Filed under: Casting , Celebrities and Controversy , Harry Potter Harry Potter has got to end sometime, and by "sometime" I mean in less than three years when the second cinematic half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sees release. And some people would like to still have a career when that happens, thank you very much. To that end, Rupert Grint -- a.k.a. Ron Weasley -- has taken a role in an indie film called Cherry Bomb , which sounds about as far from Harry Potter as you can get without developing an erotic fixation on horses . The film, written by acclaimed playwright Daragh Caville, focuses on three teens who set out for a wild weekend of drugs, sex and crime only to see it escalate into something far more serious than they imagined. It co-stars relative unknowns Robert Sheehan and Kimberley Nixon , and is set for release next year. While Daniel Radcliffe has tried more extreme methods of branching out (mainly by taking that infamous role in Equus , which is coming to Broadway per the above link) and Emma Watson hasn't done very much at all (she voices a character in this year's The Tale of Despereaux , but that seems to be it), Grint has spent what spare time he has toiling away in indieville. Cherry Bomb was preceded by the reasonably well-received and much less racy Driving Lessons , about a troubled boy's friendship with a retired actress. Continue reading Rupert Grint Plans for the Future, Takes Role in Edgy Indie Dram ...
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Filed under: Casting , Celebrities and Controversy , Harry Potter Harry Potter has got to end sometime, and by "sometime" I mean in less than three years when the second cinematic half of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sees release. And some people would like to still have a career when that happens, thank you very much. To that end, Rupert Grint -- a.k.a. Ron Weasley -- has taken a role in an indie film called Cherry Bomb , which sounds about as far from Harry Potter as you can get without developing an erotic fixation on horses . The film, written by acclaimed playwright Daragh Caville, focuses on three teens who set out for a wild weekend of drugs, sex and crime only to see it escalate into something far more serious than they imagined. It co-stars relative unknowns Robert Sheehan and Kimberley Nixon , and is set for release next year. While Daniel Radcliffe has tried more extreme methods of branching out (mainly by taking that infamous role in Equus , which is coming to Broadway per the above link) and Emma Watson hasn't done very much at all (she voices a character in this year's The Tale of Despereaux , but that seems to be it), Grint has spent what spare time he has toiling away in indieville. Cherry Bomb was preceded by the reasonably well-received and much less racy Driving Lessons , about a troubled boy's friendship with a retired actress. Continue reading Rupert Grint Plans for the Future, Takes Role in Edgy Indie Dram ...