Daniel Radcliffe Stared At A Photo Of Cameron Diaz To Help Him Film ‘Harry Potter’ Broomstick Scenes, Tom Felton Reveals

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Cameron Diaz played a part in the “Harry Potter” movies, but she probably doesn’t know it. In Tom Felton’s new memoir Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard, he explained that Daniel Radcliffe used a photo of Diaz to help him pretend to fly his broomstick.

Felton, who played Draco Malfoy alongside Radcliffe’s Harry Potter, wrote, “The approach was that if a piece of magic or any kind of special effect could be achieved practically, that was the best way to do it.” READ MORE: Emma Watson Gushes Over Her ‘Soulmate’ Tom Felton: ‘It’s One Of The Purest Loves I Can Think Of’ He added, according to Insider, “This was especially true in the early days, when the visual effects teams had less-advanced technology at their disposal.” “The broomstick was a metal pole fitted with a deeply uncomfortable bike saddle,” Felton recalled of filming the Quidditch scenes, which were done in a studio with blue or green screens. “There were stirrups for your feet and a harness to stop you falling.

They strapped you to the pole so you couldn’t fall and they had a more elaborate see-saw device to move you up and down, left and right.

They blew fans in your face to make it look as if you had the wind in your hair.” READ MORE: Tom Felton Reveals Mental Health Struggles, Multiple Secret Rehab Stints In Memoir ‘Beyond The Wand’ Felton said that with the scenes being edited later on, it was “important that all the players were looking in the right direction for the shot,” so a crew member attempted to hold a tennis ball with a long pole and orange tape on it. “When the first assistant director shouted ‘Dragon!’ or ‘Bludger!’ you had to look at the tennis ball like it was, well, a dragon or a bludger,” he said.