Daniel Radcliffe has revealed he has a ‘massive chip on my shoulder’ because of his role as Harry Potter.
The
actor, who earned £50m from the film series, said that he was paranoid
that nobody would take him seriously as an actor because he was handed
success on a plate.
Radcliffe
said that he worried people would think he just ‘fell into’ being
famous when he was given the job at the age of 11 - and did not really
deserve it.
Concerned: Daniel confessed that the early success of Harry potter left him hyper-sensitive to fears of failure
In an interview he
revealed that he has worked 90 hour weeks with hardly any holidays in an
effort to establish himself on his own terms.
Even
before the end of the Potter franchise he had performed in the
controversial stage drama Equus in which he appeared naked in front of
the audience.
His next role will be in Kill Your Darlings, in which he will play the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.
Child star: Daniel had a stratospheric rise to fame in his role of Harry Potter
In an interview Radcliffe, 24, said: ‘I have a massive chip on my shoulder.
‘When
you fall into something at age 11 and get paid incredible amounts of
money for your entire teenage years for doing a job anyone would want,
there is a part of you that thinks everybody is just saying, ‘He got
there because he fell into it; he’s not really an actor.’
‘It has taken a long time to feel like I’ve earned the place that I’m at’.
Fan-tastic: Chased by fans, Daniel gets escorted
by a bodyguard as he arrives from a flight at Los Angeles International
Airport.
Radcliffe moved out of
home at 17 and began drinking to battle his demons but it got so serious
he would blackout, unable to account for the previous eight hours.
He quit the booze but still could not stop telling himself: ‘You’re going to fail’.
Radcliffe
said: ‘I think there was a part in the back of my head that was going:
This is all going to end. And you’re going to be left in this nice
apartment.
Longevity: Daniel can next be seen in Kill Your Darlings alongside Dane DeHaan, John Krokidas, Austin Bunn and Patrick Harrison
‘Just living here. And being reminded of what you did in your teenage years for the rest of your life.’
Not
everyone is quite so sympathetic, however, and Radcliffe admitted that
his father Alan often tells him: ‘You’re not down in the mines’ to
remind him to buck up.
Radcliffe however is not alone in complaining about the effect that Harry Potter had on his life.
Poetic licence: Seen here in NYC, Radliffe has taken on the role of Allen Ginsberg
Emma Watson, who played
Hermione Granger, has said that she was fed up with having every minute
of her life controlled by the demands of the filming schedule.
Rupert Grint, who played Ron Weasley, Harry Potter’s best friend, has said that Potter was ‘quite suffocating’ by the end.
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