Entertainment Weekly interviewed Daniel at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where he is promoting Kill Your Darlings, Horns and The F Word. “It’s that rarest of things,” says Radcliffe. “It’s a really cheerful, happy film without being sentimental.”
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Two years removed from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,
which capped a decade of eight movies that grossed more than $7.7
billion worldwide, do you find that the industry still sees you as that
character, and do you find that frustrating?
DANIEL RADCLIFFE: On the whole, no
is the answer to that question. Occasionally you’ll get some script in
for some crappy fantasy thing and you just go, “Well, no, guys.” But
generally speaking, I think the fact that I’ve shown a willingness to
stretch myself and test myself means that people want to test you. So,
no, I don’t get frustrated by that because it hasn’t — so far, at least —
been an issue.
The three films you have at the festival
couldn’t be more different. Is there a strategy involved when you choose
these roles, a calculated effort to build Dan Radcliffe 2.0 and do
something contrarian from what’s expected? Or do you simply have the
luxury to choose parts that speak to you?
I do have that luxury. I was obviously made financially secure by Potter,
and so I am able to just do what I like, in terms of picking projects,
which is a fantastic freedom to have and one that very few young actors
have. But you can’t really make that much of a strategy, because you
don’t know what scripts are going to come in. It’s really just about
picking things that you get enthusiastic about and that you’re going to
be excited to do.
You were just 10 years old or so when you and your parents agreed to sign on for Harry Potter. Even though the books had been popular, did you have any realization of just how enormous this was going to become?
We did not have any kind of concept of how
big it was going to be, but my parents had the right attitude and always
kept the right attitude with me, which was that it was all just fun.
You know, going to a premiere was fun. Doing interviews was fun. You
found ways of making it into a game. So I never felt pressure as a young
kid, I never was really stressed out by it, and I never felt daunted by
what was ahead. You know, I initially signed on for the first two
films. Then, after that, each year, my mum and dad would say, “Are you
still enjoying it? Do you still want to go back?” I would be like,
“Yes.” And that was it, right up until after No. 5, when I just signed
up for 6 and 7, because at that point there was no way I was going to
not do the last two. It was an amazing way to spend my teenage years. I
loved it, and I made some friends that I hope I’ll have for the rest of
my life.
You know, you don’t have to look very far to
find stories about child actors who struggle with success and with what
happens after the success disappears. Hollywood is littered with the
carcasses of child actors who struggle professionally and personally
with growing up. But you have emerged relatively unscathed and
creatively healthy.
I think when you start young, you either get lucky
and you love it or you don’t. And if you don’t, and then you’re stuck in
it and you come to resent it, then obviously stuff goes wrong. But I’ve
always loved it. And I also think there’s something to be said, you
know — you said Hollywood is littered with the carcasses — I have spent
so little time in Hollywood in my life. I’ve literally spent under three
weeks there, if you add up the entire time I’ve spent there in my life,
so I think that probably does make a big difference. I don’t mean to
say that Hollywood is crap, but growing up in the industry there I think
is a lot more challenging than it is in London.
In Horns, you play a character who’s
suspected of murdering his girlfriend and then wakes up to find
devilish horns growing out of his head. It’s a movie that seems to be
having a little fun with Harry Potter and the fame of playing him.
Probably Alex [Aja] snuck some stuff in there that I
wasn’t aware of. I think it’s mostly happenstance, stuff like obviously
the snakes being a huge part, and the fact that I’m wearing red and
gold. I think there were just a lot of things in this film that already
existed, but take on a slightly richer meta layer when I’m cast in the
role.
We haven’t met, but I was at Sundance earlier
this year, walking out of a hotel, when a mob of photographers started
taking my picture — which is an unusual experience for me and was quite
unsettling. It wasn’t until I turned around that I realized they were
snapping shots of you.
Oh, right. Sorry.
But it made me realize what you have to deal with all the time — from the time you were 10. And then, when I saw that scene in Horns
where you offer an exclusive interview to whichever reporter beats the
crap out of the others, I couldn’t help but think that was something you
took some relish in playing.
I definitely enjoyed all that stuff, like getting the
media to fight. Don’t get me wrong, I have a very good relationship on
the whole with journalists, but there were times, particularly in the
later years of my teenage years, when I definitely would’ve liked to
start a fight between journalists if I could have done. So it’s a huge
amount of fun to play around with all that stuff — stuff that you know
sort of plays into people’s perception of you and slightly subvert that.
It’s a joke within a joke, another layer for people who are sort of in
the know.
You don’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.
I start filming Frankenstein later in the
year. It’s an absolutely brilliant, mad adventure of a script with James
McAvoy as Victor, and I’ll be playing Igor. [He pronounces it I-gor].
Is it I-gor or Ee-gor, per Young Frankenstein?
There is some debate now about which is the version
we’re going to use. It won’t be up to me, because it’s not actually my
name for the whole film … so I’ll leave that as a tantalizing clue. I’m
not the one who has to say it first. I think James is the one to call me
it first. So whatever he pronounces, that will be the name.
source: ew.com
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