Rupert Grint will step back into Ron Weasley’s shoes on Broadway, joining the cast of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” roughly 15 years after last playing the character on screen.
Mr. Grint, who played Ron Weasley in all eight “Harry Potter” movies from 2001 to 2011, will take on the role of an adult Ron for a 17-week run at the Lyric Theatre from Feb. 2 through May 30, 2027, according to a joint statement from the show’s producers reported by Playbill.
“Ron Weasley has been a part of me since I was 11 years old and I can’t wait to meet him again in this stage of life,” Mr. Grint said in a statement carried by Broadway Direct. “There is something so full-circle and so special about stepping back into Ron’s shoes now when we are both fathers.”
The play, based on a story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, picks up 19 years after the end of the final novel, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” In it, an adult Potter is married to Ginny Weasley, sister of his best friend, Ron, who married Hermione and works with his brother George at the family’s joke shop, Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, according to The Associated Press.
Producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender said Mr. Grint’s casting bridges the story’s past and present. “His return creates a powerful bridge between the story audiences first fell in love with and the story of family, legacy and the passage of time that ’Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ carries forward,” the producers said, per the AP.
Mr. Grint’s casting follows the success of Tom Felton’s run as an older Draco Malfoy, which saw box office receipts jump and has been extended through Jan. 3, according to the wire report.
This marks Mr. Grint’s second Broadway stint; he previously appeared in the original production of “It’s Only a Play” opposite Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane, and made his West End debut in Jez Butterworth’s “Mojo” opposite Ben Whishaw, according to Playbill.
Presale registration for Mr. Grint’s run is open now on the official Harry Potter Broadway site, with the presale itself beginning Sept. 1 and public tickets going on sale Sept. 2.
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