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Perth Now
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Bonnie Wright reveals advice she'd give new Harry Potter child stars
Bonnie Wright has urged the new 'Harry Potter' stars to "enjoy every minute of it". The 34-year-old star - who played Ginny Weasley in the original film franchise - has opened up on the advice she'd give to the next actress to take on the role in HBO's upcoming seven-season reboot of J.K. Rowling's book series. She told PEOPLE magazine: "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. "And I just hope that they do what they wanna do and they make their character who they envision Ginny to be. "And I think that's what's cool, 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. Enjoy every minute of it, would be the only thing I would say." Bonnie - who was nine years old when she first played Ginny in 2001 movie 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' - urged the showrunners to take a similar approach, and not allow themselves to get weighed down by the expectations fans have for the reboot. She added: "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'. "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." It's not yet known who will play the likes of Harry, Ron and Hermione - portrayed by Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson - in the upcoming series. However, HBO has confirmed some casting, with Nick Frost playing Rubeus Hagrid, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, and John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore. Meanwhile, Luke Thallon and Paul Whitehouse have joined in recurring roles as Quirinus Quirrell and Argus Filch respectively.
Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Harry Potter''s Bonnie Wright Says She Needs to 'Parent More Like the Weasleys' as Son Elio Nears 2nd Birthday (Exclusive)
Bonnie Wright and husband Andrew Lococo's son Elio turns 2 in September 2025 As a mom, Wright, who played Ginny Weasley in the movies, says she has a lot of admiration for her on-screen parents' dedication to their kids and the environment, leading her to think, "Oh, well, I need to parent more like the Weasleys" Becoming a mother has also changed the way Wright views the films and books, as it is "heartbreaking" to imagine your child going through what Harry does As Bonnie Wright's son nears toddler age, the actress has plans to take notes from her Harry Potter parents! Since becoming a mother, the actress and environmental activist — who played the youngest Weasley sibling, Ginny, in all eight Harry Potter films — says her admiration for on-screen parents Molly (Julie Walters) and Arthur Weasley (Mark Williams) has only grown. 'I've gone on to be very, very committed to amplifying a lot of stuff around the climate and our environment, and I feel like the Weasleys, to me, are probably the most sustainable magical family ever,' Wright, 34, tells PEOPLE before the April 30 Harry Potter and the Cursed Child show at New York City's Lyric Theater. The magical family of nine, Wright continues, 'make everything themselves — they knit their sweaters, they do hand-me-downs.' Related: Bonnie Wright Confirms There Is a Harry Potter Cast Group Chat — and It's 'Very Heavily Populated' (Exclusive) 'Molly Weasley is definitely an environmentalist,' she adds. 'So I think what she stands for, what the Weasleys stand for, I'm like, 'Oh, well, I need to parent more like the Weasleys.' She also admires the proud parents' honest and caring nature — especially where the series' titular hero is concerned. 'I love everything that they stand for in the sense that they're just honestly themselves. They really don't care about people judging them,' Wright explains. 'And I think for Harry, they give him this unconditional love that he's never had before.' 'And I also just love the relationship that they have, like Molly and Arthur Weasley just seem like such a sweet loving couple,' she adds. 'They know what's up. They've figured it out.' Related: Harry Potter's Bonnie Wright Reveals Which House She Hopes 11-Month-Old Son Elio Would Be Sorted Into (Exclusive) Wright — who shares son Elio Ocean Wright Lococo, 1, with husband Andrew Lococo — also says that motherhood has 'for sure' shaped the way she interprets the story of Harry Potter. What hits especially hard now, she says, is 'just that idea, especially, of Harry not having his parents, and kind of how heartbreaking that must be to imagine [for] your own child.' Not to mention the entirety of Cursed Child, a story that focuses heavily on Harry's relationship with his and Ginny's son, Albus. 'I think this play is this kind of homage to his parents really, and I think that's a really special thing,' she tells PEOPLE. There is a lot in the Broadway show, Wright says, 'about parenting, and the next generation, and how when your children go off to school, you have to allow 'em to like fly and be their own selves.' Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. For Elio, who turns 2 in September, that day is a long ways away — though his Hogwarts letter could arrive as soon as age 11. In the meantime, however, Wright is content just soaking up every moment. Related: Bonnie Wright Has 1 Piece of Advice for the Actor Cast as Ginny in New Harry Potter TV Series (Exclusive) Her first year and a half as a mom, she tells PEOPLE, has been 'just wild,' especially as Elio approaches toddler age. 'A few words are coming, but he's such a mover and he's climbing. He's just more out in the world. It's so fun because now, the imagination comes in,' Wright says of Elio, adding that it 'just feels like what I am in my nature — I love storytelling and imagination.' This 'era and moment' the family of three is in now, she adds, 'is bringing that to life, and so it's just really exciting to me.' Read the original article on People
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Aussies issued stern warning after family's 'sad' find on beach
An Aussie mum and her kids were taken aback during a recent beach walk after making a "heartbreaking" find. And the unsettling scene, left discarded on the shore, has now prompted a stern reminder from authorities who have called for the behaviour to stop. Bonnie Wright was walking along the New South Wales central coast near Forster with her young children when she spotted something lying on Pebbly Beach last week. "It was situated in the middle of the rocks ... I couldn't identify it, so I used a piece of drift wood to flip it over," Bonnie told Yahoo News. The mystery find was revealed as a perfectly in tact shark head, with its body was nowhere to be found. Bonnie snapped a picture of the animal's discarded head and posted it online, asking others to identify the species and ask why it would have been left in that condition. Aussies quickly responded, with the head believed to be from a Port Jackson shark. "Not sure why you would kill one.. [they] clean up the water," one said, while many commented expressing how "sad" it was to see. "[They're] basically a water puppy that eats shellfish. They don't deserve this," one person said of the sharks, which are harmless to humans. 🦈 Footage captures woman's terrifying shark encounter off Aussie coast 👨 Fisherman's incredible catch set to 'feed whole family' for months 🎣 Fishermen catch fish 'rarely seen' in Aussie waters Recreational fishers are permitted to catch Port Jackson sharks in areas not protected by the Fisheries Management Act 1994, however, they are required to dispose of any offcuts correctly. "[The department] always encourages fishers to dispose of any fish waste responsibly and if facilities are not available, to take them home for disposal rather than discard them at their fishing spot," a NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) spokesperson told Yahoo News. "DPIRD encourages all fishers to ensure they practice responsible fishing at all times. This helps to maintain a positive reputation and social licence for the fishing community... [and] this also extends to considering others and setting a good example in your fishing approach." Do you have a story tip? Email: newsroomau@ You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube.
Yahoo
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
From Baywatch to toxic waste - LA's iconic beaches unrecognisable after fires
With its sun-drenched lifeguard towers, bronzed surfers and bikini-clad volleyball players, Will Rogers State Beach is one of the most recognizable stretches of sand in the world thanks to the global cult classic "Baywatch". But now the iconic beach is surrounded by the ruins of burned homes and palm trees, its parking lot a sorting ground for hazardous waste from the wildfires. The beach babes have been replaced by Environmental Protection Agency crews in hazmat suits sifting through melted electric car batteries and other hazardous waste before it's trucked away to landfills. The Palisades and Eaton fires generated a staggering amount of debris, estimated to be 4.5 million tonnes. In comparison, the devastating Maui fires of 2023 generated about 400,000 tonnes, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers. Those fires took three months of clean-up by the EPA, which is in charge of removing hazardous waste. But now the agency is hoping to finish their job in LA in just a month - by 25 February - after President Donald Trump signed an executive order demanding the EPA "expedite the bulk removal of contaminated and general debris". The decision to sort through the hazardous waste along the coast has prompted protests and as the clean-up of fire debris moves at unprecedented speeds, many are asking if and when the ocean water will be safe for swimming and surfing. "In this very vulnerable place, they're sorting this very hazardous, hazardous stuff," said actor and environmentalist Bonnie Wright. "To me, this feels like 10 steps backwards, because you're literally putting this waste even closer to the beach than it already is in the burn sites." Ms Wright, who played Ginny Weasly in the Harry Potter films, wrote a book on sustainability and devotes most of her time now to environmental causes. While their battle to move sorting sites away from the coast ultimately failed, she said activists were successful in urging the EPA to move burned electric vehicle batteries to the Will Rogers site down the road and away from the sensitive Topanga Creek watershed. The EPA said the burned vehicle batteries are an especially dangerous challenge but that the agency has the expertise to deal with them. To sift waste, they need a large space with roads big enough for truck traffic - which is why the Pacific Coast Highway, which runs along the beach, is more attractive than inside the windy, mountainous roads of the Palisades. When lithium ion batteries are damaged - especially by the high heat and flames of a wildfire - they have the potential for reigniting and exploding days, weeks, or even months after they've been impacted, said Steve Calanog, the EPA's incident commander for the LA fires. "We have to treat them like unexploded ordinance, or, as the military calls it UXO," he said. Although some have questioned the speed with which the EPA has moved to clean up the toxic debris, he said there is no time to waste. "We have to do this very quickly," he said, noting that they started sorting waste even as the fires were still raging. "If we are delayed, the risk of impacting the ocean, it goes up again." Too quiet on set? Hollywood pushes for more LA productions post wildfires Trump tours LA fire destruction amid worries about disaster aid Fighting LA's fires from the sky Mr Calanog was also in charge of the EPA response to the Maui fires, which may hold clues for how to measure what is safe and reasonable when it comes to testing water and soil samples. Many are concerned about the impacts of heavy metals and chemicals in the air and water after the fires. In Maui, it's been nearly 18 months since the fires and a small part of the coast around Lahaina is still closed to the public. The Army Corps of Engineers - which removes heavy debris after the EPA removes hazardous waste - just finished their last haul from Lahaina on 20 February. But most of Maui has remained open to locals and tourists and the Hawaii Department of Health announced eight months after the fires that the coastal waters around Lahaina were safe for ocean recreation. The scale of the clean-up from the Los Angeles fires, however, is unprecedented and the largest in US history. LA County closed beaches along a nine-mile (14 km) stretch for weeks following the fires in January. Then torrential rain - while helping douse any smouldering embers - caused mudslides in the burn area and runoff of toxic ash and chemicals into the ocean, prompting further closures. Now most beaches are reopened but a water advisory remains in effect along the coast from Santa Monica to Malibu until further notice advising "beach goers may recreate on the sand but continue to be advised to stay away from visible fire debris and to stay out of the ocean water during any posted ocean advisory". Only the most dedicated and local surfers could access the beaches in the burn area anyway - there's no parking or stopping for about 9 miles along Pacific Coast Highway, which is clogged with trucks and workers cleaning up debris. Though some will risk most anything to catch a good wave. While touring the EPA sorting site, Annelisa Moe said she saw two surfers in the water at a popular surf break on Topanga Beach while she watched workers across the street in full PPE handling burned EV car batteries. "The water looked like chocolate milk with like brown foam on it," recalled Ms Moe, who is the associate director of Science & Policy, Water Quality at Heal the Bay, an environmental nonprofit dedicated to making coastal watersheds healthy. "It was one of those days, in between storms, like beautiful, sunny, 75 degree weather type of days," she said. "And so it felt a little bit odd to be there amidst the destruction while we have this perfect beach day." Jenny Newman of the Los Angeles regional water quality control board told an LA County Public Health virtual town hall on 18 February that the initial water quality tests they conducted on 22-27 January "came back better than we expected." But the water board cautioned that people should follow county advisories to stay out of the water near the burn site. Dozens of scientists and volunteers from Heal The Bay and a myriad of private and public sector agencies have also been testing water and soil samples to see what levels of forever chemicals and heavy metals are present in the ocean, but toxic analysis can take 4-6 weeks and there's very little data available. At the Surfrider Foundation, volunteers test the ocean water all year long. But their small lab is testing for fecal bacteria - not arsenic. Now it's too dangerous to expose volunteers in the burn areas, so the staff have partnered with Heal the Bay and the University of Southern California to process their water samples. "All our community members are ocean lovers. We have the same questions they have," said Eugenia Ermacora of the Surfrider Foundation. "It's a concern, and everybody is asking, When can we go back? When is it safe? And I wish I had an answer." Chad White, a surfer who grew up in the Palisades and who protested against the EPA sorting site along the Pacific Coast Highway, said there's no way he would surf there now - it would be too painful to look at the coast and be reminded of what has been lost. And there's too much metal and other debris in the surf. "It's taken my desire to surf down to zero, not just because of the water quality, but just because of what's happening," he said over coffee in Topanga Canyon. He rode his first wave in 1977 at Will Rogers State Beach and taught his son to surf at age four and his wife at age 60. "It's earth-shattering to someone like me," he said of the destruction along the coast. "That beach means something to me too, and I'm one person. There are tens of, maybe hundreds or thousands of us that utilize the beach every day." Many of Mr White's friends lost their homes and he said people are traumatised to see what the landscape and coast around them looks like now. "Every movie that you see, every film that makes anybody from any other part of the world want to come to California is based on their seeing that Pacific Coast Highway and those beautiful homes in Malibu, across along the beach. They're all gone," he said. "Now it's a toxic waste dump." Power lines, hikers, arson: What might have sparked LA's devastating fires? Power lines, hikers, arson: What might have sparked LA's devastating fires? 'I have nothing to go back to' - LA fires heartbreak
BBC News
23-02-2025
- General
- BBC News
From Baywatch to toxic watch - LA's iconic beaches unrecognisable
With its sun-drenched lifeguard towers, bronzed surfers and bikini-clad volleyball players, Will Rogers State Beach is one of the most recognizable stretches of sand in the world thanks to the global cult classic "Baywatch".But now the iconic beach is surrounded by the ruins of burned homes and palm trees, its parking lot a sorting ground for hazardous waste from the wildfires. The beach babes have been replaced by Environmental Protection Agency crews in hazmat suits sifting through melted electric car batteries and other hazardous waste before it's trucked away to Palisades and Eaton fires generated a staggering amount of debris, estimated to be 4.5 million tonnes. In comparison, the devastating Maui fires of 2023 generated about 400,000 tonnes, according to the US Army Corps of fires took three months of clean-up by the EPA, which is in charge of removing hazardous waste. But now the agency is hoping to finish their job in LA in just a month - by 25 February - after President Donald Trump signed an executive order demanding the EPA "expedite the bulk removal of contaminated and general debris".The decision to sort through the hazardous waste along the coast has prompted protests and as the clean-up of fire debris moves at unprecedented speeds, many are asking if and when the ocean water will be safe for swimming and surfing. "In this very vulnerable place, they're sorting this very hazardous, hazardous stuff," said actor and environmentalist Bonnie Wright. "To me, this feels like 10 steps backwards, because you're literally putting this waste even closer to the beach than it already is in the burn sites."Ms Wright, who played Ginny Weasly in the Harry Potter films, wrote a book on sustainability and devotes most of her time now to environmental causes. While their battle to move sorting sites away from the coast ultimately failed, she said activists were successful in urging the EPA to move burned electric vehicle batteries to the Will Rogers site down the road and away from the sensitive Topanga Creek EPA said the burned vehicle batteries are an especially dangerous challenge but that the agency has the expertise to deal with them. To sift waste, they need a large space with roads big enough for truck traffic - which is why the Pacific Coast Highway, which runs along the beach, is more attractive than inside the windy, mountainous roads of the lithium ion batteries are damaged - especially by the high heat and flames of a wildfire - they have the potential for reigniting and exploding days, weeks, or even months after they've been impacted, said Steve Calanog, the EPA's incident commander for the LA fires."We have to treat them like unexploded ordinance, or, as the military calls it UXO," he some have questioned the speed with which the EPA has moved to clean up the toxic debris, he said there is no time to waste."We have to do this very quickly," he said, noting that they started sorting waste even as the fires were still raging."If we are delayed, the risk of impacting the ocean, it goes up again." Mr Calanog was also in charge of the EPA response to the Maui fires, which may hold clues for how to measure what is safe and reasonable when it comes to testing water and soil are concerned about the impacts of heavy metals and chemicals in the air and water after the fires. In Maui, it's been nearly 18 months since the fires and a small part of the coast around Lahaina is still closed to the public. The Army Corps of Engineers - which removes heavy debris after the EPA removes hazardous waste - just finished their last haul from Lahaina on 20 most of Maui has remained open to locals and tourists and the Hawaii Department of Health announced eight months after the fires that the coastal waters around Lahaina were safe for ocean scale of the clean-up from the Los Angeles fires, however, is unprecedented and the largest in US history. LA County closed beaches along a nine-mile (14 km) stretch for weeks following the fires in January. Then torrential rain - while helping douse any smouldering embers - caused mudslides in the burn area and runoff of toxic ash and chemicals into the ocean, prompting further most beaches are reopened but a water advisory remains in effect along the coast from Santa Monica to Malibu until further notice advising "beach goers may recreate on the sand but continue to be advised to stay away from visible fire debris and to stay out of the ocean water during any posted ocean advisory".Only the most dedicated and local surfers could access the beaches in the burn area anyway - there's no parking or stopping for about 9 miles along Pacific Coast Highway, which is clogged with trucks and workers cleaning up some will risk most anything to catch a good wave. While touring the EPA sorting site, Annelisa Moe said she saw two surfers in the water at a popular surf break on Topanga Beach while she watched workers across the street in full PPE handling burned EV car batteries."The water looked like chocolate milk with like brown foam on it," recalled Ms Moe, who is the associate director of Science & Policy, Water Quality at Heal the Bay, an environmental nonprofit dedicated to making coastal watersheds healthy."It was one of those days, in between storms, like beautiful, sunny, 75 degree weather type of days," she said. "And so it felt a little bit odd to be there amidst the destruction while we have this perfect beach day."Jenny Newman of the Los Angeles regional water quality control board told an LA County Public Health virtual town hall on 18 February that the initial water quality tests they conducted on 22-27 January "came back better than we expected." But the water board cautioned that people should follow county advisories to stay out of the water near the burn of scientists and volunteers from Heal The Bay and a myriad of private and public sector agencies have also been testing water and soil samples to see what levels of forever chemicals and heavy metals are present in the ocean, but toxic analysis can take 4-6 weeks and there's very little data the Surfrider Foundation, volunteers test the ocean water all year long. But their small lab is testing for fecal bacteria - not arsenic. Now it's too dangerous to expose volunteers in the burn areas, so the staff have partnered with Heal the Bay and the University of Southern California to process their water samples."All our community members are ocean lovers. We have the same questions they have," said Eugenia Ermacora of the Surfrider Foundation. "It's a concern, and everybody is asking, When can we go back? When is it safe? And I wish I had an answer." Chad White, a surfer who grew up in the Palisades and who protested against the EPA sorting site along the Pacific Coast Highway, said there's no way he would surf there now - it would be too painful to look at the coast and be reminded of what has been lost. And there's too much metal and other debris in the surf."It's taken my desire to surf down to zero, not just because of the water quality, but just because of what's happening," he said over coffee in Topanga Canyon. He rode his first wave in 1977 at Will Rogers State Beach and taught his son to surf at age four and his wife at age 60."It's earth-shattering to someone like me," he said of the destruction along the coast. "That beach means something to me too, and I'm one person. There are tens of, maybe hundreds or thousands of us that utilize the beach every day."Many of Mr White's friends lost their homes and he said people are traumatised to see what the landscape and coast around them looks like now."Every movie that you see, every film that makes anybody from any other part of the world want to come to California is based on their seeing that Pacific Coast Highway and those beautiful homes in Malibu, across along the beach. They're all gone," he said. "Now it's a toxic waste dump."
