‘Harry Potter’ Star Matthew Lewis Discusses Child Star Pressures

In a brand new candid interview, “Harry Potter” actor Matthew Lewis, recognized to tens of millions as Neville Longbottom, opened up about his experiences engaged on one in every of cinema’s hottest movie franchises.

Trying again on his early days within the highlight, Lewis dished on the tight-knit vibe on the “Harry Potter” set — one thing he says saved him and his co-stars from falling into the identical traps which have tripped up so many youngster stars.

The “Harry Potter” movies, which dominated a decade of manufacturing, launched Matthew Lewis and his younger co-stars into on the spot fame—a highlight that would have been overwhelming in several circumstances.

In response to Lewis, now 34, the “Potter” set was a secure haven for its younger forged. “We’re excellent at hiding all of these tales,” he joked, per PEOPLE Magazine, earlier than he critically famous that “it was tough” as his technology navigated the transition from youngster star to being an grownup in Hollywood.

Lewis added that there “was completely numerous trepidation” about whether or not he “was going to have the ability to hack it in that bigger pool.”

“Though, that stated, I used to be very excited in regards to the prospect. I’ve fairly a brief consideration span, in order that’s most likely why I’ve by no means chosen an actual profession,” he continued. “[After] 10 years in ‘Harry Potter,’ I used to be able to do one thing else and likewise was not eager to do something that was going to result in a number of sequence.”

The “Harry Potter” actor added that, whereas it was “great” and “a lot of enjoyable” working together with his forged, there have been additionally “numerous the fears that we had have been all shared, and the factor not likely of anymore for anybody else on this planet won’t ever be capable to perceive actually what we went by way of and the way it affected our private lives besides one another.”

“It is one of many issues that I’ve carried with me is these friendships,” he added. “I do not return and skim the books. One of many solely issues that I nonetheless form of maintain onto is these relationships that we solid all through these movies.”

Following his time at Wizarding college, Lewis stated he “had no thought what was subsequent” and “wasn’t ready in any respect” for what was to return. Nonetheless, he particularly gave a shout-out to the “friendships” he constructed together with his fellow younger “Harry Potter” forged mates, saying these bonds performed an enormous function in conserving everybody grounded by way of the chaos.

“One of many questions that was requested earlier in regards to the pitfalls of being a baby actor that we appear to have averted, I might posit that a big diploma of that was as a result of we have been all there collectively,” Lewis stated throughout a solo panel at Rhode Island Comedian Con on Sunday, November 3.

“Steadily, you hear many tales of how they have been the only actor in that film and having to hold that film on their very own and the entire pressures and anxieties that include that,” he admitted. “Whereas, we have been all type collectively.”

In April 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery revealed plans to reboot the “Harry Potter” sequence as a tv adaptation for MAX, with a focused premiere in 2026. Matthew Lewis beforehand instructed PEOPLE he’s “not in any rush to return to the world.”

“It is not one thing I am taking a look at or wish to do however wouldn’t flip my nostril up at,” he added. “I might be very to see if it was Neville as an grownup — an entire completely different vibe. That may very well be attention-grabbing. I will surely take a look at that and take into account it.”

Mark Mylod, recognized for his work on “Succession,” will direct a number of episodes of the upcoming Harry Potter tv sequence and function an govt producer, per Deadline.

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