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| The translation of the first four scans of his spread in 'Smack' magazine is now available.
Scan 1
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Superposter of Rupert Grint, Ron of Harry Potter
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The news of the Order of the Phoenix
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Everything about Driving Lessons, the new Rupert movie
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*Here is a joke mixing the two words: Rupert and Dictionary* like Rupertionary
For you to know everything about the actor
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Superposter, exclusive for your room
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And more: All the movies of the little ginger
Scan 2
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Everyone loves Rupert
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He is definitely the cutest of the young actors of his generation and shows that has talent for beyond Hogwarts.
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Name: Rupert Alexander Grint
Nickname: Rupe
Birthday: August 24th, 1988
Sign: Virgo
Birthplace:Watton-at-Stone, England
Brothers/Sisters: James, Georgina, Samantha and Charlotte
Parents: Nigel and Jo
Eyes colors: Green/blue (There is no agreement)
Hair color: red-haired
Height: 1m74cm
Pets: Ruby, black labrador , and Fudge a brown labrador.
Musical instrument: Eletric Guitar
(Article)
What would you do to have a role in the Harry Potter movies? Seriously, if you were British, if the characters hadn't been choosen yet and you are a fan of the series? Well, the first thing would be read the instructions carefully and attend every solicitation, right?
Wrong. But it's a wrong that turned out to be right. At least to the most popular red-haired movie guy, the funny Rupert Grint. Besides sending the photos, the text and the video that the producers asked, Rupert created his own script and made a rap presentation imitating his theater teacher. Creativity is what doesn't lack for him. "I really wanted to be part of the cast. I love the books and I didn't believe when the opportunity appeared. I had to do something different that showed that I was best for the role!"
Well, obviously the plan worked! Because, does even one person, nowadays, that imagine Ron is different than Rupert? Does someone imagine Harry Potter's best friend different in any kind? Of course not! And couldn't be: He is british, red-haired, showed an enormous will to do the part and went through a lot to get it. Besides, Rupert is a real fan of the J.K Rowling's books. Among the actors, he is the first to read them and the one that is most anxious to read the next one. He is always saying that the author of the books is his favorite writer. And he likes to read! Among his favorite books there is "Of mice and men" of John Steinbeck, one of the important contemporary authors in all the world.
Oldest son of a gang of five siblings (he has three sisters and one brother), Rupert shares a lot of traits that are in common with his character, Ron: The big family, the red hair, and an uncontrollable fear of spiders. It is serious, he has fear of spiders and admits that he understands well why Ron doesn't go near them.
Rupert is going to be 18 in August, day 24. To celebrate the birthday the fans of the boy elaborated a project, a sort of a shirt contest. The boy is very fashionable and became a kind of a modern symbol in England, where the hair cut and the clothes full of personality of Rupert has been imitated by millions of boys. His mixture of t-shirts, different and beaten jeans with sneakers and brand clothes shows that there is Rupert. At the moment he is with the same hair cut that he was at the Goblet of Fire, longer and with a style a lot like the 60s, very much like London. At the decade of 60, there style was known as "mod." One of the characteristics was to use the hair long and the threads of hair shaggy. Only modern guys, like him, would be good in this look.
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Rupert has already made other movies besides Harry Potter. The first one was right before the Chamber of Secrets, called Thunderpants, that is not exactly pleasant... the name in Portuguese mean something like pants of thunder, tells a story about a boy that farts a lot. Argh, Rupert! And besides he had curly hair in the movie (Heeeelppppp). In 2002, the movie was a big failure and didn't even got lauched in the national movies. One who finds the copy of the movie finds a rarity. But is it really worth watching?
Just after Goblet of fire, the actor went on another movie adventure outside the Hary Potter Movies: Driving Lessons. Now yes! It's another comedy that tells the changes of a boy that is shy and goes to the church a lot that goes to work at the house of an retired actres who is very eccentric.
The cast and the script of the movie are very elaborated and has everything that Rupert has been doing best in the Harry Potter movies: humor. Since the Chamber of Secrets, he rehearsed more comic and funny scenes. More mature and confident in his abilities, he has launched himself in an important project by the side of important actress like Laura Linney (Mystic River), and others.
Now, Rupert has finished the equivalent of high school in Brazil. He is the older than his partners Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe, and tends to use his free time to learn to drive and to choose in which productions he is going to work. Apparently, he is going to follow the steps of the comedian that he admires, Jim Carrey.
Rupert has been showing great promise to directors of movies and his decision on making movies like Driving Lessons could be his first step in to an independent and productive career after the end of the series. However, Rupert guaranteed that he intends to be on all the movies. "I really like to make the movies. I'm used to my cast of colleagues and the crew. We are very close and we like what we do.".
Fortunately!
*The black part is the filmography*
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T-shirts for Birthday
The site RupertGrint.net is promoting a contest to draw an entire collection of t-shirts to celebrate his 18 birthday. But it's only for England. (Note from RG.N- Nope! The t-shirt contest is run online using e-mail, so anyone around the world can send in an entry!) The registrations only going to be accepted until day 5 of August. The instructions are kind like these:
1. The t-shirts can have photos and sentences, but no bad words or obscene images.
2. Only the three, maybe four, best designs will became t-****s.
3. The design can't be bigger than a sheet of paper.
4. Doesn't count t-shirts about Harry Potter or Spong Bob (That he loves), The sites want different stuff.
5. Famous brands or imitation of famous brands are not going to be accepted.
To the fans of other countrys, like Brazil, the site is promoting scrapbooks. Until now, the registered countries are England, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary and Poland.
No Brazil! Where are the brasilians fans? The site says that a person can register on the site and include his country on the list of the ones that wants to send things to Rupert. They ask that the interested send a message to the site. Obviously the e-mail has to be in English!!! The guys at the site are very British! They accept collages, paintings, assembling of photos, drawings, finally, different and cool techniques. The scrapbooks are made by groups. More information is only at the site, and everything is in english.
Scan 4
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In Driving Lessons, Rupert (unreadable word) is ready to face different parts and act with other casts.
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Changing the direction
(Article)
A good part in a movie can be kind of a curse in the life of an actor. Mostly when he performs the part with mastery. Getting free of the character can be as hard as playing it. This challenge waits Rupert Grint, who starts his first adult movie since he became Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter series.
Driving Lessons (Still without a name in Brazil) is a comedy that Rupert has been investing and getting better, even little by little, as the disturbed (*This word in Portuguese means someone who does the wrong thing in a cute way*) Ron. He will be Ben, a shy boy of 17 years old, that accompanies his mother to every mass possible. Rupert acts together with Laura Linney (Billy Elliot) and Julie Walters, the Mrs. Weasley of Harry Potter series.
Ben's mother is very religious. She make sure she educates him in a strict way and talks all the time by saying biblical passages. To make things worse, his father is a priest. At every vacation, his life becomes a horror show. While most of the boys travel, have fun, stroll and date, Ben goes to classes of bible reading and goes to religion discussion groups. Everything turnes upside down when he answer to an announcement in the magazine "Hello Jesus" to work for a retired actress. Evie is nothing like we expect an old lady that looks for help at a Christian newspaper to be: She says a lot of bad words, drinks and barely knows where the nearst church is. She drives Ben crazy when shows him that life outside the religion classes that his mother make him attend to exists.
Picnics, interpretation classes and driving lessons are some of the things that Evie shows the boy, together with an opportunity of meet a beautiful girl of his age and all the infinite possibilities of this date.
The movie reminds us of "Harold and Maude", that tells the story of another boy, a morbid boy that is always acting death scenes to make sure his parents notice him. When he meets Maude, a neighbor of 80 years old, the boy discovers that passing the life thinking of the death is a big waste of time.
The two movies talks about growing up and discoveries. They are two movies that helps to show that are two ways of life besides the ones that we are used to, but we is needed courage to see them and enjoy them. |