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After the “Harry Potter” finale: Rupert Grint wanted to be an ice cream seller
Rupert Grint at a premiere
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Rupert Grint bought an ice cream truck on the final day of filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: He wanted to be an ice cream seller. But then he changed his mind again – and became an actor again.
After the Harry Potter films ended, Rupert Grint was afraid he wouldn’t be able to make it as an adult actor. He knew how to play Ron, Harry’s brave, fearful sidekick. But he didn’t know if he could do another role: “I thought: is it really too late to do something new again?” he said in an interview with the “New York Times”.
And so he bought a pink and white ice cream truck, which he drove back to his parents’ north London home on the last day of shooting. For a moment, he thought he might succeed.
But after taking a year off, he tried acting again. He had been sent many role offers, most reminiscent of his Harry Potter sidekick. Grint stuck to a edgier, more serious, more mature work. He took on a role in a play and starred in the crime dramedy “Snatch.”
His most significant post-Harry Potter role, however, was in M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant, an Apple TV+ horror drama about a Philadelphia couple. The couple hires a nanny to look after a baby who is actually a therapy doll. The real baby had died in an accident. Rupert Grint plays Julian, the baby’s overbearing uncle. “It’s a pretty difficult subject, especially when you have a baby,” he told the New York Times.
During spring 2020 filming, his partner, actress Georgia Groome, gave birth to their daughter, Wednesday G. Grint. “Becoming a father midway through the show definitely made me realize what a loss it is,” he said. “Wednesday made me a bit of a hypochondriac.”
Source: The New York Times