- Rupert Grint had to put off getting his tonsils removed due to filming the Harry Potter movies.
- The actor told GQ that he was dealing with tonsillitis from "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" onward.
When Rupert Grint finished working on $4 he finally was able to get his tonsils out.
The actor, who spent his adolescence playing Ron Weasley in the eight Harry Potter films, $4 while working on the films. According to Grint, he began to experience tonsillitis while working on $4 the fourth film in the franchise, which was released in 2005.
"While I was filming, there was never any time to get them out," Grint said of his tonsils. "From 'Goblet' to the end of the franchise, I was just ill. My tonsils were absolutely massive."
Grint was 11 when he first began working on $4 released in 2001. He went on to play Ron in the subsequent seven films, $4.
By the time the final film premiered in July 2011, Grint was nearly 23 years old.
"They became a metaphor, really," Grint told GQ of his tonsils. "So as soon as I finished my work, I got them removed. It was one of the best decisions I ever made."
Now 34 years old, Grint is starring in two M. Night Shyamalan projects: $4 now in its fourth and final season that premiered in 2019, and "Knock at the Cabin," the director's $4 in which Grint will $4