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15 little-known secrets about 'Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire' even die-hard fans may not remember
Erin Ajello
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- "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is the fourth movie in the popular fantasy series.
- Daniel Radcliffe did many of his own stunts, and Oliver Phelps broke a few of the director's ribs.
One "Harry Potter" director believed "Goblet of Fire" should've been split into two movies.
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Mike Newell directed "Goblet of Fire," but he and producer David Heyman asked Christopher Columbus, who directed the first two "Harry Potter" movies, for his opinion on how to adapt the 734-page book.
Columbus told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021 that he thought "Goblet of Fire" should be split into two movies, but the studio disagreed. Newell ultimately made the book's contents fit into one movie by cutting down plotlines.
Warner Bro. later split the seventh "Harry Potter" book into two films.
The Portkey scenes were filmed with the actors being pulled on wires to give the appearance of teleporting.
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"Goblet of Fire" introduces the concept of Portkeys into the Wizarding World.
Portkeys are enchanted objects that allow whoever touches them to teleport to and from a preselected location.
According to behind-the-scenes interviews on the DVD extras, to film this magical transportation, the actors were attached to wires that pulled them back toward a green screen.
Oliver Phelps said he broke the director's ribs while practicing a fight scene.
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After a spell fails to allow them to enter their names in the Goblet of Fire, the Weasley twins get into a fight.
According to the HBO Max 20th-anniversary reunion special that aired in 2022, Newell was unsatisfied with the fighting between James and Oliver Phelps, who played Fred and George Weasley.
The director asked one of the actors to fight with him so he could demonstrate what he wanted the scene to look like. Oliver volunteered for the task and accidentally broke "a couple of" Newell's ribs by rolling onto him during their fight, according to the director.
Newell was in pain for the rest of filming but said he didn't regret the moment.
The Hungarian Horntail dragon was created with both computer effects and animatronics.
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The dragon that Harry fights in the first Triwizrd Tournament challenge was created using a combination of both practical and digital effects.
According to The Digital Fix, a massive dragon head and partial torso (including wings) were created by reusing parts of the Aragog and Basilisk animatronics from the second movie.
But the animatronic could only move in a limited way, so computer animation was also used.
Danielle Radcliffe did many of his own stunts for the Triwizard Tournament scenes.
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This film had even more stunts than the previous movies, largely due to the physical tasks shown in the Triwizard Tournament.
Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, has said in a behind-the-scenes interview for the film's DVD extras that he did many of his own stunts throughout filming.
He recorded jumps for the first challenge, acted underwater for the second one, and was hooked up to wires to record the Portkey teleports in the third task.
The Phelps twins tricked Rupert Grint into thinking he was supposed to learn a dance.
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The actors had three weeks of dance practice to prepare for the Yule Ball scenes.
As mentioned in the 2022 20th-anniversary reunion special, the Phelps twins convinced Grint, who played Ron, that he missed weeks of learning a dance that the other actors had been practicing.
Emma Watson said she found filming her Yule Ball entrance to be "miserable."
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Hermione's Yule Ball entrance is an iconic moment from both the book and the film, and it took plenty of work to get it just right.
The costuming department designed a beautiful gown for Hermione that differed from the book's periwinkle description and was instead made of pink fabric with an ombre effect.
Watson, who played Hermione, was very aware of how important the moment was for the character, which added stress to filming the scene.
"I was miserable," she said during the 2022 reunion special. "There was just like all of this pressure suddenly."
In one take, Watson even said she fell down the stairs.
Ron's robes were redesigned to look more comical.
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Multiple actors on the set of "Harry Potter" have praised Grint's sense of humor.
His ability to play up the comical situation of wearing outdated dress robes allowed the costume designers to make the robes more ridiculous than originally planned.
"At the beginning, I made it a little bit silly, and then when I put it on him, I realized that Rupert could take as an actor, he could take so much that I had to make it even sillier to just have a very comical message," costume designer Jany Temime told Insider in 2021.
Warwick Davis came up with the idea for his character to crowd-surf.
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During the Yule Ball scene, Professor Flitwick, played by Warwick Davis, can be seen crowd-surfing during the band's performance.
Davis told Entertainment Weekly in 2011 that he suggested the idea to Newell himself and was pleasantly surprised that he was actually able to do it.
The actors filmed their underwater scenes for the second task in a massive water tank.
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The second Triwizard Task shows the four champions going into the Great Lake to rescue people close to them.
According to DVD extras, a massive water tank was built to allow the actors to film their scenes underwater.
Radcliffe said he trained for about six months to perform the underwater scenes, which later had computer-generated effects added in.
The movie showed the characters getting into their first romantic relationships, which the cast was dealing with as well.
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Throughout the film, Harry, Ron, and Hermione all begin to develop their first crushes when they have to find dates for the Yule Ball.
During the 2022 reunion special, Radcliffe revealed that the young cast was beginning to have their first experiences with romantic situations as well.
He described the filming of this movie as "peak hormone" for the cast.
Matthew Lewis wore a fat suit for the film.
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Matthew Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom, lost weight throughout the filming of the series.
Lewis told EW in 2011 that he wore a fat suit while filming movies three through six.
Multiple scenes with Fleur were filmed but cut from the final movie.
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Fleur, one of the four champions competing for the Triwizard Cup, isn't on screen as often as the other champions.
According to Harry Potter Database and DVD extras, Clémence Poésy, who portrayed Fleur, reportedly filmed multiple scenes that didn't make it into the final movie.
Fleur later has to end the second and third tasks earlier than the others after sustaining injuries.
Apparently, scenes showing her coming out of the water during the second task and out of the maze during the third were both filmed but cut from the final movie.
Throughout the film, Robert Pattinson holds his wand like a gun.
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Robert Pattison plays Triwizard Champion Cedric Diggory in the fourth film.
Pattinson told GQ in 2022 that he found holding the wand in the typical stance to be "dorky" and instead decided to hold his wand like a weapon.
"I'm holding it like a gun with two hands, thinking I'm in a 'Die Hard' movie," he said.
This was almost Watson's last film in the series.
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The young actors in "Harry Potter" became famous overnight after they were cast in the series. Watson seemed to have the hardest time adjusting to her new level of fame — she was one of the youngest cast members.
During the 2022 reunion special, Watson said she debated leaving the series after "Goblet of Fire" but ultimately decided to stay on for the rest of the series.
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