Ron Weasley | Ben Marshall | Malachy McKinney | Tony | Robert Smith
Ron Weasley
Question: “You’re cooler than Ron?”
Rupert: “Definitely, yeah!”
Question: “You wanna reassure people you wouldn’t have worn that coat?”
Rupert: Yeah. I like to think I’m a bit braver than him. Because he can be a bit of a wimp sometimes and I don’t know. I always felt I could sort of relate to him in some ways, anyway. Obviously we both got ginger hair and big families, so…yeah that’s us.”
(Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire DVD)
“I’m shorter, I don’t have as many freckles as Ron, and I can’t do magic!”
“Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like we’ve both got red hair, we both like sweets, we’ve both got lots of brothers and sisters, and we’re both afraid of spiders.”
“I especially like Ron. Sometimes you feel so sorry for him because he’s always getting stuff from his brothers. And he’s got a fat, lazy rat.”
“But as the Harry Potter movies have gone on, there has been more in them and my character has developed more. But up until recently, it was just me playing this scared guy, with the odd light-hearted line. I never got to push myself…”
(On the character development of Ronald Weasley, No Magazine March 2010)
“Over the years I hope we kind of emerged to the same person. I use to say wicked all the time, that’s kind of my word and suddenly it kind of started appearing in the script. It kind of does move over to real life.”
(Kidsay March 2011)
“I always felt a connection to Ron. I don’t know if it’s a ginger thing. Maybe I’ve taken on some of his characteristics.”
(Empire Magazine July 2011)
“It was always Ron I was going for. It was never anyone else. And I got a call from the casting directors.”
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Ben Marshall
“I took the part of Ben because he’s very different to Ron and it would show I could do more than be the wise-cracker.”
“I suppose the differences between Ben and Ron are that Ben is quieter and not as confident but more complicated. But I’m more like Ron. I like a laugh.”
(Daily Record August 24th, 2006)
“He’s quite sheltered. I mean, he’s from a religious family, and he’s got no friends. He’s a bit of a loner. He goes through quite a journey through the thing. And he sort of comes out of his shells, as it goes on. As he meets Julie Walters, her character, he sort of changes slightly, sort of becomes more independent and grows up a bit.”
(Groucho Reviews October 18th, 2006)
Malachy
“I picked it because my character, Malachy, is a complicated lad with all kinds of teenage emotions and rebellion swirling around inside.”
(Telegraph April 22, 2010)
Tony
“He is a nice guy. He’s kind of mysterious, too. You don’t know where he comes from. He just appears suddenly. Kind of wrong place at the wrong time really.”
(Lovefilm 2010)
Robert Smith
“He is a rebel and I won’t say that’s quite me. He is a bit fiery, augmentative and a bit annoying, so that’s not really me. But I look forward to playing him.”
(Seher.no March 2011)
“Yeah, I play a quite frustrated and angry British pilot. He has a girl who’s waiting for him at home and it really doesn’t suit him that he has to sleep in the wilderness with the Germans…But I’ve never played such a role before. The character is so provocative and fiery, he’s very unlike myself.”
(bt.no, March 2012)
“I’m the complete opposite, actually. Laidback and slightly reserved. I don’t know how I would react in exactly that situation. But it was fun to play a guy like that.”
(ba.no, March 2012)
