Actor Rupert Grint began filming the second round of shoots for his upcoming anti-war feature,
Comrade, in Sweden this weekend, and participated in a press conference this weekend with director Petter Naess and costars David Kross, Stig Henrick Hoff, and Lachlan Niebeor. Rupert also greeted a variety of fans in the city of Trollhättan;
several photos can be found in our
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"I have never laughed so much in one film before," revealing Rupert Grint, who plays the British soldier Robert Smith - an energetic character who initially is most annoyed at having been shot down because he had a date with a beautiful girl at the air base that night.
"It feels great and it's a fun challenge to play a different role character after doing the same role in the Harry Potter movies for ten years," says Rupert Grint.
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"It is a story of two enemies and what happens when they are forced to cooperate. I like the simplicity of the story and it's also a lot of humor and absurdity that I like," says director Petter Naess.
A synopsis can be found below. Comrade is currently slated to have a tentative February 2012 release.
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Comrade is about three German and two British soldiers whose fighters are in a fierce dogfight over the Norwegian wilderness. A battle that ends when both planes are forced to the ground. Against all odds, the five men survive but they are forced to seek refuge in the mountain cabin. They are solated from the world struggle to cope with the harsh winter; gradually, an unlikely friendship grows between the two enemy camps present.