HARRY POTTER Star Rupert Grint to Make Stage Debut in MOJO Revival, Oct 2013

According to the Daily Mail, Rupert Grint (Harry Potter) will make his stage debut in a revival of MOJO by Jez Butterworth. Grint joins Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey), Ben Whishaw (Skyfall) and Daniel Mays (Mrs Biggs, Made In Dagenham). Rehearsals are set to begin in September 2013 for an October debut at the Harold Pinter Theatre.

"I'd seen the Potter films with my daughter and always through Rupert was truthful as Ron Weasley," said Ian Rickson, who directed the 1995 production of MOJO at the Royal Court. "There's something ordinary and centered about him, and in this world of MOJO you want that grittiness."

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As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Grint recently lead a workshop reading of MOJO, opposite Whitsaw, Mays and Robert Sheehan.

Grint will play a "pill-popping petty crook" named "Sweets" in the play, which is set in Soho in 1958. Mays performs opposite Grint as "Potts". Coyle will portray "Mickey", a gangster looking to rise in the ranks, and Whishaw will take the stage as the psychotic, fully loaded "Baby".

Rickson and playwright Butterworth are reportedly doing some "tinkering" on the play, which follows a young rock singer in Soho in 1958 who takes a gig at seedy nightclub -- only to get wrapped up in the dangerous deeds of the club's owner, a promoter, and a gangster.

MOJO opened at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1995, where Butterworth won the George Divine Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Writer's New Guild Writer of the Year Award, the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright and the Olivier Award for Britain's Best Comedy all in 1995. Butterworth also directed a film adaptation of the play in 1997.

Grint is best known for his role as Ron Weasley in the HARRY POTTER films, where he starred opposite Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson. He has also appeared in such films as CHERRY BOMB, WILD TARGET, DRIVING LESSONS and more. He recently lead CBS' SUPER CLYDE pilot, which was ultimately not picked up for series.