Switched is the first installment in The Trylle Trilogy by the self-publishing phenomenon Amanda Hocking whose eBook series took the Internet by storm in April 2010. The film adaptation, starring Natalia Tena – who portrayed Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter film series – will open in theaters on January 6th, 2012.

You can watch the new trailer right here:

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Synopsis: Wendy Everly first knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her, accusing her of having been switched at birth. Although she’s certain she’s not the monster her mother claims she is, there is a secret she keeps from everyone. Her mysterious ability to influence people’s decisions, without knowing how, or why. When handsome newcomer Finn turns up at her window, her world is turned upside down. He holds the key to her past and is the doorway to a place she never imagined could exist…”

The Trylle Trilogy will be published for the first time in print in the UK in 2012, beginning with Switched, which hits shelves on January 5th.

No words – just UH mazing!

In attempt to play 1000 one-on-one concerts in one day MOLOTOV JUKEBOX took to the internet and relentlessly performed to the viewers of ChatRoulette… Not all of them were there to listen to music!
They were filmed playing to the many online viewers and also captured many of them, but because of the low quality and offensive nature of much of the captured footage they sent out a call to their fans to send in videos of themselves dancing to the song and this video is the result!

Massive love to all of you who sent in videos and spent time on ChatRoulette to come and see us play! This video is for YOU!

Find a FREE download of the song on our SoundCloud chanel: http://soundcloud.com/molotovjukebox/i-need-it

I’ve added some adorable outtakes of Nat posing with her accordion taken a few months ago for an article in The Guardian:

Photoshoots Outtakes > #012

Tom Felton has admitted that the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 was “nerve-wracking” for the cast.

Speaking to Digital Spy on set of Hogwarts’ Great Hall, Felton said that everyone involved wanted to do the finale “justice” for the fans.

“I didn’t speak to a man, woman or child who wasn’t over the moon with it,” the Draco Malfoy actor added. Meanwhile, his co-stars Warwick Davis and Natalia Tena echoed Felton’s comments, also teasing what extras fans could expect to see on the DVD.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 2.

Nat attended 10th Anniversary Party for InStyle at The Sanctum Hotel in London. Other guests included designer royalty Alice Temperley, Christian Louboutin, and Maria Grachvogel.

You may remember if you are an avid reader of the site, we posted a video a couple of weeks ago for Molotov Jukebox’s remake of Get Ready by the Temptations. The fact that the group were naked from the waist up, including front woman Natalia Tena might jog your memories a wee bit more.

Anyhow we managed to grab a few minutes with Natalia who juggles a music and acting career, she played Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter movies to talk about her musical endeavors with the group who has become a firm fave on the festival circuit. Speaking on that hot summers day when shirts came off and just who she admires when it comes to multitasking, we introduce you to the delightful and enchanting Natalia Tena.

Love the remake Get Ready, why that song?

We were asked to cover it and when you get to do this to such a sick classic, plus being encouraged to add our own gyp chaos, it makes you unable to wipe the smile off your face.

What sort of musical background do you have?

When I was four, I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up, begged my mum for piano lessons for a year. I realized that him and the whole of the late 50’s no longer existed when I was eight so moved onto Motown, flamenco and horrific 90’s teenage years. Then came Jazz and salsa, funk and dub step, all coinciding with either a new epic friend, over, or band member that showed some new shit.

You play the accordion which is, no offense meant here, not quite what I imagined you to play. How did that come about, you playing the accordion and do you find people are surprised when you tell them what you play? I think it is fab by the way

After I did my grade 8 piano when I was 17, I never wanted to see that instrument again. I did a play’ Nights at the Circus’ where we had to all pick an instrument. I saw that this sexy small squeezebox and it was love. Like when you now what dog is yours, or what guy you need to make love with.

You already have tongues wagging with your festival performances, being nominated for a Breakthrough award, how did you all come together to make Molotov Jukebox?

Love, chaos, loosing the wrong musicians and falling in love and hate with the right ones that now I have the honor of playing with.

And how much effort has gone into making you the band you are today?

So much sweat, so many emails, so much shouting and organization, carrying lots of heavy equipment through hazardous rush hours, angry tears, lots of someone telling you, “it’s fucking banging, keep going”, getting balls deep into something that for an hour makes you feel like your doing something good to a room.

What has been your best festival experience to date?

Secret Garden Party. YES YES YES!!!!

Being such a successful actress, has music often taken a back seat or have you been able to juggle the two quite easily?

I’m not that successful at all, shut up!!!! I juggle both careers with the help of an epic shit hot agent and manager. Plus what I do is nothing compared to people who have to balance family and career, that is sleepless relentless, they deserve a massive medal saying: LEGEND

If you had to choose between acting or music could you and would it be an easy decision?

Do you have to choose between love or sex? I know people that play golf and can cook like they invented it.

Have to touch on the video for Get Ready, was it really that hot you had to shed your tops?

It was the only hot day in England all summer, and it was autumn. All summer we dealt with what can only be described as cold, shit, and ‘why don’t we live in another country?’ but England is famous for its Indian summer, Septembers that anger you with ‘why the fuck did you decide to be warm now, when we are all back at work?!!!’ That day was hotter than sex in a sauna, carrying a large teenage wolf eating Tabasco.

I’ve added screencaptures of Natalia in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2′ as Nymphadora Tonks to the gallery. This is very sad

Natalia Tena – kooky, versatile and very talented…

I see an earthy beauty in front of me, decked out in old jeans (which she hates buying), a plain black top and a self-described ‘carpet/upholstery/granny jacket’.  An unmade face glowing with a bright smile, she wields a gigantic accordion.  She exudes confidence and positivity, waving frantically to me from across the street.  We find a seat at Costa, outside, to indulge her smoking habit.  Her name is Natalia Tena and she is an actress, singer, musician and songwriter, well on her way to becoming one of the most successful women of her generation.

Tena’s acting career began when she was caught smoking at school, Bedales, by her drama teacher.  Having begged for a reprieve, she was thrust into a room filled with young boys, left feeling bewildered.  She didn’t know it then but this was the About a Boy audition and she got the part.  This resulted in her getting an agent and being ‘Tonks’ in Harry Potter, as well as many other prominent roles.

She confides that the characters she has played so far have all been disappointingly nice. Natalia loved playing ‘Tonks’ in Harry Potter but if she could have picked any character she would have chosen ‘Bellatrix’ Helena Bonham-Carter’s demented Death Eater:  “I really want to play an evil bitch.”

Recently she finished filming Bel Ami with the all-star cast of Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Robert Pattinson.  Playing the role of a prostitute, a lustful sex scene unfolds with Twilight’s sparkling vampire, Robert Pattinson. “It’s actually harder to do sex scenes when they’re intimate but when I’m just a prostitute who he’s banging, it’s fun sex, you can have a lot of fun with it.”   In between takes the pair were laughing and encouraging each other to “groan louder, louder”.

Natalia’s parents moved to London from Spain when they were 23, settling in Portobello Road, where she grew up. She is fluent in Spanish and still has all her extended family in Spain – “I love Spanish films. I’d love to work with a Spanish director.”

When I ask Natalia about the biggest influences on her acting career, she immediately names ‘Kneehigh’, an experimental theatre group: “All the people they have chosen to work with them are top people. Just the way they are, the way they live, their attitude to life. The people they chose to work with them are the best team. Anyone with an ego, it just wouldn’t happen. They’d make them get naked and point and laugh at them. They’re great. It makes you realise that acting isn’t scary, it’s playing. You forget that a lot when you are doing big sets or a serious play. Of course it’s important, but you have to remember it’s just playing”.

Natalia was only 15 when she got the part in About a Boy, yet she carried on studying for her GCSE’s: “You can do anything young, as long as you know it’s not the only thing you should do”. She told her agent after filming About a Boy that “unless I get a main part I’m not going to give up school. So I did my A-levels and I knew I still had an agent.” Her friends used to tell her, “You’re sorted now, you can be an actress forever” but Natalia has never thought like that, and despite a career that keeps going from strength to strength, she retains her down-to-earth viewpoint: “It doesn’t matter how big you are as an actor, you’re never sorted, you’re always panicked, always terrified you’re going to lose money and never have a job”.

But the multi-talented Natalia needn’t worry; she is currently juggling a music career with her day job in acting, something she is finding “very stressful”.  After this interview, she is being driven to Belfast to film scenes for Game of Thrones before flying to Berlin to do a warm-up gig for The Kooks with her band Molotov Jukebox.  But the demands on her time aren’t without their perks:

“I love that German stodgy food, and I can’t wait to go to Berlin.  I’m going to eat a massive sausage.”

Natalia is not shy about her love of food. In fact, during the interview some young girls discarded their sandwich on the table next to us.  Natalia’s eyes lit up as she grabbed it and demolished it.   Apparently, out of all the films that she has worked on, Harry Potter had the best choice of food – “loads and loads of different food, sushi, amazing sandwiches, then you had the options of meat and then options of veg. But there was lots of waste” – but Womb, with Eva Green, won her stomach’s highest regard: “There were only two options, meat or veggy, but because there were only two choices, they did both amazingly.”

The reason for her latest culinary adventure, Molotov Jukebox describe their music as ‘Gypstep’, and Natalia is both the singer and accordion player.  She learnt how to play the accordion when she was working with ‘Kneehigh’.  Her boyfriend Sam joins her onstage and together they write much of the music.  When the band first began their tour they were terrified that The Kooks‘ crowd wouldn’t like their music as it is so different.  But they needn’t have worried – the band has been received with great enthusiasm. They played at the Harry Potter premiere and have now been nominated for The UK Festival Awards alongside The XX and Jessie J, even though they have only played one main stage show this festival season.

Natalia is a colourful, intelligent, funny and very talented woman – there are not many who can say they have toured with The Kooks and been in so many big films and TV series by twenty seven. Definitely one to watch, not just on the silver screen but in the music charts as well, I won’t be the only one looking forward to hearing more about Natalia Tena’s upcoming success.

Bel Ami has postponed its release to early 2012.

Molotov Jukebox will release the song Get Ready on 14th November through iTunes, and you can find a sneak preview here:

Nat attended the Alice + Olivia Black Tie Carnival hosted by designer Stacey Bendet at Paradise by Way of Kensal Green in London last night. There is only one photo so far of her and her gorgeous boyfriend/band-mate:

Happy Birthday to Nat who turned 27 yesterday, November 1st !

There is a new interview by Female First with Nat on Moltov Jukebox and lots more!

We speak to Molotov Jukebox’s front-woman about the band and her role as Tonks in the Harry Potter movies.

Molotov Jukebox are a self-described ‘Gypstep’ band fronted by actress Natalia Tena (best known for her role at Tonks in Harry Potter).

Combining a huge rage on influences from jazz and reggae to rock and dubstep, the band are truly unique, fronted by Natalia and her accordian.

We recently caught up with the star, and chatted about Harry Potter, the band’s career, balancing that with acting and much more.

-Molotov Jukebox’s new single ‘Get Ready’ is out next month. Are you excited to get it out there?
Yeah man! We did a live video version of it a few weekends ago. Remember that Sunday when it was boiling? We were at the Old Queen’s Head, and we were so hot! We basically had to take off most of our clothes, we were sweating so much. I think it’s going to be good.

-Earlier this year you also released your Double Dare EP. How’s the reaction been to that?
I think it’s been really good. The thing is, there were some things that we learnt from the last EP that we’re hoping the new one that we’re recording soon will be much better! That’s what I think – that EP was a learning curve, you know what I mean?

-Yeah. So, has work begun on the follow-up?
Yeah, I think’s gonna be really good. [Laughing]I’m quite excited!

-Is there any news on when we can expect that, or is it just whenever it’s done?
You know what, I’m not sure yet, cos we’re still thinking about when to do it. We’re hopefully going to do a tour in Brazil in January, so at the moment we’re working on that, getting us flown over. We went there last year, and we did a tour that was kinda unplanned – but it worked! They loved us there, man, they went for it.

This year, we’re hoping it’ll be a bigger, better tour. During that cold month of January when everyone’s doing resolutions, no-one’s got any money and nobody goes out, in that dead month we can go out, be hot and get our vibe back.

-Is it surreal that you’ll be heading to Brazil for the second time, when you haven’t really broken here on the same level?
I mean, it is strange, but it’s good to do two things. During the cold months in England when it’s a bit deader – especially for acting too with my acting stuff – it’s good to use that month. Rather than just sit around – go somewhere and write music somewhere else.

-Well it’s been a great year for you already, with the Glastonbury show this summer. How was it getting to play such a legendary festival?
[Laughing]It was chaos! I mean, it was amazing, but we had six gigs over four days! This Glastonbury, unfortunately, was very rainy and muddy. My Glastonbury consisted of a lot of walking in the mud, and carrying a lot of equipment. I remember it being very knackering.

My favourite was the last stage, the closing of the festival really, at the Hub, the big ball, at 4 in the morning. That was a very insane gig. There were lots of crazy people there, the dregs of the entire festival having it.

-Also this year, you’ve been nominated for the Best Breakthrough Artist at the UK Festival Awards.
[Laughing]I know man, I can’t believe it. I mean, we are the underdogs. The fact that we’ve been nominated is quite a massive thing for us, just cos of the other artists on that – Jessie J, XX. If we win, I don’t know what I’m gonna do – I’ll have to jump around a lot. I dunno, maybe punch myself in the face – I’ll be so excited!

-It must be amazing to see yourself being named alongside the likes of Jessie J and Ed Sheeran.
Yeah, especially as these people are very much in our musical eyesight, and they’ve done a lot of main stages. We did one this year, in Kendal, but other than that, we haven’t done all the main stages like a lot of them have.

-Kendal Calling does seem to give great opportunities to acts breaking through, do you agree?
Yes, definitely! I love Kendal, it was great. Actually, all the festivals that we know and love this year were very rainy, like Glastonbury and Secret Garden.

Kendal, which is in the North so you’d expect it to be cold and wet, was beautiful. It was so lovely! We played at 5 or 6 in the afternoon, and people were just sitting, picnicking. By the end of our set, we had a massive crowd dancing – that made my day really.

-From what I’ve heard, your sound seems to take influence from 2 Tone ska, reggae, that kinda scene. Is that something you embrace in your sound?
Yeah, I think so, but I don’t think we’ve really thought about it to that kinda degree. I think it was more that we just wrote stuff that we liked, and different people in the band brought their own stuff.  We don’t sit down to make “this kinda song”, it’s just “Oh, this sounds good – can we try that.” It’s a melting pot really.

-A lot of people will know you mainly from your film career. Have you noticed any crossover yet, or is it not quite at that stage?
A little bit, because I had a film come out recently called You Instead, and that was done in four and a half days at T in the Park last year. I played the lead singer of the band, and co-wrote all the music.

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