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October 2, 2014October 2, 2014

Video: Matthew Lewis Interview at HP Exhibition

Thanks to our lovely friends at FeltBeats, who were able to attend the press event in Germany yesterday, we got a few questions to Matt who answered them for us. So thank you to Sandra for sending over the videos you see below [they are both the same, just different angles] and for asking our questions. She asked Matt the following (my questions are bolded)

What do you think keeps bringing fans back to Potter and these experiences after all this time? What is your favorite part about attending events?

Do you have plans to crack the US market like some of your Potter costars? Or are there upcoming projects you can tell us about?

You’ve been traveling a lot for work lately, where is one place you really want to visit on your time off?

Who would you have wanted to play Neville’s Grandmother in the series?

Having been in a band, would you ever like to play a guitarist in a film? Perhaps a biopic? Or maybe record a song with the other Potter actors who are musically inclined?

What one current actor would you love to work with?

Have you heard of the verb “longbottomed” which refers to kids who start out awkward-looking and then get hot when they are older?

He mentions he might try staying with Tom Felton and find some jobs in LA. And teases what he was just filming for BBC in Guadalupe and will be returning to South Africa for Bluestone 42. When asked about his travel destination of choice he says New York and New England because of all the seasons. As for playing a guitarist in a film, he says he would love to play John Lennon since he is a huge fan of the Beatles.

We have also added over 100 pictures of Matthew from Sandra to the gallery! If you have any you wish to share please send them to webmiss[at]magical-menagerie.com and we will post them with a credit to you in the gallery!

(The second video is slightly louder)

October 1, 2014October 2, 2014

Press Roundup: Matt Lewis in Cologne, Germany

Matthew Lewis is in Cologne, Gemrany from today until October 3rd. In this post we will be rounding up all the general news articles on his promotion for Harry Potter: The Exhibition. We should hopefully have some video to share soon from our other fan site friends who were able to go. Links as well as some rough translations from articles may be read below. This post will be updated throughout the next few days so keep checking back.

Photos from the events will be uploaded to this gallery album as they appear online. If you have any photos to share please send them in and we’ll post them with a credit to you under the photo.

Koelen.de

Even the cloak of sombre Professor Snape is. “When Alan Rickman was the wearing and through the scenes, he was terrifying,” is Matthew Lewis aka Neville Longbottom recalls. “But when you talked to him, he was the kindest in the world.

For Matthew Lewis, the Gryffindor sword is the most amazing exhibit. “I’ve got it here for the first time in years seen. This brings me lots of memories instantly awake as I had in the final scene in the last film, as I have since with Lord Voldemort, with Ralph Fiennes filmed. Neville was a fantastic role!”

Newsplay.de

(Thanks AccioMDL for putting it on youtube)

Harry Potter exhibition wowing European fans by Zoomin_UK

VIP.de

“I have taken Neville’s costume of the final Battle. This blue cardigan with all the blood on it. And also the fake teeth I had to wear.” He wanted to take something from the exhibit: the sword of Gryffindor. “I wanted to take it, but I couldn’t. But now I have seen again it here in the exhibition for the first time since filming.” Though he remembers with pleasure the time as Neville, however, to watch the movies is a torture: “I hate it. I have seen every film once, at the premiere.”

Besides, it has been the role of underestimated, slightly overweight Neville Longbottom not at all – for which Matthew Lewis had to wear a fatsuit, by the way, as he got older – which is a little unpleasant for him now. “I do not like to see myself as a child. It is embarrassing for me. But there will always be a part of Neville in me. I have grown with him and was very similar to him as a child: clumsy, plump and shy. I have become adult like the character. We have gone on this trip practically together.”

“As a child I always wanted to play a soldier. I have made this in the BBC series ‘Bluestone 42’ now. Now, therefore, I would love to play James Bond. It will never happen, but it would be cool.”

July 21, 2014July 21, 2014

Matt Lewis and Anthony Lewis Talk Totally Lit North

In a new interview on BBC Radio Leeds, Matthew Lewis and his brother Anthony discuss Totally Lit North, an acting school that Anthony founded and runs. They chatted with Wes Butters on July 21st about the school and what they are trying to accomplish. Matthew and Anthony also talked about their various roles in the film industry, and of course Harry Potter came up. Matt even talks about his audition process for getting the role of Neville. Visit this page and skip to 1:07:35 – 1:23:13 to listen.

You can still sign up for their Summer sessions. One of the Masterclasses allows one lucky student to interview Matthew on camera as a mock TV interview.

Matt also quickly mentions Bluestone 42 and how the third series will be filming soon in South Africa.

If anyone wants to make a transcript, please send it in!

July 2, 2014

Preview of Matt Lewis’ Interview in JON

The Daily Mail has posted a preview of Matthew’s interview in JON magazine, which is available now (regular and special editions.) They also posted photos from the spread, some of which we already shared exclusively last week. Read a short preview from the issue below:

‘I am a massive geek in terms of TV that I watch. Well growing up I was a massive Star Wars fan. That was just my ultimate thing, I just wanted to be a Jedi, completely. And that flowed into Star Trek and all that kind of stuff.’

He also admitted being a closet musicals fans as he revealed how himself and a friend hid themselves with their hoods in a cinema full of women when he went to watch Meryl Strep in the Mammia Mia film adaption. Matthew joked: ‘And by the time it got to the end, you know where Meryl Streep comes out and asks do you want one more, and we were like, hoods off, yeah we do!’.

‘My roles have been very, very different from Neville. But it wasn’t by choice, I never called up my agent and said, right I don’t want to do this anymore, I want to be a rough northerner or I want to be a soldier, I never said that. They were just the roles that happened to come up, that I was drawn to, I liked them and I ended up getting them.’

June 23, 2014July 16, 2014

Interview Roundup: Diagon Alley Media Preview Week

As you all know, Matt attended the Diagon Alley Media & VIP Preview last week. Today we rounded up all the interviews with Matt that have been released so far. If you notice any that are missing feel free to send them over!

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EXTRA:

DailyMail Interview:

‘My character never really went to Gringotts, which is why I’ve enjoyed it so much because I never really got to go onto the set.

‘I never even saw it, so when I got to the bank today that was the first time and it’s pretty special.

‘I don’t even know why I’m here,’ he joked. ‘I’ve just come down for a free ride really.’

Mashable Interview:

Where would your characters spend time in Universal Studios? Neville would just get lost. Or maybe it would be Jurassic Park because there is lots of foliage around and he likes foliage.

What wizarding power do you wish you had in real life? ‘Accio,’ because I’m a lazy koala bear, and I would love to use spells to get things.

If your Harry Potter characters had to get Muggle jobs, what would they be? A traffic warden, giving tickets out … parking tickets. It’s just a little bit of authority but not enough responsibility. (Evanna strongly disagreed, and insisted Neville would have been a baker.)

What are your favorite parts of the new addition to the theme park? Gringotts Wizarding Bank. It was a set that I’m unfamiliar with, because I wasn’t apart of the scenes shot there. So when I went into Gringotts at Diagon Alley, that was my first experience with it. I got to experience it like the fans, and it sort of blew me away.

What part of the Wizarding World theme park most greatly resembles the sets for the movies? The locations created [in The Wizarding World theme park] are more accurate than our sets were. Our sets had a lot of cameras and facades, but here, it’s completely immersive. You can go down the alleyways and go into the shops. They painstakingly went over the movies and the books…it’s absolutely amazing how so much of it is so accurate.