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The Sun’s TV Magazine features an interview with Matt Lewis where he talks about Bluestone 42 and Harry Potter. The show begins airing on February 27th at 10pm on BBC Three. A transcript, written by us, may be read in the press archive, with some snippets below. Please credit if you take it.

“I found it really uncomfortable in America at the final Harry Potter premiere because it became a “thing” in the press that I looked very different,” says Matthew of the 2011 event that marked the end of his time in the most successful film franchise ever. “I didn’t think [my transformation] was more drastic than any other kid’s. I’d had to wait until I was 21 to have my teeth done, which was pretty s**t! But I didn’t like being scrutinized, so I hired a publicist and said: “look, after this, can I just go away for a bit? Can I just go home?”

But things didn’t exactly calm down for the Leeds-born actor when he got back to Yorkshire. “Soon after, I turned the Christmas lights on in a little town near my home and then went into this church hall, and hundreds of kids stormed in zombie-style,” laughs Matthew. “The police had to get me and my mum out of there in a riot van.”

“It’s like I lead a double life,” says Matthew. “I can enjoy the fun things that come with acting but then I try to be as normal as humanly possible and see all my old mates who don’t give a s**t about what I do. I’ve taken my best mate to all the Potter premieres, but he’s only seen two of the films because he fell asleep. We’ll go to a pub quiz and they find it hilarious when a Harry Potter question comes up as I never know the answers.”

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Matt Lewis and his new film, Wasteland also known as The Rise, are featured in the October 2013 issue of Total Film Magazine. You can view a scan of the page here and read a transcript of Matt’s section below.  Make sure to pick up an issue for yourself. Thanks to SnitchSeeker for sending over the scan!

On the distant dance floor a sweaty crowd parties like a certain Prince song, while a group of lads on a nearby table plan the night’s conquests. Only something’s not right. There’s no music.

“It’s a bit surreal, isn’t it?” laughs Harry Potter star Matthew Lewis, reassuring us that we haven’t gone deaf. “I don’t know how they dance so well to silence.” We’re on the set of The Rise, first-time director Rowan Athale’s Ocean’s Eleven-on-a-council-estate caper, and the plotting pals in question are Lewis, Luke Treadaway, Iwan Rheon and Gerard Kearns. (The lack of backing track is so that the boys can hear themselves act.)

The Rise tells the story of Treadaway’s Harvey; framed by a drug-dealing club owner and imprisoned for a year, he returns home to seek himself some redemption – and make something of his pal’s going-nowhere lives in the bargain.

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The Hogwarts-educated actor talks life after Harry Potter and saying goodbye to Neville Longbottom…

Does Harry Potter still affect your acting choices? I get asked a lot if I’m making a conscious decision to get away from Neville, but anything so drastically different. I just want to do things I think have a story worth telling.

Did you worry you might end up typecast after the series ended? I was doing Neville for 10 years and as much fun as Harry Potter was, you do get to a point where you want to do something different anyway. I wanted to do something contemporary. Something real.

So, what exactly is your post-Potter plan, then? Realistically, I just want to be an actor and keep jobbing away. No one’s in it for the spring, we’re all in it for the marathon. No fast tracks. I just want to be proud of what I’ve done.

 

Today we have the full write up of Matthew Lewis’ interview for Attitude Magazine. Read some snippets below and the full article in the press archive. You can also view photos from the shoot, and scans of the issue, in the gallery!

His first post-Potter film release will be Wasteland, a low-budget British movie in which Lewis will again share a screen with Timothy Spall. It’s quite a habit of his – co-starring with acting legends, learning from them all the way. Not that it makes him any more confident in his own ability. He admits he’s ‘fretting the whole time’, thinking, ‘Is this any good? Is this shit?’ adding, ‘I grew up on the Potter set and I didn’t expect to come out of that as this fully rounded actor. I never went to drama school, I’m really on the bottom rung and I have to prove myself and learn as I go along.’

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XCITY Arts and Culture have an interview with Matthew Lewis in their latest issue. I have posted the magazine below and you can also see a screenshot in the gallery (this is mainly for when the magazine is unavailable online.  I also put a text version in the press archive!

Wakefield Magazine has a new interview with Matthew Lewis in the latest issue.  In the 2 page spread he discusses his work on the Harry Potter series, his future, music and more.  Some snippets may be read below and the full interview spread may be seen in the gallery with a transcript in the press archive.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?
Jobbing away, doing the best I can for anybody who will pay me. I just want to work, it doesn’t bother me particularly what I’m doing as long as when we finish I can be proud of the part I play in it.

What are you working on at the moment?
I’ve just started a BBC mini-series called The Syndicate about some folk working in a supermarket that win the lottery. It’s good, honest drama written by Kay Mellor and I play a bit of a nasty piece of work and my hair’s not too great either, as you can see in the picture. Good fun though.