Just as you might cringe at the sound of your own voice, plenty of actors feel uncomfortable watching their onscreen performances. Usually, this isn't a huge deal, but it can create a pretty tragic problem when they're fans of their films' source material — like Harry Potter fan and star Rupert Grint, who recently said that, devastatingly enough, he's completely unable to enjoy any of the Potter films.
"I think being in things ruins them for me," he recently told British magazine Radio Times. "I can't enjoy Harry Potter anymore, not as a fan — it's just not the same!" That said, Rupert is still proud of his work and happy to stop to take selfies with fans. "[The attention] is definitely manageable. I end up having to take a selfie most days, but I've never really minded if it makes people happy — though I hate it when people take pictures without asking," he said. "It was really exciting when I was about 11 or 12, but it got harder in my teenage years. Sometimes you just want to be invisible."
Despite his mixed feelings about the Harry Potter films, the 29-year-old recently shared that he'll always share a special bond with the character of Ron Weasley. "I think [the role] will always be with me," he told Vulture in March. "I had a weird relationship with that character because after that, we kind of merged into the same person. I find it very hard to separate where I end and Ron begins."
Rupert has previously spoken about how living in the Harry Potter bubble for most of his childhood and teenage years impacted his life. He told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year that he seriously considered quitting acting after the series' eighth and final film. "We had such an intimate and intense few years in this bubble," he said. "When I started, [acting] was never something that I aspired to do. I did acting with school plays and stuff like that. But it was never something that I actively dreamed of. I mean, I fell in love with it while I was doing it. But I definitely did think, 'Is this really what I want to do?' I wanted to live a little bit. I felt like I'd missed out on a lot. Being in that adult environment from such an early age, it was nice to just be away from it and not have any kind of commitments at all, and just be a bit free."
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