Rupert Grint (left), Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe. Photograph: Shaun Curry/AFP/Getty Images
Get ready to take notes, now, because it's time for another unexpected edition of Inside the Actors' Studio. This week's master of the craft: Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films. I know! I can't wait to find out what inner space he draws on to produce those stylised gulps of fear. You know the move: he opens his eyes really wide and swallows. Does it in every scene.
Anyway, Rupert has been in conversation with the Sun this week, and felt moved to discourse on the members of his profession he feels are just a bit too big for their boots.
"I met Lindsay [Lohan] last summer and she talked about herself a lot," he revealed. "She said she was going to win an Oscar before she turns 25. I just kept thinking, 'But you can't act'."
Oh, PLEASE ... like the Harry Potter kids can deliver a line! Pay no attention to the wizard-boy, readers: British kids are appalling at acting.
America has the brilliant Abigail Breslin and Dakota Fanning. And we have Ron and Hermione, who, despite having passed into adulthood, still look like they're reluctantly reciting a line in exchange for the chocolate drop that will be proffered the minute the director yells "cut!", and sighs to his assistant, "Can we drown this out with some more owl noises or whatever? And for the love of God, let's cut the number of scenes they share with Maggie Smith. The contrast is looking painful."
