Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
#1Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/13/07 at 7:38pm
A very interesting read. Seems like a very level headed kid.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article1353034.ece
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Trekkie2
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#2re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/13/07 at 7:47pmSlightly off topic, but if anyone is planing to see this, can we please get a review?
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ShbrtAlley44
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#2re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/13/07 at 7:51pmI'm seeing it in April and I'd be glad to post a review.
ThankstoPhantom
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#3re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/13/07 at 7:53pmHe seems to be very positive about his legacy as Harry, yet also very positive about moving on. He seems level headed enought to go off and do his own thing after Potter.
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#4re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/13/07 at 7:59pm
I'm seeing it on the 24th February; if no one's opposed to a nearing-the-end-of-previews review, I'll be blogging my experience at https://weez.broadwayworld.com 
Nice article! Has anyone else noticed that "child" actors are so much more mature and grounded than the "concerned parents" that like to kick up a stink about any "controversial" career choices they make?
RadiGal2
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#5re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/13/07 at 7:59pm
Yes he is-- I am a Potterhead, and many of us older fans of the HP books are quite fond and protective of Daniel, he is like one of ours ya know? Chris Columbus almost did him him goddess bless Alfonso for breathing at least some Harry-like humanity into the movies.
Although I question choosing this role, it only because I have heard not-great-things about the writing. I don't want to see him forever trapped as the kid who played Harry. I look forward to reading your review of his performance.
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#6re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/13/07 at 8:21pm
This is a really great article. I'm a huge Harry Potter fan but I'll be glad to see him separate himself from just being Harry Potter. I'll be looking forward to you reviews Weez! 
"Nice article! Has anyone else noticed that "child" actors are so much more mature and grounded than the "concerned parents" that like to kick up a stink about any "controversial" career choices they make? "
Yes, I've noticed that with quite a few young actors.
#7re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/13/07 at 9:14pm
Currently single, does he worry he might attract attention for the wrong reasons? He laughs. “Are you kidding? I’m 17, and as long as girls are interested in me, that’s fantastic.”
I love him.
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#8re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/13/07 at 9:28pm
Radi-Gal do I understand correctly: You are worried about him starring in Equus because you have heard "not-Great" things about the quality of the writing? The Writing of EQUUS?
You weren't concerned about him starring a series of movies developed from a series of books that are only slightly better written than Romance novels?
Believe me, I don't think his career will suffer from the quality of the writing in Equus.
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#9re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/13/07 at 10:11pmI second the comment by JoeKv about the writing in EQUUS. In fact, if Radcliffe can handle this part, it will demonstrate that he can handle complex dialogue instead of reciting spells. I think Harry Potter is great fun but it does not a career make, and Radcliffe has something to prove.
RadiGal2
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/07
#10re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 12:26am
In a few articles yes, that is what I have read. Honestly I've not read/seen the play so I am quite aware that it is hearsay only--
As for the HP novels I would just politely beg to differ. Although literature in not my area of study it is the emphasis of many of my cohorts do and the consensus is something rather different than yours. The novels have been the subject of over 1000 academic pieces from lit to women's studies - to political science. Finally, no I am not concerned for his career, but I have become fond of him in the past few years-- and if I had any concerns about Daniel they were eradicated by his stunning self-mocking and deadly funny performance on Ricky Gervais' Extras this season.
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#11re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 12:32amI like the books just fine, but great writing? Hardly.
#12re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 12:42am
read the damn play.
it's fantastic. more than fantastic... brilliant.
one of my favorite plays of all time
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RadiGal2
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#13re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 12:45am
I've heard that more than once...
I personally find them quite clever, and definitely much better than most of the garbage that passes for children's literature these days-- although I will confess when I began reading them nearly a decade ago never in my wildest imagination would have imagined the cultural impact they would ultimately have. Regardless of anything else they tapped into the collective on an enormous scale. I, for one will not argue with that. At least it introduced the concepts of inductive and deductive reasoning, a healthy vocabulary, mythology, texture and --
oh my personal favorite: universal health care.
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#14re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 12:47am
to quote you again Radigal
"Although I question choosing this role, it only because I have heard not-great-things about the writing."
I wonder whom you herd this from, and i understand it is hear-say, but Equus has in my mind and many, many others some of the finest writing for the stage in it's time, and even now. it is an extremely well crafted play. Saying "not-grate-things" about the writing is crazy even if you didn't like the play after seeing it I don't think you could say that the writing wasn't grate, you might not agree with the themes but the writing is something quite beautiful, Just my opinion.
RadiGal2
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/07
#15re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 1:00amRight. Okay damnit; I solemnly vow to read the play, I can make no promises it will be soon because my schedule is quite hectic these days, however I much prefer forming my own opinion.
"I'm a one-eyed Mormon Democrat from conservative Arizona, and you can't have a higher handicap than that."
~The ever-great and fabulous Morris K. Udall.
#16re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 1:06am
we didnt' say you couldn't like it.
we just said you couldn't like it if you hadnt read it
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#17re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 1:11amDan sounds like an absolute doll.
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#18re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 1:15amthe final test is: does he, or does he not watch TCM?
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
RadiGal2
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#19re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 1:15am
I was joking...I don't seem to have the knack of delivering dry, mostly rhetorical lines -- not in print anyway -- it's a skill I am working on and clearly not gifted with.
Anyway thanks-- I will check the play out.
"I'm a one-eyed Mormon Democrat from conservative Arizona, and you can't have a higher handicap than that."
~The ever-great and fabulous Morris K. Udall.
CurtainPullDowner
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#20re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/14/07 at 1:45am
So who has seen the un cut version of the play?
I am booking my flight right now.
Jennifer Lynn
Understudy Joined: 12/29/03
#21re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/15/07 at 3:02pmHe says he liked to act out characters from James Bond films when he was younger. Funny, because I've been thinking that whenever Daniel Craig retires...well, Dan does have the looks for it...
#22re: Very Interesting Daniel Radcliffe Article
Posted: 2/15/07 at 3:53pmEQUUS is a very good play open to many forms of interpretation and design. I'm jealous as hell.
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