Here's Why "Harry Potter" Actor Bonnie Wright Was "Disappointed" By Ginny Weasley's Appearance In The Films

"Inevitably, a lot of the scenes of every character were chopped down from the book to the film."

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You know Bonnie Wright from her performance as Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films.

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And if you were a fan of the books and the films, you might've wondered why Ginny didn't have as much of a presence in the latter as she did in the former.

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As it turns out, Bonnie feels the same way.

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In a recent interview for the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast, Bonnie admitted that she was a "little disappointed" by Ginny's overall presence throughout the films.

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Bonnie said that, since she first appeared in the film franchise at the age of 9, she felt "anxiety" about "performing and doing the best thing as my character built."

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“Like, ‘Oh gosh, will I do justice to this character that people love?’" she recalled thinking at the time.

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Bonnie specified that the task was especially "hard" when "inevitably, a lot of the scenes of every character were chopped down from the book to the film. So you didn’t really have as much to show in the film.”

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“Sometimes that was a little disappointing because there were parts of the character that just didn’t get to come through, because there weren’t the scenes to do that. That made me feel a bit anxious or just frustrated, I guess.”

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Bonnie also pointed out that there was "no room for much change in those scripts," and that a lot of her anxiety stemmed from not being able to have much control over the situation at large.

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“I think what I maybe took, which I don’t take so much to heart now, is I kind of felt that maybe my anxiety was about, ‘Oh, I’m going to be seen as badly portraying this character,’" she explained, "rather than later realizing that I wasn’t really given the opportunity to do that."

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"So it wasn’t really my fault, exactly.”

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You can listen to the entire interview here.

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