Has frequently been mistaken for Elijah Wood and vice versa. Once in Japan, a huge fan handed Radcliffe a photo of Elijah Wood to sign. While he is not religious, Daniel has described himself as Jewish.
When Chris Columbus was asked what type of child he wanted to play Harry Potter, he used a clip of Daniel Radcliffe from David Copperfield to show them what he wanted. Revealed in a interview that he started to develop an alcohol problem while filming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , and freely admitted that his performance in the film suffered as a result.
He voluntarily got sober in August on his own when he realized he was becoming too reliant on it for his daily functioning. Long-time friends with British writer-actor Stephen Fry. Chris Columbus was amazed how beautifully Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint matured over the Harry Potter series, compared to some child actors who start out adorable and then either lose that or become bad actors as they grow older. Casting an actor to play Harry Potter was a big challenge; they saw auditions and none of them felt right.
Director Chris Columbus saw Radcliffe in David Copperfield and showed it to the film's casting director and said Radcliffe was the one and that he was amazing. But she said they wouldn't get him because his parents want him to focus on his schoolwork and not acting, as well as all the attention he'd get.
So they interviewed Harry Potters of different nationalities all over the world and still didn't find him. She got frustrated with Columbus because he had his heart set on Radcliffe. By sheer coincidence, the producer and screenwriter of the Philosopher's Stone went to the theatre and in the front row was Radcliffe with his father, so they talked and slowly persuaded him to cast Radcliffe.
Close friends with David Holmes, who was his stunt double for the first six Harry Potter films. He has expressed a desire to play Robin opposite Ben Affleck in a Batman film. During his time there, he actually fact-checked one real article, Hannah Goldfield's restaurant review titled "Oxomoco Balances Hipster Bait with Mexican Tradition," published in the October 8, , issue. Radcliffe said that before Schulman's article ran, he was first called by a fact-checker to verify that everything in it was true, an experience he characterized as "very meta.
Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually. I don't know. People tell me I look mournful. They say, "Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad! If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person. Though I don't, like, dot my "I's" with hearts or anything - that would be too happy. But I don't think it's going to happen. I don't think I'll do all of them - I'll probably get too spotty or too tall or I'll shrink or something.
I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, "Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!? It was probably the best moment of my life. Upon seeing the movie: I'm a bit nervous about whether people will like it, but I've seen it, and I'm sure they will. It's really good - it's quite scary, it's quite emotional. Even I cried and I don't cry easily! I cried at the end credits when my name came up, and I was, like "Oh my God! I can't believe that's my name!
I've progressed so far and changed so much since the beginning. It's been like a real journey. I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director. I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool.
It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me. Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake. When I go back to school everyone asks a lot of questions. Then, after about a week, when I've answered everything, we get back to normal.
It's too far down the road to decide about a fifth movie. I'm still the same age Harry is, and I haven't actually grown that much. Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.
I think I'm highly normal. I'm attending school after acting, I'm going out with friends, going to the cinema - I'm just doing everything a normal teenager does. People think I can't leave the house without being in a crowd of fans - but that's not true. I'm able to do more things than people might think. I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.
When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3-headed-dog because then no one would argue with me. I played a trick on the make-up department where I put a fake blood capsule in my mouth, pretended to trip on the stairs and let the blood come out of my mouth. They really fell for it, then they chased after me with a water pistol. Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages.
I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish. If we are then I think we would be sort of stupid not to do them.
As long as I'm doing other stuff around the same time, I think it'll be fine. Also, I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, there were bits in there where I was going, "God, I would love to do that because it's so good.
My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest. I didn't look at the nudity and go, oh great. But it's the same as doing a role with an accent or a particular affectation. You look at the character first. Lots of the actors that I've admired have at one stage or another taken their kit off. It's a rite of passage.
That iconic scene is the physical and emotional climax of the play. So if I do that with pants on, it would be crap. The series was such a success with audiences that it was renewed for a second season. Hall and Ben Foster. In , he took on the role of Ignatius Perrish, the prime suspect in the rape and murder of his girlfriend, in the supernatural thriller Horns. He also starred opposite Zoe Kazan in the rom-com What If , before playing the loyal assistant Igor to the titular doctor of Victor Frankenstein the following year.
A trio of films released in showcased Radcliffe's desire to push his range as an actor: He played a corpse-turned-best friend of a suicidal castaway in Swiss Army Man ; appeared as a conniving tech executive in Now You See Me 2 ; and starred as an FBI agent attempting infiltrate a white supremacist group in Imperium.
That year the actor also returned to the stage in the off-Broadway production of Privacy. Along with starring in the survival thriller Jungle , Radcliffe remained immersed in the theater community with roles in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in and The Lifespan of a Fact in In , he returned to the small screen with a leading role in the anthology comedy series Miracle Workers , playing a low-level angel assistant to God in its first season.
Radcliffe has been dating actress Erin Darke since the two met while filming Kill Your Darlings in We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. English actor Daniel Craig has taken on a wide variety of roles but is best known for his highly popular incarnation of James Bond in films like 'Skyfall' and 'Spectre.
British actor Daniel Kaluuya made his name in the U. English novelist, pamphleteer and journalist Daniel Defoe is best known for his novels 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Moll Flanders. The film's director, Chris Columbus, had been impressed with his performance in David Copperfield , and after eight months and several rounds of auditions, he was finally cast to play Harry.
The first film in the franchise was released by Warner Bros. Radcliffe has also established himself as a gifted stage actor on both sides of the Atlantic. His first full-time theatre role was Alan Strang in the spring West End revival of Equus , which transferred to New York in the fall of , marking his Broadway debut and earning Radcliffe his first Drama Desk Award nomination.
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