Daniel Radcliffe's Career Takes A Turn Scary In "The Woman In Black '
After an actor has a hit movie, there's a level of expectation and speculation about the role they will take next. Will try to repeat their success in a similar genre, or go against expectations to avoid typecasting?
But it's one thing to take a hit, and it's another to revive your career after playing the title role of the most successful movie franchise of all time. After ten years, eight films, and $ 7.5 billion in worldwide box office, it's just that "Harry Potter" Daniel Radcliffe is trying to do. The 22-year-old put his round glasses and magic wand to embrace her new life as a leading man in a gothic horror tale, "The Woman in Black".
But it's one thing to take a hit, and it's another to revive your career after playing the title role of the most successful movie franchise of all time. After ten years, eight films, and $ 7.5 billion in worldwide box office, it's just that "Harry Potter" Daniel Radcliffe is trying to do. The 22-year-old put his round glasses and magic wand to embrace her new life as a leading man in a gothic horror tale, "The Woman in Black".
I spoke to Radcliffe in New York, where he performed on Broadway in the musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," and asked him what was that role that has made the right choice for your first post "Potter" movie. Radcliffe said: "It certainly was not a part that people really can be compared to Harry ... However, [the] main attraction, to be honest, it was only history, and how it was convincing, and be part of a horror movie really, really good. "
In "The Woman in Black", Radcliffe plays Arthur Kipps, a lawyer whose wife died leaving him a young Sun is sent to a small village to arrange the affairs of a deceased client, but when he dives into the local secrets, he meets a ghostly presence that predicts a deadly curse. Radcliffe called the script "a character-oriented, well-written horror film that had the ability to be as scary as any" Paranormal Activity "or one of the films that have recently emerged, while having a depth of character you will not often there. "
In "The Woman in Black", Radcliffe plays Arthur Kipps, a lawyer whose wife died leaving him a young Sun is sent to a small village to arrange the affairs of a deceased client, but when he dives into the local secrets, he meets a ghostly presence that predicts a deadly curse. Radcliffe called the script "a character-oriented, well-written horror film that had the ability to be as scary as any" Paranormal Activity "or one of the films that have recently emerged, while having a depth of character you will not often there. "
This does not mean, however, that Radcliffe considers himself a true fan of horror movies. He said: "To be honest, if I was probably not the courage to see it." Although he made it clear that the fear of "The Woman in Black" is not the type that usually has the covers his eyes. "What has always scared me as a child and a teenager was Gore and blood and things like that," said Radcliffe. "When it became too much blood, then I would have messed up." He explained that this film is more suspenseful classic ghost story: "There are times when people do not jump out of their offices, but [is] even more subtle moments, when the only way to find a shiver down my spine and you 'is not sure why. "
"Woman in Black" is based on the novel 1983 horror film, which was previously adapted into a play, which has been running continuously in London for 23 years. It 'was also part of a film for television in 1989, and that version has a strange connection Radcliffe earlier in his career. Adrian Rawlins, the actor who played the main role in the adaptation, he went and played the father of Harry Potter. Radcliffe said he had finished the work's final film, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", and was prepared for this, when he became aware of this fact. He said: "I went online and saw all of a sudden, yeah, a name invented by Adrian Rawlins, who was one of the finest actors we've ever had," Potter ", and called my father." Radcliffe said that the connection was completely random, but that "it was still a bit 'of relationship we were there."
Radcliffe said he read the original book, but this new film is very different from what the history of the novel. But he said that Susan Hill, author of the book, "is with us every step of the way ... I know that has seen the movie, and [that] is satisfied with the final product." The film is directed by James Watkins, who has already made a violent British thriller "Eden Lake," Radcliffe said that it looked "and [I] thought, oh, Jesus Christ, I know that now work with a psychopath ... If wrote this film, he is completely crazy guy. " Radcliffe has expressed relief, but when he met the director and noted, "has this very clever, very funny, very classy guy." Radcliffe was so impressed with Watkins, he said, a director capable of becoming one of the "protagonists of British cinema for some time. "
After playing the same character on the screen in a decade - nearly half of his life - Radcliffe, apparently willing to stretch to each new role. But he said: "I'm not a long term plan at all." While some players will feel compelled to follow a strong franchise that the "Potter" with another major project, the Radcliffe did not see it that way. He said: "[I] in a way, which is very nice that I never want in my career, a film that has the financial success of" Harry Potter "ever, there is no doubt but what ... The nice thing is that I did not fight for it more. "Because he has worked with blockbuster that other players dream of making it feel a certain freedom to choose smaller projects that speak to him personally. Radcliffe said:" If I am dedicated to each film ... as they come, so much long should take care of themselves. "
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