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Rupert Grint Calls Early Fatherhood “Isolating” and “Traumatising” as He Promotes Nightborn at Berlinale

He says early parental anxiety shaped his performance in Berlinale title Nightborn.

Overview

  • In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Grint said the first months after his first child's birth felt isolating and at times “quite traumatising.”
  • He described fears about his baby's safety and “something being not quite normal,” experiences he said he drew on for his latest role.
  • Grint plays a new father in Hanna Bergholm’s folklore-inflected horror Nightborn, which is premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival.
  • He and longtime partner Georgia Groome share two daughters, Wednesday, 5, and Goldie, about 10 months, and have kept their family life relatively private.
  • At a Berlinale press conference, he offered only a brief political remark, saying of the rise of the far right, “Obviously, I’m against it.”