Category: Harry Potter

Last week The Yorkshire Post updated their site with a new interview where they talked to Matthew about his life Post-Potter.  You can read the full interview at the previous link or in the press archive.

Despite a successful audition when he arrived at the first day of rehearsals [for Verdict], reading through lines with veteran actors Susan Penhaligon and Robert Duncan, Lewis still couldn’t help feeling out of his depth and had to learn a whole new way of acting from scratch. “Theatre requires a much bigger performance than film. When you’re new to it like me, it almost feels like overacting. But that was the reason I was so keen to do it. It was a challenge and I wanted to prove to myself that I wasn’t just Neville Longbottom.

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“I’m not the most confident actor you’ll ever meet and I am very critical. Particularly so with Harry Potter because we all developed so much over the years. I’d go to the premieres and that was always a buzz, but I just hate seeing myself on screen. Each time a new film came out we were already filming the next and I never really wanted to look back because I always thought I could have done it so much better.”

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“I will get knocked-back from auditions, but I’m learning to have a little bit more faith in myself. Some actors never get to star in something as big as Harry Potter and so if that kind of success never comes again at least I had a taste of it once. If I don’t have a big film every year then that’s fine. As long as I’m learning, doing something that feels good and have enough money to pay the mortgage and put petrol in the car, then I’ll be happy.”

Thanks Potterunited