The Independent has a new interview with Matthew Lewis, as well as a photo of him with Rupert Grint. The photo is from when Rupert visited Matt on the set of Our Boys a few weeks ago. In the interview (which has been added to the press archive), Matt talks about when he and Rupert were younger on the Harry Potter set:
Rupert was great at making everyone laugh on set. There was one scene in which he had to come on and say, “Back off, unless you want a fistful of Weasley,” which was a direct quote from the book. But Rupert couldn’t say it, and he broke out in an infectious laugh; every time he tried to do the scene we all got the giggles, too – until the director was like, “This just isn’t working, let’s scrap the line and move on.” We’d wasted an entire day filming because of Rupert’s laugh.
[…]Rupert has been paid handsomely for his job and works hard, so when he’s not working he buys all this stuff people say they’d buy if they ever won the Lottery. He’s got an ice-cream van, a hovercraft… all this incredible stuff. I was round his house recently and I was like, “Rupert you got an ice-rink in your house!” Once I went to pick him up, he had a lake with a swan pedalo; I wanna have a go on that.
Rupert had the following interesting tidbit to say about Matt (snippet):
I noticed, too, the change in public awareness – overnight he became a sex symbol and it was nice for Matt to have his moment. He gave me a bit of stick with the kissing scenes with Emma, though, as back in the day he had a little thing with her.
Moving on and doing different things was a big deal for us, as we’d spent our whole childhoods with the same people. It was hard to walk away and not get choked up, but I always knew Matt and I would stay in touch. It’s great that I’ll always have him to talk to about it all.
I’ll never forget one moment in the work canteen when we started throwing peas at each other. They ended up flying towards a certain Slytherin’s table – we always sat separately – and it escalated. I got threatened by one of the gentlemen, and there was a big chase with me, Matt and the Slytherins all round the studio. I was really quite scared as they were big guys, but he had my back.
Does Matt think I buy odd stuff? Probably, but as I’ve worked from such an early age, money has always been a bit weird for me and I don’t know what to do with it, so I have fun with it.