The Lost City's daniel Radcliffe talks about his career choices after his
early success as Harry Potter.
Daniel Radcliffe had an
early start in the fame game with his groundbreaking role as Harry Potter in
the massively successful franchise. Overshadowed by his early success,
Radcliffe has made it a point to diversify his career with strange and
interesting roles in the last decade to escape the typecasting that came his
way after he took on Potter.
In a recent chat with Comicbook, the 32-year-old actor opened
up about playing the latest addition to his variety of roles, the eccentric
billionaire in his recent release The Lost City. Radcliffe explained, "I
think now at this point, I've got a reputation for being kind of weird in
the things I want to do, which is lovely and weird, but gets weird, which is
great." He then noted, "But generally speaking, I think the way I saw it
after Potter was that for every person that did only see me as one thing,
there was somebody out there who was excited by the chance to show me as
something else. So, you know, there's some directors would be like, 'Oh,
he's only Harry Potter,' and some directors to be like, 'Oh, I'd love to
reinvent him in a way for the world.' So, you know, it goes both
ways."
Meanwhile, Radcliffe opened up about playing a villain
for the first time and expressed his joy in portraying the part in the film.
He then mentioned that his character in the movie though a villain has an
innate urge to make the people he has kidnapped like him. He then added,
"But yeah, I found there's something endearingly pathetic about him and it
was a huge amount of fun to play."
However, the highlight of filming the movie for Radcliffe was
to play a part opposite Sandra Bullock who he elaborated had been an actress
he had grown up watching. Radcliffe remarked that the experience for him was
"very weird and intimidating but incredibly cool."
