Harry loves Cho
(December 2005/January 2006)
Source: Girl's Life

With zero acting experience (not even a school play), meet the girl from Scotland who beat out 3,000 others for the role of Harry Potter's crush Cho Chang. She's Katie Leung, 18, and she'd prefer you call her Katt ...

Vim on a whim
"My dad watched an advert on telly for my role. It said you have to be 16 and you have to be of oriental appearance and you have to be British, and that kind of fitted me. The audition was on a Saturday, my dad's only day off work. So we just thought, you know, give it a try and went to audition for it."

Parental pressure
"When he asked me to go down for audition, he wasn't really forcing me or anything, he was just suggesting. Afterward, when I got down to the last 100 people, he started to get kind of serious and he was like, "Yeah, you've got to try your hardest."

Bookish charm
"I was a great fan of the films and read the first two books. But I didn't read the last three until I got the part - they were the books my character was in."

Copy-Katt
"She's very emotional. She likes to cry, and you know, laugh. My character involved a lot of facial expressions rather than talking. In real life, I suppose I'm an emotional person. I kind of .. I'm like a crybaby when I don't get what I want. My favorite thing about playing Cho was being able to be popular. She's popular amongst the boys and the girls, and, um, that's not something that happens in real life."

Love (dis)connection
"She kind of has a little thing for Harry, but she has a boyfriend. Her and Cedric have more of a love thing than a crush thing and we know that, because in the fifth book, she never really gets over him even when she goes on a date with Harry. So, I think their love is pretty ill-fated from the beginning."

Real-life Daniel Radcliffe
"The scenes we did together, we just bonded really well. We're great friends, like everyone else."

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