#snatch interview

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Snatch season two is definitely bigger than season one. (2018)

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Obviously your life of crime actually began part of it when you ended with Harry Potter. You took something from the set. How did you decide what you were gonna take from the set? (March 6, 2017)

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Exclusive Interview: Rupert Grint & Phoebe Dynevor talk Snatch TV Show (Sept 29, 2017)

Rupert Grint has swapped Hogwarts for the criminal underworld after starring in the television remake / spin-off of Guy Ritchie’s year 2000 classic ‘Snatch’ which starred Jason Statham alongside Brad Pitt and Vinny Jones. The new TV series is loosely based on the original, but this time writer Alex de Rakoff (The Calcium Kid) decides to introduce new, younger characters who aren’t so worldly and are a bit clueless. They accidentally stumble across and steal the gold from an older, and much more intimidating gang and mayhem and cockney slang ensues. The cast boasts an impressive list of well known names such as Luke Pasqualino, Dougray Scott and Rupert Grint. We were lucky enough to sit down and talk to two stars of the show Phoebe Dynevor and for Harry Potter star Rupert Grint who plays an aristocratic gangster. Rupert and Phoebe share their thoughts on what drew them to this genre, where they would like the plot to go in series 2 and Rupert talks about the animal he wants most in the next series! (x)

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Rupert Grint interview Snatch with Emmy Magazine. (June 2017)

Rupert Grint - one of the world’s most recognizable twenty-some-things - already had a relationship with Sony, thanks to his eight runs as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films. But he’d never done television. De Rakoff went to meet him in London. He recalls:

“We sat down and had a chat. Having met him, I based one of our lead characters (Charlie) around certain qualities that I saw in him: this guy who’s really funny, smart, very modest - and super talented.”

Rather than have Grint play a fake Cockney gangster, De Rakoff played off the Londoner’s estimable comic chops. Charlie Cavendish became a rich kid with something to prove - a fish out of water among these sons of gangsters and gypsy fighters.

“Charlie is not a great fit, really,” Grint says. “He’s always trying to justify his place in the group because he feels insecure about not having street smarts.” His humour and amiable skittishness anchor the show, but Grint also gives Snatch a marquee name for marketing.

“Rupert moving from film to TV is an exciting step.” Berger enthuses. “He’s doing something that’s really different from the way that people are used to seeing him. It’s a great role for him.”

Grint says he’s always looking to do something different. And after playing one character in eight Harry Potter films, he’s also drawn to roles that can evolve over time.

“When I was doing the Potter movies, I got used to doing a character where you carve out a long journey through a long period. I’m also an executive producer on this (series) - it was interesting to see that side of it. I wanted to be involved in things a little more creatively.”

It helped too that, like De Rakoff, Grint is a fan of the original movie. “I grew up with everyone spouting the lines- it’s always been in my life.”

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"When you're filming a show like this, you want to be out and about, nip down the backstreets, get from A to B quickly," Alex De Rakoff says. "I have shot in London a lot. You just can't do that there."

So Manchester it was. It meant putting up a group of mostly young, male actors in a town famous for its music and nightlife for the better part of six months. "We had fun!" Rupert Grint recalls, laughing. "Manchester is a great city and the fun was all part of the bonding."

His Potter fame, however, meant that even now, six years after the last film's release, shooting on location wasn't always easy. "I still had people shouting at me when we were filming on the street and when we went out," Grint says. "I thought the whole Potter thing might mellow down, but actually it hasn't. A new generation has come to the films."

He says he still gets stopped at some point every day, no matter where he is. In a London café this spring, though he was wearing dark glasses and a cap pulled down low over his ginger hair, the waiter did a double take when he saw who the cappuccino was for. At least when he was out filming Snatch, there was no lack of excitement.

"There are lots of car chases," Rupert recalls. "I crash into a van with a forklift and I got to wear a pig's head mask in a heist. Yes, that's actually me under the pig's head! Do I do all my own stunts? No, I don't. Running to me is a stunt. But it does feel like being in the playground again."

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Rupert Grint doesn't consider himself as a sex symbol. (March 18, 2017)

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Rupert Grint on the Late Late show with James Corden. (March 6, 2017)

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Rupert Grint being a gentleman. (March 10, 2017)

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Rupert Grint at BUILD Series in NYC for his TV show Snatch on March 13, 2017.