Posted Under: Harry Potter, Interviews, Scans, The Syndicate, Wasteland/The Rise
Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 9:33 am | Comments Off on XCITY Arts and Culture Interviews Matthew Lewis |
XCITY Arts and Culture have an interview with Matthew Lewis in their latest issue. I have posted the magazine below and you can also see a screenshot in the gallery (this is mainly for when the magazine is unavailable online. I also put a text version in the press archive!
Posted Under: The Syndicate
Saturday, April 7, 2012 at 10:21 am | Comments Off on The Syndicate Going Strong |
The second episode of Matthew Lewis’ five part mini series, The Syndicate, garnered 5.4 million viewers when it aired last week. That’s up 200,000 from the first episode. It was the most popular show in the UK on the 3rd of April which is very exciting for the cast and creators! The show had 23.1% share of the TV audience between 9pm and 10pm!
I was able to catch the first episode of the show when I was in London last week and Matthew was amazing. This role is far different from anything we’ve seen him do and I applaud him for that. Matthew’s character will be most heavily featured in the fifth and final episode of the show, so be sure to keep watching!
Posted Under: The Syndicate
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 12:49 pm | 1 Comment |
A lovely reader was kind enough to send over a few reviews she found of The Syndicate (I haven’t had the chance to look since I am in London with limited access, like I said yesterday). They are as follows:
(forgive me for just copying and pasting the email, but it’s hard preparing posts on aniPad, haha…I’ll make this prettier when I’m home)
http://www.theyorker.co.uk/arts/tv/britishtv/11022
But the stand-out turn absolutely came from Matthew Lewis: who knew he had it in him?!
http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/2012/03/28/the-syndicate-review-onto-a-winner/
A fascinating and sensitively researched piece, with strong acting from each of the protagonists, the quality of the first episode hints at good things to come, but not necessarily for the members of this fated syndicate.
http://amateurreviews25.blogspot.com/2012/03/syndicate-review.html
Matthew Lewis (AKA Neville Longbottom) takes on his first role since Harry Potter as the cheeky chappy Jamie. He’s showing a great amount of versatility in a different role and is really letting his Yorkshire accent shine! It’s great to see him on our screens and it will be really interesting to see where he takes his acting career because there is so much potential there.
Posted Under: The Syndicate
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 at 8:46 pm | Comments Off on The Syndicate Secures Over 5 Million Viewers |
Multitude Media have just revealed via TWitter that Matthew’s new show, The Syndicate, had over five million viewers for its first episode. The Stndicate is a five part mini series about a group of employees who win the lottery togEther.
Also, as a note, I am leaving for London tonight to do press events for the opening of Warner Bros Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter. This means I will have limited access to the Internet, so bear with me when I post news later than usual. I will be totally bsck in action on April 4th.
(posted with my iPhone)
Posted Under: Harry Potter, The Syndicate, The Transmission, Wasteland/The Rise
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 6:00 pm | Comments Off on Transcript for Matthew’s Interview on The Xfm Gordon Smart Podcast |
Thanks to my lovely friend Kerstin we have a transcript for Matthew’s interview on The Xfm Gordon Smart Podcast, the podcast is now available for download on itunes. He talks about Harry Potter, The Syndicate, Wasteland, The Transmission and much more! You can read the full transcript in the press archive.
Gordon: How many parts are there (in The Syndicate)?
Matt: Uh there’s five.
Gordon: Five parts
Matt: We’re all in all the episodes, but each one sort of centers on one of the characters. Mine’s the last one.
Gordon: Right, okay
Matt: So stayed tuned till week 5
Gordon: I’ve noticed on the inside of your arm you’ve got 11 tattooed there. Is that anything to do with, I’m trying to think, is that Snodgrass that plays for Leeds?
Matt: It’s not. Do you want to know where it’s from? This is really embarrassing
Gordon: Come on
Matt: Um, do you remember Eddy Lewis, the American played for us, left wing. Yeah it’s him. Haha yeah. Basically it was really easy for me, Lewis 11, got my same surname. So I always wore Lewis 11 on the back of my Leeds United shirt and then um, from then onwards whenever he got signed to Darby like after I got it and then I go in and say can I get Lewis 11 on my shirt, there were like, “You know he doesn’t play for us anymore.” Yeah I know it’s my name as well. But then ever since then I always had 11 on my football boots, on my shirt, everything I ever got was 11 and so it ended up becoming quite a number for me, so I got it on there. But it originally stems from Eddy Lewis.
Gordon: One other thing, you’ve got a film that you’ve been working on recently, again with Timothy Spall. When’s that one coming? And what’s it about?
Matt: Yeah. Right, okay. Well it’s yeah Wasteland again shot in Leeds, which is very handy. It’s effectively a heist film, but you know, it’s a new take on it and it’s about friendship and loyalty and redemption as well. If we’re going to get into it, a guy gets thrown in jail for possession of heroine and he’s been set up by a local folk as just a fall guy basically. And um, he gets out of jail and the whole time he’s been in there he’s been planning a way of getting this guy back. But he’s not a criminal; he’s just a lad who, you know was in the wrong place at the wrong time. And he enlists the help of his 3 mates, and I’m one of his mates, and it’s just look we’re gonna rob this guy and we’re gonna go buy a coffee shop out in Amsterdam with this guy I met in prison. And it’s a totally mad idea but their all mates and their all reasonable, if he goes what are we gonna do around here so we might as well go with him, it’s do or die really and they all just go into it and yeah they got to rob this gangster. It’s a bit of fun.