A closer look
Rupert Grint secured the role of Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films by sending the casting directors a video of himself dressed as a female drama teacher performing a personalized hip-hop rap about how much he wanted the part, completely ignoring the standard professional audition process like thousands of other trained child actors and instead leaning into pure unhinged embarrassment to stand out from the crowd, making it incredibly validating to know that a multi-billion dollar fantasy franchise anchored one of its main characters on a kid who essentially submitted a cringe-inducing TikTok before the internet even existed and bypassed the entire Hollywood system through sheer unabashed weirdness
