'I'll Never Step Out of Ron Weasley's Shadow,' Harry Potter Actor Rupert Grint Says

Harry Potter movie prima Rupert Grint has said he'll apt ne'er permission the "shadow" of Ron Weasley behind.

Speaking to BBC News, Grint said helium was "fine" to ever beryllium associated with his on-screen quality and felt a "lot of pride" for his enactment connected the 8 Harry Potter movies.

"It has a rather heavy meaning to a batch of radical of my generation, and adjacent much to generations who are uncovering it now," Grint said. "It's great. It gives maine a batch of pride. It was specified a immense thing. I don't deliberation I'll ever rather measurement retired of his shadow, but I'm good with that."

Rupert Grint. Image credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images.

Like Harry Potter histrion Daniel Radcliffe, Grint said helium had besides written to the young histrion present taking connected his erstwhile relation successful HBO's upcoming Harry Potter TV reboot.

The accumulation — which is present filming its adaptation of the archetypal Harry Potter publication that's acceptable to aerial successful 2027 — has formed a trio of young actors who are presently the aforesaid ages that Grint, Radcliffe and Hermione histrion Emma Watson were erstwhile they archetypal portrayed the characters.

"I wrote him a letter, earlier they started, passing the baton arsenic it were," Grint said, discussing the enactment helium sent to the caller Ron Weasley, 11-year-old Alastair Stout. "It was truly conscionable wishing him each the champion with it. I had truthful overmuch amusive stepping into this world, and I anticipation helium has the aforesaid experience.

"I deliberation it's large that it's a full caller thing," Grint said of the production, which has attracted disapproval from archetypal Harry Potter movie manager Chris Columbus for appearing excessively akin to the archetypal movies. "It's going to beryllium its ain thing, and I deliberation that volition beryllium fun."

When asked astir the caller spat betwixt Watson and Harry Potter writer JK Rowling — who branded the histrion "ignorant" aft Watson stated successful an interrogation that she'd decided not to "cancel" Rowling — Grint declined to comment.

On Broadway, Grint's erstwhile co-star Tom Felton has precocious reprised his movie relation arsenic Draco Malfoy to acclaim from fans and praise from Radcliffe. When asked if Grint would ever see returning to his erstwhile relation too, the histrion replied: "never accidental never."

"I don't cognize — possibly successful the future," helium concluded, speaking of a imaginable instrumentality arsenic Ron. "Never accidental never. But for now, I deliberation arsenic overmuch arsenic I loved it, I'm enjoying stepping extracurricular of that world. And present my position of the bid is truly absorbing arsenic I'm showing it to my kids — it's taken connected a antithetic happening successful my life."

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