Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis

Actor, Author

Matthew Lewis was a British author known for his exploration of identity and personal growth in literature, particularly in his notable work 'The Monk'.

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Born
June 9, 1778
Died
March 14, 1868
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64
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#2957

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"I think David Yates was just like, "You've got on with it for a few years, I'm gonna let you off the hook." And also, I think it's because the action side of stuff that we were doing, it was going to be very difficult to do all that with all the prosthetics on. It was gonna be hard work, and I think they just said, "You know what?" I think they put a level of trust in me, as well. They said, "You know, we're gonna let Neville Longbottom lose the fat suit, lose the teeth, lose the Adolf Hitler hair.""

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"Rupert Grint is exactly like his character Ron, in that they are both incredibly funny, friendly, and loyal."

Character Friendly Loyal
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"A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that."

Struggle Thinking Years
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"You couple that with how I looked when I was younger, and growing up... The voice is not quite breaking. It's awful. No, I don't enjoy that at all. But that's one of the things people love and find so endearing about the Harry Potter series, and why they've lasted so long. Because people have grown up with us, and they care about the characters. They're not just some characters in the film, they're people you can relate to, and you care about, and you grew up with, and when they die in this film, people feel it!"

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"I don't feel hunky at all."

Feels
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"I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around."

Paparazzi Following
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"You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort."

Girl Knows
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"I love playing football. I started playing for a school team, which is fun, and I play a lot of five a side. I nowhere near good enough to go professional but it's definitely one of my main hobbies. I play three times a week."

Football Fun Team
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"The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had a level of fame thrust upon him that's relatively unheard of."

Inspire Levels Fame
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"Michael Gambon telling filthy jokes and Alan Rickman talking about scrambled eggs, just really normal things, and yet they're these amazingly, superb, famous actors. I feel so privileged to have been around them on the set of Harry Potter."

Filthy Superb Jokes
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"I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed."

Film Enjoy Learning Experience
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"I had a screen test and an audition for the role of Neville Longbottom. It wasn't a job at that point. It was just something I enjoyed doing. And it's hard to remember back then, really, that much. But I just remember loving it."

Remember Neville Longbottom
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"Theater gave me the confidence to believe I could play something else, 'cause it was so difficult. It was me out of my comfort zone. It gave me the confidence to believe that I could push myself and challenge myself and still succeed. Yeah. I'm very, very glad I did it. And I'm very keen, now, to take what I learned there into more television and film."

Believe Challenges Comfort
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"Approaching a comedy character is fun because you get to sit down with the director and ask, "What makes you laugh?" Then you end up bouncing ideas off each other."

Fun Character Ideas
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"I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them. They've got all their home videos done in HD quality! They love it. But I struggle very much. I'm very self-conscious as an actor, anyway. I don't like watching my own performances, even in this recent one."

Struggle Home Parent
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"Theater was such a different school of acting. But it really is a foundation of everything. It's where it all started! And I feel like I learned so much."

School Acting Different
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"What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition."

Acting Foundation Stage
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"I never contemplated. I just went in there and did my acting. I never thought, "What's the character actually feeling here? What's he trying to get across?" And never looked at it from that classically trained actor's point of view."

Character Views Feelings
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"You hear about all the great British thespians doing stuff on the West End and that kind of thing, and I missed out on that. Alan Rickman actually suggested to me that I should try it. And I thought, "Geez, I really don't want to do that." But he must have recommended it for a reason, so when an opportunity came up, I took it. And it was tough. It was hard! But by the end of it, I absolutely loved it."

Opportunity Trying Tough
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