Chris Columbus Talks Rupert Grint And Emma Watson Casting For Harry Potter!

December 6th, 2009, 12:31 PM–As part of the Harry Potter ABC Family Weekend First Look, we now have a clip in which Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets director Chris Columbus discusses the casting of Rupert Grint and Emma Watson in the now famous roles of Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger. In the clip he had this to say about Rupert:

For Rupert, for Ron Weasley, same sort of situation happened.  He immediately popped of the screen. Rupert is a very shy kid, but he had this devilish, mischievous quality, and he had a face that I’ve never seen before.  I mean he was just unique, and his face was just a wealth of all these emotions. He had a wonderful sense of humor, but also a sense of soul. He really felt, like he was one of the Weasley children.

You can see the entire clip here!