How was the work routine and day to day when you worked in the studios Leavensdale in London. The atmosphere was boarding even as his colleagues described the site?
In a way. We ate, studied and did everything together. In ten years, we became a family like any other, with our inside jokes, our possible discussions. Despite all harassment and safety, I was very happy there. I do not feel I lost my childhood, only that it had a different kind.

The cast, you’re one of those who are considered true fans of JK Rowling’s books, including being an ambassador of the series in various events around the world. Do you consider yourself a member of the Harry Potter generation?
I tried to be an actor just because the series is already a fan of hers. I read the books when he was 8, 9 years old and for me it was very special to be part of something I have always admired the history and values that are in the book.

Our very own @philbodmer with @mattdavelewissee him live on @BBCLookNorth we’re live from 6.30pm BBC1 #thesyndicate

The BBC Look North Facebook page also posted a photo of Phil Bodmer with Matthew taken today, see it in the gallery. The show will also be available online afterwards so keep an eye out, we’ll be posting the link when it is up.

Second, thanks to Kerstin, we have the full transcript from Matthew’s radio appearance on the Sara Cox show on BBC Radio One.  You can read the full interview in the press archive! In the interview he talks about The Syndicate, Harry Potter, Rugby, his “lucky number” and more.

Sara: Now do you have season ticket with rugby? Can you get season tickets for these?

Matt: Yeah, you can indeed yeah. Longstanding at Headingly stadium yeah

Sara: Oh lovely. Do you ever get recognized? Was it tricky because you were in all eight Harry Potter films, so did you get recognized when you used to go to rugby?

Matt: Yeah a little bit. To be honest with you, the last couple of weeks it’s been more about The Syndicate, which has been a bit different. Um, you know sort of people don’t even mention Harry Potter, which is quite strange.

Sara: Oh, beautifully and subtly brought on to your new show that your plugging there.

Matt: Yeah, put that in there

Sara: I must say were looking at pictures of you here, we will definitely get on to The Syndicate in a moment. When you were Neville Longbottom, how should I put this, well I bet your mother loved your face, but you were a little bit porkier, you were a little, especially when you were very young. Then is it true when you were in the latter film they had to ugly you up a little bit because you had gone to darn handsome.

Matt: Um, well I certainly had to have quite a bit of makeup on in the last film or so, for whatever reason, I have no idea why. But um.

Sara: I bet when you walk on set they go, “oh no.” Because it probably happened with all the stars, I mean with Emma and with all of them where they just walk on set and suddenly they look a bit more chiseled and grown up and a bit like they’ve grown. Because kids take time to grow into their faces don’t they?

Matt: Yeah absolutely

Sara: And they were all “oh no Matthew’s gone all handsome on us.”

Matt: Well we all started at the ages of sort of nine, ten, eleven, and then finished when we were about twenty so

Don’t forget to catch the final episode of The Syndicate tonight at 9pm on BBC One!

“I had a couple of people stop me last week and ask ‘Are you in The Syndicate?’ rather than Harry Potter,” he told Digital Spy. “It’s been the first time I’ve ever been stopped and the person hasn’t asked about Potter. That’s a new experience and I didn’t think that would happen so quickly. I don’t want to act as if Harry Potter wasn’t the most amazing thing because it truly was, but it’s also great personally that I’m starting to see signs that I can move on from it and do other stuff that hopefully people enjoy.”

However, Lewis commented that fans of The Syndicate have not always taken to troubled character Jamie Bradley. “People seem to have really taken to the program, which is fantastic,” he said. “Most people aren’t too fond of my character Jamie, though, and they¹ve let me know… If I’m honest, Neville is clearly the better person but Jamie is a lot more fun to play.”

Listen here, Matthew is on at about 1:50:45 and it continues until 1:58:00. You have 7 days left to listen and if anyone has time to do a transcript, please do and I’ll post it with a credit to you.

Don’t forget that the last episode of The Syndicate is on this Tuesday at 9pm and BBC1, this is the episode centered around Matthew’s character, Jamie.