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Question: Do you get the feeling that its over?
Like life is now at a different juncture as this movie and then Part 2 opens?
Grint: Um, yeah.
But in terms of filming, yeah it really does kind of feel over now.
Grint: Yeah, its a real kind of sense of freedom now.
I heard that you signed with an agency?
Was that a step to venture to get a different kind of role?
Grint: In America, yeah.
Im just ready to kind of do different things.
David says that you feel like thats an untapped part of your talent?
Grint: Yeah, it was really cool in this film to do more of that.
Grint: Quite easy actually.
No, it wasits always quite nice to do those kind of shouty things, its always quite fun.
But no we all get on great.
Can I ask how the kiss was with Emma?
Grint: Um yeah.
It was actually okay.
Grint: Yeah, Ive seen her grow up.
Ive known her since she was nine, and it just doesnt feel right (laughs).
Theres just something not natural about it.
So how was it kissing Mary Cattermole?
Grint: (laughs) Oh yeah that was different.
She was actually pregnant at the time as well.
So that kind of added a different take on it.
Now we heard you brought your ice cream truck to the premiere?
Grint: I brought it to the last day of filming.
Did you serve ice cream to everybody?
Grint: Yeah me and Emma both were serving (laughs).
Yeah it was really good.
What kind of ice cream were you serving?
Grint: Uh the classic, 99.
Why did you buy an ice cream truck?
Grint: Im not really sure anymore (laughs).
Yeah Ive had that van for a while now.
Do you take it for many spins?
Its quite a tricky thing.
Grint: I dunno.
I never really thought I would get into this really, it was kind of a surprise to me.
I always loved acting, but its weird to think what Id be doing if this hadnt come around.
Its kind of a bit of a fluke how I got into it, so Im grateful.
Are you concerned at all of the level of some of the scary bits for some of the fans?
Grint: I think kids quite like to be scared by this.
So I dont think theyll have trouble [with it].
Whats that mean to your character?
Just living in this little tent together just causes a lot of kind of clashes among them.
Grint: It felt really cool actually, it was something quite different.
Theyve kind of had little arguments before but nothing on this kind of scale, this was quite serious.
So yeah, it was really cool.
This is not the abridged version, this is the full-on book?
It feels like a very different kind of Harry Potter film I think.
Yeah it was long, it did feel long.
I mean, obviously physically weve changed quite dramatically.
Apart from that, its kind of just happened quite quickly.
You hardly even notice?
Grint: Yeah yeah.
Did you enjoy the romantic sparring in the movie?
I think its not until Part 2 where we see that develop more.
But yeah, it should be cool.
Are you dying to give Ron a makeover?
Grint: Yeah I know, its something Ive kind of gotten used to over the years.
But actually Ive got the most expensive wardrobe out of all the cast.
Those jumpers are all like designer stuff (laughs).
I quite like it though, as this character.
You like wearing all that, like really as part of the role?
Grint: Yeah it kind of adds to the character.
Youre so wonderfully natural, funny, you know as a comic and making people laugh.
Were you anxious at all about the dramatic demands that this Part 1 has?
Grint: Um yeah I was a little bit, cause its quite a new territory for Ron.
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And whats the other one?
IsCherry Bomba thriller or a comedy or a drama?
Grint: Yeah its a bit of a thriller I suppose.
It was something I did a few years ago now and yeah it was great to have that experience.
So whats next for you?
Grint: Um, yeah Im quite keen to kind of move on and do different things.
What do you like doing in your time off now?
Do you like to just hang with friends, go to a pub?
Where did you choose to go?
And thats a holiday?
It was an adventure, it was good.
What did you get for 100 pounds?
Grint: I dont know, it was a horrible [car].
Are you mechanically inclined if the car had broken down?
Grint: Not really.
Every man in my family is really in the car industry.
Isnt that what your dad did?
Grint: Yeah, he used to sell Formula 1.
You were onTop Gear(a British television series about motor vehicles) as well werent you?
Grint: Oh yeah,Top Gear, that was good yeah.
Do you want to go back and get your record back?
Grint: I do yeah.
That really bothers me.
But yeah well see.
With your family involved the car industry is that why you got an ice cream van?
Grint: Yeah I dunno.
Ive always loved ice cream vans, its just something I needed to get.
Im a big car fan as well.
Have you got exciting cars as well?
Grint: Theyre all kind of quite strange.
Will you list them?
Grint: Ive got a Bubble car.
One of these kind of like three-wheel things, from the 60s.
Grint: The day we filmed on Piccadilly.
When we kind of just closed down the busiest part of London.
That was quite a surreal day.
Just to think weve got [that] power too is kind of frightening.
And all that for a very small sequence in the film.
Grint: Yeah its like seconds really!
Any memory over the years?
Like a key day?
Grint: Probably the first day on set, Ill always remember that.
Was that a Hogwarts scene?
Grint: It was actually the last scene of the first film, so that was kind of strange.
By the train, on the platform.
So yeah it was weird.
What about the slugs?
Grint: Um yeah, Ill never forget that definitely.
Yeah I can still taste them (laughs).
Did you have any weird fan encounters like when you were doing this road trip to Barcelona?
or do people not know you?
Grint: Yeah I do.
Over the years its kind of become a more regular thing.
Yeah it does happen kind of everywhere now, particular this time cause the films coming out.
My hair kind of stands out.
Have you got a blonde wig?
Grint: No Ive never tried a wig.
I went to a music festival this year and I wore a duck head.
It was kind of like invisibility strangely.
Is Halloween your favorite holiday though?
Can you dress in like a Ron outfit and go, Im in costume!
Grint: Ive never tried that.
That would be funny.
I wanted to ask you about your hair, youve won awards for your hair.
How does it feel being an icon for redheads?
Have you ever had fan mail from people saying Thank God, youve [helped] me!
Grint: Yeah its really funny the reaction I get from kind of the Ginger community.
I sent the letter last week
Grint: Oh yeah!
I always managed to escape it for some reason and never really had any kind of negative reaction.
Im a very proud Ginger.
But yeah its nice.
Have you had a lot of fan mail from people saying [thank you]?
Grint: Yeah quite often.
And just Ginger people in the street kind of shake my hand and say You make me proud.
Its kind of a pride [thing], so its nice.
Would you dye it for a part?
Grint: Um, yeah I probably would yeah.
Ill always be a Ginger kind of at heart.
Did you guys swap presents, the three of you?
Grint: Yeah, I got Dan and Emma trumpets (laughs).
Grint: I dunno, Im not sure.
Do they play them?
I dont know quite why I did it.
Do you play the trumpet?
Theres no reason at all.
David Yates was saying there was a Mariachi band playing as filming was ending, was that the connection?
The trumpets were just random.
What did they get you?
Grint: Dan got me a really nice still from one of the films.
He kind of made fun of me in it and signed it, yeah it was really nice.
What did Emma get you?
Grint: She got me a diary thing.
Like a leather diary.
So you dont feel bad about the trumpets then?
Grint: [Well] I engraved the trumpets.
Have you ever used the diary?
Grint: I havent yet, no.
But Ill always keep it, its cool.
What did you engrave on the trumpets?
Grint: Just a little kind of message to both of them.
I actually hand engraved it too, I got like an engraving kit.
You really put some heart and soul and thought into this?
Grint: Yeah kind of.
I dunno quite why a trumpet, but yeah it was cool.
Youre a Russian roulette of a gift-giver, you never know what youre gonna get.
I dont know why I did that.
