Category: Film

Digital Spy has posted a new interview with Matthew Lewis where he talks about the Harry Potter series and more.  You can find the full interview in the press archive.

How have the Harry Potter stars stayed so grounded while American child actors seem to end up in rehab?
“That’s a tough one. I think Hollywood’s a very scary, intimidating place and you have to appear to be a lot more mature than you are because you’re working with adults all the time. I always went back home to Leeds and to my friends. There were so many of us at the studio as well we all messed around together – we were all in the same boat and were lucky we had each other. In Hollywood in a lot of those films – like Macaulay Culkin – they’ve starred in those films on their own and I imagine that’s really tough to do. We’ve always had people around us our own age. We see each other all the time, they all came up for my 21st birthday a few months ago and I went down for Dan’s. If we’ve got any issues we can talk to each other. ‘Have you ever had this?’ ‘Oh man – tell me about it!’ You get used to it and you talk to each other. I can’t speak for everyone but what’s helped me the most is living in Leeds. I still have the friends I had before Harry Potter and they’re the ones who keep me really grounded.”

Do you think the split was the best decision?
“I’m so confused about what’s in Part 1 and what’s in Part 2 so I’ve no idea where it splits but it was a good idea to split it. I like the idea of Part 1 being about the journey and the toll the journey has taken. It’s like Two Towers and Return Of The King from Lord Of The Rings. Part two was very much about Sam and Gollum and Frodo trying to get to Mordor and it was a tough journey and it was all about how stressful that was, then part three was very much about the fighting and the battles and the ultimate fight at the end.”