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“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,” Grint
said in a statement. “There is something so full-circle and so
special about stepping back into Ron’s shoes now when we are
both fathers; it is somehow both very familiar and completely
new.”
It will mark the second time a member of the “Harry Potter” film
cast has joined the stage production. This year, Tom Felton
reprised his role of Draco Malfoy, seeing box office receipts
jump.
The play picks up 19 years after the end of the final novel,
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” An adult Potter is
married to Ginny Weasley, sister of his best friend, Ron, who
married brainy Hermione. Both couples have children and all are
in danger again. Ron runs his own joke shop, Weasley’s Wizard
Wheezes.
“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,” producers Sonia Friedman and Colin
Callender said in a statement.
Grint made his Broadway debut in the original production of
“It’s Only a Play,” opposite Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane.
He made his West End debut in Jez Butterworth’s play “Mojo,”
starring opposite Ben Whishaw.
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