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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Iris Goldsztajn

'Harry Potter' Star Matthew Lewis Explains How the Young Cast Avoided "Pitfalls of Being a Child Actor"

Tom Felton, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Matthew Lewis attend the premiere of ""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2"" at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center on July 11, 2011 in New York City.

Harry Potter star Matthew Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom, has explained how he thinks the movies' young cast avoided the "pitfalls of being a child actor"—and what he had to say was pretty heartwarming.

"One of the questions that was asked earlier about the pitfalls of being a child actor that we seem to have avoided, I would posit that a large degree of that was because we were all there together," Lewis said during an appearance at Rhode Island Comic Con on Nov. 3 (via People). "Frequently, you hear many stories of how they were the sole actor in that movie and having to carry that movie on their own and all of the pressures and anxieties that come with that. Whereas, we were all kind together."

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