Category: Interviews

Matthew Lewis recently spoke to TwitchFilm about the Harry Potter films and more! Read the full interview at the previous link or in the press archive.

What sort of life’s lessons did Potter offer? Nothing to harsh, or tough. A big one is to make sure you take all the praise with a pinch of salt. It is wonderful to hear people praise you but that’s one reason I still live in Leeds and have the same friends I did before Potter sort of took over. I can go back to Yorkshire and no one cares, they’re just glad to see me. Sean Bean is from my hometown as well and he’s talked about that. Where I live is pretty gritty, down to earth.

You have to be prepared. You never know how this industry is going to work out. My brother is an actor and he was on a big UK soap opera for awhile. he got to be pretty famous. That ended. He’s coming back from a couple of years of hard lean times, no work coming thru etc. That was hard for me to watch him go thru. He’s a bloody good actor but he’s had to struggle. As long as I can remember how tough it can get I’ll be alright I think.

So nothing firm waiting at this point? Oh I’ve got some scripts upstairs actually that I’m supposed to be reading and a couple of meetings I need to schedule as soon as I get back but nothing that I’m 100% lined up for. I am lined up for football season though. My time off is going to start right at the beginning of it eh! Brilliant. I can’t wait. I only got to attend four games last year.

Another new interview with Matthew Lewis has made its way online, this time it is with The Washington Post. Read the full interview at the previous link or in the press archive.

“The press tour is a way for me to say goodbye, to be honest. It’s been absolutely fantastic for the last 11 years,” Lewis said. “And whenever something that you do [is] that much fun, and you do it for that amount of time, it’s obviously a great shame that it comes to an end. But I’ve had a good run.”

“Neville helped me grow up as much as he’s helped people who’ve watched the films,” he said. “When I first started, Neville and I were very similar: shy, chubby-faced boy. There was very little acting in the first couple of movies. That’s just me. But as he grew, so did I. And the thing about Neville is this amazing message that J.K. Rowling did for him. This message of evolution,” Lewis said. “Neville’s bullied, he’s scared of his own shadow. No one ever thinks he’ll amount to anything. And here he is in [“Deathly Hallows — Part 2”] saving the wizarding world. It just shows you that, no matter how your childhood is, it doesn’t define you.”