Dan Radcliffe recently participated in the third instalment of MTV’s very funny ‘American Talk’ interview quizzes. Dan attempts to name the greatest American president, reveals a crush on Katy Perry, and manages to name all of the Twilight movies, plus other things. Watch that below thanks to this tumblr user.
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Dan Radcliffe opens up about life and love
With Dan Radcliffe just having finished his stint on How to Success in Business and his new film, the psychological thriller The Woman in Black due in February, PARADE Magazine sat down with him to discuss life and love. Below are some excerpts from the article with the 22-year-old.
Are you a romantic? “Yes. I don’t know where my romanticism came from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up. I still see something very romantic in the world that perhaps isn’t there. I suppose I want it to be the place of knights and that kind of stuff.”
Are you in love with your girlfriend Rosie Coker? (Radcliffe met Coker, a production assistant, on the set of the last Potter film.) “Yes, absolutely. When Rosie’s here, every day seems better… I’m not an easy person to love. There are a lot of times when I’m a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I’m useless. I mean, I’m a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things. This year it’s fantasy football, which means Rosie has to listen to me talking 24 hours a day about this team. ‘Should I take this player out, do you think, darling?’ And she listens to it, and she loves me for my oddness, my awkwardness, all of those things that I hate about myself. She finds them cute. I guess that’s love.”
Last year you gave up alcohol. Why? “My inner life was being drowned. I’ve worked with Richard Harris, Gary Oldman, all those actors who went crazy when they were young, and I always wanted that. The idea of that kind of life and chaos was always so appealing to me. Unfortunately, the way I do it, there was no romance to it! [laughs] There is nothing glorious or triumphant about it-it was pathetic, boring, and unhappy.”
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Alan Rickman clarifies how much much information JK Rowling gave him about Snape’s fate
In a recent interview with HitFix, Severus Snape actor Alan Rickman gave some clarification to the myth that author JK Rowling told about him the fate of his mysterious character before anyone else knew. From the article:
Before I could even finish my question about this anecdote Rickman jumped in to clarify.
“Not true. I don’t know who thinks that is true, but it’s not true,” Rickman says. “She gave me one tiny, little, left of field piece of information that helped me think that he was more complicated and that the story was not going to be as straight down the line as everybody thought. If you remember when I did the first film she’d only written three or four books, so nobody knew where it was really going except her. And its was important for her that I know something, but she only gave me a tiny piece of information which helped me think it was a more ambiguous route.”
So, in many ways, Rickman’s portrayal through the series is even more impressive as he had just one nugget to use as he shaped Snape over the years.
Rickman adds, “What I knew was he was a human being and not an automaton and I knew there was some sense of protection for Harry or I worked that out. It was enough to know, I didn’t know he was a double agent.”
You can read even more great stuff from Rickman in that article at this link.
