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Update: Rupert Grint Attends Tribeca Film Festival

Rupert Grint attended the Tribeca Film Festival for the showing of his latest film Driving Lessons. RupertGrint.net has some video of the event, and you can see some photos of him at Wire Image.

Update: There is a short clip of Rupert during the event here. Thanks to HPFZ.

We also have some of the questions that were asked of Rupert (thanks to MuggleNet):

Question: Do you relate to Ben (Rupert's character)?
Rupert: In some ways I do (laughs) - the bad dancing!

Question: How was your first on-screen kiss?
Rupert (totally blushing): Fifteen takes, that took! (Audience laughter) The girl was really helpful - I'll stop there. (More audience laughs).

Jeremy Brock (writer, director) said that Rupert is also like Ben, because he is intensely modest. Brock also said that he chose Rupert to play Ben (a character based on himself) because having seen Rupert in the Harry Potter movies, he thought that Rupert was extremely talented and under-used. Brock said that it took real talent for Rupert to play a character who bears witness to the events of his own life throughout the first half of the film and becomes someone who learns to express himself. He said that Rupert far exceeded his expectations.

Laura Linney said that she and Rupert were constantly cracking up during the filming and that there most be tons of unusable footage!

Rupert was also asked if he would like to do any other independent films, and he said that he would and enjoys doing different things. He also said that he couldn't say whether he enjoyed filming Driving Lessons or the HP films more because they are so different, especially because Driving Lessons was shot in about six weeks, whereas each HP movie takes nearly a year.

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by Yana @ 3 May 2006 - 20:45

Wow... he's soooooo ugly... ew.

-Yana*