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Why Did Daniel Radcliffe Snap So Many Wands While Filming Harry Potter? (Photo Credit – Prime Video)

Looking back at the making of Harry Potter, it’s hard to imagine just how much work went into bringing the magic to life, especially when it came to keeping Daniel Radcliffe stocked with wands. That’s right, the Boy Who Lived was also the Boy Who Snapped (way too many wands).

The story recently resurfaced in a behind-the-scenes clip, where Harry Potter prop designer Pierre Bohanna revealed an astonishing fact. He said that over the course of filming, Daniel went through more than 70, possibly even 80 wands. Why?

Because he simply couldn’t stop fiddling with them. Tapping, twirling, drumming them against his leg, it was as if the wands were his personal drumsticks rather than powerful magical artifacts.

During the Harry Potter films, Daniel Radcliffe broke over 80 wands, because he kept using them as pretend drumsticks...

Venturing into the realm of magic and wonder, Daniel Radcliffe surpassed a number of child actors to be the chosen one to embody Harry Potter, much like his onscreen character was destined to vanquish the Dark Lord. But not every part of Radcliffe’s journey mirrored the epic saga of his on-screen counterpart.

Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter | image: Warner Bros.

Apparently, while Ron Weasley’s wand met a tragic fate in the films due to mishaps, Daniel Radcliffe in real life caused severe damage to Harry’s wands through a series of wand-wielding antics. According to Warner Bros.’ prop designer, Radcliffe inadvertently caused the replacement of nearly 70 to 80 wands.

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Doug Liman's epic sci-fi adventure "Edge of Tomorrow" (aka "Live Die Repeat") remains one of the great underappreciated event films of the last decade. Featuring solid performances from Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt and a sharp script from Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth, the 2014 spectacle is a compelling and even enthralling piece of entertainment.

The story, based on the novel "All You Need is Kill" by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, follows public affairs officer Major William Cage (Cruise), who inexplicably gets caught up in a war between humanity and an invading alien force. After dying on the battlefield, Cage wakes up the day before and quickly realizes he is somehow reliving the same day over and over again, resetting each time he gets killed. He then teams up with Sergeant Rita Vrataski (Blunt) to figure out the cause of his condition and the best way to utilize it against the aliens.

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The world of Harry Potter has a rich history of witches and wizards that started from nothing and grew to greatly impact the world. Perhaps the greatest example of this was Albus Dumbledore, whose legacy included stopping Gellert Grindelwald and being instrumental in stopping Lord Voldemort. He was also a carrier of one of the Deathly Hallows, the Elder Wand, the most powerful wand in the Wizarding World. But like all heroes, he didn't obtain his version of Excalibur until he earned it.

Dumbledore fought Gellert Grindelwald in a climactic final duel that was remembered for decades.

Even as Matt Reeves' upcoming The Batman movie is going for a grungy, homemade aesthetic for the caped crusader's uniform, Wonder Woman 1984 is taking inspiration from Christopher Nolan's take on the Batman costume. The Dark Knight costume designer Lindy Hemming spoke about bringing Wonder Woman's golden armor to life for the upcoming movie.

Hemming explained that the golden armor is composed of "a fantastic undersuit" made of "tiny panels of urethane" applied to a catsuit, over which gold-painted, 3D-printed polyurethane items that were created by Pierre Bohanna have been added. The costume designer goes on to compare the golden armor to Batman's 'armadillo-like' suit.

"It's like the Batsuit, or anything: all small parts. An armadillo-like articulation means that the person can move and twist and turn, and it will return to its previous position. Having said that, it was not pleasant to wear -- and no armor of any kind is pleasant to wear!

The Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – ‘The Making of Harry Potter’ is getting an addition to its tour; the official set of Gringotts Wizarding Bank and visitors to the attraction will get the chance to explore its vaults.

Officially opening on Saturday the 6th of April, visitors to the site will be able to: walk through the banking hall of Gringotts; enter the Lestrange vault; pass through a gallery of goblins, alongside the costumes and prosthetics belonging to the Goblin bankers.

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Lined by towering marble pillars, the grand banking hall will be decorated with three magnificent crystal chandeliers and finished with real brass leaf. Inkwells, quills, ledgers and piles of Galleons, Sickles and Knuts will complete the goblin tellers’ desks as seen on screen. The Prop-making Department, led by Pierre Bohanna, created over 210,000 coins for the final two films alone.

Something wicked this way comes—to Warner Bros. Studios in London's The Making of Harry Potter exhibit, specifically. Filmed on the sets of Warner Bros.' Leavesden studio, the filmmakers who adapted J.K. Rowling's beloved series were left with thousands of props when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2 wrapped. The Making of tour was opened as a result, and the latest installation, the Dark Arts Tour, will give fans a peek inside the more frightening corners of the magical world. Set to open on Oct. 14, the permanent addition will cover all manner of dark magic from the film series.

Edge of Tomorrow, the new action film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, presented an entirely new challenge for the actors: how to fight while wearing an 85 pound metal exoskeleton.

Designed by Pierre Bohanna, one of the minds behind The Dark Knight batsuit, the exoskeletons were built out of 275 custom pieces with 150 pieces of hardware, ensuring the suits could move with the actors. Bohanna revealed that it took him over five months to create the first complete exoskeleton – from the design to the finished product. Once he had established a manufacturing sequence to the suits, the time table sped up considerably, but the manufacturing the nearly 100 exoskeletons made was all done by Bohanna and his team.

Bohanna revealed that he received a lot of inspiration for the look of the suits from military grade exoskeletons, but coming up with materials best suited for the film was a bit more difficult.

If there’s one thing actors don’t like, it’s looking dumb onscreen. They just hate it. Which explains why Emily Blunt was relieved—honestly, she swears, relieved—to have to wear an 85 lb metal exoskeleton during the battle scenes in Edge of Tomorrow. “Can you imagine trying to walk like you’re in one of those suits, and then they paint it in afterward with a computer? You’d look stupid,” she says. “When you see the movie, the action looks authentic because we were genuinely put on wires and flipped around wearing these enormous suits.”

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