Can you tell us when and how you got the role for George Weasley? It was through a friend of my mum. She saw an ad in the paper that they were auditioning for roles in Harry Potter. So James and I went to an open audition in Leeds and things went well from there. I think because we didn't come from a acting background we didn't expect to get the part so we stayed mostly calm throughout all the other auditions we had after that.
How fun was your first day on the set, and what can you remember from this experience? My first day on set was actually filming the last scene in the movie. This shocked me because I had assumed films were shot in order. It was up on the Yorkshire moors in a little village called Goathland.
At the time, did you ever think Harry Potter was going to be the massive franchise it became? I'd always thought it was going to be big, but not the huge juggernaut it became, the biggest film series of all time.
As the films went on and got a bit more 'darker' your character got bigger and bigger (as in the scenes became more serious), with this in mind, what was it like to grow in to this role? It was nice to be able to play the same character but in a different way. I would ask some of the older members of the cast for advice and they'd really help me out. This was one of the best things about HP, the who's who, of British actors were there, so it was nice to get some of their takes on things.
What would you say was one of your proudest scenes acting as George Weasley? I think for me it would be in the Deathly Hallows part one when you see how Georges ear has been blown off. I'd always wanted to do a scene like that.
As part of the Weasley family, what was it like to become a family on screen with the other actors involved? I'm sure throughout the films, and now even this has made you become close friends? It was a very easy thing to do. We were always around each other so there was banter and jokes. When we did interviews with the whole Weasley clan, it was hilarious.