Although thankful for his years in the Harry Potter franchise, Daniel Radcliffe says he got really lucky in his acting career after playing the Boy Who Lived.
While speaking to Page Six at the Drama League Awards last week, Radcliffe reflected on transitioning from being a famous child star to a Broadway sensation.
“I got really lucky in the sense that a ton of people gave me opportunities to do stuff like ‘Equus’ and ‘How to Succeed in Business,’ Daniel Radcliffe said. “And I took enough of those opportunities and enough of them turned out well.”
Recalling his days after Harry Potter and the start of his Broadway career, Radcliffe said, “I loved when I was ‘Potter,’ I loved when I started doing stage, I loved it. There’s a lot of people who started young, then find themselves in a position [where] they don’t actually like the job very much; they feel trapped in it. From quite young I was like, ‘This is what I want to do.’”
Daniel Radcliffe, who was nominated for a Tony Award for his role in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, then spoke about how he approached the difficult song, Franklin Shepard, Inc.”
“I knew I was doing the show for quite a long time before rehearsals,” he added. “So I drove my girlfriend [Erin Darke] crazy with just the sound of me rehearsing that in the other room for months and months and months – and I still run it a lot during the day.”
Daniel Radcliffe Talks About Upcoming ‘Harry Potter’ TV Series and If He Would Guest Star
Along with speaking to Page Six, Daniel Radcliffe met up with E! News to discuss the upcoming Max Harry Potter series.
“Like the rest of the world, [I’m] very excited to watch an audience member,” Radcliffe said about the show.
However, when asked if he would appear in the upcoming series, Daniel Radcliffe admitted he didn’t think so. “I think they very wisely want to [have] a clean break. And I don’t know if it would work to have us do anything in it,” he noted.
When pressed about what he would do if Max appraoched him to appear in the show, which is slated to premiere in 2026, Radcliffe answered, “I’m gonna be a politician about this and not deal in hypotheticals.”
Daniel Radcliffe previously touched on the possibility of returning to Hogwarts during his 2023 interview with Comic Book. “My understanding is that they’re trying to very much start fresh,” he said about the production team. “And I’m sure whoever is making them will want to make their own mark on it and probably not want to have to figure out how to get old Harry to cameo in this somewhere.”
He went on to add, “I’m definitely not seeking it out in any way. But I do wish them, obviously, all the luck in the world and I’m very excited to have that torch passed. But I don’t think it needs me to physically pass it.”