Rupert Grint Talks About Swine Flu And Harry Potter

Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley on the Harry Potter series, was diagnosed with a "mild bout" of swine flu and had to take a few days out of filming.

Good thing the young actor has fully recovered from the disease. In fact, he joined his fellow stars Danielle Radcliffe and Emma Watson for the press conference of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in Mayfair.


Aside from talking about his film, he also shared his "very scary" experience with the dreaded disease:

"It was quite scary when they first told me I had swine flu, after what's been in the press and stuff. I thought, 'Am I going to die?'

"But it was honestly fine. I just had a sore throat and was in bed for a while."

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be released nationwide on July 15. Meanwhile, the cast are already working on the last part of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Like her fellow lead stars, Rupert Grint has started on the Happy Potter films barely a child. Looking back, the 20-year old actor revealed how his early years with Harry Potter has given him excitement and great memories:

"I have great memories, really. It's weird looking back on the first few Harry Potter films because it just doesn't really seem like us. It was such an exciting time in my life - everything was new, I had never been on a film set. I missed out on a lot of school and with that comes a lot of normality. But I don't regret that, to be honest."

Emma Watson For Karl Lagerfeld: A Dream Come True

First, she joined school plays. Then at the age of 9, she was casted as the adorable Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, playing alongside Danielle Radcliffe and Rupert Grint. Now at 19, Emma Watson is also recognized as one of the most beautiful faces in the fashion industry, posing for famous people like Karl Lagerfeld.


Emma Watson has undoubtedly enjoyed her success in the showbiz and fashion industry at a young age. Her work in Harry Potter has earned her more than £10 million. She is also one of the most sough-after teen star of her generation (Forbes ranked her as the 6th Most Valuable Young Star in March 2009). But what's most remarkable about this British young star is that, she chose not to leave school to become a full-time actress saying, "People can’t understand why I don’t want to... but school life keeps me in touch with my friends. It keeps me in touch with reality."

True enough, Emma Watson remains a zealous art student at the moment. Considering her classic beauty and her eye for fashion which she sees as an extension of her interest in art, it has become an easy work for this lovely teenager to crossed-over from acting to modeling.

In her latest photoshoot for Chanel as pictured above, Emma Watson posed as a "ghostly-looking nun with a veil, white eyebrows and an other-wordly expression on her face." Her nun-inspired looked was described as "ethereal." Her photo (and another one which shows her wearing an Alexander McQueen bodice-style top and a revealing Vivienne Westwood shirt) was taken by Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld for the French fashion magazine Crash.

Posing for Karl Lagerfeld, Emma Watson shares "This was a dream come true. We spent the whole day together and he can talk about anything - literature, art, science, modern culture. I was totally seduced."

Teen Actor Emma Watson Is The New Face of Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle

Famed teen actor and Harry Potter star Emma Watson is reported to be taking over Pirates of the Carribean's Keira Knightley to be the new face of Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle perfume. The contract is worth £3 million.

Aside from being an iconic teen star, Emma Watson is represented by a modeling agency which supposedly secured the Chanel deal for her. The young star's deal with Chanel is expected to be publicly announced next month.

The teen actor has been very excited about her upcoming project as sources said that she has been telling her friends that she is going to be taking over from Keira. Meanwhile the international fashion industry, French fashion house Chanel, is also preparing Emma Watson's role for the company as muse of one of its fragrance collection.

"Emma has been slowly integrated into the Chanel brand. They have been dressing her for film premieres and parties over recent months to see if she is the right fit... Once it became clear she is growing into a beautiful young woman and wears the Chanel brand so elegantly, they had to sign her up," says the reports.

With the popular teen actor Emma Watson to be the fresh face of one its fragrance, the fashion house Chanel hopes to target a younger audience.


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