Ed Sheeran isn’t just good at writing songs that sneak into your head and camp out there for weeks. He also knows how to play with his image, and more specifically, with the idea that he has a celebrity lookalike. In the video for his new track “A Little More,” Sheeran reunites with Rupert Grint, whose Harry Potter fame has been shadowed in recent years by the running joke that he and Ed Sheeran could swap lives without anyone noticing.
Fans will remember Grint’s role in the 2011 “Lego House” video, where he played a crazed Sheeran superfan with ginger hair and a guitar in tow. “A Little More” doesn’t just bring Grint back, it picks up the narrative where “Lego House” left off. The new visual follows Grint as he continues to haunt Sheeran’s world like some lost twin, crossing paths with the real musician in increasingly surreal and tongue-in-cheek ways.
It’s a fitting sequel, nearly 15 years after the original. There’s a knowing humor in how both Sheeran and Grint lean into the joke. Their self-awareness is what makes this collaboration work. It’s not about parody, it’s about embracing the absurdity of fame and lookalike culture. Grint plays the role with just the right amount of confusion and comic timing, never pushing the bit too far, while Sheeran stays mostly in the background, letting the concept breathe. It’s fun to see two public figures who have often been mistaken for each other having some fun with it, and delivering a video that sticks the landing.
