Julie Walters channels her 'inner action hero'

Julie Walters channels her 'inner action hero'
Julie Walters channels her 'inner action hero'

Julie Walters says she loved letting out her 'inner action hero' during her big fight scene in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part II. The 61-year-old actress plays Molly Weasley in the films, who attacks evil with Bellatrix Lestarnge (Helena Bonham Carter) in the final battle in Hogwarts to protect her daughter Ginny. Julie said: "Oh it was great, I was thrilled! Because Molly, mainly all through the films she's mum. "You know, she's there looking after everybody, 'Harry hello! Stop that. Where's Ron? Ron!' It's all that sort of mummy stuff and then suddenly the inner action hero is out! So fantastic." She added: "I think my favourite line has got to be 'Not my daughter, you b***h!' I couldn't believe Mrs Weasley would say that, but it was fabulous to say." Julie said she will miss the camaraderie and the friendly, family atmosphere of filming the Harry Potter films, along with the padding she wore for her costume. She revealed: "I loved my costume and particularly the padding because it gave me the most fabulous shape, with enormous bosoms. It kept me really warm in winter and was rather absorbent in summer! "I was a little worried at King's Cross with the pigeons, because it was made of bird seed, or the bosoms were! But apart from that... I loved it."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.