A couple more new interviews with Matthew this morning. First up is an interview with Die FILM Seite where Matt talks about what it was like playing Neville and also shows he’s not as clumsy as his character.
Gazette du Sorcier also posted their transcript of a round table interview they participated in with other websites. A rough translation of some of the questions may be read below:
Is there any news on the Bronte project you are scheduled to appear in?
He still hopes to be part of the project, but unfortunately doesn’t have any news. What makes him say we do well to remember him, he thought to ask for. However, there is no shortage of projects; he is about to depart for South Africa after visiting Cologne to start new episodes of Bluestone 42. He also returned from a shoot in the Caribbean but the project is top secret; we just know he sported a goatee and shaved it as soon as possible before going to Germany.
If you could choose any movie ever released and star in the remake, what would you want?
Almost without hesitation, Matthew begins to talk about Star Wars. He says he watched the movies when he was young and at that time he dreamed of being part of the universe. He used to put the tapes on “Auto Rewind” and fall asleep in front; sometimes waking up in the middle of the night to discover Leia strangling Jabba the Hutt, launch a “yeah, go ahead!” and go back to sleep immediately.
I then raise on the fact that a new trilogy is currently running; it is then that he says Domhnall Gleeson. Matthew said he had not auditioned for a role, but if the opportunity presents itself for one of the following two parts he will take it. After coming back down to earth, however, he said that there is an incredible number of other films that make hims ay “if only I had been there / I was the right age when they were made.”
In the past, Matthew has been a great ambassador for his native region, Yorkshire: what does he thing are must-see locations for people visiting the area?
The actor cites Leeds first, his hometown, but he then suggests York, pictured against the medieval enclosure which still stands (and publicly available). He also talked about the rise of Ilkley for “Cow and Calf Rocks”; the beautiful Yorkshire coast where Scarborough, known for its market and song, but also Whitby where would the best fish and chips in the country and who appears in the novel Dracula; and ended by talking about the Yorkshire Dales National Park. He recalled that the phrase “Godzone” is applied to the Yorkshire and it is not without reason.
