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Rupert Grint describes it as like watching a row of dominoes falling towards you, and when we emerge from a cellar bar in central London, climbing up to street-level Soho, it's clear he's caught it just right.

A few strides in the direction of his hotel and a face among a group of outdoor lunchers flinches in recognition, prompting other heads to turn and look. Quickly a chipper twentysomething is bounding across the road, dodging motorbikes, his cameraphone outstretched as if it's something Grint has mislaid. "Would you mind, Rupert, if we?" I'm sure this happens to other people with famous faces, but does it happen to quite such a degree?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two

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By early 2000, Grint, Radcliffe and Watson were in a field in North Yorkshire, shooting scenes for early Harry Potter and the Chamber 's Stone . Radcliffe has an opening dreams Grint reminded one pretend radio interview, talking to them all between takes. "In this age, you 're fearless," says Grint. "Nothing bothers you." Witness shots of him at a press conference called to unveil the first young actor in the world. Grint says the right things ("I think I 'm frightening how my character") and cracking jokes ("Speaking as an assistant ..."). He owns the space.

"It is the first time that these children who had been exposed to the insatiable press," says Heyman, "were greedy and they recalls. Someone asked him, 'Well, Rupert, how much do you have? 'A really tricky question to ask at a 12-year-old boy. "Unmoved Grint made a reference to Rowling' s text, quipping that he understood didn 't speak of" Muggle "(non-magical ) money. "It was not 't rehearsed," says Heyman. "He was just very fast, very funny. It 's very unselfish, Rupert, he makes no jokes rarely attract attention to themselves. You' re all about distraction."

of the film." He looks blank for a moment, and you can almost see the first, formative "yeah-sort-of-um" form on his lips.

film, everyone tells me, will give the actor a long-awaited chance to stretch himself again. Ron gets grievously wounded, naturally (his arm torn open by a baddie's spell) but he also rides a broomstick through a burning building, and says take-charge lines like "We can end this!", and weeps over a dead family member. "He has quite a few emotionally charged scenes," says Phelps, "and I wouldn't be surprised if he steals the show."

Four days after our meeting, anyway, a Sunday tabloid reports that Grint is in a relationship with an actress called Georgia Groome, star of 2008 film

And it 's fun stuff in the Soho bar, that we begin to round out our chat. Grint told me of a turtle-like gadget from him, which he rediscovered deep in the corner of his dressing room during the filming was finished and he had to vacate. He has also dug out birthday cards, which were eight or nine years out of date, with the dressing room of his home away from home have been since the turn of the millennium. "It felt like packing up on the last day of school," he says.

I 'd heard that all - had spent these last few days crying - Cast & Crew, Catering. I take a guess and say you were crying the only one who didn 't, does not it? "In the beginning," he says. "And I was not expecting 't. ... But" He can think about it. "It was when I saw her weeping, Dan." He shakes his head. "Then it really hit me. I 'd never seen him excited. It's just really, really raw."

The Potter cast since scattered. Radcliffe, the flamboyant one is in a Broadway play of the implementation. Watson, Kluge studied history in the United States. And the loose one? He shrugs his shoulders. He 'll keep acting. He 's already done a few movies, post-