“Enjoy every minute of it” - Bonnie Wright offers advice for the next set of Harry Potter actors

Original Harry Potter actress Bonnie Wright has a few words of advice for the next generation: to embody the beloved characters.

During a recent interview with People Magazine, the actress, 34, who played Ginny Weasley in the original Harry Potter films, was asked if she could impart some wisdom for the next Ginny.

Casting for the role in the forthcoming HBO television interpretation remains unknown at this moment, though Wright did urge her TV counterpart to get familiar with the J.K. Rowling books. She added,

"Enjoy every minute of it, would be the only thing I would say."

Here's what Bonnie Wright has to say to the next generation of Harry Potter actors:

During her interview with People Magazine, Bonnie Wright said:

"I think every actor stepping into all the roles, I hope, really go from the book and they take their interpretation of the characters from the book as the original source of material," she said. "And I just hope that they do what they wanna do and they make their character who they envision Ginny to be."

She also expressed anticipation to know how the future Ginny would be portrayed on Television:

"And I think that's what's cool," she said, "that other people can give her character and all the others new life. So I don't think I would… I guess the only thing I would say is like, be present in the moment."

Wright also urged showrunners to "just have fun" with making the show as well.

"I feel like in the world, we'll get very serious about different things, and I think sometimes it's just being like, 'We are so lucky to be sat here creating these incredible stories that people love,'" she said. "And just to be excited and proud of the work that you do, rather than worrying too much about what people think, and how it's gonna be received."

Bonnie Wright was 9 years old when she made her debut in the wizarding world, having played the role of Rupert Grint's Ron Weasley's younger sister. She began with the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and would go on to embody the role for the next decade, until the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2.

While Bonnie Wright has been involved in several projects in the years since, she was one of several original cast members to reunite as part of HBO's Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts special in 2022.

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Just last month, HBO announced that several Hogwarts staffers had been cast, including John Lithgow as headmaster Albus Dumbledore and Paapa Essiedu as potions instructor Severus Snape.

Janet McTeer will star as transfiguration professor Minerva McGonagall, Luke Thallon as Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher Quirinus Quirrell, Nick Frost as groundskeeper Rubeus Hagrid, and Paul Whitehouse as caretaker Argus Filch.

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