Daniel Radcliffe Chats Harry Potter & Victor Frankenstein With Playboy

Daniel Radliffe recently chatted with Playboy magazine for their upcoming November issue. Daniel is in the issue to promote his new film Victor Frankenstein. Highlights from the interview are below.

On why Harry Potter’s appeal has yet to fade away: “Because the stories are great! A huge part of our culture now is that if something becomes successful there’s a backlash. Harry Potter didn’t have that. There are people who don’t want to read it, but the number of people who actively dislike it is very low. The books are great, and they came along at the perfect moment, when there was a fear, because of the rise of computer games, that reading was going to become a thing of the past. When kids suddenly found these books, it was something everyone could get behind as a global populace.”

On his character Igor: “It’s not like, Oh great, how can I give myself terrible back pain for the next few months? It’s more that you embrace the physical challenge. If you do something that puts you in a little bit of pain, it makes you feel as though you’re working slightly harder than you normally do as an actor. I did the play The Cripple of Inishmaan for four months in London and never had any physical problems. Doing what I did on Frankenstein for three weeks was a fucker. There’s a crick in my neck now that was not there before.”

On Rupert Grint not being able to say “no” to fans: “He ended up going back to a fan’s house because he couldn’t say no to anything they asked. That’s when it’s gone too far.”

You can check out more from Dan’s interview here.