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Rupert Grint: Yeah.
It’s weird, this one, because it doesn’t feel like any of the others.
You do feel like it’s starting to come to an end.
It must feel like graduation or like you’re going off and leaving your family.
I’ve never really imagined it ending.
In the book, the characters have a lot of action.
Can you talk about that?
Now the wand fighting is much more sword-like and aggressive.
It’s been really cool.
You have some particularly tough emotional scenes with Daniel’s character.
There’s a lot of paranoia and he’s worried about his family, and there’s doubts.
It erupts in this big argument.
And this is the point at which Ron and Hermione finally get together.
Grint: Yeah, it is.
[Laughing] It sounds stupid, but I never really saw it coming.
The kiss has been done, it’s one of the first scenes we filmed.
Grint: Yeah, it was!
I kind of built up this thing in my head.
It’s like kissing your sister.
It looks like you were away from here [Leavesdon] when you were filming.
Grint: Yeah, we have been to a lot of different forests around England.
And there was a scene where they closed down Piccadilly Circus.
It was a crazy night.
That was really cool.
Did people know you guys were coming and there were hundreds of people, or was it very hush-hush?
It did get quite crazy, but it was fun.
Grint: It’s really taken another level – it’s quite gory.
I get splinched, which is disgusting.
My arm kind of gets ripped open, and Fred loses an ear.
It’s really graphic, actually.
Have you filmed the end of part two yet?
And for the epilogue, it will be you guys?
They’ll age you 19 years?
Grint: Yeah, they’re kind of playing about it at the moment.
It will be subtle, they’re not going to go crazy.
Have you seen it?
Do you have hair?
Grint: Yeah, I have some hair.
How big is this action scene?
Is this going to be a huge part of movie two?
Grint: We’ve done a lot already, all the battle stuff.
Grint: Yeah, it feels like one story.
To me it doesn’t really feel like two films.
What are things you’re hypothetically taking home as souvenirs?
Grint: Hypothetically, of course.
I’d like the Night Bus.
It’s on the runway and no one’s really doing anything with it, so… yeah.
I’m going to keep an eye on it.
Have you considered keeping your wand or anything else?
Grint: I have, actually.
I’ve got a tie and one of the chess pieces.
I’d like to keep the wand.
That would be quite a cool thing to take.
I’m loving it.
Where do you see yourself in 20 years?
Grint: I want to continue acting, definitely.
I want to keep moving on doing it as long as I can really.
Would you want to expand your role and try some directing?
Grint: I don’t think I’d really do that.
I’m not good at decisions or anything like that.
I could never figure anything to tell the guy who was playing me.
He had video and watched the previous films.
Can you talk about the grueling schedule?
Grint: Hour-wise, they’re all the same since we turned 16.
It varies, it’s 9-hour days and five days a week.
There’s lots of different scenes and it never got boring.
Doing this for over a year, has it affected your performance?
Grint: I think it helps, because you’re supposed to be exhausted anyway.
It kind of benefits it from being tired all the time, but it does take your life over.
How much of the movie is you guys trying to figure things out?
Is it an hour of the movie?
Grint: I don’t know.
There’s a lot of that, where it’s really kind of an investigation.
Yeah, I’d say there will be an hour.
Was the script a lot of you guys wandering around, trying to figure things out, escaping?
Grint: Yeah, there was a lot of that.
That was quite a big scene with the whole Weasley family.
It’s quite horrible.
There’s been a lot of heavy, emotional scenes like that.
Do you like or dislike those kinds of scenes?
Grint: Yeah, it’s satisfying.
But it’s quite haunting as well, because I’m not really used to it.
But I’ve learned quite a lot and it’s been great.
David has been excellent with everything.
You’ve had other directors over the years, but it you all seem to really like David.
Can you talk about how that maybe has helped finishing up such a long arc with the same director?
Grint: Yeah, David is so great he knows so many little details.
He’s brilliant at communicating with us.
For me, he’s kind of vital, really.
Are you pleased with the evolution of your character through the films and where Ron has gone?
I’ve enjoyed having more to do.
He’s got a lot more depth now and he’s a lot more complicated than in previous films.
It’s kind of nice.
How do you feel about the last films being in 3-D?
Grint: I’m a big fan of 3-D.
It will be cool.
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