In a new interview with The Daily Mail Daniel Radcliffe discusses his role in the film ‘The Woman in Black’, Harry Potter and more.

‘It’s my first grown-up role,’ the actor told me, noting that he was barely 17 when he made the televison film My Boy Jack.  ‘This is the first time I’ve played older than myself  –  I’m supposed to be 24 in this. And,’ he added, pausing for effect: ‘I’ve got a son.’ Then he laughed, and explained that he does indeed have a young son, but only on screen. Daniel’s child in the film is played by Misha Handley, who in real life is his godson. Misha’s the son of Thea Sharrock, who directed Daniel in his stage debut, Equus. ‘It’s very hard to fake the relationship that me and Misha have. There had to be a sense that we were close.’

He has starred in all of the Harry Potter movies, from Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone ten years ago to the final two-part Deathly Hallows – the first instalment of which is released on November 19. ‘It’s over now,’ Daniel said, wistfully. ‘I was much more emotional than I anticipated on the last day. ‘I won’t pretend that I’m not nervous about moving on. And I will have to work hard to stay busy, and try to separate myself from that character. So, I am slightly trepidatious. But whatever cannot be avoided, must be accepted.

‘The Woman In Black is very different from Harry Potter. But it’s different enough without me having to go all extreme and play a drug- dealing rent boy, or something where people go: “Oh, OK, he’s trying to shock us now.” I was simply after a good role.’ He said he read Jane Goldman’s screenplay during a flight from London to Los Angeles. (The film version, by the way, is quite different from the play of the same name, which has been running for 21 years at the Fortune Theatre.) ‘It’s scary on the page – absolutely terrifying! – and I must have freaked them out on the plane because I was pretty jumpy. By the time I landed, I knew I had to do it.’ The director, James Watkins, flew out to join the actor in LA and both agreed that The Woman In Black had to be more than just a ghost story. ‘It’s also about loss: the loss of a wife and the loss of children.’

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