He looks very serious here but is hilarious in #Bluestone42. Watch @Mattdavelewis on @BBCthree Monday@10pm. So Good!! pic.twitter.com/u6y1mkCyxm
— Emma Watson (@EmWatson) March 6, 2015
Leaving his Hogwarts robes and magic wand behind! Matthew Lewis may have risen to fame as a child star in the Harry Potter movies, but the British actor has an exciting new gig and is now all-grown up and looking nothing like Neville Longbottom.
Lewis, now 25, landed a starring role in the BBC dramedy Bluestone 42, which returns for its third season on Monday. His longtime friend and former Harry Potter costar Emma Watson celebrated the show’s return on Twitter on Friday, March 6.
Watson, 24, who famously played Hermione Granger opposite Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, and Rupert Grint in all eight Harry Potter? films, shared a photo of the actor in Bluestone 42, in which he looks like a rugged, handsome Hollywood star, rather than a notoriously awkward-looking little kid.
“He looks very serious here but is hilarious in #Bluestone42,” Watson captioned the hunky shot of Lewis. “Watch @Mattdavelewis on @BBCthree Monday@10pm. So Good!!!”
Lewis’ acting career has continued strongly in the years since the final Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, hit theaters in 2011. He went on to appear in the British series The Syndicate, and was featured in the films The Rise and The Sweet Shop before he booked his part in Bluestone 42.
While many Harry Potter fans marveled at Lewis’ dreamy transformation in recent years, the star himself said the adoration came as a surprise.
“I wasn’t attractive when I was growing up and I don’t think I am now,” he told The Mirror in November 2012. “It was never something I associated with me, ever, so it came as a shock. It was never, like, ‘Let me take these ears off then you’ll see.'”