One of the girls queuing up for the Luna Lovegood audition, April Waterman, says that she was told by the production crew that she would not be allowed to audition because she was from Essex. However Vanessa Davies from Harry Potter Productions told “The Daily Mirror” that she “may have overheard someone who was not part of the production say it. I don't know where this has come from, not from anybody in our organisation”.
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