In a new interview with Empire, Oliver Phelps briefly touches on Matthew Lewis and his character Neville Longbottom.
The way that Rowling wrote the final battle, you don’t quite know how it’s going to go, and it seems like there will be surprises for everyone there.
Especially when it all goes the wrong way! When the good guys are falling by the wayside and when you see that in the picture itself it looks really harsh. There are some cool elements in it, like when you see Matt Lewis in the battle. That’s quite funny because, again, you see a totally different side to his character [Neville Longbottom]. I think you see every character in a different light, which is great.
When we were photographing some of you guys today, it was clear that there’s a genuine friendship between you all.
There is! We’ve been together for 10 years, so we’re going to form these bonds with people. Especially at the time when you’re all together, you’re growing up and discovering who you are, so through that you have common interests, like with Rupert [Grint] especially. It’s just how you see it in the films really; we all take the mick out of each other and hang out with each other. The same with Matt [Lewis] and Tom [Felton]: with Matt, we went to see The Doves just before Christmas and it was a really good night out. And we play golf with Tom. There’s a cool mix of people who we still talk to and see outside of filming.