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TIL Before Alfonso Cuarón directed the third Harry Potter film, he assigned the three leads to write a first person autobiographical essay about their character. Rupert Grint didn’t write his, saying ‘I’m Ron; Ron wouldn’t do it.’ Cuarón replied 'Okay, you do understand your character.’

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