If you're a big Harry Potter fan, you're probably more updated with what's happening with Daniel Radcliffe than me. But if you're just a normal person with a little acknowledge of the children's book series, Harry Potter, you would still be alert with the news that the naive wizard of Hogwarts is kicking the big screen with a new twist. No long is he wearing black ropes, thick scarfs, with white collar shirt tucked in high black jeans, but he has stripped down to nothing in his new movie, December Boys. The movie is powerful, emotional and dramatic. The only problem was the presence of Daniel Radcliffe.
December Boys is about four orphan boys who end up competing for the same family. In this movie, Daniel plays the main character, Maps. Maps is the oldest of the four, breaks laws, learns to drink and smoke, and flirts around with a local girl who ended up having sexual encounter. If you haven't watched it already, imaging Harry Potter doing all that on the big screen. It's awkward.
The image of Harry Potter has gone down the drain for me (I'm not including the images of him from Equus). Daniel had became an icon for that character. To most people, he IS Harry Potter. How will the people precede him now? He is obviously too x-rated to be seen as the innocent boy wizard and his five second kiss scene with Cho, but because of his many years of the Potter saga, he cannot be taken seriously as a young Hollywood actor. He is stuck.
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I agree that it is a problem that actors often cannot branch out of roles that they are in. I can't picture Daniel Radcliff in any role besides Harry Potter. I know that the actress that plays Hermoine almost didn't sign a contrace for the next few movies because she was afraid of this problem. However, I feel like the damage is done.
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