Radcliffe and Radcliffe! Daniel talked about Escape from Pretoria with Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 6's Radcliffe and Maconie. The interview aired this morning but was already recorded back in January.

If you missed it you can listen to it via BBC Sounds (until 29 days after the broadcast). The interview starts around 02:37:33. Daniel also picked a song for the show, one by The Thermals.

source: bbc.com

Two new interviews which you could have missed: The Huffington Post and Variety.

A quote via The Huffington Post:

“My entire life and career is built on luck and privilege,” he said. “It’s just sort of allowed to be the case. I definitely don’t want people to think I got anywhere because I just worked really hard. Anyone who’s successful in anything, for the most part ― even if you did work really hard, which I’m sure people did ― there’s still a massive amount of luck involved. I mean, my life is an insane example of a place of luck.”

“I got incredibly lucky when I was 10 or 11 and then that afforded me opportunities that I would unquestionably not have been afforded had I not had that stroke of luck,” Radcliffe said. “When I was 17, I was in the West End. There’s very few people that go from having never done a play to doing a play in the West End.”

With Variety he discussed Escape from Pretoria why he won't play Harry Potter again.

Would you return as Harry Potter in the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them films?
I don’t think so. I don’t like say no to things, but it’s not something that I’m rushing to do. I feel like those films have moved on and they’re doing just fine without us. I’m happy to keep it that way. I like what my life is now. I’m not saying that I’ll never go back into any franchise, but I like the flexibility that I have with my career now. And I don’t want to get into a situation where I’m signed up for one series for years in advance

Prairie Dog magazine attended the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) press conference last September. Below their questions for Daniel and Samara Weaving regarding Guns Akimbo. The new issue is out now. Click here to view the cover.

You can also read the magazine's print version online.

Have you found yourself going down the rabbit hole of dealing with trolls?
Weaving: I make a conscious choice to not look at comments or read reviews. If I rely too heavily on them for my own satisfaction, it would cause more harm than good.
Radcliffe: It’s not a huge moral stance. I think I would be too emotional about it. Years ago, during my late teens, early twenties, I did spend a lot of time reading comments and it’s not a good thing to do for your mental health.

What kind of emotions did those comments trigger?
Radcliffe: It wasn’t anger, it made me sad. Not going to tell you what specifically — it’s all still there — but you only get upset by the things you believe at some level are true. Self-harmony is a very serious issue and I don’t want to make light of it, but I think there’s a masochistic tendency in reading stuff about yourself that becomes addictive. It’s a cycle you have to break.

How long did it take to get those guns bolted to your hands?
Radcliffe: The guns themselves were very quick, strapped on over the arms. The bolts were obviously make-up — they took about two hours the first day and an hour by the time we finished. I could put my pants by myself. Couldn’t button them though.

What do you find artistically satisfying about working in genre films?
Radcliffe: That’s the thing. I forget that I keep picking genre movies, and then everyone’s like “you did another one!” There’s something fun about making films that aren’t naturalistic. If you can justify it enough in the story, you can do the craziest stuff. There’s a weird magic realism, modern fairy tale tone to this, Horns and Swiss Army Man. A very dark fairy tale. But most fairy tales were very dark.

source: prairiedogmag.com

Update: 31st August 2020. Photos shared by Rory O'Connor on Instagram.



He would love to star in a biopic about a musical artist – but who would he play?
“Boy George – that’s an interesting life as well. And so is George Michael’s, I’m sure.

Via Myleene Klass' Instagram:

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Entertainment Weekly (EW) interview with Daniel in promotion of Guns Akimbo.

What made you want to be part of this movie when you first read it?
Scripts don’t always come with a log line and this was one of those where I was like immediately like, okay, interesting and then thought, how thoroughly has this premise being explored? When I started reading I was like, oh good, very throughly. Page 10 of the script is around when he gets the guns bolted onto his hands and then the sequence of the next few scenes is him trying to get dressed, trying to get out of the apartment and going to the toilet. Honestly, at that point of reading, I was pretty much like, I’m probably going to do this movie. I enjoyed the fact that it was clearly going somewhere very dark and cartoonish-ly violent, but also not taking itself super seriously and being willing to explore just the mundane physical comedy of what the potential day-to-day life of someone who had guns for hands would be like. So I was really taken with the script immediately and then I talked to Jason (Lei Howden) on Skype about it and his enthusiasm for it. I love working on these kinds of films. I did a lot of stunts and things during the Potter movies, but not a lot of the roles I’ve done since then have really called for very much of that, so I really enjoy that stuff. This just looked like it would be really, really fun — and it was. Anytime I read a script and there’s a really original voice coming through, that’s when I get the most excited.

Photographer Francis Hills took photos of Endgame at the Old Vic Theatre in London last week for his project called Unbidden - portraits in the wings. The project will be exhibited and a book is planned with proceeds going to The Actors Fund.⁣ ⁣⁣Photos featuring Daniel and the rest of the cast are shared on Instagram.

"I’m photographing performers standing in the wings (or wherever they happen to be before they go on stage) capturing that moment of preparation before they face their audience".

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Daniel talked about Escape from Pretoria, Endgame and more on BBC Radio 5's Laura Whitmore this morning. Rick Edwards sits in for Laura. The interview was already recorded earlier this month. If you missed it you can listen to it via BBC Sounds. (available until 29 days after the broadcast). There's a photo shared on Instagram.

The lyric I live for: his answer was a lyric from Tom Lehrer (at 24:30). The interview with Daniel, from the "Under The Spotlight" section starts around 37:35.

We Will All Go Together When We Go

"You will all go directly to your respective Valhallas. Go directly, do not pass 'GO', do not collect two hundred dollars"

source: bbc.co.uk

An exclusive Guns Akimbo (Пушки Акимбо) interview with Daniel aired live on Russian social media website vk.com (a.k.a. VKontakte) yesterday. It is part of the #VKLive project. The length is more than an hour!. Photos are below. There are also photos by photographer Aleksandra Pavliuscenko.

Guns Akimbo will be released in Russia on 27th February 2020.

Update: 27th February 2020. As mentioned in the video below. There is a caption contest set up by Cascade Film. It starts today and you can win Tiger slippers (the ones as seen in the movie) signed by Daniel. More info. The winner will be announced on 2nd March 2020.
Update: English version with thanks to Susanne.
Update: 14th March 2020. Intro used by another TV show regarding Saint Petersburg.

Full interview below. (it's dubbed sadly)

Clip - Daniel trying to speak Russian.
Photos shared by Zera Chereshneva (source: Facebook) A few more here.

Update: 21st June 2021. More photos via Kasia Madera on Facebook.

Escape from Pretoria is out in UK Cinemas and Digital on 6th March.

Stop Shooting at me!

The film is out in (select) US theaters and on demand 6th March 2020.

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Entertainment website We Got This Covered reported about 5 months ago that Daniel was being eyed for the role of Moon Knight for a Disney+ TV series. Today comingsoon.net shared exclusively that Daniel debunked those rumors.

He told Coming Soon (while doing promotion for Escape from Pretoria):

“If I was ever to go back into a franchise, I think the bar for that script would be even higher than anything else,” Radcliffe said. “Before you can sign on to being in anything for multiple years, you have to be sure you’re really going to love it all the time. I’m not averse to doing any kind of franchise thing in the future again, that could be fun. But the Moon Knight rumors are untrue, I can officially debunk that one, I haven’t heard anything about it.”

Personally I was hoping that the rumor was true. It sounds like an awesome role.

More about Moon Knight:

Moon Knight is the alter ego of Marc Spector, a Jewish-American rabbi’s son who grew up to become a heavyweight boxer and then a U.S. Marine.

Spector, a mercenary who has numerous alter egos such as cabbie Jake Lockley and millionaire playboy Steven Grant, in order to better fight the criminal underworld. But later he was established as being a conduit for the Egyptian moon god Khonshu after being left for dead on a mission in Egypt. Most recently, he was a consultant who dresses in all-white and goes by the name Mr. Knight.

source: comingsoon.net

Daniel supports the It's Okay Not To Be Okay mental health awareness campaign set up by Tony Wilsher. Below you find the video message he received from Daniel.

You can also help this campaign by posting a video saying it’s okay not to be okay. For more info visit IOKN2BOK on Facebook.

Photos: Getty Images

An update on Escape from Pretoria. Below you find a photo shared by Daniel Webber on Instagram. There are also Giphy gifs released by UK distributor Signature Entertainment.

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Daniel is featured in the new People magazine (17th February 2020) in promotion of Miracle Workers: Dark Ages (series 2). The page features a photo by Celeste Sloman. Scan via tabloidtoc.tumblr.com.

Page 88: One Last Thing – Daniel Radcliffe.

Afgelopen weekend hebben ze Daniel's handtekening gescoord na de voorstelling van Endgame in The Old Vic in Londen. Zie de foto hieronder.

Ik wens ze veel succes, hopelijk lukt het! Het schiet al mooi op. Nog 86 te gaan. (Een update zal volgen als dit is bereikt).

Update: 18 juli 2020. Video.

Update: 14th February 2020. A video via The Old Vic Theatre on social media.



This video is also shared on Facebook.



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Endgame is presented in a double bill with Samuel Beckett's rarely seen short play Rough for Theatre II.

Here's an update on Alan Cumming's Instagram posts regarding Endgame at The Old Vic Theatre in London. You also could have missed this Disney Instagram story. When more appear I'll add them.