Daniel Radcliffe Was ‘Terrified’ of Alan Rickman and Thought ‘He Hates Me’ on First Three ‘Harry Potter’ Movies, Then ‘He Saw I Really Wanted to Work’ at Being an Actor
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Daniel Radcliffe was treated to an unexpected moment during an appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast alongside his “Merrily We Roll Along” co-stars Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz played a clip from his Alan Rickman interview in 2016, which Radcliffe had never seen before. Rickman and Radcliffe were co-stars for a decade in the “Harry Potter” film series.
In the eight-year-old footage, Rickman heaps praise upon Radcliffe. “As much as I was doing it for seven weeks, they were doing it for 52 weeks,” Rickman said about the child actors on the “Harry Potter” movies. “This was their life from 12 to 22.
And you would watch it from the sidelines at times and throw the odd lifeline in because there was so little time for that. It’s only in recent years that I’ve managed to sit down in a cafe with Daniel in New York.
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