March 6, 2017 – Hollywood, California, U.S. – RUPERT GRINT promotes TV series ‘Snatch’ Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born August 24, 1988) is an English actor who rose to prominence playing Ron Weasley, one of the three main characters in the Harry Potter film series. Grint was cast as Ron Weasley at the age of 11, having previously acted only in school plays and at his local theatre group. From 2001 to 2011, he starred in all eight Harry Potter films alongside D. Radcliffe playing as Harry Potter and Emma Watson playing as Hermione Granger. Beginning in 2002, Grint began to work outside of the Harry Potter franchise, playing a co-leading role in Thunderpants. He has had starring roles in Driving Lessons, a dramedy released in 2006, and Cherrybomb, a drama film of limited release in 2010. Grint co-starred in Wild Target, a comedy. His first film project following the end of the Harry Potter series was the 2012 anti-war film, Into the White, in which he has a supporting role. In 2013, Grint’s new film CBGB was released and he has been cast in CBS’s new show Super Clyde. Grint made his stage debut in Mojo in October 2013 at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London. Upcoming: Sick Note (TV Series 2017), Urban Myths (TV Mini-Series 2017). (Credit Image: © Armando Gallo via ZUMA Studio)
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On Music: Rupert Grint, Who Lives in the Past

March 9, 2017
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Armando Gallo

Rupert Grint, the lovable Ron Weasley of Harry Potter fame is back on the television version of the Guy Ritchie movie Snatch. Since he left Potter he tried his talent as a musician, but found out the he really loves to hear music more than trying to play an instrument. And he loves when music is played on the set:

“Music is quite important to really set the tone and, yeah, it really kind of focus you especially with, like Snatch, even when we were filming they played music during some of the big fight sequences.  I mean, they were playing like a lot of kind of ska music and The Specials and stuff like that.  Yeah, it really kind of does help. It’s a really useful tool.”

But what does he listen when not working? “I’m very bad with new music.  I am quite old in a way. I kind of listen to bands from the ’80s, ‘70s kind of alternative like Joy Division, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, yeah.”