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Celeb News: How Daniel Radcliffe Made Harry Potter Disappear !
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How Daniel Radcliffe Made Harry Potter Disappear !
KING Dan is getting better and better with acting,so happy
TORONTO — There is no model for Daniel Radcliffe’s career. This is a young man who became instantly famous across the planet when he was 11 years old, and who played the same leading role in eight enormously successful movies that have grossed $7.7 billion in movie theaters worldwide — all before he was 23. Even if Radcliffe never worked another day in his life, no other actor in the history of modern Hollywood has had a professional experience that comes close, and likely never will.
But Radcliffe is far from resting on his laurels. At the Toronto International Film Festival, he is starring in three very different movies in three very different roles, demonstrating an undimmed drive to prove himself both as a leading man and as an actor. ( Well, the performances do have at least one thing in common: In all three movies, Radcliffe does get naked.) Here is an assessment of all three films:
The F Word
Radcliffe plays Wallace, a British medical school dropout living in Toronto with his single-mother sister and nursing a broken heart
Granted, this is basically a 21st century version of When Harry Met Sally…, but like that ’80s rom-com classic — and unlike so many other ungainly rom-coms that have followed it — The F Word is refreshingly funny and romantic in all the right proportions, with spot-on direction from Michael Dowse.
Of Radcliffe’s three films at TIFF, this is the most commercial — late Tuesday, CBS Films closed a $2.5 million deal to distribute the film in the United States — with the least obvious heavy lifting. But these kinds of light comedy performances are deceptively tricky to pull off, and Radcliffe and Kazan both keep the sparks between them alight and alive throughout the film.
Romantic leading man? Check.
Horns
If you have been expecting Radcliffe to make a radical break from Harry Potter, look no further. Based on Joe Hill’s 2010 novel of the same name, Horns chronicles the strange fate of Ig Perrish, a twentysomething layabout in the Pacific Northwest whose life is upended when his whole town believes he brutally murdered his girlfriend Merrin (Juno Temple), making him out to be a figurative devil.
At first, Ig is horrified by both his horns and the behavior they provoke, but eventually he gives into it, and Radcliffe, sporting a flat American accent, gets to indulge in the kind of wicked, violent behavior he could never contemplate while playing a boy wizard. And to my eyes at least, he pulls it off, never pushing things into trying-too-hard Mileyville. The movie doesn’t quite follow his lead — the whodunit mystery is a bit too obvious, for starters, and its hard-R violence and nudity could propose a tricky marketing challenge for prospective distributors hoping to rope in teenage Potter fans. Then again, “Harry Potter goes really bad” does have an appealing kick to it.
Dark and twisted horror star? Check.
Kill Your Darlings
First premiering at the Sundance Film Festival last January (and opening in theaters on Oct. 16), this film announces Radcliffe as a big screen presence who can embody a fully realized character who isn’t Harry Potter — not with movie star charm or genre flick thrills, but with nuanced, humane acting.
It is 1944, however, and this is a love that truly dare not speak its name, so Radcliffe, employing a steady New Jersey accent, can only really convey Ginsberg’s longing for Carr with his wide, intelligent eyes — the sort of wordless acting that Radcliffe himself has said was the weakest part of his performances as Harry Potter. Here, though, working with first-time feature director John Krokidas (who wrote the script with Austin Bunn), Radcliffe does it effortlessly
More to the point, Radcliffe pulls off something I once thought wouldn’t be possible: I never once thought about Harry Potter while I was watching this film.
Talented actor who is far more than his most famous role? Check
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DanRan ******** since he was 11 years old,who else

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"How Daniel Radcliffe Made Harry Potter Disappear"
Why the hell would you want to make the thing that made you so famous and rich disappear
kind of a silly thing to say. (it would make sense if it was critically bashed & a flop but its not)

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Harry Potter stans
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Yes slay effortlessly Daniel 
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Originally posted by PhreshDiamond
"How Daniel Radcliffe Made Harry Potter Disappear"
Why the hell would you want to make the thing that made you so famous and rich disappear
kind of a silly thing to say. (it would make sense if it was critically bashed & a flop but its not)
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Because he's an actor and lots of kids actors get type casted and dismissed when they try to move on from the thing that make them a star in the first place.
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Dan made all the right moves to shake off the harry label good for him, cause he's an amazing stage actor and he's only gonna get better hopefully that translate to his work on screen tho.
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He is an amazing actor, so far I've liked all of his works!
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Originally posted by Grumpy Gills
Dan made all the right moves to shake off the harry label good for him, cause he's an amazing stage actor and he's only gonna get better hopefully that translate to his work on screen tho.
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you can tell he works really hard,and he's very passionate about his craft,he's so humble tho,deserves all the success 
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Originally posted by izzy
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you can tell he works really hard,and he's very passionate about his craft,he's so humble tho,deserves all the success 
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He is, he's such a good person! i love reading his interviews it just makes me love him and wish him all the success in the world.
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Glad for him!! The Harry Potter cast is so talented !
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Miley should take a hint 
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He is so talented and I'm glad he is doing more movies
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I can't wait to watch all of his new movies.
Sad the other HP kids aren't making big waves. Sans Emma. I need Rupert to come on already.
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That chick looks like a younger version of Shane Dawson's mom. 
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I can't wait to watch all of his new movies.
Sad the other HP kids aren't making big waves. Sans Emma. I need Rupert to come on already.
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not surprising tough,Dan and Emma always got the most attention and more then all put together.Rupert is a good actor tough,but he really didn't do much ever since HP ended 
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