Daniel Radcliffe Is Doing Something Different
MB: JANET SUSAN NEPALES
I dont like having any downtime, revealed Daniel Radcliffe when we interviewed him recently for his latest movie, The Woman in Black.
I like working. A few weeks off to recharge is great but I always want to have something to go onto and something to keep me busy because otherwise I would go mad, admitted the former wizard boy who has given up his magic stick for Broadway and more serious acting gigs.
Asked if he talked to Fil-Am Darren Criss who took over his role as J. Pierrepont Finch in the hit Broadway musical revival, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Daniel said he did.
I told him to just have fun, he revealed. Darren does not really need any advice but I told him to attack it with a lot of energy.
Darren, who took over the Broadway role for three weeks early this year before going back to his Glee role, is also known among the Harry Potter fans as the creator-composer of A Very Potter Musical, a musical that features the characters in the Harry Potter franchise.
So it was historic for the HP fans to have the Harry Potter star, Daniel, finally meet A Very Potter Musical star, Darren. Then what a coincidence that Darren should take over Daniels role in How to Succeed.
Appearing in his first movie after Harry Potter, Daniel chose to do a scary movie, The Woman in Black, to be his first feature film after years of doing wizard work.
We asked him what made him choose this role. The 22-year-old British actor replied, I suppose it was the fact that I read the script for the first time, a couple of hours after I had done my last shot on Potter and it was a horror film which was unexpecte! d. The f act that it was so out of the blue and that I had never pictured doing one myself made it all the more sort of enticing. The fact that it felt sort of unusual for the genre in that it was a scary movie and it was frightening on the page made it interesting. It felt driven by characters and relationships and it was very strong thematically in terms of being about loss and about what happens to us if we do not move on from a loss. There was a lot going on. I knew it was absolutely what I wanted to do next.
As for his Broadway experience, Daniel admitted that he does miss it. It was really amazing. I do miss it, he said. I hope to mix stage and film for the rest of my career if I can. I love it. I grow a lot on stage. I feel like it is always a fantastic experience for me being on stage and working with people. Doing a comedy was amazing this year in terms of just really having to be that confident with an audience. It was something I had never experienced before, never had to do before and that was actually the biggest thing I took away from the year. It was amazing. I hope I get back within the next few years definitely.
So is the Harry Potter actor scared of ghosts, we asked. No, the short answer is I dont particularly have any phobias not that I am aware of. I am not particularly fond of cockroaches. I dont love them. When I was a kid, I was really freaked out by nuclear war and things like that. I thought the world was going to end tomorrow. But no, as far as any kind of paranormal experience or anything ghostly kind of things happening to me in my life, I never experienced that.
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