Mischief accomplished. Daniel Radcliffe He brought to life one of the most iconic fictional characters during his tenure as Harry Potter, and found himself in the spotlight for more than a decade.
The first of eight Harry Potter The films were released in 2001 and fans around the world quickly fell in love with Radcliffe’s portrayal of the Boy Who Lived. Looking back on his first audition for the role more than 10 years later, the British actor admitted that he was embarrassed to see his younger self fight through the scenes.
“[I was] at a stage where you hate your face anyway, and everything it does is repellent to you, “he joked in a November 2015 interview with the UK Sunday time.
Radcliffe and his former co-stars, Rupert Grint and Emma WatsonThey haunted the public for a decade, and still fondly remember the time they shared on the Hogwarts grounds. After the last installment of the series in theaters in July 2011, the Miraculous workers Star discussed her experience working with her closest friends on beloved movies.
“I loved being on set. I was good on set, “he said HuffPost in 2017. “I loved learning to be useful. The best thing about being on set is being part of a team. That’s the most special thing, and you feel like everyone else who is doing this together, and I loved that feeling right away. I think that was what made me fit perfectly into those movies. “
When he was finally ready to leave Hogwarts behind, Radcliffe tried some more mature roles, acting in Equus on Broadway and later starring in a handful of experimental independent films including Horns (2013) and Swiss Army Man (2016) As the hit franchise came to an end, the former child star explained why he decided to take his career in a new direction.
“[I wanted] to show people that [I’m] not just Harry Potter, “he said Don in March 2020. “It fits very well with the ambition of wanting to do a wide variety of roles, which has always been something I’ve admired in the careers of other people who have jumped from genre to genre and have done what they like. … In recent years, I’ve become very strict with myself, just being like, just doing things that make you happy and what you want to do and that you’re excited to be a part of. “
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