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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Rupert Grint Will Play Harry Potter’s Ron Weasley Once Again · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: For anybody who grew up on the original Harry Potter movies,
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Speaker 2: Rupert Grint is Ron Weasley, and there's no two ways
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Speaker 2: about it. And soon, for anybody who catches Harry Potter
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Speaker 2: on Broadway, Rupert will be Ron Weasley once again.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, 15 years after Rupert kissed the role goodbye, he's
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Speaker 3: set to play Ron once again, but this time in
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Speaker 3: adult form in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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Speaker 4: And he's understandably super excited. He says in a statement
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Speaker 4: that Ron's been a part of him since he was 11,
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Speaker 4: and he can't wait to meet him again in a later.
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Speaker 3: Stage of life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he goes on to say, you know, something so
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Speaker 2: full circle and special, particularly now that they're both dads,
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Speaker 2: so it feels familiar and totally new.
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Speaker 3: And to be back on Broadway in a role that
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Speaker 3: defines so much of his life is surreal.
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Speaker 2: Ron follows in the footsteps of former co-star Tom Felton,
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Speaker 2: who played an adult version of his Potter character, Draco Malfoy,
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Speaker 2: in the same production, which saw ticket sales soar. This
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Speaker 2: likely to do the same.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.