GRINT STARSTRUCK BY OBAMA

Last updated: Tuesday, June 30, 2009

GRINT STARSTRUCK BY OBAMA

British actor RUPERT GRINT was left starstruck on the set of the latest HARRY POTTER movie - when U.S. First Lady MICHELLE OBAMA dropped by for a secret visit.

Rupert Grint filming 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'. London, England - 21.04.09

The 20 year old was hard at work shooting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows earlier this month (Jun09) when the wife of President Barack Obama and her two daughters, Malia, 10, and eight year old Sasha, arrived on set.

And, despite working with top actors like Sir Michael Gambon, Helena Bonham Carter and Dame Maggie Smith on the wizard film franchise, Grint admits it was the First Lady that really left him in awe.

He tells Britain's Live magazine, "I'm not easily impressed by famous people, but nothing's matched this. I didn't think I was going to be nervous, then this huge motorcade pulled up at the studio and Michelle stepped out of a black Range Rover and everybody was speechless. It's hard to imagine (British Prime Minister) Gordon Brown having that kind of effect."

Michelle Obama revealed that America's First Family were huge fans of the Harry Potter movies - and that she was more thrilled about visiting the set than she had been about meeting British Royal Queen Elizabeth II.

Grint adds, "We sat around, ate cake and chatted. She said that the President is a big fan of the films and loves the books, and that she'd met the Queen the day before - but visiting the Potter set was far more exciting, that we were a lot cooler.

"It was hard to take it all in. I kept thinking, 'Here I am talking to the First Lady.'"

Source: WENN

| Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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