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Matthew Lewis has been profiled by The New York Times to mark the airing of the reboot of “All Creatures Great And Small” which began airing on PBS in the US on January 10th. Previously the show aired on Channel 5 in the UK last year. We will share a few snippets below but head over to The New York Times for the full feature.

Of his role as Hugh in All Creatures Great and Small:

But Lewis is still coming to terms with being a leading man — God forbid, a sexy one. Which is why, when the opportunity came to audition for “All Creatures Great and Small,” Lewis hesitated.

“The original series is a bit of an institution in Yorkshire, and my dad really wanted me to do it,” he said. “But this guy is supposed to be very dark and handsome, and it has to be believable that Helen’s in love with him. I was like, ‘I don’t know about this. When I shave, everyone will see I look like I’m about 12.’”

Even after he got the part, he still didn’t think he was in the clear. “I was dreading turning up the first day on set,” he said. “I was sure they’d be like, ‘This is what he actually looks like? Jesus, we need to recast this guy.’”

When discussing how he chooses roles:

Lewis said he struggles with roles that are too similar to his own life. “I find it quite difficult when too much of me starts to come through in a character,” he said. “It’s easier when I can play someone completely different, like a police officer in London or someone who’s wealthy.”

David Yates, director of the final four Harry Potter films discussed how Matthew grew as an actor and his importance in those films:

Yates kept thinking of ways to expand Lewis’s role in scenes, ultimately building a sequence around him in “Deathly Hallows: Part 2” in which Neville blows up a bridge to Hogwarts to thwart the dark wizard Voldemort’s army — a scene that didn’t exist in either the book or in early drafts of Steve Kloves’s screenplay. “But it captured the charms of Neville and Matthew’s everyman quality,” Yates said. “He had a modesty and an honesty that was hard to ignore.”

Read the full interview at The New York Times.

Tune into All Creatures Great and Small on Sundays at 9pm on PBS.

The PBS website has been updated with air dates and descriptions of episodes for All Creatures Great and Small which features Matthew Lewis as Hugh Hulton. Matt appears in five of the seven episodes.

Episode 1 will air on Sunday January 10th at 9PM, with the rest of the episodes coming weekly at the same time with the last episode airing February 21st. Check your local listings to be sure.

It was also revealed last week that it has been renewed for a second season! Filming will take place in the Yorkshire Dales early next year. Unsure of Matt’s involvement in that second season but time will tell!

Paul Seven Lewis of One Minute Theatre Reviews recently chatted with Matthew Lewis about his acting career. You may notice they have the same last name. Funnily enough, they’re cousins! Matt talks about Harry Potter, All Creatures Great and Small and everything in between. Be sure to check it out below!

We finally have a UK release date for All Creatures Great and Small! Channel 5 tweeted a new clip this morning as well as letting fans know that the show will premiere on Tuesday September 1st at 9pm.

There is still no release date for the show on PBS Masterpiece in the USA.

Previously we shared Matthew’s involvement in the remake of All Creatures Great and Small. In that post we said the show would be airing on PBS (US) and Channel 5 (UK) some time in September 2020. It has now been updated to January 2021, no exact date revealed as of yet.

A new teaser has been posted on Channel 5’s Twitter account, no scenes with Matthew as it focuses on the lead of the show.

It has also been revealed that a second series is in the works. However, since we don’t know much about Matthew’s role in the show we aren’t sure if he would be involved in the second series.

“We are in discussions with Channel 5 in England and Masterpiece,” said Callender. “We are developing season two right now. So there’s every intention and hope that this will be a returning series and hopefully everyone will fall in love with the characters and want to run and run. Certainly that was our ambition from the outset.”