Daddy duty! Rupert Grint has found that parenthood has completely changed his perspective on life.
“It was something I never really had much of an idea of, that kind of love. It’s a very different love,” the Harry Potter star told ComicBook.com in January 2021.
Grint and Georgia Groome, who were first linked in 2011, confirmed in April 2020 that they were expecting their first child together. Daughter Wednesday G. Grint was born one month later.
“Rupert Grint and Georgia Groome are delighted to confirm the birth of their baby girl,” the couple’s rep told Us Weekly in May 2020. “We would please ask that you respect their privacy at this very special time.”
The proud parents took inspiration from The Addams Family, and Christina Ricci’s precocious character, when it came to choosing a moniker for their little girl.
“[I’ve] just always loved the name,” Grint said during a March 2022 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, calling Wednesday a “strong” and “memorable” name. “We love the idea of an initial like Samuel L. Jackson and Jamie Foxx [have]. Kind of speaking the initial, so she’s Wednesday G. Grint.”
The Servant actor and the Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging star have primarily raised their little one out of the spotlight, but she is already aware of her dad’s wizarding past.
“I’ve already started showing her the trailers,” Grint told Jimmy Fallon in 2022. “She has a wand and a Pez dispenser with my head on it. We don’t feed her Pez, but she has [the dispenser].”
The England native even offered a sweet update on his little girl’s milestones at the time. “She’s kind of talking and doing things because for so long babies just don’t do anything,” he gushed. “She’s speaking, she’s talking, she’s got opinions. She says ‘Dada.’ She says ‘Mama.’ It was kind of at the same time.”
Grint, who’s described Groome as his “best friend,” has also been candid about becoming a first-time parent in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Yeah, it’s been tough,” he previously told Glamour in January 2021. “It’s a time when you want as much support as you can get from your family and your friends; it’s a very isolating thing, this lockdown, so we really have kind of been on our own.”
He added: “But there’s positives with that. It’s been great to work everything out for ourselves, without so many opinions. We’ve really bonded with Wednesday. It’s been intense, but great.”
Scroll below for more of Grint’s sweetest parenting quotes through the years: