#elena2

In the books, Padma Patil is in Ravenclaw and in the films, I was a Gryffindor. Now, the story about that was at the auditions, once we first got the role, me and Shefali, who played my twin, look nothing alike, and 'cause we were new characters being introduced in the fourth film, Mike, the director and the producers didn't want people to be like "who are they?" so he put me into Gryffindor so that in every scene we would be together as we were walking around, like with that "hi Harry!" that we would be saying in every scene. So, he put me into Gryffindor so that we would be together and the public and fans would know we were the Patil twins.

There are two Patil twins, Parvati and Padma, and I got cast as Padma because in the Goblet of Fire film, which is important to say I actually started at Goblet of Fire so I got cast on the fourth film, the Yule Ball is a main kind of scene, main event, and Padma and Parvati obviously go to the ball with Ron and Harry. I was actually taller than Daniel Radcliffe so I couldn't be Parvati because I would be dancing with Harry and that would be really weird if I was towering over Dan. Whereas, Rupert was actually taller than me so it made sense and Shefali was cast as Parvati as she's shorter than Dan. They took ages to tell us which twin we were. We knew we got the role but they took forever and then afterwards they explained and I was like "okay cool."