Posted Under: Harry Potter, Interviews, Wasteland/The Rise
Friday, September 20, 2013 at 11:44 am |
Looks like it is interview week for Matthew Lewis. His newest film The Rise is out in theatres in the UK beginning today and Digital Spy has posted a new interview with the actor where he talks about the upcoming film series Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them he says,
“It’s a vivid universe that she [Rowling] created. There’s certainly more to explore now. When I was a kid reading the books there was so much more that I wanted to know outside of the linear story. I wanted to know about stuff that happened around the world and we’re going to find that out through this picture that she’s making. Anything that will show off that world a little more is great.”
He also shows his support of Rowling’s involvement: “If that wasn’t the case there’d be alarm bells ringing with a lot of people, but the fact that she’s in total control of it means that I think it’s going to be good,” he said.
He also talks about The Rise in another interview from the publication.
“Rowan attracted me to it, meeting him and hearing what he wanted from it,” the former Harry Potter star said. “He didn’t want it to fall into that group of being the same old South London hoodie or football hooligan story, he didn’t want that. We don’t have any guns in it, we tried to keep it as much to his experience of growing up in Barnsley as possible.”
Treadaway shared a flat with co-stars Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones) and Gerard Kearns (Shameless) close to Lewis’s home in Leeds. The quartet would regularly meet up to discuss the script and forge a bond that would translate to the big screen.“We wanted to have that chemistry off screen as much as possible,” Lewis said.
“We tore up Leeds!” quipped Treadaway.