Daniel Radcliffe appreciates life as Harry Potter
NEW YORK – Daniel Radcliffe has grown up as Harry Potter. The sixth of the planned eight films featuring the character hit theaters this week, but Radcliffe said it hasn’t hit him that life as the wizard is nearing an end.
“For me, it hadn’t until this week, when everybody seems to be telling me that it’s almost over,” Radcliffe said at a New York news conference promoting the film. “I was actually getting along quite nicely until people said, ‘Well, so, your dream’s coming to an end.’”
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” stars Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in the adaptation of the sixth J.K. Rowling novel about the boy wizard. The seventh book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” will be split into two films, planned to be released in 2010 and 2011.
“We’ve got a year left on 7,” Radcliffe said. “It’s a long way to go, and then we’ve got to do lots of publicity, and then meet up with you lovely people twice more. That sounded sarcastic. It wasn’t! There’s a long way to go, to be honest, for us, so I’m not contemplating the end too soon.”
Though “Half-Blood Prince” features the Potter characters entering into romantic relationships, Radcliffe said he “isn’t really doing the dating thing.”
“I’m working; I’m happy to be working,” he said. “It’s not the case that I don’t have time to have a girlfriend; I do. It’s weird, you know, because people sometimes ask, ‘Does being Harry Potter, does that help you get girls?’ I don’t know! I was 8, 9 before I did Harry Potter, so I don’t know what it’s like to get girls without having the aid of being Harry. So, I don’t know. How have you all found it? Is it OK?”
Radcliffe said he appreciates that his character has these amazing abilities but limited success in love.
“Particularly, I find it very endearing with Harry, the fact that he’s this kind of very, very acclaimed wizard, and he’s crap with women,” he said.
The self-deprecating star also apologized to his co-star, Bonnie Wright, for the kissing scene in “Half-Blood Prince.”
“I saw the film again a couple nights ago at the premiere, and I really watched it. And my God, my lips are like the lips of a horse, kind of distending away, independently away from my face, trying to encompass the lower half of hers. So I apologize, Bonnie.”
As far as post-Potter plans, Radcliffe says he wants to continue acting as long as he can. He said he’d also love to get back to the London or New York stage, though nothing has been set so far.
“Obviously, I’d love to do it in England,” Radcliffe said. “And if Broadway would have me back, then that would be incredible because I had an amazing time here.”
- By Matthew Price
From Friday’s The Oklahoman
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hey
omg Daniel is so HOT!!!!! ahh I can’t belive its nearly the end of Harry Potter!!
he is such a GREAT actor I would of loved 2 b Bonnie!
I recon that whatever he decides to do, he’ll succide- like alwaya
keep acting pleaseee
xoxo