"I dare not think about going to New York, because it might never happen. If it comes off it will be brilliant," the young actor told me when we talked during his run in the Peter Shaffer play, which packed the Gielgud earlier this year"

"Prepare to be astonished" Daniel Radcliffe

"In your new film, My Boy Jack, you play a WW1 soldier. How were the trenches? Exhilarating. Conditions were tough; there were mud, rats and we were soaked by rain machines. It was Glastonbury all over again - but with guns."

December Boys press junket interviews from Australia.

"Wait a minute!" he suddenly says, jumping up from his chair and heading over to the bin. "I'm going to throw out my chewing gum. I don't like seeing people chew gum. I remember watching an interview with someone, I can't remember who, and seeing them chewing gum the whole way through, and I was thinking - gaaaaaah!" He makes the sort of exasperated noise fathers make when you ask them to mend your bike puncture.

Jenna from danradcliffe.com talked with Daniel about December Boys in July but has released her interview online now. It's shared on her Aced magazine website. Below an excerpt.

You have a lot of scripts coming your way, what made you choose this one?
You know, you probably get… say you get 50 scripts, if you get one of them that’s good then that’s great. If you get one that’s brilliant, you’ve hit the jackpot… and that’s what we did. The script for December Boys was absolutely fantastic. I read the script and loved it. And then… meeting the director in London, a guy called Rod Hardy, who directs a lot of American TV.

This has been his project of passion for about twelve years now. He’s been trying to get it made. After meeting with him, that just confirmed it for me because we had very similar visions of the film as a whole and of my character Maps. From that point on I really wanted to do it. We had always planned to do something between Harry Potter four and five, and December Boys came along at exactly the right time. It was a beautiful piece of writing so… yea – that was the reason.