Daniel Radcliffe Chats Childhood Stardom & Acting In New Interview

Daniel Radcliffe sat down with The Atlantic while out promoting his Broadway show, Merrily We Roll Along. The recent Tony Award nominee has been staring in the Stephen Sondheim production for the past few months. Highlights from his interview are below.

On the difficulties of navigating childhood stardom with Harry Potter: “There was a constant kind of drumbeat of ‘Are you all going to be screwed up by this?’ Looking back, […] I’m quite impressed with 13-, 14-year-old me’s reaction to those things. To really, actually use them. To internally be going: Fuck you, I’m going to prove that wrong.”

On the types of roles he pursues: “I’ve realized over the years that if there’s a sweet spot to be found between deeply fucking weird and strange and almost unsettling, and kind of wholesome and earnest and very sincere, then that’s the stuff I really love doing. [Anything] that says something kind of lovely about human beings in spite of ourselves, in spite of how bad the world is.”

You can check out more from the interview here.