Rupert Grint Set to Return to Broadway as Ron Weasley in 'Harry Potter and the CursedChild
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Rupert Grint will step back into Ron Weasley’s shoes on Broadway, joining the cast of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” roughly 15 years after last playing the character on screen.
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NYT ArtsRupert Grint Will Join ‘Harry Potter’ Again, This Time on Broadway The British actor, who played Ron Weasley in all eight films, will play the same character, this time as an adult, in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
The Guardian CultureRupert Grint is set to reprise the role of Ron Weasley in the Broadway hit Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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“Ron Weasley has been a part of me since I was 11 years old and I can’t wait to meet him again in this stage of life,” Mr. Grint said in a statement carried by Broadway Direct. “There is something so full-circle and so special about stepping back into Ron’s shoes now when we are both fathers.”
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The Guardian Culture“Ron Weasley has been a part of me since I was 11 years old and I can’t wait to meet him again in this stage of life,” Grint said in a statement. “There is something so full-circle and so special about stepping back into Ron’s shoes now when we are both fathers; it is somehow both very familiar and completely new. And the joy of being back on Broadway, this time in a role that defined so much of my life is truly exciting.”
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Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender said Mr. Grint’s casting bridges the story’s past and present. “His return creates a powerful bridge between the story audiences first fell in love with and the story of family, legacy and the passage of time that ’Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ carries forward,” the producers said, per the AP.
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The Guardian CultureProducers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender said that his return “creates a powerful bridge between the story audiences first fell in love with and the story of family, legacy and the passage of time that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child carries forward”.
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01 The Guardian Culture The actor will join the long-running stage show for 17 weeks starting in February 2027.
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02 Washington Times Culture The play, based on a story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, picks up 19 years after the end of the final novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” In it, an adult Potter is married to Ginny Weasley, sister of his best friend, Ron, who married Hermione and works with his brother George at the family’s joke shop, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, according to The Associated Press.
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