Ed Sheeran followers are seeing double as soon as once more. Fourteen years after the pop star first tapped Rupert Grint to play his stalker/doppelgänger within the “Lego Home” music video, the 2 ginger gents have teamed up as soon as once more for a brand new music video, coming quickly.
Arriving Thursday alongside a brand new tune titled “A Little Extra,” the video will characteristic the Harry Potter star seemingly reprising his function from the 2011 “Lego Home” visible. In a clip posted by Sheeran on Monday (Aug. 4), Grint steps out of a jail — the place he seems to have spent the previous decade and a half in custody — and begins strolling because the reminiscences of his previous crimes flash by way of his thoughts. The montage that performs options clips from “Lego Home,” exhibiting Grint getting tackled after he sneaks right into a live performance venue and pretends to be the Grammy winner onstage.
“14 years later me and @rupertgrint are reunited,” Sheeran captioned the clip. “I had this wild thought after writing the tune, and fortunately rupert was up for it. It’s an totally bonkers video for a really upbeat, enjoyable, however offended tune.”
The musician additionally confirmed that “A Little Extra” will seem on his upcoming album Play, noting that he thinks it’ll be “lots of people’s fav tune” on the September-slated mission. Shortly previous to the official tune announcement, Sheeran posted a funny clip of himself and Grint singing alongside to the lyrics.
The 2 males have been poking enjoyable at their similarities as fellow red-headed English stars for years. After Grint performed Sheeran’s obsessive fan in “Lego Home,” the Knock on the Cabin actor joked on an MTV Information comedy skit that Sheeran was by no means an actual particular person, however as an alternative a personality he made up.
“After Potter, all I wished to do was stretch myself, create some actual magic, so I created a personality,” he stated within the sketch. “He’d have the voice of an angel, impossibly wispy facial hair. So I purchased a guitar and a bunch of flannel, and I referred to as him Ed — Ed Sheeran.”
See Sheeran’s announcement that includes Grint under.