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new interview about Kill YOur Darlings

GS: It must be so interesting to be able to do that kind of stuff now. Is it scary? The idea that you get to push yourself that way.

DR: I’m doing a wide variety of parts. But to be honest, even during Potter I did Equus. I’m getting so many questions about this gay sex scene. I’m getting more questions for playing a gay man than a seriously disturbed teenager.

GS: It’s this idea that in short order you’ve been able to dive into a lot of different roles. I don’t think a lot of people who start out in child work get to do this.

DR: I think a lot of it comes from doing Equus. It was a statement of intent and people went, "He’s serious about this. He’s prepared to take risks." I’ve been lucky that people have seen that, people have rewarded it by giving me opportunities. John [Krokidas, director] coming to see Equus is a great example. I played Allen Ginsberg because of Equus. I’ve got people coming to see (play) How To Succeed [in Business Without Really Trying] wanting to work with me.

If you take every job as an opportunity to prove something then hopefully you will prove something to somebody.

GS: Are you proving it to yourself as well?

DR: I’ve learned that the only definition of success that can matter is your own. Everyone seems to think that I’ve been completely successful and I can just stop now. There’s an attitude that success equates to money and if you’ve done that young then you’ve been successful. I actually don't think that's how I regard myself because I regard success as becoming a better actor with every job I do. I regard success as a career with longevity. That's a key part of it.

GS: Even as a person, a place to go and add value and have meaning. That’s also success, right?

DR: Yeah, of course.

 

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Daniel Radcliffe to play Sebastian Coe in 'Gold'

EXCLUSIVE: Radcliffe to star as Olympic champion in Gold. Simon Beaufoy’s script to be directed by James Watkins, Embankment to handle sales.
 
Daniel Radcliffe is to play four-time Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe in what will be one of the hottest projects to hit the American Film Market (AFM) next month.
 
Radcliffe will reunite with Woman in Black director James Watkins on Gold, which will tell the story of Coe’s rivalry with fellow athlete Steve Ovett in the years leading up to the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games.
 
The buzzed-about screenplay is by Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) and Will Davies (How to Train Your Dragon).
 
Planning is underway for a shoot in the UK and Russia in April next year.
 
The film will be produced by Joanna Anderson and Vicky Licorish (Small Island) and Kevin Loader (Hyde Park on Hudson, Le Week-end).
 
BBC Films and the British Film Institute have developed the project with Al Films. BBC Films’ head Christine Langan will executive produce. Financing is also provided by Ingenious Senior Film Fund, represented by Gavin Poolman. 
 
As a middle-distance runner, Coe won four Olympic medals in 1980 and 1984, and broke world records. He turned to politics in the early 1990s and became a Life Peer in 2000.
 
He most recently cemented his position as a national hero after securing the UK the Olympic Games in 2012 and was presented with the Lifetime Achievement award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year in last December
 
Harry Potter star Radcliffe is currently in Sony Picture Classics’ Kill Your Darlings, set for release in the UK in December.
 
He will next be seen starring opposite Zoe Kazan in eOne romantic comedy The F Word, as well as starring opposite Juno Temple in the horror-thriller Horns, based on Joe Hill’s best-selling book. 
 
This summer saw Radcliffe star in the acclaimed West End production of Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan. He will next star with James McAvoy in Paul McGuigan’s Frankenstein, set for release in 2015.
 
Radcliffe is represented by Sue Latimer at ARG in the UK and UTA in the US.
 
Christine Langan said of the project: “Compelling, funny and moving, Gold is a gem of a story and BBC Films is proud to be participating in bringing it to an international audience.”
 
Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s Embankment Films are selling worldwide and will be launching the film at the AFM. Haslam said: “Gold is a movie about an insatiable need to win, fuelled by intense ambition, only possible through the support of loving family.”
 
The film is based on the acclaimed book The Perfect Distance by Pat Butcher, who also acts as consultant on the project.

 

http://www.screendaily.com/news/daniel-radcliffe-to-play-sebastian-coe/5063052.article

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COMING SOON: DANIEL RADCLIFFE IN 'SHORT LIST' MAGAZINE ISSUE 300

For the 300th issue of ShortList we have to go big. We have to go bad. We have to blow you away. Er, so we will…
 
The world’s top crime authors have penned us tight 300-word stories for the issue. And…well, we don’t want to reveal too much else. But suffice to say,there will be special guests and headline-grabbing coups. Not to mention the odd body to be disposed of. Bring a shovel.
 
To whet your appetite, here is a special trailer for the 300th issue, starring one of the biggest actors on the planet...
 
Issue 300 is out on November 14

 

http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/coming-soon-daniel-radcliffe-in-issue-300

 

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nice new article/interview :hehe:

 

A leaner, fitter Daniel Radcliffe is fighting off 
the ghost of Harry Potter by taking a role as the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg
 
First impressions clearly matter to Daniel Radcliffe. He is as solicitous about creating a good one as he is about everything else in his career. We meet in a hotel suite, filled with representatives for his latest film Kill Your Darlings, in which he plays the young Allen Ginsberg. In the far corner, Radcliffe sits hunched over a table, wolfing down his lunch, a jobbing actor on a tight schedule. He spots me, jumps up and weaves across the room. ‘I’m so glad we could make this happen,’ he says, shaking my hand firmly; 24 and professional beyond his years. Interviewers often remark on his height (he is a slight five-foot-five) but his stature, the assured presence of a veteran movie star, is just as striking. I feel like a bit-part player in the ensemble, catching the kindly attention of the lead for the first time.
 
‘Daniel is a natural company leader,’ confirms Michael Grandage, who directed Radcliffe on stage in The Cripple of Inishmaan earlier this year. ‘In the rehearsal room he bows immediately to anyone with experience, but he knows that it’s his face on the poster and he doesn’t take that responsibility lightly.’ In the programme of that play, Radcliffe noted, perhaps surprisingly, how intimidating he found walking into a rehearsal room, where most actors expect him to be ‘unpleasant’, the brattish child actor. In truth, he is anything but – bright, hardworking, genuinely humble. (‘I allow myself to set lofty ambitions,’ he tells me. ‘But I shut them away and never tell anyone.’) Even so, the weight of expectation, the shadow cast by his years playing Harry Potter, continues to define his professional life. ‘He makes sure that the public and the industry don’t put him in a box,’ Grandage says. ‘He cautions himself against complacency.’
 
If his role as a disabled Irishman in The Cripple of Inishmaan struck a blow against typecasting, Kill Your Darlings delivers the death punch, coaxing out the rawest performance of Radcliffe’s career. The film tells the story of Ginsberg at Columbia University in 1943, where he met the budding beat writers Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs and fell in love with Lucien Carr, the group’s charismatic leader, to whom Ginsberg later dedicated his collection, Howl and Other Poems. Although a real-life murder drives the plot, the film is less a thriller than a coming-of-age drama about (gay) love in which the ‘un-bloomed stalwart’ Ginsberg finds his voice.
 
Radcliffe says he is ‘really proud’ of his performance and that it’s the one film of his that he has most enjoyed watching. ‘I look so unlike myself,’ he explains. By this, he means the curly black hair and thick glasses he wore for the role, but also the transformation he has undergone since playing Harry Potter. ‘I used to be worried that any facial expression I made, people would see Harry,’ he says. ‘I was proud of The Woman in Black, but there were points where I still saw Potter. In the last two years I’ve got
 fitter, which has given me confidence.’
 
His features are noticeably sharper; his jawline more chiselled. When he lifts an arm, his bicep shows under his T-shirt, conspicuously defined from all the rock-climbing he’s been doing lately. ‘I had a moment,’ he says, ‘just before Kill Your Darlings, when I was like, “Your face is always going to be the same as the one that played Harry Potter. You’ve just got to forget about that.”’
 
Playing Allen Ginsberg meant tackling a number of highly intense emotional scenes (and a gay sex scene). According to Krokidas, Radcliffe’s capacity to 
nail those was proof of an emo
tional range that the actor wasn’t 
even sure he had. It also led to a kind 
of catharsis: ‘One technique of mine,’ Radcliffe says, ‘is to tell the director everything about myself and let him use those things to emotionally manipulate me. There was a line in the script saying, “Allen weeps openly.” I said to John, “I’ve never cried on screen properly before.” He came over before the scene, we talked about stuff and within moments it started coming. When you let the tears go in front of a huge room of people, it’s very powerful. Some of that stuff I hadn’t accessed before. Weirdly, when you’re on set every day as a kid, you learn quickly that the way you are affects the whole set. So there was some part of me as a kid that thought I was not allowed to express anything negative about my life. The expectation of me is that I should just be delighted all the time.’ He laughs. ‘I do have a wonderful life and I’ve been very fortunate, but in the last few years I’ve been going, “You do have a wonderful life, but you also have a very weird life at times and you are allowed to have feelings about that.” I am generally upbeat though.’
 
He says he’s ‘obviously tired’, but it’s Radcliffe’s tirelessness as a performer, his constant searching to be better, that impresses me. He’s about to start filming the second series of the black comedy A Young Doctor’s Notebook with Mad Men’s Jon Hamm, and after that, a string of roles including Igor in a remake of Frankenstein. ‘I’m only tired when I get home,’ he says. ‘At work, I’m a ball of energy.’ He admits he’s afraid of stopping. ‘I’ve always been on set, with a sense of structure. If you take that away, I don’t know what to do with myself.’ But the good news, Grandage says, ‘is he wants to have as many challenges in his career as possible. While all of that is going on, I’m not going to worry about him stopping’. Thankfully, neither should we.

 

http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/going-out/who-what-where/the-contender-daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-allen-ginsberg

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congrats, Dan! :ddr::clap::hehe:

 

 

Daniel will get a star in Hollywood Walk of fame in 2015

Will Ferrell and Melissa McCarthy are among the 30 honorees selected to receive a star on Hollywood’s the Walk of Fame in 2015, the Walk of Fame Selection Committee announced Thursday morning.
 
Jennifer Garner, Peter Jackson, Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Radcliffe, Paul Rudd and Christoph Waltz join funnyman Ferrell in those from the motion pictures category receiving stars.
 
Screenwriter and novelist Raymond Chandler, who died in 1959, and Batman creator Bob Kane, who died in 1998, will be given their stars posthumously.
 
From the television category, “The Simpsons” producer James L. Brooks, producer and director Ken Ehrlich, celebrity chef Bobby Flay, “Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane, “The Good Wife’s” Julianna Margulies, “NCIS: Los Angeles” star Chris O’Donnell, “Big Bang Theory” genius Jim Parsons, former “Saturday Night Live” favorite Amy Poehler, talkshow host Kelly Ripa and “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara will receive stars for their work.
 
Songwriter and remixer Lukasz ‘Dr. Luke’ Gottwald, R&B funk music group Kool & The Gang, rapper Pitbull, Al Schmitt and producer-turned-singer Pharrell Williams will receive stars as well.
 
Kristin Chenoweth, Dick Gregory and Ennio Morricone were selected to receive stars for their live performances on stage or in the theatre.
 
Los Angeles radio host Larry Elder will also receive a star, being the only one from the radio category to do so. Snoopy, a childhood cartoon favorite, will even receive a star on the Walk for his memorable appearances in the “Peanuts” specials.
 
“We know that the new selections represent the best of the entertainment industry and will be a great addition to the Walk of Fame for both the Hollywood community and fans from around the world who visit Hollywood every year,” Maureen Schultz, Chair of the Walk of Fame selection committee, said in a statement.
 
The Walk of Fame Selection Committee of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce selected the honorees at a meeting held on June 16.
 
Of these 30 ceremonies planned for the recipients, approximately 24 of them will be broadcasted to a worldwide audience.

 

http://variety.com/2014/biz/news/walk-of-fame-2015-honorees-revealed-1201223538/

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