I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier.

Despite premiering at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival the film was initially unable to find a distributor. It was also critically well-received scoring mainly positive reviews from critics. On 13 February 2013 The Hollywood Reporter's Live Feed announced that Grint would star in a television show on CBS called "Super Clyde.

From 2001 to 2011 he starred in all eight Harry Potter films alongside Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. Beginning in 2002 Grint began to work outside of the Harry Potter franchise taking on a co-leading role in Thunderpants. Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born 24 August 1988) is an English actor who rose to prominence playing Ron Weasley one of the three main characters in the Harry Potter film series.