Category: Interviews

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Preview of Matthew’s Attittude Magazine Shoot & Interview

As we posted back in April, Matthew did a photoshoot and interview with Attitude Magazine.  The issue doesn’t come out until tomorrow but Digital Spy has posted a preview including a photo from the shoot which may be seen, in high resolution, in the gallery!

“The great thing as an actor is that I don’t know what my agent is going to call me with next,” he said. “She could be saying, ‘You’re going to go and be a secret agent’, or it could be anything and that’s exciting. But when you’re doing Potter, it’s the same thing, so I was ready to go out and do something different.”

He added: “I’ve grown up on the Potter set and I don’t expect to come out of that as this fully rounded actor. I never went to drama school. No matter how high-profile that was, I’m really on the bottom rung and I have to prove myself and learn as I go along.”

Lewis laughed off claims that he has had plastic and dental surgery, adding: “I had this thing called an aligner, which was f**king painful.”

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Throwback: Matthew Lewis Visits Football Museum of San Paulo in 2010

As many fans will remember, Matthew Lewis visited Brazil during his promotional tour for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I. Today I have uncovered new photos and an interview from when Matthew visited the Football Museum of San Paulo. You can read a rough translation in the press archive! The two brand new photos may be seen in the gallery!

How was the work routine and day to day when you worked in the studios Leavensdale in London. The atmosphere was boarding even as his colleagues described the site?
In a way. We ate, studied and did everything together. In ten years, we became a family like any other, with our inside jokes, our possible discussions. Despite all harassment and safety, I was very happy there. I do not feel I lost my childhood, only that it had a different kind.
The cast, you’re one of those who are considered true fans of JK Rowling’s books, including being an ambassador of the series in various events around the world. Do you consider yourself a member of the Harry Potter generation?
I tried to be an actor just because the series is already a fan of hers. I read the books when he was 8, 9 years old and for me it was very special to be part of something I have always admired the history and values that are in the book.
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Matthew Lewis to be on BBC Look North

It looks like Matthew Lewis will be a guest on BBC Look North on BBC1 today at 6:30PM according to a tweet from Kate BradBrook who says:

Our very own @philbodmer with @mattdavelewissee him live on @BBCLookNorth we’re live from 6.30pm BBC1 #thesyndicate

The BBC Look North Facebook page also posted a photo of Phil Bodmer with Matthew taken today, see it in the gallery. The show will also be available online afterwards so keep an eye out, we’ll be posting the link when it is up.

 

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New Photo from The Syndicate; Transcript from Sara Cox Interview

Today we have two little bits of news. The first is a new promotional photo of Matthew Lewis from The Syndicate which you can view in the gallery.

Second, thanks to Kerstin, we have the full transcript from Matthew’s radio appearance on the Sara Cox show on BBC Radio One.  You can read the full interview in the press archive! In the interview he talks about The Syndicate, Harry Potter, Rugby, his “lucky number” and more.

Sara: Now do you have season ticket with rugby? Can you get season tickets for these?

Matt: Yeah, you can indeed yeah. Longstanding at Headingly stadium yeah

Sara: Oh lovely. Do you ever get recognized? Was it tricky because you were in all eight Harry Potter films, so did you get recognized when you used to go to rugby?

Matt: Yeah a little bit. To be honest with you, the last couple of weeks it’s been more about The Syndicate, which has been a bit different. Um, you know sort of people don’t even mention Harry Potter, which is quite strange.

Sara: Oh, beautifully and subtly brought on to your new show that your plugging there.

Matt: Yeah, put that in there

Sara: I must say were looking at pictures of you here, we will definitely get on to The Syndicate in a moment. When you were Neville Longbottom, how should I put this, well I bet your mother loved your face, but you were a little bit porkier, you were a little, especially when you were very young. Then is it true when you were in the latter film they had to ugly you up a little bit because you had gone to darn handsome.

Matt: Um, well I certainly had to have quite a bit of makeup on in the last film or so, for whatever reason, I have no idea why. But um.

Sara: I bet when you walk on set they go, “oh no.” Because it probably happened with all the stars, I mean with Emma and with all of them where they just walk on set and suddenly they look a bit more chiseled and grown up and a bit like they’ve grown. Because kids take time to grow into their faces don’t they?

Matt: Yeah absolutely

Sara: And they were all “oh no Matthew’s gone all handsome on us.”

Matt: Well we all started at the ages of sort of nine, ten, eleven, and then finished when we were about twenty so

Don’t forget to catch the final episode of The Syndicate tonight at 9pm on BBC One!

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Matthew Talks The Syndicate with Digital Spy

In a new interview with Digital Spy, Matthew talks about what it’s like being known for The Syndicate rather than Harry Potter. The final episode of The Syndicate will be airing tomorrow night at 9pm on BBC1, but I’m sure they will be re-airing the show more after that, so be sure to check your local listings.

“I had a couple of people stop me last week and ask ‘Are you in The Syndicate?’ rather than Harry Potter,” he told Digital Spy. “It’s been the first time I’ve ever been stopped and the person hasn’t asked about Potter. That’s a new experience and I didn’t think that would happen so quickly. I don’t want to act as if Harry Potter wasn’t the most amazing thing because it truly was, but it’s also great personally that I’m starting to see signs that I can move on from it and do other stuff that hopefully people enjoy.”

However, Lewis commented that fans of The Syndicate have not always taken to troubled character Jamie Bradley. “People seem to have really taken to the program, which is fantastic,” he said. “Most people aren’t too fond of my character Jamie, though, and they¹ve let me know… If I’m honest, Neville is clearly the better person but Jamie is a lot more fun to play.”

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