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Mira: As designers, it’s very natural now to be helped with technology. And with graphics, we had to make some sort of legacy.

But you have to make that door beautifully. At the end of each book, we asked, what is behind that door? Then we go through that door into the next book.

Looking back, now we have all the books printed, and we all know these stories, but at the time we didn’t. But then all the books started becoming films. How our work evolved across the Harry Potter filmsĮduardo: I remember until up to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, we weren’t sure if there was going to be another film. And again, with that element of surprise: a MinaLima studio just happened! And then between the bookends of 20, we started growing a team of three people to 30 people. But it was clear to us that this was just the beginning of a new chapter. At the end of the films in 2010, people would ask us if we were sad about them ending, because it was like a real era, and those eras only happen once you get to the end of them. And then we set up our own studio, another surprise. Looking back, you think, “Gosh, that was a surprise, getting the gift of eight films for the best franchise ever!” And it was a surprise to work with someone that you actually completely 150 million percent connect with. Mira: That word “surprise” keeps coming up over the past 20 years. 20 years later, we are still joined to eachother! But that memory is so good because I was surprised that Mira replied to me. So, I went to Leavesden where the Harry Potter films were made to meet her just for a chat, and met Mira and set decorator Stephenie McMillan, and since then, we just didn’t stop talking.

At the time I had no idea what it was! So, I contacted Mira, explaining who I was and where I came from – we have a mutual friend – and a short time later she sent me a very lovely reply saying she’d just finished working on this Harry Potter film and she was starting the second. She was doing graphics here in the UK, working for a “wizarding boy film”. Eduardo: I arrived in the UK from Brazil in April 2001 and I think I contacted Mira around May or June.