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Chris Rankin (Percy Weasley in the Harry Potter films) was recently interviewed by TLC, in which he spoke about his past project of Pantomime, and answered some questions on his experiences with filming the Harry Potter movies. You can see some excerpts by reading more below.

From TLC.

TLC: What's the most fun you've ever had on a Potter set?
CR: Burrow. Burrow or the Halloween scene, the one with Quirrell, which was fun because it went right to take, which is unusual. Usually you'll spend three or four takes just rehearsing it, you'll take a rehearsal take. But this one went straight through to take. None of us knew what Ian Hart was going to do when he ran through that door. We knew what the line was, but when he came running through that door, that was his first take, that TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!

TLC: In the movie, that was his first take?
CR: Yeah, I believe so. None of us knew what was going to happen. And we'd all been eating � we'd been doing background shots all day, kind of close up, and all that. So we'd all been eating sweets all day, we're all on sugar highs. Daniel, Rupert and Emma were all, what, 10, 11, at the time. Kids that age, and sugar, bad bad bad bad bad move. And you know what Rupert's like when he gets giggly, we've all seen it.

TLC: Did he?
CR: Yeah. At the end of the day Rupert was just sitting there in the corner going [mimes giggling]. They went through a stage of serving us Red Bull in the games room. Bad, bad, bad. I don't think it was meant for the kids but the kids ended up drinking it and caffeine is bad. I did a show when I was 14, and I was cycling to and from the show every day, which is five mile sthere and five miles back. And it was like a three and a half hour show, and we're drinking Red Bull, and I was driving there at 40 miles an hour on a push bike. Forty miles an hour on Red Bull.