In another new interview ahead of his appearance at Supernova Pop Culture Expo, Matt Lewis talks about Me Before You, Harry Potter and more! He also mentions that he will be playing in a charity rugby match in Sydney, we will post details if we find out more on this.
When talking about conventions he says there’s something for everyone: “I’ve not done one (convention) for a long while, and this opportunity came up to come to Australia. I’m pretty sure some people on the outside would say ‘that’s a bit geeky for me’, but I just think it would be impossible for someone to go there and not find some TV, film or something they are a fan of. I’m a self-proclaimed geek; I love Star Wars, Star Trek.”
He also briefly discusses Me Before You, which will be released on March 4th.
“It is based on a book by JoJo Moyes and it is just a beautiful, beautiful book and I think it is a really faithful re-telling and I hope people enjoy that,” Lewis said.
“I play Emilia’s boyfriend Patrick, this moronic personal trainer. She plays a small town girl who is kind of settled and quite content and suddenly she finds a job looking after Sam Clafin’s character who was in a motorcycle accident and is a quadriplegic.
“He sort of challenges her and opens her eyes to this big world outside this little town she’s never left and she starts to think that maybe she doesn’t love her boyfriend.”
As usual, he can’t get away from the interview without talking about Harry Potter. He reveals who he was most excited to work with during filming, Rik Myall as Peeves, even though his scenes were eventually cut from the film.
“At the time when I was 11, he was just everything I wanted to be, his sense of humour, how manic he was on stage, I could just watch him endlessly and laugh and laugh,” he said.
“To have worked with him was pretty special. However they had time issues and with how technology was at the time, they could not quite make Peeves the Poltergeist as good as they wanted it to look.
“Also one of the main reasons he was cut was that none of us could do the scenes with him without laughing. He was just so talented and such an energy so as 11-year-old kids we could not do it. We could not get through a single scene without laughing.”
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“I was totally blown away and I’d read the books as well, so to see the sets in their grandeur and splendour was a pretty special moment for me,” he said.
“I’ll never forget my first day at work at the castle and I was riding the broomstick for the film, it was the first time I’d ever been asked to do a stunt on a film, which was pretty cool.
“I was sitting there strapped to a big truck with a crane and a broomstick being driven around, it was just amazing as an 11-year-old kid to be doing that and people were telling me it was work, that was just the most amazing thing.”
