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"You probably know her as Lavender Brown from Harry Potter, or perhaps as Zazzy from Grandma&amp;#039;s House, or maybe even as Simon Amstell&amp;#039;s personal Twitter tutor. Jessie Cave tells Digital Spy that she&amp;#039;s someone who &amp;quot;makes stuff&amp;quot;, which after having a look around her Pindippy YouTube channel seems like a perfectly fair bit of self-analysis. Ahead of her first full-length stint at Edinburgh, we spoke to Jessie about her show Bookworm, working with her sister on Mike Newell&amp;#039;s upcoming Great Expectations, and of course all things Potter. What&amp;#039;s Bookworm all about? &amp;quot;The idea is that it&amp;#039;s the launch of this book club that I&amp;#039;ve made and everyone in the audience are members. It&amp;#039;s the big day, it means everything to me. It&amp;#039;s about introducing the idea of Bookworms United to all these people.&amp;quot; What comedy were you a fan of growing up? &amp;quot;I grew up with Roseanne, I kind of adore her and stuff like Home Improvement, really traditional American stuff. But as I&amp;#039;ve grown up The Office... all the videos I tried to do now are really quite deadpan. Hopefully in the show there&amp;#039;s a really fine line between what&amp;#039;s real and what&amp;#039;s pretend.&amp;quot; Do you feel prepared for a month-long onslaught at Edinburgh? &amp;quot;I do feel prepared, I&amp;#039;ve planned this to the last minute detail since I decided I wanted to go up in September, and it means organising everything. Everything on Pindippy is stuff I&amp;#039;ve done, and I do absolutely everything. That&amp;#039;s not going to change with Edinburgh.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;ve worked with Evanna Lynch and other people on your site and joked that Rupert Grint was too busy washing his hair... &amp;quot;He really wanted to do a sketch, but he&amp;#039;s impressively difficult to pin down. I don&amp;#039;t have a team around me like he does, and to get through to Rupert. When we are face-to-face it&amp;#039;s all &amp;#039;Let&amp;#039;s do this, let&amp;#039;s do this&amp;#039; and then as soon as he&amp;#039;s gone, you have to get through all those people again. It&amp;#039;s impossible, that&amp;#039;s the downside.&amp;quot;      Do you still feel part of the famous Harry Potter family? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s nice, because I am friends with Evanna, I&amp;#039;ve just been out to visit her in LA - I&amp;#039;m really good friends with her, we might move in together. It&amp;#039;s nice, but you make a connection with somebody. I&amp;#039;ve made connections with people who weren&amp;#039;t necessarily acting in the films.&amp;quot; What would you think about a remake of the Harry Potter series? &amp;quot;I think they have to. I think you&amp;#039;ve got to just be at peace with that, that&amp;#039;s fine! It&amp;#039;ll probably be better. That&amp;#039;s fine. They would never have done that first. And also it deserves another life in some form. I was thinking the other day, it&amp;#039;s quite sad - obviously it&amp;#039;s very sad - thinking about SnitchSeeker, thinking they&amp;#039;re only now commenting on Harry Potter actors who have got new jobs, or the Harry Potter Studios, it&amp;#039;s quite sad. I was thinking, &amp;#039;How will it go on?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; I was thinking a stage thing, or a musical. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;ll always be parodies of it... It&amp;#039;s ripe for it. I think as soon as they write something else, it&amp;#039;ll be looked at differently, but for a while it&amp;#039;s still so fresh.&amp;quot;  You worked with your sister on Great Expectations - was that something you were a bit hmmm... about? &amp;quot;Bebe got the part because of me. Bebe comes everywhere with me. All of my sketches... she&amp;#039;s in Bookworm, she&amp;#039;s my sidekick. There&amp;#039;s a joke in my play about I bred her especially to be my bookworm and it&amp;#039;s true! I have three brothers and I said to my mum and dad, &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;re having another baby!&amp;#039; I just prayed and prayed to have a sister and I did. She was the best gift ever.&amp;quot; You famously introduced Simon Amstell to Twitter, but I don&amp;#039;t think he&amp;#039;s really got the hang of it... &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m like his mentor, obviously I&amp;#039;m awful. I said, Simon, you&amp;#039;re going on tour, every time you&amp;#039;re in a place tweet, y&amp;#039;know, &amp;#039;Hello Swansea&amp;#039;. That&amp;#039;s nice, it gets them involved. He&amp;#039;s done that, but that&amp;#039;s all he&amp;#039;s done!&amp;quot; You wrote about the whole thing for The Guardian... do you read the comments or do you not care? &amp;quot;Simon got me back into reading the comments. I went into it oblivious. What I&amp;#039;m really grateful to Simon for - or bitter, I don&amp;#039;t know! - is making me more self-aware. He&amp;#039;s very good, he&amp;#039;s done this for years. He&amp;#039;s got a really good antennae. The initial videos we did were very different. They were more about me investigating Simon, they were much more dramatic. He was like, &amp;#039;You need to get that out, you need to get that out&amp;#039;. So I&amp;#039;m quite grateful.&amp;quot;  You&amp;#039;ve got 30,000 odd Twitter followers. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m quite proud of that, because when I first got the job on Harry Potter and I was doing [Tom Stoppard play] Arcadia I went on Twitter and immediately because of that summer I got, like, 10,000 Twitter followers and I came off it, but I needed people to go on Pindippy so started it up again in 2010 so I had to earn those followers back.&amp;quot; They&amp;#039;re all your own work. &amp;quot;Exactly, they&amp;#039;re all Pindippy/Lavender Brown fans. I&amp;#039;ve kind of been kicking myself &amp;#039;cos I should have stayed on it.&amp;quot; What do you like so much about it? &amp;quot;When I&amp;#039;m not working in a professional capacity I&amp;#039;m writing, and when I&amp;#039;m at home it&amp;#039;s a way of having contact with people or communicating. You feel like you&amp;#039;ve got other people around you. The other side of it is I need them. Why would I expect them to turn up at my shows if I don&amp;#039;t communicate with them? And it&amp;#039;s a way of expressing myself, so I do enjoy that... You can tell a person&amp;#039;s morale from their Twitter feed. I like that, it&amp;#039;s so honest. And I like being able to follow people who I respect and admire, and the possibility of them seeing my comment about them. I also think there&amp;#039;s an artform to it, because I think there is a way of doing a good tweet - a well-composed tweet.&amp;quot;      The second series of Grandma&amp;#039;s House seemed to have an even better reception than the first... &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;cos it was so good. I read all the scripts, and they were so good. Obviously the actors Linda Bassett, Rebecca Front, Samantha Spiro, and the director Christine Gernon is like an archetypal female director, she&amp;#039;s done everything. She did Gavin &amp;amp; Stacy, she&amp;#039;s so good.&amp;quot; Do you define yourself as an actor or a comedian? &amp;quot;No, I&amp;#039;m not an actor. I don&amp;#039;t see myself as an actor. I don&amp;#039;t say I&amp;#039;m an actress to anyone, &amp;#039;cos I&amp;#039;m not.&amp;quot; So do you call yourself a comedian? &amp;quot;This sounds so bad... but I make stuff. That&amp;#039;s what I do, I make stuff. Every day I&amp;#039;m making stuff or I&amp;#039;m writing stuff or I&amp;#039;m drawing stuff or I&amp;#039;m making a prop. I make stuff. I wanna keep making stuff.&amp;quot; Jessie Cave brings Bookworm to Underbelly Cowgate at the Edinburgh Fringe August 4-26 (not 13). Tickets are available now (\u00C2\u00A39-\u00C2\u00A310). "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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