Grown - Up Grint

Former Harry Potter Star Rupert Grint Takes A Decidedly De Baucherous Turn On The Upcoming Crackle Series Snatch.

- Clark Collis

IN THE SECOND EPISODE OF CRACKLE’S NEW LONDON set action-comedy series Snatch (debuting March 16), an impoverished aristocrat named Charlie Cavendish-Scott agrees to help transport three diamond-smuggling Hasidic Jews from the airport to a homicidally inclined jeweler. Things rapidly take a turn to crazy-town when the quartet ingest some Molly, visit a strip club, and are ultimately relieved of their precious stones by motorcycle-riding, gun-toting gangsters. The twist? Cavendish-Scott is played by Rupert Grint, the former child star best known for portraying Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films. “We were filming in a Lexus showroom that had been turned into this strip club,” says Grint, 28, of the sequence. “There was a big shoot-out, and we were filming during the day, and these people across the street are coming out of the supermarket seeing this scene in front of them. It was just insanity.” Matters can’t have been helped by the fact that Grint owns one of the U.K.’s most familiar faces. “I didn’t realize how truly famous Rupert was until I started working with him,” says the show’s creator, Alex De Rakoff. 

“You start filming in the street, and it just kicks off. Everybody knows who he is, and he gets so much attention. But he’s genuinely nice to people. I never saw him once turn down an autograph.”