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So this is the Room of Requirment scene.
It's high-energy, it's big action.
What can go wrong?
Avada Kedavra!
Spells fly left, right and center.
Stupefy!
Crabbe can't quite control himself.
And manages to set the bloody place on fire.
Fire!
The sequence starts with us climbing up to the top of the Room of Requirement...
...where all these flames are flicking up. Tom, pretty much, did most of that by himself.
Okay, one more. Straightaway, please.
We had to rig that so all of the furniture...
...was shaky and wobbly while they were climbing.
But, of course, was completely safe.
We just want to make some of it a bit more rickety...
...so as they're climbing up, it moves a bit when they get there.
You're right, it does look high.
Once we got up there, they had this incredible thing...
...where we're standing on a table.
Then all of a sudden, they just literally took off two of the legs.
So it just pivoted on itself, almost.
Right foot forward, looking, wobble, wobble.
And you're gonna turn to your left and grab. Okay?
Three, two, one, drop.
There, you're preempting it. You're looking at it before it goes.
They would go, "Three, two, one, go."
Even before they said, "Go" we're grabbing hold of the thing.
...saying, "Don't let me fall."
Actually, I was failing miserably. I didn't think I could do it.
- I was like, "This is not gonna happen." -A thing they're not used to be doing.
And they're still very aprehensive about doing it.
It was just, you know, they don't wanna try not to anticipate the table going.
The look in their faces, that is genuine, ha, ha.
I had stunt guys come up to me. "It looks like you're not trying.
Really have a go for this one."
Three, two, one, drop.
And, you know, we got the shot in the end.
That's it. That's the one.
It's brilliantly shot, so it looks natural.
But of all the years here, that was the most terrifying stunt.
Smiling now only because my feet are on the floor, yeah.
Meanwhile, Ron finds three broomsticks.
And it becomes and aerial chase.
That was a really cool scene because we were all on brooms.
So it was good to be back on the broom, actually.
Here's the first time in a Harry Potter film...
...that two people have been on a broomstick together.
We call it "The Rescue Rig"
We just had to reinforce the back of the broomstick a little bit...
...so we could get two people's weight on it.
This rig comes straight past me and, basically, we link arms...
...and as it goes past, he pulls me onto the back of the broom.
They're on their way out...
The whole room is about to combust completely...
...and they're just about to make it, and they get through the doors...
...and they crush-land.
The challenge of this is it's a real-time stunt, it's a real impact on the floor...
...it's using a broomstick that is gonna get entwined on them.
Action!
A two-person stunt is more difficult because there's someone else involved.
So you're not just thinking about your own self-preservation...
...you're thinking about someone else, as well.
They've done fantastic, and they've not kicked each other in face, which is good.
But they have landed on each other a couple of times.
You kind of feel a bit bad, but that's the way these things go.
Sometimes it's more fun doing it with two people.
Out of six takes, we've got three of four big favourites.
And it'll be a hard choice to, uh, choose the best.