Oh What A Beautiful Sight

Daniel Radcliffe chatted with SEVEN Magazine about not using his fame to get things, escaping Harry Potter, and so much more. The magazine can be found in the Sunday edition of the Telegraph.

Not using his fame to get things: “I try not to let that stuff happen, but yes, it could be happening without me knowing. I don’t have an entourage in my personal life. I get driven here and I get driven home, but that’s it.

I hate that kind of dropping a name to get a table stuff. Maybe it’s an English thing that there’s just some sort of embarrassment saying: ‘Hello, I’m Daniel Radcliffe, does that make a difference to you?’

On trying to escape Harry Potter: “There was a part of me in some scenes that was slightly scared of my own face, because I know that my face is…I’m scared of any sort of expression looking like a Harry expression, and so I think that the journey for me in the last year is kind of about acceptance, of going,

‘This is my face and it was also the face that played Harry’. I have to stop fighting that aspect, and not worry about being expressive at times. As far as I can tell, most actors’ main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.”

To read the full article click here. Daniel’s new miniseries A Young Doctor’s Notebook will premiere on Sky Arts 1 on December 6 at 9pm.