{"id":2376,"date":"2026-03-09T12:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/?p=590541"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"harry-potter-star-would-not-want-to-go-back-to-making-the-films-for-an-emotional-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetab.com\/filmshrine\/2026\/03\/09\/harry-potter-star-would-not-want-to-go-back-to-making-the-films-for-an-emotional-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter star ‘would not want to go back’ to making the films for an emotional reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

A start of the original Harry Potter movies has said she “would not want to go back” to filming them, and her reasons are really emotional.<\/p>\n

Katie Leung began portraying Cho Chang in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She featured in\u00a0 five of the eight original Harry Potter films.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight<\/a>, Katie compared acting in Bridgerton season four <\/a>to acting in Harry Potter. <\/a>She said: “I was so young at the time. I was so easily influenced by what people would say about me, because I didn’t know who I was. So, I’ve come into Bridgerton<\/a>, just having a really healthy focus on the work. I’m so glad I’m here.<\/p>\n

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Cho Chang was Harry’s first girlfriend
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“I would not want to go back to that time – not because I had a bad time or anything, but it’s just really nice when you know who you are. I’m still figuring that out, but I’m a bit closer.”<\/p>\n

Katie Leung has also spoken about how “overwhelming” it was to be in the Harry Potter films when she was a teenager. She told The Guardian<\/a>: “At the time, I was having a lot of fun. I thought: this is different from school, and I really did not enjoy school. So it was a way to escape. I\u2019m still trying to figure it out, really, how it affected me.<\/p>\n

“I don\u2019t know if anything could have been done back then to make things better or easier. At that age, you\u2019re curious. I remember being very curious about what people were saying about me, and I was Googling myself. Nobody could have stopped me, because I was old enough to make up my own mind.”<\/p>\n

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Katie Leung’s approach to acting has changed since Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The more confident I\u2019ve become about who I am as a person, the more I\u2019m able to enjoy the work,” she explained to Variety,<\/a> “that\u2019s come with age and experience.<\/p>\n

“My first job – Harry Potter – I had never acted before in my life, and suddenly I was in front of 20 cameras and 100 people, completely lost, still figuring out who I was. I can\u2019t say I had the time of my life. But with Arcane<\/a>, with Bridgerton – I felt like I deserved to be there.”<\/p>\n

For more like this,\u00a0<\/i>like The Tab on Facebook<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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