Harry Potter | Driving Lesson | Cherrybomb | Wild Target | Into The White | The Drummer
Harry Potter
“Before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.”
(Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secret Ultimate Edition)
“I like all the books. You’ve got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.”
“Walking into the great hall for the first time was absolutely incredible – all these effects with all the candles floating in the air, all lit and everything, food on the table, all the flambeaus were lit – it was just incredible, it was the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”
“You can lose yourself in it. It’s for both kids and adults.”
“We the Grints are all huge Harry Potter fans! And of course we love the Weasleys!”
“Are you kidding? This is Harry Potter! I love every last moment of it.”
“I was thinking about what it’s going to be like when we’re done, after the last movie. It is going to be really weird, actually. At the moment it seems quite far away. I don’t know what I’m going to do, really. I’m going to miss it, I think, because it’s been my whole life for a long time. I really enjoy it as well, every year we’ve come back and done it. All of this, this is what I know…”
(LA Times Hero Complex Blog July 1, 2009)
“After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.”
“I’d like to have the flying car, I think that’d be really cool.”
“Well one of the times I did a stunt was in the devil’s snare room and they lifted me up on a harness and a safety rope really, really high, and they just dropped me down into the devil’s snare.”
“I had this giant slug in my mouth loaded with slime and I spat them out. I think it was plastic. I hope it was plastic.”
“The most challenging scene for me was the spider scene, because I don’t like spiders in real life. Even rubber ones I get really scared of.”
“You sit on a broomstick for hours and it starts to hurt. It gives you a numb bum.”
Al Murray: ”So, tell us what happens in the sixth movie?”
Rupert: ”Dumbledore dies… Oops, I shouldn’t have said that! But it’s already there in the books!…”
(An Evening with Al Murray 2009)
“I’ll go and watch past films easily enough. For example, I watched Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone a bit ago and found it quite entertaining! To see my younger self didn’t really disturb me. The only thing I thought was a bit strange was hearing my voice before it changed. I found that rather unbearable!”
“I am going to stick with the acting for the moment as I love being involved in the Harry Potter series, but you never know what the future holds!”
(World Rally Championship, October 28, 2009)
“It felt like the last day at school, packing up all the stuff in my dressing room, all the old toys still there from when I was 11: I’d underestimated how emotional it would be. We all cried.”
(On the final day on the Harry Potter set)
“Being in Harry Potter is like living in a bubble, and it slightly hinders your independence. [...] You have got a lot of people doing stuff for you. So I guess that doesn’t help.”
(Times Online July 2009)
“It’s really took me by surprise that how much this film me to me. How not doing it every day will affect my life.”
(The Examiner February 2011)
“It’s a long-game thing. Potter’s definitely always going to be with me because naturally it’s quite a big deal. It’s probably the biggest thing I’m going to be in. But I’m just going to take it as it goes, really.”
(Empire Magazine July 2011)
Driving Lesson
“I was doing the fourth Harry Potter film, Goblet of Fire, at the time. There was just something really refreshing, really different about it. I met Jeremy Brock, the director, and really got along with him, and then I found that Julie (who had played his mom in Harry Potter) was going to be in it.”
(Bay Area Reporter October 26, 2006)
“I wasn’t really looking out for anything, it just sort of came. I was doing the fourth Harry Potter film and it came up after that. I just really liked the script and it was just something really different. I’d been filming the fourth one for about eleven months and I just wanted to do something different. I love sort of being Ron, it’s just sort of good to do something different so that’s why.”
(About.com October 18th, 2006)
Cherrybomb
“It was the first kind of real, adult role for me really so I was quite nervous about it. It did felt like a massive step, as it’s kind of away from home. We filmed it in Belfast, out of the whole comfort bubble of Harry Potter really, as I’ve known everyone there for all my life. Had to speak with a different accent, so yeah everything felt different and it took me a while to adjust to that.”
(The Independent April 22, 2010)
On his quiff : “It has taken me a little while to get used to it and especially to seeing so much of my eyes. I am not sure if it’s a look I will go for when I go back home, but it may take off though. You never know!”
(Belfast Telegraph 2008)
“I definitely can’t relate to their kind of lifestyle. It’s quite a scary world.”
(Total Film 2009)
Wild Target
“It was just really the script. It was really funny, it’s a quite dark comedy, which is quiet cool. The cast is great. It’s just seemed like a cool thing to do.”
(Lovefilm 2010)
“The guns appealed to me quite a bit – it was refreshing, and very unlike Ron. All the action stuff – the car chase too – was really fun,” he says.
(Telegraph June 8, 2010)
Into The White
“I chose this project because I love the script. It is a fresh story where I get to show new sides of myself. Hopefully I will get to know some new people as well, says the young man better known as Ron Weasley.”
(VG Nett March 2011)
“It was fun to do something else. No matter how much I enjoy playing the same character for ten years, it’s fun to loosen the tie a bit and play a hothead with an outdated teletubby suit.” Grint resorted to a Liverpool accent in order to get into character. “It was fitting for the part, the dialect sounds bit argumentative and angry. The only downside was the fact that no one could understand me, I had trouble understanding myself at times.”
(bt.no, March 2012)
“I liked the story and I’ve always been interested in the war.”
(ba.no, March 2012)
“It’s quite a different war film. I can point out the absurdity of war. By the end of it you’re not even thinking about war. It’s just about five men who are trying to survive and afterwards it’s all quite refreshing.”
(filmfront.no, March 2012)
“I’ve always been interested in the war and I think this was a very different kind of war film. In addition, I wanted to do something completely new, like filming in Norway under such extreme conditions. I expected it to be cold, but it was impossible to prepare yourself for weather which meant you couldn’t see or hear your costars.”
(dagsavisen.no, March 2012)
The Drummer
“I am really excited about it. I am a big fan of the Beach Boys. It’s a cool part. It will be something different, it’s American so that will be interesting.”
(ICM exclusive interview, March 2012)
“It’s about Dennis Wilson and his life after the Beach Boys went solo. I play a guy who works for an agency and I befriend him. It’s a really great script.”
(independent.ie, April 2012)
