This year is coming to an end. You can view a top 5 list of Daniel J Radcliffe Holland's most viewed posts from 2020 on Facebook. It does give an impression of how 2020 has been with the coronavirus pandemic.
Besides the fact that this has been a different, weird and difficult year I still would like to say Happy New Year everyone! Stay safe and healthy. Thanks for visiting and see you in 2021!
Let's hope that it will be a much better year.
A blesséd and peaceful #ChristmasGreeting to everyone from the cast crew of #EscapeFromPretoria - as the world looks forward to 2021! 🎊Photo: Instagram/Escape from Pretoria
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Get ready for the exciting release of #EscapeFromPretoria on @PrimeVideoUK on #AmazonPrimeVideoUK in the #NewYear2021!!
"Hopefully 2021 can be a little bit more normal than 2020 has been"
A special Christmas message to everyone at Minchinhampton Primary School.Thank you Bethany for letting us share it.
Daniel Radcliffe and director David Yates regroup while filming the final meeting of Dumbledore's Army before the Christmas holiday. #WizardingWorldChristmas pic.twitter.com/M7VGftlBkF
— Harry Potter Film (@HarryPotterFilm) December 15, 2020
"My first thoughts are that this is but a mere preview of the nostalgia we’ll be immersed in next year when it hits 20 years since the first film was released. ‘I feel like we’ll be doing a lot of reminiscing probably in various forms next year."
"It feels insane that that much time has gone by […] It seems impossible that all that time has passed"
If you missed it you can still purchase a ticket at tomfelton.veeps.com because the livestream is available for rewatch until 21st November at 12pm PT. A portion of all sales will be going to The Liv Project.
For more information on this sweepstake visit their website uwin.co.uk. You can also win a festive message from Harry Potter co-stars such as Tom Felton, Evanna Lynch and more.
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We already knew that series 3 is coming for Miracle Workers. And here's more info: This time it takes place in the American Old West and will again have the cast members Steve Buscemi, Geraldine Viswanathan, Karan Soni and ofcourse Daniel.
TBS has announced the following today (press release):
“Set in the year 1844, the new season of ‘Miracle Workers’ will follow an idealistic small-town preacher (Radcliffe) who teams up with a wanted outlaw (Buscemi) and a liberated prairie wife (Viswanathan) to lead a wagon train west on the Oregon Trail across an American landscape which, much like today, is fraught with both promise and peril.”
“‘Miracle Workers’ is a perfect example of the fun, escapist humor that we take pride in delivering to our viewers,” said Sam Linsky and Adrienne O’Riain, co-heads of scripted original programming for TBS, TNT and truTV. “We can’t wait to see how this incredibly dynamic cast and talented group of storytellers hilariously rewrite 19th century history.”
“Getting to tell an entirely new story with this ludicrously talented cast each season is a dream come true,” said Mirk and Padnick. “We could not be happier that TBS has given us the reins on this unique and special show.”
source: PA Media
photos: Getty Images
Caption contest ...winner gets signed hero mask *villain , time starts NOW! 📷 credit @josh_herdman_official
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2020 has been an unbearable year for so many reasons. The tweets have not helped. But we can’t just ignore them. To help chronicle the year in bad online outbursts, Defector correspondent Daniel Radcliffe joins us to read some of the worst tweets of 2020 so far.source: defector.com
Mexican newspaper Reforma published an exclusive interview with Daniel (plus Jason Lei Howden and Samara Weaving) in promotion of Guns Akimbo (Manos a las Armas). It can only be read if you are a subscriber. You can find the link via this site's Facebook page. Poster here.
Guns Akimbo is now playing in Mexico. It's an extended interview by Juan Carlos García who spoke to him at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2019.
“We are living in a time when it is important to tell the stories of people who have heroic qualities that should be celebrated, of people with enormous courage, but who at the same time have great principles and sacrifice so much for their ideals. That is always something important as an actor ”
For the young cast of the #HarryPotter movies, filming on location marked their first experience spending time away from home. ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/GnI994yUEm
— Harry Potter Film (@HarryPotterFilm) July 15, 2020
For Daniel Radcliffe, "it was quite exciting being away from home and enjoyable staying in a lovely hotel in Newcastle there with my dad." pic.twitter.com/9cX3Ju9adV
— Harry Potter Film (@HarryPotterFilm) July 15, 2020
Those early days were key for forming friendships among the cast. Radcliffe remembers fondly, "we were becoming friends. The whole lot of us were playing around and having fun together...a chemistry was developing between us.” pic.twitter.com/3vWmTiJviV
— Harry Potter Film (@HarryPotterFilm) July 15, 2020
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CHECK YOUR POTTER PRIVILEGE
“This
was one of those scripts that you read and you’re like, ‘How is this
not more widely known?’ With my specific career, Potter has afforded me
to do my own thing, and I wanted to be part of helping to tell this
story. That was enough of a reason for me.”
LEARN FROM THE REAL DEAL
“Tim
[Jenkin] is a really fascinating guy. I was very intimidated by him
because I really wanted to do his life justice. He’s actually in the
film — he came on set for a few days, and we were filming in a real
prison, and they put him in prison clothes again. I was like, ‘I guess
this is nice?’ But he was totally up for it.”
ACCEPT THAT THE TRUTH CAN BE TOO STRANGE FOR FICTION
“In
the film I have to forge a key, so I make a mould and there’s a whole
process behind it. But that didn’t actually happen in real life — Tim
just looked at the key he needed, went back to his cell and drew an
outline from memory. He’s such an amazing guy. [But] we just didn’t
think that anyone would believe that in a film.”
Daniel says it is an added pressure when the person you're playing (Tim Jenkin) is going to see your work on set.
"It's intimidating, but it's also very useful. These were people who sacrificed a lot and were willing to risk a huge amount for what they were fighting for, for their principles.
"You do have a certain duty when you're telling these kinds of stories. It lights a fire in you to give it your all, every day."
The South African accent is a notoriously difficult one to master. With the help of an acting coach Daniel prepared for this aspect of the character.
"I'd go through the script and I get somebody with a proper South African accent to say everything to me.
"And then I write it down phonetically next to the line in a way that will make me repeat those sounds. Repetition and then hoping for the best."
For Daniel, what this movie means for him, and what he hopes viewers take from it is that it's one thing to believe in equality, but begs the question: What are you willing to do?
"What are you willing to sacrifice? We all like to think that we would be on the right side of history if we are placed in a certain time period. But the reality is, you know, very few people are. And Tim is one of the people who was. I think it's a story that, as you say, now is a good time for it."source: news24.com
“I have a very specific way of doing accents. If you saw my notes, they’d look stupid… But I go through the script and write my lines out phonetically. Then I get someone with a South African accent to read those lines back to me while we go through the dialogue. I then have to work out how that sounds for me, and how I can recreate that noise.”
“Then it’s a matter of time and practice. Plus, Tim’s accent is quite Anglican so it wasn’t a big transition. But I would still rather do South African over Israeli any day. Now that was tough… But for Escape From Pretoria, I did have to rely on my accent coach [Jenny], because I would not have been able to do this film otherwise!”
Read more at thesouthafrican.com.
For Dan’s character look, I did a trim with a feather razor for more edgy pieces. Used 3-4 products to build up the same idea of texture and grit. Hair powder, fiber pomade, oil, and hairspray. Using a rat tail comb to back comb a touch.
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There was a balance between keeping his front hair messy and undone, otherwise we were drifting into #lloydchristmas territory. Chasing bangs will keep you busy!.
On a 35-foot drop Hogwarts castle roof stunt for Goblet of Fire:Holmes started on Potter at 17, and due to his small stature, was a perfect double for an 11-year-old Radcliffe. But stunt coordinator Greg Powell also charged Holmes with helping Radcliffe get in physical shape to handle the stunts that would put his face front and center. “We were at Alnwick Castle and there’s a scene where Harry has to hit a ball with a bat,” Holmes recalls. “As soon as me and Greg saw Dan swing the bat, he just looked at me and went, ‘We’re going to have to do a bit of work with him, you know?’ It was just the way Dan was moving, you could tell he’d not come from any sort of athletic background.”
“That’s a polite way of saying it,” laughs Radcliffe. “Imagine being an 11-year-old boy and being told, ‘You’re going to run around on crash mats and jump on trampolines.’ It was kind of heaven. I do feel any actor who has an interest in doing stunts and wants to be involved in that stuff as much as they can, you need to build up a relationship with your stunt double, or at least the stunt department. If you don’t, they’ll never know what you’re capable of.”
On the podcast interviews with stunt performers and coordinators:“They talked me through it and said, ‘It’s 35 feet. Do you think you can do that?’” Radcliffe recalls. “At 14 or 15, you’re full of bravado in front of a bunch of stuntmen, so I was like, ‘Yeah, of course I can.’”
“Dan was on a wire above a sloped, tiled roof,” Holmes explains. “He’s dropped from a static wire onto the roof, and then he starts his slide. The risk is the initial fall, which we padded him up for, and then the speed you build up as you slide down. Not only that, but he slid off the roof and pulled a broomstick over his shoulder to get it into his lap, and then landed on a crash mat at the bottom. It was a lot of things to think about in four or five seconds. But he was pukka; really good.”
“In retrospect, I look back on it and think it was pretty crazy that I was allowed to do that,” Radcliffe laughs. “35 feet is a lot higher than you think once you get up there.”
“I think there’s a myth around stuntmen that they are just superhuman in some way,” Radcliffe says. “When the public see something really painful or horrible, they think it was a visual effect or that there’s some clever, safe way of doing it. Often that’s not the case. There’s no way of faking, for example, falling down stairs. When you get hit by a car, you’re still getting hit by a car, even if it’s going slower than it would. They find the safest way of doing it, but it can still hurt.”They both feel it is past time the stunt community was recognized by the motion picture Academy with an Oscar category for the work they put in to do what they do:
“I literally broke my neck because people sit in front of a screen and want to go, ‘That was a good stunt,’” Holmes says. “Olivia Jackson lost an arm and paralyzed half her body on a Resident Evil production that didn’t have an insurance policy to cover her. We risk our lives for the sake of entertainment, so it’s a bit ridiculous when all other departments get recognized and we don’t.”
“If you can’t see the art of a brilliant stunt scene, you’re just not looking hard enough,” Radcliffe says. “I do think there’s a snobbery, but stunt work is an artform, and to do it well and do it safely is really, really hard.”
“But when you go through what happened with Dave or Olivia, or the many people we’ve talked to that have had severe things happen to them, you realize everyone has put their bodies on the line to make the things we love. It seems crazy not to acknowledge that.”
For the full interview: visit deadline.com.
