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Celebration of Harry Potter Schedule Announced

Universal Orlando has released the schedule for their third annual Celebration of Harry Potter. Events for the Celebration will be taking place at both Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios. You can download the schedule and read more about the event here. Matt has the following panels:

FRIDAY: Opening Night Event: 7:30PM – 8PM | Music Plaza Stage (NOTE: This is not for sure, but the cast usually make an appearance at the opening event)

SATURDAY: Behind the Scenes: Harry Potter™ Film Talent Q&A Session: 4:15PM – 5PM | Music Plaza Stage

SUNDAY: Behind the Scenes: Harry Potter™ Film Talent Q&A Session: 4PM – 4:45PM | Music Plaza Stage

And the full schedule of events is as follows.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2016

  • The Harry Potter™ Expo: 9AM – 6PM | Soundstage 33
  • Movie in the Park: 1:30PM – 4:30PM | Music Plaza Stage
  • Opening Night Event: 7:30PM – 8PM | Music Plaza Stage

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2016

  • The Harry Potter™ Expo: 9AM – 4:30PM | Soundstage 33
  • Kids’ Duelling Demonstration & Wand Masterclass with Paul Harris: 10AM – 10:30AM | Music Plaza Stage
  • Kids’ Harry Potter™ Film Trivia: 10:45AM – 11AM | Music Plaza Stage
  • Bringing the Harry Potter™ Films to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™: 11AM – 11:30AM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
  • Kids’ Dance Like a Beauxbatons, Battle Like a Durmstrang: 11:30AM – 12PM | Music Plaza Stage
  • The Global Impact of Harry Potter™: The Exhibition: 1PM – 1:30PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
  • Kids’ Harry Potter™ Film Trivia: 2PM – 2:15PM | Music Plaza Stage
  • Graphic Design for the Harry Potter™ Films with MinaLima: 2PM – 2:30PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
  • Kids’ Dance Like a Beauxbatons, Battle Like a Durmstrang: 2:45PM – 3:15PM | Music Plaza Stage
  • Harry Potter™ Props Showcase with Acclaimed Prop Maker Pierre Bohanna: 3PM – 3:45PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
  • Behind the Scenes: Harry Potter™ Film Talent Q&A Session: 4:15PM – 5PM | Music Plaza Stage
  • House Rally: 5:30PM – 6PM | Music Plaza Stage
  • Harry Potter™ Film Tribute: 6:45PM – 7:45PM | Music Plaza Stage

SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2016

  • The Harry Potter™ Expo: 9AM – 6PM | Soundstage 33
  • Kids’ Duelling Demonstration & Wand Masterclass with Paul Harris: 10AM – 10:30AM | Music Plaza Stage
  • Kids’ Harry Potter™ Film Trivia: 10:45AM – 11AM | Music Plaza Stage
  • Harry Potter™ Props Showcase with Acclaimed Prop Maker Pierre Bohanna: 11AM – 11:45PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
  • Kids’ Dance Like a Beauxbatons, Battle Like a Durmstrang: 11:30AM – 12PM | Music Plaza Stage
  • Bringing the Harry Potter™ Films to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™: 1PM – 1:30PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
  • Kids’ Harry Potter™ Film Trivia: 2PM – 2:15PM | Music Plaza Stage
  • Graphic Design for the Harry Potter™ Films with MinaLima: 2PM – 2:30PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
  • Kids’ Dance Like a Beauxbatons, Battle Like a Durmstrang: 2:45PM – 3:15PM | Music Plaza Stage
  • The Global Impact of Harry Potter™: The Exhibition: 3PM – 3:30PM | Toon Lagoon® Amphitheater
  • Behind the Scenes: Harry Potter™ Film Talent Q&A Session: 4PM – 4:45PM | Music Plaza Stage
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Matthew Lewis Talks Alan Rickman in New Radio Interview

In a new interview with Radio X, Matthew discusses the impact the late Alan Rickman had on his career. As most fans will know by now, the world lost Alan Rickman to cancer on January 14th. Fans and fellow cast members alike voiced their sadness on the loss. Matthew shared his feelings in an Instagram post on Friday morning.

While speaking to Radio X he said:

Alan for me was a real inspiration. My whole life growing up with him on television and then being given the opportunity to work with him for that amount of time… It’s hard to describe really. It was pretty special. He was a unique and one-of-a-kind actor, who on set was a pleasure to be around. I have so many fond memories of tripping him up with his cape, I used to stand on his cape all the time and he used to give me the darkest look ever.”

I just remember him being so lovely and so brilliant, but so incredibly intimidating when he was in the costume as Snape. Stalking the corridors of Leavesden Studios with his big robes flapping behind him every time he went around a corner. No one could leave a room like Alan when he’d swing his robes and storm out of the room.

On his last day (shooting Harry Potter) I went into his trailer and knocked on the door to say ‘thanks,’ basically for ten years, and he said ‘come in and have a cup of tea’ and we sat there for half an hour. He told me to do some theatre, which I went away and did, and the stuff he said to me in that half hour in the trailer, I really took on board and tried to adopt a lot of it. I don’t think my career would have carried on to the level it has done if I hadn’t had that opportunity, so I owe him a great deal.

He was such a chameleon. He just inhabited so many roles so vividly. Mine was definitely Hans Gruber, that is just incredible. But I did watch Prince of Thieves recently.

Thanks to AccioMDL for the embed-able version.

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Videos: Matt Lewis Promotes Ripper Street Series 4

Another new interview featuring Matthew Lewis and Adam Rothenberg promoting Ripper Street series 4 has been released by HeyUGuys. The first episode is now available on Amazon Prime UK.

A couple more interviews have been released by MTV UK and Radio Times. While speaking to MTV, he talks about the show as well as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Radio Times chats with him about Ripper Street and Happy Valley. Apparently the crew for Happy Valley loved his moustache from Ripper Street so much they asked him to keep it for their show.

“They saw the moustache and said, ‘That’s perfect, keep that’. I was like, ‘Thanks guys, I have to wear this for the next four months – my sex offender moustache.'”

Additonally, AOL has posted an interview with Matthew and Adam. Thanks to AccioMDL for putting it on Youtube:

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Me Before You Returns to Original Release Date

We reported a few months ago that Matthew’s film Me Before You had moved its release date up three months. Last night Deadline revealed that Warner Bros. has decided to push the film back to its original release date.

Me Before You will now be released on June 3rd. Writer Jojo Moyes assures fans this is a good thing for the film, and we agree. Though we have a bit longer to wait the Summer months are a good time for films.

Hopefully we can share a trailer for the film soon. Stay patient, it will be worth it.

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Matt Lewis Talks Game of Thrones, Bluestone 42 and Ripper Street in New Interview

In another new interview promoting Ripper Street, which begins streaming on Amazon Prime UK today, Matthew talks about the show as well as trying to get a role in Game of Thrones. We would totally be up for that! There are a few characters who haven’t yet appeared on the show that he would be great for. Who wants to start the petition?

“I just worked with Emilia Clarke, she was like, ‘They’re going to be doing some new casting.’ I was like, ‘Right, well, why don’t you tell them I’m free and I can come and do it.’
“I’ve seen a bit of the first season and a bit of the second, and I’ve read all the books, so I’m a big fan of the story. I’d definitely jump at a chance to be involved in that.
“I’d get to do my own accent, which is always nice, and it’s fun. I know a few people on it and it sounds like the most amazing fun—swords, shields, riding on horseback. What an era to throw yourself into!”
As a fan of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice novels, who could Matthew, 26, see himself playing? “The series is now ahead of the books so everyone’s been cast,” he says.
“My favourite character actually was Bronn when I read the books. I said that to Jerome when we first started shooting [Ripper Street], ‘Before we start, Ripper Street’s great, mate, but the way you play Bronn is absolutely identical to how I imagined it.’

For his role in Ripper Street, Matthew had to do a Cockney accent. Speaking to Yahoo UK:

“It’s weird. I went in for the meeting and he’s a Whitechapel lad, so they said, ‘Can you do it in a cockney accent?’ I go, ‘I dunno, I can give it a go, I’ve got enough black cabs in my time.’ Then I got the part and was like, ‘So the accent was fine?’ And they said, ‘Yeah.’
“On set I told the director, ‘If it goes all Dick Van Dyke you’re going to have to tell me’, because I just don’t know. The worst thing would be to watch it on Amazon and it be dreadful.”

He also spoke to Yahoo UK about the possibility of a Bluestone 42 film. He says he would definitely be interested if there was story to tell. He wouldn’t want to do a film just for the sake of making a film.

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