Matthew Lewis has no regrets about shedding his clothes for a sexy photoshoot because he's still working 10 years on

Matthew later admitted his mother wasn't happy about the shoot, but he doesn't regret it because it didn't harm his acting career. He told The Independent newspaper: "[I] hadn't had a carb in about four months ... I mean, certainly I wanted to come away from Neville.

"I guess my team and I thought, should we do some kind of photo shoot to showcase the difference in who I am now, 10 years later, to hopefully give casting directors a blank slate, which I could then bounce off of."

He added that he didn't intend to strip off for the snaps but it "it just kind of went that way".

Matthew went on to add: "I think that's one thing, if anything, that I learnt from that. It is what it is. You're not getting away from it, and that's fine, as long as people keep giving you work and it's not actually impacting you professionally, so what?

"Here I am, 10 years after that, still working. Put it this way, I'm not in a position to whip my shirt off and do another one right now, I can tell you that."

After the pictures were published in 2015, Matthew admitted he had to turn his phone off for several days because the reaction to the snaps was so overwhelming.

He told the London Evening Standard newspaper: "The reaction was crazy - I turned my phone off for a couple of days, it was just a bit weird.

"It's all nice stuff being said, I can't complain about it, it's very flattering. It's just weird to have people talking about that ...

"It's very easy to under-estimate that whole thing, so what I thought was just a bit of a thing between us that a few Harry Potter fans might see and enjoy became a huge thing."

He added of his family's reaction: "My mum, bless her, was not happy at all. My dad thought it was funny.

"But my mum is a magistrate and she was at the court and all of her colleagues who are magistrates were coming up to her going: 'I saw your son' and she hadn't seen it at this point.

"She knew I'd done something for a magazine. Anyway, someone showed her and she was mortified. So I got bit of earache from her. Apart from that it was great."