The Harry Potter film franchise may have ended back in 2011, and yet fans are still consuming the beloved content they grew up with. It is no question that the cast of Harry Potter had grown and maintained a close bond after all these years, and in fact, had a cast ‘family’ reunion in Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts, where each member had a chance to share their most memorable and unforgettable experiences on set. Recently, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe reveals who made him love working on Harry Potter so much.
In an interview with GQ, where Daniel Radcliffe breaks down the most iconic characters he has played on screen so far, the actor also opens up about cast and crew members that have influenced him on Harry Potter. Those of which include Imelda Staunton (Dolores Umbridge), Michael Gambon (Dumbledore), David Thewlis (Professor Remus Lupin), and Gary Oldman (Sirius Black), whom Radcliffe described as actors who would just ‘chat everyone away’ to ‘have a nice day’ and then be able to ‘give an incredibly terrifying or intense performance.’ Watch his interview below:
However, among the ones he had mentioned, the most person to ever influence his acting was actually the director of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Harry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets, Chris Columbus. Radcliffe was happy to share how everybody was basically running towards him in the reunion set, seeing as they had not seen each other for how many years.
“I’m incredibly lucky to have worked with all of them, but honestly the person that I think had the greatest influence on me out of all of those is Chris Columbus. When Chris came back for the twentieth anniversary reunion last year, he came to the studios, and there were people on set who were running across the set to see this director that they had not seen in twenty years, and they remembered him and he remembered them, and there are so few people.”
The actor continues to share how difficult it was to start in the film industry as a kid, and yet, Chris Columbus had been one of his early inspirations that led Radcliffe to love his job even more.
“In the industry that can like, inspire that in people, like they genuinely… the crews on the first tow Potter films would have followed Chris Columbus to hell. We just loved him so much and I think a huge amount of his enthusiasm for like, being on set, is sort of where I take mine from and the reason I think I love the job so much is in no small part due to him.”
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