Asked whether he would like to play Bond in the future, Dan said: "I don’t think the world is ready for a short-a*** Bond."

Asked who would be his leading lady if he played Bond he joked: "Rupert (Grint).

"I’m going to be the first gay James Bond and I want Rupert to be my first leading lady."

"I’m joking," he added.

Rupert congratulated his friend on winning the award and joked: "It must have been a fix.

"I didn’t expect to win - I think Daniel deserves it a lot more than me."


Daniel leaves Potter behind - Sept 14 2007
All eyes are on Daniel Radcliffe as he leaves Harry Potter behind to play another orphan in the new film December Boys.

In the coming of age drama, set in 1960s Australia, Daniel plays the oldest of four boys at an orphanage who get to spend their Christmas holiday at the beach.

As the younger ones compete to be adopted by a family they meet, Daniel’s character falls hard for a pretty local girl, with whom he shares cigarettes and his first sexual encounter.

It’s the latest opportunity for the actor - who attended the London premiere of the film last night - to show he’s capable of much more than the iconic role of Harry Potter, which has inspired teen girls to sob, flail and faint in his presence.

Daniel, 18, is quick to point out that his December Boys character, Maps, is very different to JK Rowling’s famous wizard.

"Harry wears his heart on his sleeve and is very, very vocal about how he feels," he told the BBC.

By contrast, Maps is "very quiet, and for the first quarter of the film doesn’t say much".


Dan Wants Potter Film to be Best Yet - Sept 10 2007
Daniel Radcliffe may be starting filming on the sixth Harry Potter film, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince in just 10 days time, but he certainly won’t be on autopilot.

"No absolutely not," he said at the premiere of his new movie December Boys.

"That would be the worst thing I could possibly do. I have been doing this, I think, since 2000, and so that’s seven years of my life. By the end it will probably be about half of my life - 10 or 11 years.

"I’m not going to be on autopilot. I’ve invested so much. We all want to make this film better than the last."

And was Daniel surprised by his character’s ending in the last sensational JK Rowling Book, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows?

"No, I’d sort of worked bits of it out because I’d had a clue," he admitted. "But I didn’t tell anybody!"

In December Boys, Daniel plays yet another orphan, an Australian kid called Maps.

"I am slowly getting there with the orphan thing," he laughed. "This is my third time and it’s right up there with the other two for me."

Potter Star on Red Carpet - Sept 7 2007
Fans welcomed Daniel Radcliffe back to LA for the second time in less than two months for the Hollywood premiere of his new movie December Boys.

And it seems the actor, who adopts an Aussie accent to play the orphan Maps in the new flick, relished getting away from that other well known orphan - Harry Potter.

"It’s a slow process and it won’t be achieved with just one film," he said.