![]() ![]() There's his beekeeping: a passion that also terrifies him. “You’ll mention a city and he’ll say ‘Oh yeah, I was once set on fire there,’ or, ‘That’s where I was attacked by a gaggle of geese.’” I live in fear now that it will happen again.”įree says she remains enthralled by the “whimsical, strange things” that happen to Grint. “So they had to put a stent in my, er, urethra,” he says. Apparently the surplus of those greens in your body can cause kidney stones,” she says.Īfter initially ignoring the weird pain in his kidneys, Grint went to A&E, where doctors used a laser to blast the mineral deposits into dust. “What I love about him is if it says in the script ‘He drinks a pint’ of something, Rupert will drink the full thing in every single take. “Rupert had a storyline where his character drank these leafy kale juices,” she explains. There’s the story of Grint suffering from kidney stones last September: “One of the worst things I’ve ever experienced.” He thinks it was from a lack of hydration, but Nell Tiger Free, who plays the Turner’s enigmatic nanny Leanne on Servant, suggests it was self-inflicted. Most involve a hapless protagonist (ie Grint) being undone by his own neuroses. Many of his anecdotes lack a certain showbiz polish, but are better for it. (“I don’t have anything else to add.”) Right now he’s anxious about an upcoming US talk show appearance. Although he is transparent about most areas of his life, he declines to discuss JK Rowling on the record. In conversation he’s something of a chatterbox, speaking in a low, deadpan voice that my dictaphone struggles to pick up. Grint and I meet in early January, over subway sandwiches and French fries in an East London gastropub. Robe (price on request), shirt, £495 and trousers, £495, Erdem.
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