<P> According to The Hollywood Reporter, Emma Watson was reportedly paid $3 million upfront, together with an agreement that her final take - home pay could rise as high as $15 million if the film generated gross box office income similar to Maleficent's $759 million worldwide gross . </P> <P> Principal photography on the film began at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England, on May 18, 2015 . Filming with the principal actors concluded on August 21 . Six days later, co-producer Jack Morrissey confirmed that the film had officially wrapped production . </P> <P> The Beast was portrayed with a "more traditional motion capture puppeteering for the body and the physical orientation", where actor Dan Stevens was "in a forty - pound gray suit on stilts for much of the film". The facial capture for the Beast was done separately in order to "communicate the subtleties of the human face" and "(capture the) thought that occurs to him" which gets "through (to) the eyes, which are the last human element in the Beast ." The castle servants who are transformed into household objects were created with CGI animation . </P> <P> Before the release of the film, Bill Condon refilmed one certain sequence in the "Days of the Sun" number, due to confusion among test audiences caused by actress Harriet Jones, who looked similar to Hattie Morahan, who portrayed Agathe . In the original version of the scene, it was Jones' character, the Prince's mother, who sings the first verse of the song, with Rudi Goodman playing the young Prince and Henry Garrett playing his father; but in the reshot version of the scene, the singing part is given to the Prince (now played by Adam Mitchell). The King was also recast to Tom Turner, although Harriet Jones was still the Queen, albeit with dark hair . Both Goodman and Garrett's names were mistakenly featured in the original theatrical release's credits, but was later corrected in home releases . </P>

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