Way to get the kids’ hopes up? And/or call it another cautionary tale about the specious U.K. Sun.
They reported recently — and it was disseminated by folks like Cinematical and Popcrunch — that Martin Scorsese thought ginger-haired “Harry Potter” star Rupert Grint was the bees knees, the next Leonardo DiCaprio, and that director wanted him for some gangster picture.
They even made fake quotes that read, “I would be interested in working with him. I would have no issues in casting him as a gangster, he is a very talented young man.” The hint there is these quotes couldn’t be any more generic. Grint’s U.K. flack maybe?
But in a statement Scorsese gave out to media outlets like the New York Times, the filmmaker basically refuted all of these quotes and claims. “With respect to the Harry Potter films, regrettably I’ve never seen them,” he said. “Therefore [I] am not able to discuss them or the performances of the talent in them in any way.”
The Times even called the liar-liar-pants-on-fire Sun for a comment, but of course they didn’t return the calls. You know Rupert Grint just went from elation to “faaaaaahhhhck!” Oh well, that’s Hollywood and the media for you, kid. “Harry Potter” has probably made him a mint anyhow.
Now that's just mean. (For the Sun . . . I mean)
There's a movie that Martin Scorsese hasn't seen? Bollocks.
Who said Grint even cared. It was The Sun, who would actually believe that.