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Rupert Grint to return to Harry Potter in Broadway play
Rupert Grint said there was something "so special about stepping back into Ron's shoes now when we are both fathers"
Harry Potter star Rupert Grint is to return to the role of Ron Weasley - playing the character as an adult in the spin-off play in New York.
Grint was first cast to play Ron in the original films at the age of 11. Now 38, he will join the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway for four months from next February.
The play catches up with Harry, Ron and Hermione as grown-ups, 19 years after the end of the events in the original books and films - with Ron and Hermione now married and sending their daughter to Hogwarts.
"Dusting off the old robes. New York - see you all in February," Grint wrote on Instagram, external.
Last November, he told BBC News he was unlikely to ever "step out" of Ron Weasley's shadow. "I'm fine with that. I think it's great," he said.
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In a statement on Wednesday, the British actor said: "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.
"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.
"And the joy of being back on Broadway, this time in a role that defined so much of my life is truly exciting."