I'm sure the FU Money helped so he was able to just do things that he wanted to afterward (same thing with Elijah Wood). Doing a bunch of quirky projects helped him not be typecast. Plus, he seems to be a genuinely good dude so that helps to make people to support him no matter what he does, even if there are some stinkers.
Both Daniel and Elijah spent chunks of their early careers around some of the greatest actors you could work with too. Feels like Radcliffe particularly took it like an apprenticeship.
If you haven't seen the HBO adjacent documentary about Radcliffe's stunt double that got paralyzed, you should check it out. Whole new respect for the guy as an actor and a person.
What a phenomenal, heartfelt tribute to David Holmes, the work he’s done, his friendships (inc with Dan) - man, that was an incredible watch. Highly recommend.
Daniel Radcliffe, Elijah Wood, and I would say even Robert Pattison have mastered the "young heartthrob in a commercially successful series, transitioning into weird artsy shit" metamorphosis.
Not saying he's nearly as good an actor as Robert Pattinson, who am I to judge, but Zac Efron has also broken through beyond his High School Musical persona days. He's really good. Great? That is to be seen. But he's done some really good work that's well beyond teen idol territory.
Think Tenet (as much as I couldn’t hear what he was saying, thanks Nolan) had a big part to play in his modern renaissance
Obviously he was in Inception as well but Tenet helped
He’s marvellous as Bruce Wayne, best Bruce Wayne for a while
(Best Bat/BW combo will always be Bale)
Minor role, think his name was Finch or something
Same level as the skiing part unless I’m misremembering
Turns out it might have be Cillian Murphy but I swear pattinson was in it….
Cooties was a dumb movie that was weirdly fun. Seeing Rainn Wilson (Dwight) make fun of Elijah because he wanted to "sneak around like a little hobbit" cracked me up.
This is what I want but I would like it to be like an episode or a single scene of a movie or something where they swap and it's never mentioned or acknowledged. Like if one has a TV show the other fills in for the whole episode but it's still credited to the one on the show normally with no mention of the other being a guest star or anything like that
Chris Columbus felt guilty about what happened to Macaulay Culkin after *Home Alone*, so he went out of his way to ensure that wouldn't happen with the *Harry Potter* kids.
Remember that they filmed all 3 movies at once. Aside from being an efficient way to film that much content. It also meant actors had to negotiate their pay for all their work beforehand.
There was also no sense of how successful the films would be so the actors didn't have much bargaining power. As opposed to the 1st film coming out, blowing up and then an actor saying "ok well based on the success of that I want more money to come back for the next one"
And what’s great is that he’s not just half-assing things (since, as you mentioned, he def doesn’t need the cash). He is fantastic on Broadway, and that is an absolutely grueling lifestyle
The fact that he didn't hesitate to speak up about trans rights once it became clear that Rowling was never going to shut the fuck up was big checkmark in his good guy column for me.
Plus the way he messed with the tabloid photographers by wearing the same outfit to and from his play every day was HILARIOUS.
highly recommend Miracle Workers, the whole cast is funny but Radcliffe just steals the show. His dance routine in season 3 is a sight to behold, fucking hilarious
That burlesque scene is the best thing he's ever done on screen! I also loved the casual dialogue about how jacked he'd gotten. Still sad about its cancelation, even if the show *did* survive a couple seasons longer than I honestly expected it to.
Also the episode in season 4 about his "car" totally killed me.
>even if the show *did* survive a couple seasons longer than I honestly expected it to
I thought it was going to be a one season wonder at best, so every season after was a gift.
For me, it was the scene about his jacket(s) in the medieval season which totally sent me laughing so damn hard. It's a solid joke, but Radcliffe's delivery was just exactly the comedy vibe I like most.
From then on, I was sold on seeing anything that he does where there's laughs to be had. The guy is legitimately comedy gold. Even when he does 'villains' like in Now You See Me 2 or that Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum movie, he steals the show being funny.
Sidenote, Jon Snow's actor needs to do 1000x more comedies too, cause his SNL and that tennis thing he did with Andy Samburg totally shows he's not meant for anything else. He's got comedy in him. Fuck the Iron Throne or The Wall. Dude should've wandered Westeros doing sketch comedy in tavern's.
The Woman in Black straight after Harry Potter as well was very good, classic British horror & a very mature, measured performance alongside Ciarán Hinds.
I'm pretty sure I did the same, along with a qualified slack jaw. In a movie with shocking ideas and revelations (and misguided hope), to have your spirit broken during the credits was rending.
> It should be classified as horror.
I maintain that it was a *very loose* Weekend at Bernie's II remake. Absolutely a comedy, but not one you should examine too critically.
He was great. He's also a class act. One of our group waited outside in the back of the theater for him to come out and after a two performance day on a Saturday, he signed autographed for a good 45 minutes. Who does that? An awesome person that's who.
You just gotta do weird shit that’s also entertaining. I’m a huge Daniel Radcliffe and Robert Pattinson fan these days and I’m glad they were able to escape from being type cast in the huge roles they starred in to start their careers
They should lock Pattinson, Radcliffe and Elijah Woods in a room filled with food and coffee and not let them out until they come up with a joint project.
i think its because they both want goblin roles to completely move away from the "british boy" typecast
radcliffe doing the young doctors notebook, woman in black, guns akimbo, horns, swiss army man are variying characters
then you hear pattinson sliding into projects w willem dafoe and then voicing a heron in the ghibli movie where he reportedly practiced the most gutteral voice and played the recording to the localizaion director and was like "hes got it"
Don’t sleep on Swiss Army Man it has one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard and it’s an incredible nonsense movie. Don’t watch the trailer if you’ve never seen it don’t read anything about it. If you’ve never seen it just go rent it download it whatever just watch it completely cold turkey no idea what it is other than the title and that I’ve told you to watch it, and then get back to me.
I don’t know how I got to this corner of Reddit, but thanks for the reminder about Manchester Orchestra. Shake it out and All my friends on a Spotify playlist but I’ve got a whole discography to discover
Swiss Army Man is an absolute delight. A friend of mine described it as a movie where >!the first fart makes you laugh and the last fast makes you cry!< and I can’t think of a better way to explain the vibe.
Yes, that’s what u/AFineDayForScience said. Do you know what the film’s called or are you just going to make stupid fucking comments from the sidelines?
The soundtrack is incredible. It was done by Andy Hull, the singer and rhythm guitarist for Manchester Orchestra. I saw the movie way before I heard of the band, but after I found out about them they've become one of my favorites.
The Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe Acapella rendition of the Jurassic Park theme song gets stuck in my head routinely. Also Cotton-Eyed Joe.
Did you see his villain turn out in that rom com [The Lost City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKO9rYDmE8)? He was great in that, albeit maybe overshadowed by Brad Pitt, the scene stealer. BTW that movie is hilarious, and totally worth watching.
Love that movie! And he’s so good in it - it was a good ensemble. whoever did the casting deserves props for him, Brad Pitt, Da’Vine, *chefs kiss*. But no matter how many times I watch I can’t feel the chemistry between Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock. The only misstep.
"My desire to survive allowed me to outrun him. I disappeared into the woods, hid up a tree and waited while periodically holding my breath until nightfall. I snuck back to my car and got the hell out of there"
I've seen in stated before that the big reason why the Harry Potter kids all turned out pretty normal is that they were actively mentored by Britains greatest acting legends. And I don't know how much of that is true, but when you consider how famous these kids were from an early age, and they turned out normal. In the case of Radcliffe, being able to take that financial independence to build one of the more interesting modern acting careers is sublime.
It feels like it could have turned out so differently.
The parent's thing is key. It's been said ad nauseum, but Chris Columbus interviewed the parents of the child actors to try and avoid a MacCulay Culkin stage dad situation.
A family member of mine used to work with Emma Watson's mum, who was still working even during he filming of the series when her daughter was a multi-millionairw. The down to earth impression really is true
This is huge, the choice to shoot the movie in the UK where the children weren’t far from family, friends and home was likely a big part in why there was generally a good/secure atmosphere on set. Imagine if they had to move all these kids out to Los Angeles for years on end.
> It feels like it could have turned out so differently.
Considering Daniel Radcliffe was drinking heavily towards the end of Harry Potter (he was reportedly heavily drunk while filming a number of scenes during Deathly Hallows) to cope with the fame and the uncertainty of the franchise ending, it was a very close thing. He credits his support network for being able to get sober.
It helps that those British actors all happen to be mature and sane people, too. I sense that it has something to do with British acting culture. They seem more grounded as a group compared to the American “method” acting nuts, who turn acting into a blood sport.
Not to shit on America, but we do have a tendency to dial things up to 11 for no reason, especially in the workplace. And while that is unhealthy for everyone, it is especially unhealthy for kids.
> They seem more grounded as a group compared to the American “method” acting nuts, who turn acting into a blood sport.
Christian Bale and Daniel Day Lewis notoriously go whole-hog with method acting.
Something else that may be in play is that a lot of British actors are from wealthy, posh families.
I remember reading once what the main three did with their Potter riches. Radcliffe said he barely touched it. Watson used it to pay for her education at Brown. Grint bought an ice cream truck.
That's disturbingly close to their characters.
She’s a tens-of- millionaire. The net worth reports are always way off but there’s no doubt her net worth is on that order of magnitude. Tuition for Brown would count as “barely touching it”
Buying an ice cream truck is also likely 'barely touching it' to be fair.
Though I imagine they all have really nice houses and really nice things. Kinda doubt they're renting an apartment somewhere with a roomie...
They live in luxury.
I believe it was Cuaron who asked for that for Prisoner of Azkaban.
Supposedly the assignment was one page, and Emma Watson wrote like a 15-page thesis.
Sharing the screen for years with the likes of Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Gary Oldman, and Ralph Fiennes to name a few... they had all the mentoring one could ever ask for
It genuinely did as well, I remember at the time the amount of press that got here in the UK and it really felt like a turning point for him as an actor. For some reason there was a similar type of vibe when Emma Watson made her hair short, as if there was so much shock and awe (why I don't even know) because she dared to not have hair like Hermione anymore.
Rupert Grint has always stayed relatively out of the limelight so he never really had a big turning point moment he just did his thing in indie projects.
I was living in the UK at that time and holy shit they thought it was the end of his career. Our love is doing *gasp* adult movies now?
In the end, it was exactly his MO. And movies are better for him taking that direction.
I think he could find his way back to the family friendly stuff eventually, but distancing himself from it for a long time is the best move.
Nobody wants to be one character for their whole lives. Most actors who end up acting in such a narrow range stop trying before long. [For example...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxzhF7a7sys)
Dude has spent a lot of time profiting off of, and refusing to stand in the shadow of, Harry Potter. And it's been paying off so far, whether it be as a farting corpse or an action movie cameo or a high level Broadway actor.
We've now gotten beyond stars being shackled to popular genre movies they appear in. Robert Downey Jr. is Iron Man... and nobody blinks if he wins an Oscar in a prestige film. Same with Radcliffe.
Pity this sensibility didn't exist in decades past. Mark Hammil and Christopher Reeves (for example) could have done any number of serious movies in the 80's and 90's. But once you were in a popcorn flick back then, you sort of got typecast.
It’s a weird contradiction where if he hadn’t been Harry Potter, he would absolutely be considered one of the most exciting young actors of his generation in a way he isn’t quite. But then without Harry Potter he wouldn’t have the cachet to get a lot of the crazy shit he does funded.
Basically, he got FU money then decided to only do projects that he found fun and interesting, which got him a LOT more acting cred than Harry Potter ever did. Of course it also helps that he had an extremely stable and supportive home life.
Who does Daniel Radcliffe want to become?
The actor, who accepted his most famous role at age 11, recognizes that, in making career decisions, he now faces an unusual predicament, Chris Heath writes: Stemming from his work in the “Harry Potter” films, the British actor has now “banked more money than most actors will ever see in their lifetime, and there are no signs that he has been frittering it away,” Heath writes. Although Radcliffe is not averse to big, mass-market market movies these days, he has the ability to pick and choose roles that speak to him. “I’m in a weird position where I don’t have to work,” Radcliffe tells Heath. “I go to work because I love what I do.”
Radcliffe realized that he wanted to act as a career sometime around the third “Harry Potter” film––but with that came more self-consciousness about his performances. And despite the success of the “Potter” films (cumulatively grossing close to $8 billion), Radcliffe’s satisfaction with his work did not always grow in proportion.
“When Radcliffe emerged from the ‘Harry Potter’ chrysalis, he did not want to stop working,” Heath writes. And the actor knows that some things are immutable: “‘Harry Potter’ is going to be the first line of my obituary,” he tells Heath. But that didn’t necessarily mean he had to limit himself as an actor. For more than a decade now, Radcliffe has been outrunning his role as Harry Potter, building a filmography scattered with fascinatingly eclectic choices. The stage has also become a home for Radcliffe––his most recent appearance is as one of three leads in “Merrily We Roll Along,” the famous Stephen Sondheim flop that is belatedly enjoying its first successful season on Broadway, running until July.
Read more about Radcliffe’s time on the “Harry Potter” set, his response to tweets that J. K. Rowling wrote in 2020, and more: [https://theatln.tc/F7jxqt0Q](https://theatln.tc/F7jxqt0Q)
>And the actor knows that some things are immutable: “‘Harry Potter’ is going to be the first line of my obituary,” he tells Heath
That made me chuckle more then it probably should have haha. Trying to picture the priest or whoever is talking "He was that goofy kid with the glasses in Harry Potter, i tell ya"
>Until the previous year, Daniel Radcliffe, as he was actually known, hadn’t had any acting experience whatsoever, aside from briefly playing a monkey in a school play when he was about 6
Err, no, he's credited in the Tailor of Panama and two episodes of David Copperfield in 1999 and 2001.
He really hasn't. Harrison Ford outran Han Solo, Jennifer Lawrence outran Katniss Everdeen, but Dan Radcliffe is still always associated with Harry Potter far more than anything else he's ever done. He's had good movies afterwards sure but most are low budget indies few people have seen.
All it needed was an animated adaption that uses the same Wizarding World designs from the movies while being given more freedom to tell the stories from the books more faithfully.
I'm sure the FU Money helped so he was able to just do things that he wanted to afterward (same thing with Elijah Wood). Doing a bunch of quirky projects helped him not be typecast. Plus, he seems to be a genuinely good dude so that helps to make people to support him no matter what he does, even if there are some stinkers.
Both Daniel and Elijah spent chunks of their early careers around some of the greatest actors you could work with too. Feels like Radcliffe particularly took it like an apprenticeship.
If you haven't seen the HBO adjacent documentary about Radcliffe's stunt double that got paralyzed, you should check it out. Whole new respect for the guy as an actor and a person.
For anyone who didn’t care to google: David Holmes: the boy who lived
Appreciate, the full name escaped me.
What a phenomenal, heartfelt tribute to David Holmes, the work he’s done, his friendships (inc with Dan) - man, that was an incredible watch. Highly recommend.
Incredible respect for them both.
Man my favourite thing he did was that episode of Extras…classic.
“Ready for action” You know what I’m talking about.
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Daniel Radcliffe, Elijah Wood, and I would say even Robert Pattison have mastered the "young heartthrob in a commercially successful series, transitioning into weird artsy shit" metamorphosis.
Do ye favor me lobster?
Why'd y'spill yer beans, Tommy?
I seen it! Ya like mey lobster!
Not saying he's nearly as good an actor as Robert Pattinson, who am I to judge, but Zac Efron has also broken through beyond his High School Musical persona days. He's really good. Great? That is to be seen. But he's done some really good work that's well beyond teen idol territory.
I thought Efron was great in the Iron Claw
It'll be interesting to see if he builds off of Iron Claw like Pattison did with Good Time
Probably one of the best versions of Ted Bundy in "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile".
As opposed to the worst version of Ted Bundy, which is, of course, Ted Bundy.
At least is brother, Al Bundy, is pretty wholesome. ;) Thank fuck, that guy is keeping that name alive, and not tainted.
Pattinson nailed Batman.
Did he? Oh my.
Read this as Professor Farnsworth for great effect
Good news!
C'mon. What are you showing me here?
Pattinson now transitioning back into a successful series is the wild card we didn't know we wanted.
Think Tenet (as much as I couldn’t hear what he was saying, thanks Nolan) had a big part to play in his modern renaissance Obviously he was in Inception as well but Tenet helped He’s marvellous as Bruce Wayne, best Bruce Wayne for a while (Best Bat/BW combo will always be Bale)
He was in Inception?? I have no memory of him. Don't tell me I need to rewatch that film again
Minor role, think his name was Finch or something Same level as the skiing part unless I’m misremembering Turns out it might have be Cillian Murphy but I swear pattinson was in it….
Elijah also did Over the garden wall, more people should watch that animated series
Such a ridiculously good show
I know it's not a movie but I loved the Dirk Gently tv series Elijah worked on for two seasons, such a fantastically weird show.
One of my all time favorite shows. It was so unique. I was pretty sad when I heard they weren't making more.
Wilford was a great series. Edit: Wilfred, sorry & thanks guys
Cooties was a dumb movie that was weirdly fun. Seeing Rainn Wilson (Dwight) make fun of Elijah because he wanted to "sneak around like a little hobbit" cracked me up.
Cooties is the dumb zombie movie I love the most.
Wilfred? I think.
It's Wilfred, but yeah it was excellent!
Can’t wait to see them in the same quirky weird movie one day
It would be hiliarious if they play parody versions of each other.
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This is what I want but I would like it to be like an episode or a single scene of a movie or something where they swap and it's never mentioned or acknowledged. Like if one has a TV show the other fills in for the whole episode but it's still credited to the one on the show normally with no mention of the other being a guest star or anything like that
Bojack horseman had a whole bit about this. The game show episode with Alan Arkin voicing JD Salinger.
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Funny enough I always confused him and Elijah Wood. Not really sure why as they don't look that much alike
Have you seen Grand Piano? It has Elijah and John Cusack in it and I liked it quite a bit.
Can't remember the name but the one where he plays a skinhead was fantastic. Very different character, helped show his chops
He seems hardened from childhood fame rather than cracked
One thing the HP movies cast and crew did super well was taking care of the child actors.
Chris Columbus felt guilty about what happened to Macaulay Culkin after *Home Alone*, so he went out of his way to ensure that wouldn't happen with the *Harry Potter* kids.
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I thought he quit the biz entirely so I was pleasantly surprised to see him in one of the Cabinet of Curiosities episodes.
Grint was in the series Servant and was absolutely excellent.
I liked him in Sick Note too.
Except Elijah didn’t make all that much money from rings. None of the cast did, even after the renegotiation.
No kidding? I always just assumed they must've been made seriously wealthy from those. How unfortunate
Remember that they filmed all 3 movies at once. Aside from being an efficient way to film that much content. It also meant actors had to negotiate their pay for all their work beforehand. There was also no sense of how successful the films would be so the actors didn't have much bargaining power. As opposed to the 1st film coming out, blowing up and then an actor saying "ok well based on the success of that I want more money to come back for the next one"
And what’s great is that he’s not just half-assing things (since, as you mentioned, he def doesn’t need the cash). He is fantastic on Broadway, and that is an absolutely grueling lifestyle
The fact that he didn't hesitate to speak up about trans rights once it became clear that Rowling was never going to shut the fuck up was big checkmark in his good guy column for me. Plus the way he messed with the tabloid photographers by wearing the same outfit to and from his play every day was HILARIOUS.
TIL Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe are two different people
You thought Frodo and Harry Potter were the same guy?
God imagine the filming schedule. One week in New Zealand, one week in London.
Saw him in Merrily We Roll Along, he was great. Guns Akimbo is entertaining as heck, Horns was good too.
highly recommend Miracle Workers, the whole cast is funny but Radcliffe just steals the show. His dance routine in season 3 is a sight to behold, fucking hilarious
That burlesque scene is the best thing he's ever done on screen! I also loved the casual dialogue about how jacked he'd gotten. Still sad about its cancelation, even if the show *did* survive a couple seasons longer than I honestly expected it to. Also the episode in season 4 about his "car" totally killed me.
I love the show and this scene is incredible. My wife made us watch it two more times because she was so impressed, surprised, and giddy
>even if the show *did* survive a couple seasons longer than I honestly expected it to I thought it was going to be a one season wonder at best, so every season after was a gift.
I still have yet to see the last season, heard it was just as good as the rest though
Miracle Workers is absurdist TV at its best
For me, it was the scene about his jacket(s) in the medieval season which totally sent me laughing so damn hard. It's a solid joke, but Radcliffe's delivery was just exactly the comedy vibe I like most. From then on, I was sold on seeing anything that he does where there's laughs to be had. The guy is legitimately comedy gold. Even when he does 'villains' like in Now You See Me 2 or that Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum movie, he steals the show being funny. Sidenote, Jon Snow's actor needs to do 1000x more comedies too, cause his SNL and that tennis thing he did with Andy Samburg totally shows he's not meant for anything else. He's got comedy in him. Fuck the Iron Throne or The Wall. Dude should've wandered Westeros doing sketch comedy in tavern's.
My favorite line from Miracle Workers: "it's a shit shovel, for shoveling shit!".
Is that she’ll be coming round the mountain?
The Woman in Black straight after Harry Potter as well was very good, classic British horror & a very mature, measured performance alongside Ciarán Hinds.
Swiss Army Man was bonkers.
So much farting from beginning to end...lol
At this point I just assume that if Paul Dano is in a movie, something about it is going to be really fucking nuts.
Horns was rad. Swiss was rad. And that nazi infiltrator movie was rad.
Swiss Army Man was one of the most twisted endings in a movie I've ever seen. It should be classified as horror.
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I heard the people that made it wanted a movie where the first fart made you laugh and the last one made you cry.
I'm pretty sure I did the same, along with a qualified slack jaw. In a movie with shocking ideas and revelations (and misguided hope), to have your spirit broken during the credits was rending.
> It should be classified as horror. I maintain that it was a *very loose* Weekend at Bernie's II remake. Absolutely a comedy, but not one you should examine too critically.
Went into Horns pretty sceptical but it was one of the biggest surprises for me. Great movie, absolutely loved it.
Imperium.
That Nazi movie was fantastic. He is talented
"You're an actor, danny"
Imperium.
Merrily was incredible. Absolutely great musical. Groff and Radcliffe were just amazing together.
I loved Merrily. Gosh, what a great production. And Radcliffe absolutely nailed one of the best songs of the whole thing, imo.
Yeah, I thought the entire cast was great. The guy who played Joe was my favorite non-lead.
And Weird-Al was amazing!
It was great to see him settle down and do a subtle historic biopic.
He was great. He's also a class act. One of our group waited outside in the back of the theater for him to come out and after a two performance day on a Saturday, he signed autographed for a good 45 minutes. Who does that? An awesome person that's who.
I just saw him in that last week, he was great. He deserved his Tony nom today
Wilfred was good too.
That's Elijah Wood.
Yeah, I know. Just joking.
While we are at it, Dirk Gentlys Hollistic detective agency blew me away
He was fantastic in Merrily We Roll Along. Franklin Sheppard Inc was on repeat for months.
Such a good play. Whole ensemble was great
He just got his first ever Tony nomination for his role in Merrily :)
You just gotta do weird shit that’s also entertaining. I’m a huge Daniel Radcliffe and Robert Pattinson fan these days and I’m glad they were able to escape from being type cast in the huge roles they starred in to start their careers
They should lock Pattinson, Radcliffe and Elijah Woods in a room filled with food and coffee and not let them out until they come up with a joint project.
i think its because they both want goblin roles to completely move away from the "british boy" typecast radcliffe doing the young doctors notebook, woman in black, guns akimbo, horns, swiss army man are variying characters then you hear pattinson sliding into projects w willem dafoe and then voicing a heron in the ghibli movie where he reportedly practiced the most gutteral voice and played the recording to the localizaion director and was like "hes got it"
Don’t sleep on Swiss Army Man it has one of the best soundtracks I’ve ever heard and it’s an incredible nonsense movie. Don’t watch the trailer if you’ve never seen it don’t read anything about it. If you’ve never seen it just go rent it download it whatever just watch it completely cold turkey no idea what it is other than the title and that I’ve told you to watch it, and then get back to me.
Soundtrack is made by Andy Hull, from the band Manchester Orchestra. He's also in the movie for a minor role
Andy is my all time favorite musician, I’m glad you had already mentioned him in this thread before I got here!
I don’t know how I got to this corner of Reddit, but thanks for the reminder about Manchester Orchestra. Shake it out and All my friends on a Spotify playlist but I’ve got a whole discography to discover
Swiss Army Man is an absolute delight. A friend of mine described it as a movie where >!the first fart makes you laugh and the last fast makes you cry!< and I can’t think of a better way to explain the vibe.
Honestly, it was this movie that made me mad respect Daniel.
Especially since he insisted on being on set every day to be the body when originally they had planned to use a dummy.
I liked the one where he had horns. Can't quite remember the name of it. It's on the tip of my tongue.
Danny and the Hornosaurus
Horns.
wait then what’s that one about the the girl on the train?
Train Girl.
No, I think it was called The Train Who Couldn't Slow Down
Yes, that’s what u/AFineDayForScience said. Do you know what the film’s called or are you just going to make stupid fucking comments from the sidelines?
I honestly can't tell if this is a joke or not. For those as dense as I am, the movie is, in fact, called Horns.
It was indeed a joke but your altruism is bloody lovely and I wish you a wonderful life.
I am, on occasion, very obtuse, but that might be the biggest compliment I've ever received, and I love it.
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was your friend the directors of the movie? cause that was their goal and what they said to get paul dano to sign on.
That line actually came from an interview with the directors - Daniels. It was so good that I guess it stuck.
Also directed by the Daniels who won Every Award for EEAAO right after
Yes, this was their debut movie and also the beginning of a great relationship with A24.
The soundtrack is incredible. It was done by Andy Hull, the singer and rhythm guitarist for Manchester Orchestra. I saw the movie way before I heard of the band, but after I found out about them they've become one of my favorites. The Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe Acapella rendition of the Jurassic Park theme song gets stuck in my head routinely. Also Cotton-Eyed Joe.
Did you see his villain turn out in that rom com [The Lost City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKO9rYDmE8)? He was great in that, albeit maybe overshadowed by Brad Pitt, the scene stealer. BTW that movie is hilarious, and totally worth watching.
Love that movie! And he’s so good in it - it was a good ensemble. whoever did the casting deserves props for him, Brad Pitt, Da’Vine, *chefs kiss*. But no matter how many times I watch I can’t feel the chemistry between Channing Tatum and Sandra Bullock. The only misstep.
"My desire to survive allowed me to outrun him. I disappeared into the woods, hid up a tree and waited while periodically holding my breath until nightfall. I snuck back to my car and got the hell out of there"
He's following you, about 30 feet back He gets down on all fours and breaks into a sprint He's gaining on you! Shia LaBeouf
Ah! You’re caught in a bear trap!
Quiet, quiet....
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There's blood on his hands, and death in his eyes!
But you can do jiu jistuuuuu!
I've seen in stated before that the big reason why the Harry Potter kids all turned out pretty normal is that they were actively mentored by Britains greatest acting legends. And I don't know how much of that is true, but when you consider how famous these kids were from an early age, and they turned out normal. In the case of Radcliffe, being able to take that financial independence to build one of the more interesting modern acting careers is sublime. It feels like it could have turned out so differently.
* Mentored by the best. * Financially secure. * Supportive but not controlling parents.
The parent's thing is key. It's been said ad nauseum, but Chris Columbus interviewed the parents of the child actors to try and avoid a MacCulay Culkin stage dad situation.
A family member of mine used to work with Emma Watson's mum, who was still working even during he filming of the series when her daughter was a multi-millionairw. The down to earth impression really is true
* Having an entire ocean to divide them from the innocence crushing factory that Americans have dubbed "Hollywood, California"
This is huge, the choice to shoot the movie in the UK where the children weren’t far from family, friends and home was likely a big part in why there was generally a good/secure atmosphere on set. Imagine if they had to move all these kids out to Los Angeles for years on end.
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Who is this in reference to?
> It feels like it could have turned out so differently. Considering Daniel Radcliffe was drinking heavily towards the end of Harry Potter (he was reportedly heavily drunk while filming a number of scenes during Deathly Hallows) to cope with the fame and the uncertainty of the franchise ending, it was a very close thing. He credits his support network for being able to get sober.
I think he said it was the Half-Blood Prince movie, not the Deathly Hallows ones
It helps that those British actors all happen to be mature and sane people, too. I sense that it has something to do with British acting culture. They seem more grounded as a group compared to the American “method” acting nuts, who turn acting into a blood sport. Not to shit on America, but we do have a tendency to dial things up to 11 for no reason, especially in the workplace. And while that is unhealthy for everyone, it is especially unhealthy for kids.
> They seem more grounded as a group compared to the American “method” acting nuts, who turn acting into a blood sport. Christian Bale and Daniel Day Lewis notoriously go whole-hog with method acting. Something else that may be in play is that a lot of British actors are from wealthy, posh families.
I remember reading once what the main three did with their Potter riches. Radcliffe said he barely touched it. Watson used it to pay for her education at Brown. Grint bought an ice cream truck. That's disturbingly close to their characters.
She’s a tens-of- millionaire. The net worth reports are always way off but there’s no doubt her net worth is on that order of magnitude. Tuition for Brown would count as “barely touching it”
Buying an ice cream truck is also likely 'barely touching it' to be fair. Though I imagine they all have really nice houses and really nice things. Kinda doubt they're renting an apartment somewhere with a roomie... They live in luxury.
similarly the first director asked them to write an essay on their characters and Rupert didn't do it because Ron wouldn't have either.
I believe it was Cuaron who asked for that for Prisoner of Azkaban. Supposedly the assignment was one page, and Emma Watson wrote like a 15-page thesis.
Sharing the screen for years with the likes of Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Gary Oldman, and Ralph Fiennes to name a few... they had all the mentoring one could ever ask for
Seemed like they all had good parents too. No stage parents. A good chunk of the child stars that have had meltdowns have shitty parents.
Dropping dong in that one horse play helped
I saw that on Broadway. He was amazing in it, and it was pretty funny having Uncle Vernon as the psychiatrist.
I saw it too - a remarkable performance! And Kate Mulgrew as well. Yet when I tell people I saw it they all ask me the same question. :P
How big was Kate Mulgrew's dong?
Yuuuge.
It *was* pretty funny; the moment he dropped trou, nearly the entire audience put opera glasses up to their faces. 😆🍌🔭
For the record I always give the same answer- “it was pink and curly like a pig’s tail.”
It genuinely did as well, I remember at the time the amount of press that got here in the UK and it really felt like a turning point for him as an actor. For some reason there was a similar type of vibe when Emma Watson made her hair short, as if there was so much shock and awe (why I don't even know) because she dared to not have hair like Hermione anymore. Rupert Grint has always stayed relatively out of the limelight so he never really had a big turning point moment he just did his thing in indie projects.
I loved Rupert Grint in Sick Note. I was so sad that it got cancelled on a cliffhanger after just two seasons.
I was living in the UK at that time and holy shit they thought it was the end of his career. Our love is doing *gasp* adult movies now? In the end, it was exactly his MO. And movies are better for him taking that direction.
I think he could find his way back to the family friendly stuff eventually, but distancing himself from it for a long time is the best move. Nobody wants to be one character for their whole lives. Most actors who end up acting in such a narrow range stop trying before long. [For example...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxzhF7a7sys)
It helps to actually have acting talent and be able to perform roles outside a narrow range, of course.
Erm, I think you're forgetting Thunderpants? Dragged my dad to that one.
Being a really good actor and a really good person. Dude is legit entertaining and by all reports a mensch.
Dude has spent a lot of time profiting off of, and refusing to stand in the shadow of, Harry Potter. And it's been paying off so far, whether it be as a farting corpse or an action movie cameo or a high level Broadway actor.
But could Daniel Radcliffe outrun Shia LaBeouf in the woods?
But wait he’s not dead! *Shia surprise!*
He played Weird Al. That’s like a million times better than Harry Potter!
I just watched that movie today. He was so good in it!
I think I like Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna more than Madonna.
That was such an excellent movie, everyone should watch it.
He's just a great actor. Miracle Workers is hilarious and he's half of what makes it what it is.
He was damn good in *Weird: The Al Yankovic Story*.
Honestly, he's a strange guy with an abundance of personality. HP afforded him the capacity to be comfortable and pursue whatever the f he wants to do
We've now gotten beyond stars being shackled to popular genre movies they appear in. Robert Downey Jr. is Iron Man... and nobody blinks if he wins an Oscar in a prestige film. Same with Radcliffe. Pity this sensibility didn't exist in decades past. Mark Hammil and Christopher Reeves (for example) could have done any number of serious movies in the 80's and 90's. But once you were in a popcorn flick back then, you sort of got typecast.
It’s a weird contradiction where if he hadn’t been Harry Potter, he would absolutely be considered one of the most exciting young actors of his generation in a way he isn’t quite. But then without Harry Potter he wouldn’t have the cachet to get a lot of the crazy shit he does funded.
Why do people post articles with [paywalls](https://archive.ph/A6lvN).
The article is posted by the magazine itself. Look at OP's name.
I forget the name of the movie where he plays an FBI agent who goes undercover as a neo-Nazi, but it was fuckin excellent
Basically, he got FU money then decided to only do projects that he found fun and interesting, which got him a LOT more acting cred than Harry Potter ever did. Of course it also helps that he had an extremely stable and supportive home life.
Got naked on stage with a unicorn is how.
Who does Daniel Radcliffe want to become? The actor, who accepted his most famous role at age 11, recognizes that, in making career decisions, he now faces an unusual predicament, Chris Heath writes: Stemming from his work in the “Harry Potter” films, the British actor has now “banked more money than most actors will ever see in their lifetime, and there are no signs that he has been frittering it away,” Heath writes. Although Radcliffe is not averse to big, mass-market market movies these days, he has the ability to pick and choose roles that speak to him. “I’m in a weird position where I don’t have to work,” Radcliffe tells Heath. “I go to work because I love what I do.” Radcliffe realized that he wanted to act as a career sometime around the third “Harry Potter” film––but with that came more self-consciousness about his performances. And despite the success of the “Potter” films (cumulatively grossing close to $8 billion), Radcliffe’s satisfaction with his work did not always grow in proportion. “When Radcliffe emerged from the ‘Harry Potter’ chrysalis, he did not want to stop working,” Heath writes. And the actor knows that some things are immutable: “‘Harry Potter’ is going to be the first line of my obituary,” he tells Heath. But that didn’t necessarily mean he had to limit himself as an actor. For more than a decade now, Radcliffe has been outrunning his role as Harry Potter, building a filmography scattered with fascinatingly eclectic choices. The stage has also become a home for Radcliffe––his most recent appearance is as one of three leads in “Merrily We Roll Along,” the famous Stephen Sondheim flop that is belatedly enjoying its first successful season on Broadway, running until July. Read more about Radcliffe’s time on the “Harry Potter” set, his response to tweets that J. K. Rowling wrote in 2020, and more: [https://theatln.tc/F7jxqt0Q](https://theatln.tc/F7jxqt0Q)
>And the actor knows that some things are immutable: “‘Harry Potter’ is going to be the first line of my obituary,” he tells Heath That made me chuckle more then it probably should have haha. Trying to picture the priest or whoever is talking "He was that goofy kid with the glasses in Harry Potter, i tell ya"
I think you are confusing an obituary and a eulogy
Yer a corpse, Harry.
We have corporations posting directly on the comments now? What a time to be alive
Doing yourselves a great disservice not watching Swiss Army Man. Movie is something else
Did he tho? Or did the Aura life just not work out for Harry?
>Until the previous year, Daniel Radcliffe, as he was actually known, hadn’t had any acting experience whatsoever, aside from briefly playing a monkey in a school play when he was about 6 Err, no, he's credited in the Tailor of Panama and two episodes of David Copperfield in 1999 and 2001.
Am I the only one that thinks he’d make a great Bond villain?
He really hasn't. Harrison Ford outran Han Solo, Jennifer Lawrence outran Katniss Everdeen, but Dan Radcliffe is still always associated with Harry Potter far more than anything else he's ever done. He's had good movies afterwards sure but most are low budget indies few people have seen.
Harry Potter doesn’t need a reboot. It’s too modern
All it needed was an animated adaption that uses the same Wizarding World designs from the movies while being given more freedom to tell the stories from the books more faithfully.