{"id":94135,"date":"2024-05-01T05:30:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T05:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/how-daniel-radcliffe-outran-harry-potter\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T05:30:34","slug":"how-daniel-radcliffe-outran-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/how-daniel-radcliffe-outran-harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"How Daniel Radcliffe Outran Harry Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When Daniel Radcliffe accepted his most famous role at age 11, he was warned that early fame would leave him \u201cfucked up.\u201d Chris Heath on how the actor escaped the long shadow of Harry Potter: https:\/\/t.co\/ZMrwMNBlyX<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Atlantic profiled Daniel Radcliffe, on the heels of his first Tony nomination for Merrily We Roll Along<\/i>. <\/p>\n

  • He talks about when he was first cast in Potter<\/i> and how any people assumed he’d either end up a tragic child star or only ever be known as Harry if he attepted a career after: \u201cThere was a constant kind of drumbeat of \u2018Are you all going to be screwed up by this?\u2019\u200aLooking back, […] I\u2019m quite impressed with 13-, 14-year-old me\u2019s reaction to those things. To really, actually use them. To internally be going: Fuck you, I\u2019m going to prove that wrong<\/i>.\u201d<\/li>\n

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  • He also says that he was generally quite sheltered from the media frenzy surrounding HP until the first premiere, where he was overwhelmed by how chaotic it was. Naturally, that was only the first tie he was caught up in a flood of press attention. He credits his \u201cincredibly loving\u201d parents and other adults around him for setting the tone whenever things got crazy, by making the strangeness of it all funny instead of stressful. He also said it was helped that they were treated as kids rather than young stars on set.<\/li>\n

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  • He made a conscious decision around the third Potter film to pursue acting as a career. However, this also made him more self-conscious about his performances on top of standard teenage awkwardness. He added: \u201cI didn\u2019t want my face to do anything weird. Like, I used to hate smiling on camera, because I hated my smile.\u201d<\/li>\n

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  • He mentions Half-Blood Prince was a tipping point for him as he started to struggle with alcoholism, as he has mentioned in the past. \u201cI had a really romanticized idea of all these old actors who were always on the piss, and there were all these stories about them and they were really funny. […] I was like, I\u2019ve got to be able to keep up with all these hardened film crews.\u201d <\/li>\n

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  • One of the people to help set him straight was David Holmes, who was his stunt double for Potter and a close friend. Holmes, who was paralyzed after a freak accident on set, shared the following: \u201cOne day when he came and visited the hospital, he just looked tired\u2014 bags under his eyes, skin wasn\u2019t too good. And I\u2019m lying there in a bed with a neck brace on with a feeding tube up my nose. Of course, Harry Potter\u2019s on the ward, so we\u2019ve got loads of attention, but we put the bed curtain around and I just said to him, \u2018Look, mate, you\u2019ve got to look after yourself with this. I\u2019m not lying here the way I am watching you piss this away. So please know, if I could get up right now and give you a hiding, I fucking would.\u2019\u201d The two remain close today and Radcliffe has remained sober for over a decade.<\/li>\n

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  • He claims that making Kill Your Darlings<\/i> right after Potter<\/i> was pivotal, as he went from being the face of a well-oiled franchise machine to having director John Krokidas teach him more about acting as a craft. He also met long-term partner Erin Darke on the project, in which they had a brief sex scene (which he acknowledged will be awkward for their son one day). Krokidas had the pair stand \u201ca foot from each other, and [we] made eye contact and said things that we found attractive about each other or said things that we liked about each other. And I was so immediately aware that I was going red because I was like, Oh God, there\u2019s no way for this girl not to find out that I really like her in this moment<\/i>.\u201d<\/li>\n

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  • On their relationship now: \u201cI have learned so much from her about my own boundaries. Very occasionally, people will come up to me in the street and be very weird or rude or something like that. And she has given me a sense over the years of: You don\u2019t have to just be nice to everyone when they\u2019re weird with you<\/i>. She\u2019s given me some sense of my own autonomy, I guess.\u201d<\/li>\n

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  • On speaking out when JKR chose to be outspoken with her transphobia: \u201cI\u2019d worked with the Trevor Project for 12 years and it would have seemed like, I don\u2019t know, immense cowardice to me to not say something. I wanted to try and help people that had been negatively affected by the comments […] and to say that if those are Jo\u2019s views, then they are not the views of everybody associated with the Potter<\/i> franchise.\u201d<\/li>\n

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  • He also said that he has had no direct contact with Rowling since, and added: \u201cIt makes me really sad, ultimately, because I do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic.\u201d<\/li>\n

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  • On the reaction in the British press after he, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint all spoke out against JKR and in support of the trans community: \u201cThere\u2019s a version of \u2018Are these three kids ungrateful brats?\u2019 that people have always wanted to write, and they were finally able to. So, good for them, I guess. […] Jo, obviously Harry Potter would not have happened without her, so nothing in my life would have probably happened the way it is without that person. But that doesn\u2019t mean that you owe the things you truly believe to someone else for your entire life.\u201d<\/li>\n

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  • The interview was conducted before JKR’s recent tantrum<\/s> tweets saying she would not accept an apology from any of the stars if offered. The article’s author reached out to Radcliffe about that, to which he simply replied: \u201cI will continue to support the rights of all LGBTQ people, and have no further comment than that.\u201d<\/li>\n

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  • Regarding his eclectic career choices, Radcliffe added that he doesn’t have to work thanks to his Potter<\/i> earnings (\u201cNot to sound like an asshole about it\u2014I\u2019m sure people reading this will be like, \u2018For fuck\u2019s sake\u2019\u201d) and that he is lucky to not only have the freedom to make offbeat projects but also to work purely for the love of it. <\/li>\n

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  • On the type of roles he chases: \u201cI\u2019ve realized over the years that if there\u2019s a sweet spot to be found between deeply fucking weird and strange and almost unsettling, and kind of wholesome and earnest and very sincere, then that\u2019s the stuff I really love doing. [Anything] that says something kind of lovely about human beings in spite of ourselves, in spite of how bad the world is.\u201d<\/li>\n


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