Matthew Lewis was featured in the latest issue of Attitude magazine, where he discussed some highlights from working in the Harry Potter series, some of the costars he still keeps in contact with, and his upcoming film project with Timothy Spall, called Wasteland, out internationally later this year in theatres. Scans of the article, via the Herring Shoes blog, can be found below.

Lewis has just grown into his looks, lost the puppy fat and worn a nasty brace. ‘I had this thing called an aligner, which was... painful,’ he says.

As we can tell, Neville Longbottom is long gone, but Lewis still has fond memories of his time on set. He forged great friendships with the other kid actors (‘I talk to Tom and Alfie and saw Dan in a musical in New York last summer’) had his eardrum perforated by Helena Bonham Carter (‘She was pretty mortified’) and learned from some of the UK’s finest actors (‘Me and Alan Rickman sat down in his trailer and chatted about where I should go next and what I should do’).

After 10 years in the same role, though, it’s time to move on. ‘The great thing as an actor is that I don’t know what my agent is going to call me with next. She could be saying, “You’re going to go and be a secret agent”, or it could be anything and that’s exciting. But when you’re doing Potter, it’s the same thing, so I was ready to go out and do something different.’