Daniel Radcliffe
- Profession: Actor
- Place/Date of Birth: Fulham, 23 July 2020
As the latest movie in the boy wizard series, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, opens across the world, Dan told CNN’s Larry King Live the best thing about playing Harry was being able to work with "amazing" actors.
He said: "Over the last seven years that I’ve been doing the films, I’ve made some of the most fantastic friends.
"A lot of my best friends in the world, I’ve met them on the set, and people who will play a very important part in the rest of my life I’ve met there.
"And I probably would never have met them had it not been for the movies, so that’s been the best part about doing the films."
He said he particularly enjoyed working with Gary Oldman, who plays Harry’s godfather Sirius Black, and praised Oldman for the support he gave him both on and off the set.
Asked how people have treated him since his rise to stardom, he said: "I don’t think people have treated me too differently in terms of my immediate friends and obviously my family, It’s just the same as it’s always been.
"I’m particularly lucky actually to have people around me who will always be brutally honest with me.
"I think that’s sometimes where other people can go wrong. They have people around them who won’t tell them the truth so they can’t remain as grounded as perhaps they should."
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The film’s director David Yates also joked that Dan had been desperate to show off his birthday suit again during filming: "Do you know what? He was trying to get his kit off all the time. I said ’Dan, no you mustn’t!”
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He beat thousands of hopefuls to secure the role he was quite definitely born to play, as director Chris Columbus says: "Dan walked into the room and we all knew we had found Harry."
Daniel first appeared on our screens in December 1999 when he played the young David Copperfield in BBC television’s production of David Copperfield. The drama which was directed by Simon Curtis, also starred Dame Maggie Smith and Zoe Wanamaker who now appear along side him as Professor McGonagall and Madame Hooch in Harry Potter.
Prior to filming Harry Potter he made his feature film debut as Jamie Lee Curtis’ and Geoffrey Rush’s screen son in John Boorman’s The Tailor of Panama.
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