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A couple days ago we posted a new interview and photo of Matt Lewis from The Independent. Today, thanks to SnitchSeeker, we have the full photoshoot comprised almost 40 pictures! You can see the photos in all their glory in the gallery!
He also spoke about Harry Potter:
“When we got to film three, and I’d got quite tall and slimmed out a bit, they decided that they were uncomfortable with that, and thought, ‘No, we need to make him a bit geeky looking’, or geekier, I should say, so they put me in a fat suit and false teeth.” The whole ensemble made the poor teenage Lewis so miserable that David Yates, who directed the final four films, agreed he could ditch the teeth, although the suit stayed.
“Looking back on it, it doesn’t really bother me at all, but at the time, when you’re going through puberty and you’re on a film set with a lot of attractive girls anyway, and then back at school as well, and you have to wear this fat suit, and have this long greasy hair – oh, yeah, at the time, it was rubbish. It was really rubbish.”
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All those teenage crushes, like his pash for Emma Watson. “From 11 to 14 or 15. Absolutely. Obviously, I was a looker, so she missed out, clearly,” he grins. “You can put ‘sarcastic’ in brackets there. She’s a very, very good-looking girl, she was even back then. But I think everyone had a crush on someone. For 10 years!”
He briefly talked about his newest film, The Rise (also known as Wasteland) by saying “It was supposed to be a nondescript northern town. But one of the things Rowan [Athale, the director] said was that he didn’t want it to be one of those typical knives, hoodies, guns, south London gangsta movies which he felt, and I agree, have been done to death. For a start, he didn’t want any guns in the movie … he didn’t want it to be the typical glamorising of that entire world.”
The Leeds Rugby Foundation has posted a new video of Matt Lewis talking about the Great North Run, which takes place this Sunday. There is still plenty of time to donate. You can do so through their Just Giving page or by texting MATT24 plus £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10 to 70070. (UK).
He also announced a chance to win a rugby foundation shirt signed by him and his running mates by guessing his finishing time. All you have to do is tweet your guess and tag @RugbyLeeds, @mattdavelewis, and the hashtag #MattisMagic!
Today Matt filmed a promotional video for his Leeds Rugby’s BUPA Great North Run which takes place this Sunday. As part of the promotion he also did a question and answer segment on the Leeds Rugby Foundation Twitter for a half hour this afternoon. The video was released earlier this evening and may be watched below:
As we posted a couple weeks ago, The Sweet Shop is showing at the London International Film Festival and is up for numerous awards. The schedule has been released and the movie will be shown on October 17th at 6pm. You can purchase tickets to the festival via the London IFF website. A daily pass for October 17th will cost £10 and you can attend any of the screenings on that date.
6:00pm
The Sweet ShopRockstar Jarvis Marshall returns to his empty family home after the death of his estranged mother, ten years after he left to avoid his violent father. Jarvis is alone, despite the presence of Simone, his beautiful German supermodel girlfriend, despite his money and his fame. And he has a musical to score! Facing his fears and his guilt, he relies on his re-born friendship with Katie, a childhood friend who runs her grandfather’s sweet shop. Although a village fixture, Katie is every bit as alone as Jarvis. Her best friend Mikey lives in hope of her reciprocating his feelings for her, and feels threatened by Jarvis. The Sweet Shop is a simple story of human frailty and love, with some great songs.
Directed by: Ben Myers
92 minutes