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TIL that for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón had Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson write autobiographical essays about their characters. Grint didn’t write one, as “I’m Ron; Ron wouldn’t do it.”

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