?? i found it on google the other day.. :)

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stay lunaaaaa~

Xenophilius Lovegood~!!

2010-08-12T14:52:00.000-07:00

Here are two new pictures of Xeno Lovegood, Luna's father and editor of magazine "The Quibbler".
In the second picture, you can see him outside the Lovegood house. The paintings on the walls of the house have been hand painted by Evanna Lynch, herself! Enjoy! :)
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Luna Lovegood in AVPS!!!

2010-07-26T10:30:00.000-07:00

OH MY NARGLE.
LUNA LOVEGOOD IS IN AVPS
EEEEEEKK ♥
I'M SO HAPPYFUL!!!
xoxo

Pansy Lane ♥

2010-07-23T13:10:00.000-07:00

hello all~!! :)
there is a lovely girl, named pansy lane, who has an utterly amazing blog~!!
and, quite recently, she did a luna lovegood cosplay, which, i must say, is just gorgeous!
here's a little preview~

view the rest of her cosplay here
hope pansy does another luna one~
soo amazing <33
xoxo

the search of the crumple-horned snorkack part 2!!

2010-07-22T13:56:00.000-07:00

love this~!! it's really funny, can't wait for the next part!
:)

luna lovegood cosplay :)

2010-07-19T10:21:00.000-07:00

found this AMAZING luna lovegood cosplay!! sooo impressed!! :) 10/10!!

The Quibbler!

2010-07-16T10:44:00.001-07:00

wow. just wow. look at how amazing these are!!

evanna fan mail~!!

2010-07-15T13:58:00.000-07:00

So.... hello all~!! :)
i don't know if any of you have ever wrote to evanna lynch, or wanted to, but i know i do~!!
i am going to get some coloured paper at the weekend and write lots of letters ^_^
if you interested in writing to evanna, you can find both of evanna's addressed here~!!
she has a harry potter one in london, or her actual one in ireland :)

hello harry~

2010-07-10T15:51:00.001-07:00

xoxo

Luna Lovegood cosplay~!!

2010-07-10T06:16:00.000-07:00

Found this amazing japanese luna lovegood cosplay ^__^ isn't she adorable?! i wish i had a wig like hers :3

xoxo

The Quibbler!!

2010-07-08T09:11:00.000-07:00

You can buy the quibbler in HP land~!! i must buy it when i i go~!!!! (L)

OH WOW ♥

2010-06-29T09:14:00.000-07:00

DEATHLY HALLOWS TRAILER ♥
i watched it in my ICT lesson today because i couldn't wait till i got home. it was kinda funny cause i put the volume up real loud and loads of people from my class came over to see what i was doing and my mouth my open the whole time, i was like so close to the screen and i was making really quiet screaming noises because it was sooo epic. OMG. and for the rest of the day all i could say was wow over and over!! wow!!!!! ♥

WOW. never seen before video of evanna and matt~!!!

2010-06-26T15:57:00.000-07:00

I've never seen this before!!! wowowowowow!!!!
xoxo

Evanna Lynch audition tape!

2010-06-26T14:30:00.000-07:00

polyvore! :D

2010-05-10T10:24:00.001-07:00

Luna Lovegood cosplays!!

2010-05-09T09:40:00.000-07:00

hehe i like it cause it's kinda mad ^__^

^she looks like evanna lynch!
awesome, no?
xoxo

Laadeedarrhh ♥

2010-05-09T07:05:00.000-07:00

Clipping these to polyvore.com, since google won't let me. don't you think luna would wear them? i know i would :)

Ohh i love this drawing of luna. shes like "hello" and people are like.. whys she got a lion on her head? XD for gryffindor of course! :)

This drawing is wonderful! its just like the book, i wish they'd done the film like this, it would have been amazing!! :) ♥

I LOVE this cosplay! its so brilliant <33 the girl made her lion hat from a bicycle helmet! so cool :) and her outfit is spot on too :D

xoxo

My doodles!

2010-05-01T14:11:00.000-07:00

i did some drawings ^__^

xoxo

Lovegood house!!

2010-04-30T12:00:00.001-07:00

thanks to Liv, for posting it on her blog first :] its super cool!!

xoxo

drawing loony!

2010-04-22T13:03:00.000-07:00

hello! today i drew a copy of this picture:

i did NOT draw that one! that's from some amazing artist on deviantart :) i will colour mine in and then scan it for all to see <33
soo... ummm.. yeah (: i am pretty bored :/
i wish liv and wrackspurt off polyvore where my friends in real life! i can really relate to them... i ♥ polyvore! :) xoxo

evanna lynch ♥

2010-04-15T04:44:00.000-07:00

i found this picture of evanna and her friend today! isn't it cute?! she looks amazing, as usual :)
So, i have great news!! i was on ebay last night and i found this amazing harry potter and the order of the phoenix messenger bag! it was £5 all together which is an absolute bargain so i bid on it and i won it!! ♥ i can't wait till it arrives!! i'm going to wear it to school and put my issue of the quibbler in it and just show my harry potter pride! i'll be the only one in my whole school with a harry potter bag!!! yay! :)
this is what it looks like...

isn't it amazing??!!! i've never seen this bag before in my life ♥
xx

maii desk ♥

2010-04-11T09:00:00.001-07:00

This is my desk ♥
It has on it:
~luna lovegood shoes
~fairy spotters book
~my owl ♥
~spectrespecs
~nargle-repelling charm
~deathly hallows
~copy of The Quibbler
~a pen and pencil (i need to get some of those giant quill pens that are all bright and colourful.. :)
~a Dumbledore bookmark my mummy made ♥

lalalalalaaaa. magical, no? :)
xoxo

Alice in wonderlandness ♥

2010-04-08T14:21:00.000-07:00

Hello my little nargles, how are you?
today, i went shopping with my friend and i bought a blue Alice in wonderland bag and a white Alice in wonderland tee shirt.(Disney cartoon one)
and then afterwards i went back to hers and made a little Gerard way doll :3
he has red crosses for eyes and a little heart and I'm going to make some skeleton pyjamas for him too ♥

:) xoxo ♥

A message from Luna Lovegood...

2010-04-08T03:56:00.000-07:00

A message from me, Luna Lovegood... (:

How is everyone? I hope you're all having a wonderful Easter! Me and daddy are just having a splendid time. apart from, we have one little problem, and i feel i must share it with you...
i think out kitchen is over-run with shrackle dingers! Because, it seems every time we walk into our kitchen, we both feel little nibbles at our ankles. now this is fine if we are wearing socks, but in the mornings i usually have bare feet. much more comfortable, you see. especially if i have just woken up. i mean, at Hogwarts i wear shoes to bed, just in case i sleepwalk, you see. but at home there's no need to. so, me and daddy find ourselves searching and searching for the shrackle dingers! luckily, daddy found a way of seeing them more clearly. he wrote it in the latest copy of The Quibbler. All you need to do is find a button with four holes in it, paint the front of it with silver sparkly nail polish and look through it(once its dry, of course.) then, its so much easier to see them! we are trying all types of different foods to lure them in so we can catch them and put them back where they belong, In the little holes just by the trees in the forest. so, for now, at least, we find ourselves putting on long stripey socks to protect ourselves from the mischievous Shrackle Dingers that lurk in out kitchen!
Have a wonderful Easter!
Love Luna ♥
xoxo