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TIL before filming Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, director Alfonso Cuarón asked Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson to write essays about their characters. Watson submitted a 16-page essay, Radcliffe handed in a single page, and Grint forgot to turn his in.

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