Kimberly Nixon got British actor Rupert Grint, most known for his role as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, to chuck his wizardly robes in the movie “Cherry Bomb”.

In the new indie film, Grint gets to roll around naked with co-star Nixon who is at the center of a love triangle she is relishing in. One of the boys is said to die at the end of the movie, but the victim will not be known until the movie is released in a few months, likely beating “Half-Blood Prince” to theaters now that it has been pushed back to the summer of 2009.

Grint, 20, is joining his Potter castmate Daniel Radcliffe, who did a bit of acting in his birthday suit when he joined the cast of Equus which will be hitting the US stages soon as well.

‘When we were filming the sex scenes I turned to him and said: “I’m going to get loads of hate mail from girls who are absolutely in love with you – they are going to think I am this [girl] who de-flowered you.”‘

The actress, 23, tells me: ‘I’d never done a sex scene before and I was extremely nervous. But because Rupert was even more nervous, I had to pretend to be cool about it.

‘When I told my boyfriend I had to do a sex scene he wasn’t too pleased. But when I told him who it was with, he laughed for ten minutes, because he couldn’t imagine anybody having sex with Ron Weasley.’

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