Even though Harry Potter launched the careers of a lot of child actors, there were some downsides to the cast spending their own childhoods on set.
Franchise star Matthew Lewis, who portrayed Neville Longbottom in all eight Harry Potter films, explains that there is another lasting price to having been in the films besides dedicating an entire childhood to the series.
If you grew up reading the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling and remember waiting in line to see the films dressed up as your favorite characters, welcome to your steadily approaching 30s and 40s!
That’s right, it’s been nearly a decade since the last Harry Potter film hit theaters, and the kids who spent their childhood years binging the whole series are all grown up – and so are the cast members.