"But hopefully if I do enough different roles, people will start to see me as an actor rather than a character, and if they don’t, that’s not my problem, it’s theirs, as long as it’s not the people who are casting me, then it doesn’t affect me."

The film sees Daniel appear in his first major love scene on camera.

"It is his first love scene," confirmed the film’s director Rod Hardy. "It goes beyond the kiss in Harry Potter, but at the same time we certainly weren’t trying to make a soft pornographic film.

"It’s a very tender love scene and I think the audience will appreciate it when they see it."
Potter star in war drama - Aug 3 2007
Daniel Radcliffe has slicked his hair into a side-parting and sports a moustache for his latest role in a World War One drama.

The Harry Potter star is apparently set to play the son of Jungle Book author Rudyard Kipling in one-off ITV1 drama My Boy Jack, which will be shown in the autumn, reports the Daily Express.

Daniel, 18, was quoted as telling Variety magazine: "For many people my age, the First World War is just a topic in a history book. But I’ve always been fascinated by the subject and think it’s as relevant today as it ever was, with young men still sacrificing their lives in the name of war."

The drama tells the tragic story of how the author spent years searching for his son’s body after he died in the Battle of Loos in September 1915, aged just 17.

Rudyard had got his son a place in the Irish Guards, despite his poor eyesight. But John Kipling, known as Jack, never returned from fighting in France and his body was never recovered until long after his father’s death.


Harry Potter and the goblets of booze? - July 25 2007
Daniel Radcliffe has celebrated his 18th birthday with a six hour party at a private members’ club in Soho.

He then emerged to the media glare with his rather grim-faced mother Marcia, before a limousine ride back to their Fulham home.

The party-goers enjoyed beer, wine and cocktails, as well as hors d’oeuvres such as fois gras, the Daily Mail reports, and the actor apparently looked "decidedly worse for wear" when he got home.

Daniel’s publicist Vanessa Davies told the paper that he had not been drinking alcohol at Lord’s cricket ground earlier in the week.

"He was absolutely not drinking Fosters or any other lager," she insisted.

"The question as to whether Daniel was or wasn’t drinking alcohol at his birthday party last night, I am not willing to discuss. Daniel is now 18 and the question of whether he chooses to consume alcohol at a private function or not is completely up to him."

But when he left the house on the morning after the party, the Harry Potter star’s father told waiting photographers: "You’re in for a very long wait. He’s asleep and will be for a while."

Getting his hands on his £20 million earnings, which have been placed in trust, will probably take the edge off any hangover though!


Daniel: Family and friends keep me grounded - 12 July 2020
Daniel Radcliffe has said he is very lucky to have "brutally honest" friends and family who keep him "grounded".