We solemnly swear, Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking is too good to cross up! The six-episode Meals Community baking competitors collection, impressed by Harry Potter, is hosted by James and Oliver Phelps, who performed the trouble-making Weasley twins Fred and George all through the eight movies. The Phelps brothers, with culinary judges Carla Corridor and Jozef Youssef, will information 9 groups of matched-up pastry cooks and cake artists as they make scrumptious, jaw-dropping creations. Suppose: a large confectionary Whomping Willow.
The winners take residence the Wizards of Baking Cup and get an opportunity to look in a future Potter cookbook. Under, the Phelps brothers map out the magic.
The opponents are all professionals within the kitchen, however how a lot did they should find out about Harry Potter to succeed?
James Phelps: The overwhelming majority of them are big followers. Each episode is predicated on a set, so for the Diagon Alley episode, one staff was given Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes [the joke shop Fred and George ran], one other was given Ollivander’s Wand Store, and so they needed to then give you a bake primarily based round that. So you must have the information.
Oliver Phelps: One of many groups made 50 Golden Snitches [the flying Quidditch ball], and so they seemed like props from the movies.
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How a lot on-set sampling did you do?
Oliver: Loads! I’m not shameful in saying I used to be very comfortable to abuse my place as host to only stand there like a canine by the Christmas desk.
You shot this collection at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, the place the unique units for Platform 9¾, the Nice Corridor, Diagon Alley, Gringotts Wizarding Financial institution and extra are positioned. Had been there any spots you skilled for the primary time?
Oliver: We’d by no means filmed on the Forbidden Forest set, so to go there when it was all dressed and clearly trying very Forbidden Forest-y, that was fairly cool. [Laughs] We additionally went in just like the again a part of Dumbledore’s workplace to do the conferring bit, simply earlier than Carla and Joseph inform us who they’ve chosen to win the duty that week, and simply being in there was fairly cool. So, it was beautiful to go to elements of units that we hadn’t gone to.
James: Additionally we needed to movie at night time as a result of the studio tour was open within the daytime, and seven,000 folks get by it a day.
Your former forged members Bonnie Wright (who performed Fred and George’s youthful sister Ginny), Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood), and Warwick Davis (Professor Flitwick/Griphook) visitor decide. What was it wish to be again with them?
James: It was cool. After we did [2022’s Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts] shoot, after we completed filming, the lot of us went for a meal, and I believe Dan [Radcliffe, Harry Potter] stated, “We’re the one folks on this planet who know what this appears like.” We nonetheless have [so many] reminiscences.
Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking, Sequence Premiere Thursday, November 14, 8/7c, Meals Community