POPPY MONTGOMERY has started filming scenes for a new movie based on the life of Harry Potter author JK Rowling.
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“I’m absolutely terrified, it’s my first reading,” Montgomery is quoted as saying in the Daily Mail.
The first scene to be filmed, set in 1997, features Montgomery/Rowling reading lines from Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first book in the boy-wizard series, to a book shop audience.
British director Paul Kaufman is at the helm for the film, called Magic Beyond Words: The JK Rowling Story, but it is being shot in Vancouver, Canada.
“She was on welfare and she really hit rock bottom,” said Kaufman of Rowling’s years before fame and fortune.
“This about a woman who decided to persevere, to keep on with her dream.”
Though it appears to be a sympathetic portrait of Rowling’s struggle to the top, Rowling has made it clear the film does not have her blessing.
“I can confirm that the biopic Magic Beyond Words: The JK Rowling Story is unofficial and not authorised,” said a spokesperson
