Neville Longbottom Teaching
CNN) - Actor Matthew Lewis, who has spent the last 10 years portraying Neville Longbottom, the trio uncomfortable nerd PAL students at the center of the Harry Potter continues.
As the last of eight films based on books by JK Rowling movie screens across America strike, said Lewis with CNN about his trip as Neville and how he has not only affected, but the prepared for an acting career.
CNN: Neville Longbottom begins as a fine character psychologically wounded, and you were able to describe his journey to personal growth. Most people pay good money for psychologists to take a trip like this. What life lessons did you learn from Neville?
Lewis: Oh wow. The great thing about Neville - what message he communicates that JK Rowling wrote for him - was that you can have any form of disadvantage at the beginning of your life and it does not define you. You can always go to be who you want to be. As long as you have friends around you and you have a belief in doing the right thing, you can continue to be a hero. It does not matter what humble beginnings from which you came. I think it's really inspiring. I think it's a really good life lesson.
CNN: What do you think the fans like best, Neville? What do you identify with?
Lewis: It's really the success story of this stranger. Everyone loves an underdog, but mostly it's the message that many people may have a bad enough time in school. Many people struggle in their early years and I think people can relate to that. Neville and demonstrates that it is not the reason for ending all. You can always go to great things in your life. What I gathered from fan letters and meeting people is very inspiring, and helps some people deal with the bullying at school or who have difficult problems in life. As an actor, is the most beautiful thing in the world to think that something you do, your work is what inspires people.
CNN: It 's the difference between UK and U.S. fans will react to Neville?
Lewis: You know, it is a reaction very similar just that it's different in terms of - how can you explain? - I think Americans tend to be much higher. But the answers are the same with varying degrees of tension.
CNN: A lot of people are probably surprised by the man he grew up. The Geek movies to watch, even a little 'crooked teeth, was very engaging fans, and a completely different look. What is becoming a leader of Harry Potter have been like for you personally and professionally?
Lewis: Well, it's a really exciting time to be honest with you. When films are made, of course I had some sadness to it all coming to an end. For doing something you loved so much for so long, it will of course be sad when it comes to an end. But it is also an exciting time because for the first time in a decade, I do not know what comes next. And really, it's an opportunity now for me to show I am not only Neville Longbottom, there is more I can do, and I really just kind of push me. This is a transition period right now and we will see what happens next.
CNN: Do you like the fantasy genre as an actor, or is it a different kind that inspires you?
Lewis: Gender is not something that every aspect. I just want to be an actor - in theater, television, cinema. I like the idea of being able to become someone else, and it's like being a kid and never grow. I can I dress in fancy dress and play as a make-believe jobs and people pay me to do so.
It's great. Never grow old. But I want to do something gritty. I love to do a sort of war or the image of a gangster movie or real life much more. But I can not blame the fantasy genre. I am a big fan of "The Lord of the Rings," "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars, science fiction," that sort of thing.
CNN: What is your favorite memory of his total experience of Harry Potter?
Lewis: I have two. One of the Harry Potter-related, and there really is, but because Harry Potter was born. First, a Harry Potter was my first week of work. It 'been Annik Cathlin Northumberland, England, and has been a lesson broomstick when Neville Longbottom it off and fly around and bang against the walls.
I just remember being so scared of the whole process to be in this great big movie. And he said Columbus as the first scene I was doing was just me and I would work with the team of specialists. It was very stressful, but reassured me and made me rest, and ended up being the most fantastic weeks. I remember being very excited about the next six months. I did not know it was going to go for another decade.
And the second thing that I will never, never forget to be able to meet Sir Paul McCartney, who certainly came about because Harry Potter, and I will never forget. His personal hero of mine. What a fantastic evening.
CNN: And 'JK Rowling, you know what to think about how you brought her character to life?
Lewis: Yes, and obviously is something that really worries me. JK Rowling, the author is the most incredible, and I liked his story since he was a boy of nine years. I was so focused on getting exactly what she imagines in his head. And sometimes I talked to the Prime Minister came into the studio and said, you know, I do so. That's exactly what I wanted. And in addition, you can not get much more than that.
JK Rowling has said that it was just the most incredible feeling. And she was so beautiful. She said on the red carpet, and the [last] Thursday in London, and it's a nice thing to hear. It's great for the fans to love what we do, but for JK Rowling to enjoy it, too, it just means so much.
CNN: What will you do now? After an exciting finale to a straight pop cultural event, many people might say, "I'm going to Disney World." Where are you going?
Lewis: I've done theater in the last six years, in England, Alan Rickman told me to do theater, the theater has recommended, and I did. And it was really a learning experience for me. I wanted to broaden my skills, and I want to try to learn as much as possible, and really add another string to my bow if you like. I feel I've grown as a person of trust and an actor in a theater. It 'really the foundation of every activity, whether in television or film. It 'really where it all began.
So I do not mind going back to the theater at all, but I have some things I've read in a minute. I have a meeting when I'm back in London, and in a few weeks. I take what I learned in the theater and what I learned about Harry Potter in the last decade and really just the next level. Forging a career in acting.
And I'm not focused on trying to better Harry Potter, I am not focused on trying to get a role man, I just want to act. I am much to me as a foreign player who needs to work, and if I just keep looking to get back on the bandwagon and keep it.
