‘Harry Potter’ actor James Phelps broke director’s ribs during filming

Los Angeles, Jan 4 : Actor James Phelps, who starred as Fred Weasley in the blockbuster Harry Potter fantasy films alongside his twin brother Oliver as George, injured Mike Newell during a play fight whilst filming the fourth movie in the series.The 79-year-old filmmaker recalled: "We were doing the scene when Fred and George were rejected from entering the Tri-Wizard tournament.

"We had these wigs on and beards on what looked like old men, and Mike said, OK, I think you guys are going to be really annoyed with each other, I think you should have a good fight about this.

"Speaking on the special Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return To Hogwarts, which celebrated the release of the first film based on the best-selling books by acclaimed author J.K.Rowling, Newell explained that he intervened to encourage the boys to fight which left him in agony, reports femalefirst.co.uk.He said: "These two were sort of prissying about at it and I said, aNo, come on boys, its a fight.A I was a tubby 60-year-old gent at that stage and I really shouldnt have done it."I remember gripping him round the waist and trying to fling him about and so forth and I cracked a couple of ribs.I was in absolute agony from then on, but of course, the wonderful thing was that Id made a complete twit of myself and everybody felt much better for that.

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