All of his villainy is motivated by quite pathetic things.”ĭaniel Radcliffe in a scene from The Lost City. The fact that he’s kidnapping Sandra Bullock’s character, but all the while wanting her to think he’s cool and to think the situation he’s bringing her into is cool. He’s got a desperate desire to get approval from his dad.

But he was a particularly fun villain to play. But there’s something freeing about being the villain where you don’t have to be the emotional centre of the movie or even likeable or sympathetic. There’s a lot of different things that are fun about both. “I had a lot of fun playing the hero, as well. You’ve played one of cinema’s most memorable heroes. In a wide-ranging conversation, Radcliffe spoke more about The Lost City, the legacy of Harry Potter, playing a Marvel villain and what fans can expect from his upcoming Weird Al Yankovic biopic. “There’s great action, it’s genuinely funny and there’s a legitimate romance that you’re rooting for in the middle of it,” he says, smiling. Rowling’s best-selling Harry Potter book series, Radcliffe - who has also starred in Horns, The F Word, Swiss Army Man and more - thinks audiences are ready to embrace something different. But we’ll see.īut 10 years removed from his titular role in the film adaptation of J.K. I’m enjoying getting the chance to do different things. That many people dissolving into a puddle was very sweet.” But my favourite reaction that I had never heard before in a cinema came during a moment where Channing does something very kind for Sandra’s character, and listening to 1,400 people around you melt was a noise I had never heard in a theatre. “We got a few great reactions, screams and laughs. “I hadn’t been to the movies since before COVID, so to see yourself in the first film after that was weird and a little uncomfortable, but I was reminded about what is great about seeing movies like that with a huge audience,” the Harry Potter star says. Seeing the film with an audience was the first time Radcliffe, 32, had been in a movie theatre since before the pandemic. Sandra Bullock and Daniel Radcliffe star in Paramount Pictures’ The Lost City. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.

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