More stills have been added from Escape from Pretoria. You can view them in our group on facebook and our gallery.

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Join Alan Cumming, Daniel Radcliffe and Jane Horrocks in conversation with Fiona Mountford as they discuss the process of staging Endgame and the challenges and highlights of playing Hamm, Clov and Nell.

When: March 13

Find out more and buy tickets at https://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2020/voices-off/endgame-cast-in-conversation

Photos have been added from various categories from Guns Akimbo, Escape from Pretoria, Miracle Workers Dark Ages and much more. View our gallery for more.

Escape from Pretoria will come to DVD and Blu-ray on Apr. 7, 2020.

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Many thanks to Signature for sending over this interview along with updated stills, movie posters and the trailer from Escape from Pretoria. Escape From Pretoria is 104mins, 12A for the UK.

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MOVIES > 2020 | ESCAPE FROM PRETORIA > POSTERS

Escape From Pretoria in UK Cinemas and Digital 6th March

Monsterfest is hosting a poster contest for Guns Akimbo for Australia residents. Details below.

Guns Akimbo Poster Redux

We gave you the power to choose the poster we would use for the Australian theatrical release of GUNS AKIMBO and now we’re giving you the opportunity to create a GUNS AKIMBO poster redux! That’s right we’re going to supply you with some gun-less and textless poster assets so you can have a crack at making us laugh and in turn be up for some very cool prizes!

You can decide on what Miles (Daniel Radcliffe) can be holding in his hands, a new title for the film (preferably keeping the ‘AKIMBO’ at the tail) and even a new tagline for the film to fit with your concept! You need not worry about logos, billing block or in cinemas date.

You don’t need be a Photoshop veteran to enter, you could even knock-up something in Paint. We’re looking for creativity and above all we’re looking for a laugh!

You can reply to our Facebook or Twitter post with your entry or alternatively Email it to us if you’re not on the socials!

We’ll compile our ten favourites and put them to a vote on Tuesday 25th of February via our site and socials.

The gun-less & textless poster asset to get you started is just below but for those with a little more ambition we’ve set-up a folder with downloadable assets including fonts to really tie it together!

Prizes on offer are:

1x GRAND PRIZE PACK
– FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2020 VIP Pass, in your chosen city.
– Double Pass to GUNS AKIMBO on Friday February 28th, in your chosen city.
– Blu-ray Prize Pack, includes PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH & THE GREASY STRANGLER.

3x RUNNER-UP PRIZE PACKS
– Double Pass to GUNS AKIMBO on Friday February 28th, in your chosen city.
– PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH Blu-ray!

Entry details and conditions:
Competition closes at 11:59pm AEDT Tuesday February 25th 2020.
Open only to folks residing in Australia.
One entry per person.
Winners will be announced on this site and notified via email.
This is a game of creativity and skill.

Source: Monsterfest

Here’s the first clip from Saban Films. The second clip can be viewed after the Soundtrack Track listing.

Guns Akimbo Soundtrack News

Varese Sarabande has announced a soundtrack album for the action comedy Guns Akimbo. The album features the film’s original music composed by Enis Rotthoff  (Look Who’s Back, Wetlands, Four Against the Bank, Godless Youth). The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 28.

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In Promotion for Escape from Pretoria which premieres next week March 6. Dan did a few interviews for BBC Radio 5 and 6.

Rick Edwards sits in for Laura with actor Daniel Radcliffe, who will be ‘Under The Spotlight’ and talking about his new film ‘Escape From Pretoria’.

You can listen to the broadcast for another 23 days.

Mark Radcliffe presents solo and his guest today is actor Daniel Radcliffe. Internationally Daniel has since starred in a wide range of productions on stage and screen. He portrayed beat poet Allen Ginsberg in the film ‘Kill Your Darlings’, starred in horror movies ‘The Woman In Black’ and ‘Victor Frankenstein’ and finished last year with a stint on Broadway in the acclaimed original play ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’. His latest film ‘Escape From Pretoria’ sees him play Tim Jenkin, a real-life ANC activist who, along with Stephen Lee (played in the film by actor Daniel Webber) were branded terrorists, and imprisoned in South Africa’s maximum-security Pretoria prison. Daniel and Mark discuss the film and the audacious escape.

You can listen to the broadcast for another 29 days.

Today is March 6 and Escape from Pretoria is out on release via Amazon Prime and many other digital services. Down below we have 23 new stills from the movie you can view those in our gallery.

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You can also find an announcement about an upcoming Q and A made by the director Francis Annan in our facebook group.

New interview with Dan from Esquire Mexico. You can view the article on their website or read the English version below.

IF YOU ARE FAMOUS AT 13 OR 14 YEARS OLD, YOU MAY COME AT 20 AND YOU FIND OUT THAT YOU DON’T LIKE THE ACTION. THEN EVERYONE WILL SAY YOU ARE A FAILURE. BUT I AM LUCKY, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT MY CASE AND I WAS ALWAYS SURROUNDED BY GOOD PEOPLE 

ESQUIRE: Between cinema, television and theater, what do you enjoy doing the most?

DANIEL RADCLIFFE: I think everyone allows me to do different things. Television and cinema are very similar. My experience in TV has been much more in comedy, that’s why I think it’s so fun for me. I will always love the sets because I love being there and living the whole process. I’ve done it since I was nine years old and I love being in that world. I think the theater has helped me to be better. I have learned a lot and every time I do it with more confidence.

ESQ: Do you have any favorite genre?

D: I love comedy. Making people have fun gives you life. 

ESQ: Let’s talk about the issues that will determine the cinema during this year: which do you think will be the most important during 2020? 

D: I think you’re right … many times the tone of the movies is defined by what is happening in the United States or in Hollywood. A few years ago journalism dominated, and I think there will be a lot about politics this year, because for them it is a year of elections. I haven’t done anything like that, particularly, although I think Escape from Pretoria has a bit of that. 

ESQ: How do you decide whether to take a project or not?

D: The story is always the most important, as is the character. Generally it is when I read something and I realize that I have not done anything similar, or that it would help me to explore in my acting work; something that is original and that I would like to see in the cinema. When I did Swiss Army Man, for example, I thought: “I will never be in a movie like this; it is unique”. Other times, the decision has nothing to do with the script but with the director. 

I TRY TO WRITE. PEOPLE SUGGEST TO WRITE ABOUT WHAT IS KNOWN, BUT FOR ME IT’S DIFFICULT, BECAUSE IT IS NOT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO IDENTIFY WITH MY LIFE 

ESQ: If you could play any role, which one would you choose?

D: I don’t know. There are books I would like to be in. I would love to be Winston Smith, 1984. He is a great character in a great story. My favorite book is The Master and Margarita, if there was a role for me in that story it would be cool. It’s hard to say what I would like to be because the reason I like many characters has to do with the actor who played them, and I wouldn’t like to say that I can do better than them. I have no intention of doing anything about Shakespeare, for example, and one of the reasons I would not like it is that I have seen many of my favorite actors play their characters and I know I could not do better. 

ESQ: You started acting from an early age, how do you think you have evolved since then?

D: When you are a child on the set you just stand and say what you have memorized. I never had a process to decipher the character. As I grew up in Potter I saw how other actors did it and tried to imitate them … the process has been very gradual. When you are a teenager you are very aware of your own face and do not want to do anything weird; It’s scary not to see you cool. Growing up, I have learned to accept my own natural rarity and better take it as something that will make me unique. In short, I think it’s about that: to become less insecure. 

ESQ: What do you think makes you unique as an actor?

D: I think it would be better if the question was answered by people … there are things in which I consider myself good, and many times it has to do with throwing myself to do things; there isn’t something I don’t try, I always like to try hard. 

PHOTO SHOOTS > STUDIO SHOOTS > 2020 > ESQUIRE MEXICO

Find the full interview in their March 2020 issue. Interview by Constanza Alcocer and photos by César Balcázar

Full Esquire Scans

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We got loads more coming for you like new photos from Escape from Pretoria, Screen Captures from Miracle Workers Dark Ages, Guns Akimbo, Escape from Pretoria, Playmobil the Movie. New outtakes from The Wrap Photo Shoot. So come by and visit.

Free Registration for the gallery will also be open on March 15. I will let you know what to do to apply for an account. So be sure to come and see the site.

New photos were posted on twitter and facebook from the Old Vic for Endgame. Pictures of Dan and the cast can be viewed at our Endgame Group on Facebook and our gallery.

THEATRE > 2020 | ENDGAME > BACKSTAGE OUTTAKES

New stills from Beast of Burden and Imperium have been added to the gallery also added some from Playmobil, What if, Miracle Workers and Guns Akimbo

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New outtakes from Esquire Mexico shoot have been released in the new issue of Esquire Spain April issue. Down below are scans and images from the photoshoot.

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Dan spoke to Variety about researching his role in the film Escape from Pretoria, his love of the stage and why he won’t be reprising his role as Harry Potter anytime soon.

What interested you about “Escape From Pretoria”?

Just the f—ing incredible physical riddle of it all. How they were able to open the cell door of this terrible prison with these handmade keys and escape to freedom. Also there was something nice about the fact that these were people who were eminently supportable. You’re rooting for them to get out because they should not be in prison. They are victims of an oppressive, tyrannical regime, so it seemed like a wonderful story to be a part of telling.

Did you spend a lot of time with Tim Jenkin?

I did. He was in the movie in a small role. I won’t lie. I was very intimated having him on set because I was so aware that I was sort of playing at somebody’s life. We’re all walking around in costume, in prison outfits, and there’s this guy who lived through this. I kept thinking that it must be such a weird thing for him, and I worried he’d think we were trivializing it. But he seemed to like being there and he was so generous with his time. Despite having told this story a hundred thousand times, he was patient with all of my questions and just giving and generous with his time.

Do you feel a greater responsibility when you play a real person?

You do feel a real responsibility to do it justice. Not to sound pretentious and be everything I hate about actors, but it makes you want to suffer a bit more when you know there was actual real human pain involved in the story you are telling. You feel more of an obligation to try to understand what that was like.

When you say you feel a need to suffer more, what do you mean? Do you consider yourself to be a method actor?

I already hate that answer I just gave. Can I take it back? I’m not a method actor at all. I’m all about breaking down a script and figuring out what I’ll need to do. Occasionally I’ll listen to music to get in the mood for certain scenes, but generally my approach is to just know the lines well and give the director as many different options as we have time for. To try the scene in many different ways. That’s what works for me.

There are a number of articles that talk about your “weird” career choices since you finished the “Harry Potter” series. You’ve certainly made a lot of off-beat films like “Horns” and “Swiss Army Man,” but do you agree with that characterization?

I accept the label in that there’s nothing I’ve shied away from. But I wasn’t like, “find me the weirdest thing out there.” I wasn’t picking projects that were weird for weird’s sake. “Swiss Army Man” was weird in that it’s about a farting corpse coming back to life and that’s not for everybody. At the same time, it’s an incredibly smart film that has something beautiful to say about being human. I’ve done “Guns Akimbo,” where I’ve had guns bolted to my hands, but I’ve also done “Escape From Pretoria,” which is really grounded in reality. I think people saw me play one thing for so long that it seems more notable that I do loads of different stuff now.

Would you return as Harry Potter in the “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” films?

I don’t think so. I don’t like say no to things, but it’s not something that I’m rushing to do. I feel like those films have moved on and they’re doing just fine without us. I’m happy to keep it that way. I like what my life is now. I’m not saying that I’ll never go back into any franchise, but I like the flexibility that I have with my career now. And I don’t want to get into a situation where I’m signed up for one series for years in advance.

You are performing opposite Alan Cumming in “Endgame” in the West End. Do you have any plans to bring that to Broadway?

I would love to come back to Broadway. I don’t know if it will be with “Endgame,” but I’ll definitely be back. Broadway and New York have been so kind to me and it’s such a fulfilling place to work. I’m going to find a way to get back as soon as I can.

Source: Variety

Dan answers Inappropriate Questions, Glamour’s column that asks all the cheeky, slightly off-kilter stuff best saved for a second (or better yet, third) date. Reader, he immediately started talking about his penis. And his love language.

Glamour: I’m going to ask you some inappropriate questions.

Daniel Radcliffe: Oh Jesus!

In Guns Akimbo, your character carries his phone around even though he’s being tracked by murderers because he wants his ex to text him back so badly. I thought that was relatable! Was that kind of desperation familiar to you?

Not, I am happy to say, in recent days. But when I was a teenager? Yeah, 100%. I’ve been with my girlfriend now for eight years, so it’s been a long time since I stressed over a text, but absolutely I was one of those people that was analyzing, “How long should I wait before I text somebody?” And then, “Is it too much to put a kiss? Is two kisses just insane? What if they don’t write any back? That means they hate you!” All that mental cycling around, I did a lot of that.

I was watching the movie and taking notes and one just says, “Oh shit! We see his penis!” Was that you, or did you use a body double?

No, that is not me. I am, uh—you know, I’m Jewish! So that will give you enough information as to why that is not my penis. It’s not actually anyone’s; it’s a prosthetic.

Did you get to pick the prosthetic penis?

Um, no. [Laughs.] It was more a case of—they had to do, I guess, a color skin match so that it would be appropriate for me. Also, I think, if I’m correct, you don’t see any balls? Because the balls of that prosthetic penis were…not good. I don’t know what it had been made for; it was not made specifically for the film, I don’t think. A lot was going wrong with the very downstairs part.

You are correct about the balls. Do you believe in astrology?

I do not, no. I’m very boring and skeptical. Which is a shame because I think I’m on the cusp of Cancer and Leo, which is a cool thing to say, because on the cusp is a…I don’t know if that sounds cool. But it doesn’t yet, none of it means anything to me, I’m afraid.

I’ve read that you’re into poetry. Who do you think is the sexiest poet?

Oh! Well! I mean, Shelley and Keats. Well, Keats wasn’t really sexy. Keats was like very, very romantic but probably not sexy. Shelley was probably quite sexy. Byron, if anything, was too sexy. They all looked like very, very handsome young men who also were incredibly talented writers. Byron is just the one that you go, “You seem like you may be a terrible human being, even if you wrote beautiful poetry.”

All too common. What is the most romantic thing you’ve ever done?

Obviously, as a teenager who liked poetry, I wrote tremendous amounts of horrible teenage love poetry. I’ve done the, like, flying in when someone doesn’t know you’re gonna fly in to surprise them, when they don’t expect you to be in the country, and you just sort of arrive on the doorstep.

It’s going to open a really good dialogue about sex positivity and honesty!

Absolutely! But I feel like—in terms of love languages, or whatever that is—is one of them gestures? Because that is not my love language.

What do you think is your love language?

Isn’t one of them just telling people? And touch?

Words of affirmation?

Words of affirmation! That’s definitely very much me. And I feel like touch, those would be my two main ones.

Does that match well with your girlfriend?

I hope so! We’ve been together eight years. I hope, if not, she’d say something.

What is the most inappropriate thing a fan has ever said to you?

Well, I had a very weird one the other night. A woman the other night at the play came up to me and went, “I just want you to know that my aunt saw you in Equus. And she wants me to tell you that your chest hair is far too much for her.” And it was all really said with the sense of “I know you wanted to date my aunt who you’ve never met or heard from before, but now you can’t.”

Have you ever ghosted anyone?

Ah, yes. I think I definitely did. Not to keep going back to when I was a teenager, because apparently the more I do the more I sound like I was a really shitty teenager, but I’m sure I did that to somebody.

What happened? Why’d you do it?

Oh, because I was young and stupid and terrified of confrontation and honesty. So probably that. It wasn’t like a serious relationship relationship. But I definitely would have done that when I was like, oh God, 16 or 17? Oh man. I have learned.

Ghosted by Daniel Radcliffe! Oof. What’s the weirdest thing you do when you’re alone?

I catch myself being very stupid when I’m alone. I’ve apologized to inanimate objects in my flat before. Like, I opened the fridge once and coughed in it and didn’t cover my mouth and just said, “Oh, sorry!” to no one. I talk to myself.

I had to get permission from my editor to ask this question: Do you think Harry and Ginny ever had sex on Hogwarts property?

I don’t know! I’m now also trying to remember the ages that they are at the various points of the film, and I don’t want to get either of these fictional characters into trouble, so I’m going to pass on that one.

What’s the sexiest thing about you?

Oh, God. Please don’t ask me that. You’d have to ask my girlfriend. Um, I dunno. Oh, God. Sorry.

Source: glamour.com

Daniel Radcliffe, is taking on a new role in a thriller based on a real-life prison break. He joined us with more on his new film, Escape From Pretoria.

New video for the photo shoot of Esquire Spain and Mexico. You can also download a pdf of the issue Esquire Mexico at the link and view Esquire Spain at this link just hover over the cover.

Dan and Stephen ran into some technical difficulties streaming that they did it by phone call instead while the live streaming went on. You can view the whole video down below.

Small new interview from Cosmopolitan on Dan asking him what is in his nightstand in their May 2020 issue.

Magazines > Cosmopolitan USA

New video we never posted from the shoot of the Pandora Portrait Studio during TIFF

One afternoon in early March, Daniel Radcliffe walked into the makeup room backstage at the Old Vic theatre in London to get his hair done for that evening’s performance of Endgame, the Samuel Beckett play he’d been starring in with Alan Cumming. A hairdresser was there waiting to confront him with some rather shocking news. “You’ve got coronavirus,” the hairdresser declared.

This was news to Radcliffe, who felt healthy enough. So the hairdresser showed him the apparent source of the claim: a tweet, from an account calling itself “BBC Breaking News,” which read, “Daniel Radcliffe tests positive for coronavirus.” That was all it took for the rumour to go, uh, viral. His girlfriend, the actress Erin Darke, had to spend the afternoon reassuring friends that he was okay. “Every time I saw someone for the rest of the day, I didn’t know if they’d heard it,” Radcliffe told me. “I didn’t want to lead with ‘I don’t have it,’ but I didn’t want them thinking, ‘Oh my God, he’s being so irresponsible, to have the virus and just be walking around here.’ ”

Of course, the tweet was yet another celebrity hoax. But just days later, Endgame was cancelled two weeks before the end of its scheduled run. Hours after the cancellation was announced, Radcliffe was on one of the final flights to New York before the border was closed to international travel. As for so-called “social distancing” measures, fans have evidently not been taking them under advisement. “I’ve felt very rude over the past 24 hours,” he laughs. “People at the airport were sticking their hands out, trying to get selfies, and I’m like, ‘No, sorry, I’m literally going to America and I don’t want to catch something and not be allowed to get in.’ ” He made it in the end, and I’ve caught up with him via FaceTime at the beginning of his two-week government-mandated self-isolation.

Radcliffe concedes he was an ideal candidate for the fake-news prank. He’s one of the most well-liked and widely recognizable film stars in the world, for the simple reason that almost everyone in the world has seen and likes Harry Potter. And he’s one of the few celebrities under the age of about 45 who doesn’t use social media, meaning he can’t dismiss gossip with a tweet. “I honestly don’t think I have the mental fortitude to be on Twitter. Besides, I’ve been shoved down people’s throats since I was 10 years old. If I were on Twitter, tweeting every day, I feel like people would get sick of me. I’d get sick of me. Ugh.” Other actors, he’s quick to point out, are “fucking amazing” on social media. “And good luck to them. But I’d get bored of myself. God knows how the rest of the world would cope.”

A decade of Potter made Radcliffe ubiquitous. His face was inescapable, on t-shirts and action figures, on backpacks and coffee mugs. The amazing thing about Daniel Radcliffe now isn’t that he remains hugely famous. That was inevitable. (“The Potter films made something like five billion dollars worldwide, to put it crudely,” he says.) The amazing thing about Daniel Radcliffe now is that he’s managed to establish a career totally separate from the colossal franchise with which he’s synonymous. He has steadfastly refused to let Harry Potter define him — and so he has proceeded, over the decade that followed, to make everyone take him seriously as more than just the familiar kid wizard.

“I’m lucky,” he says. “Most actors live with this thing where the next thing they do could be the biggest thing they ever do. Whereas I’m like, no, I’ve done the biggest thing I’ll ever do,” he says. “I will never be in anything as massive as Harry Potter again. At a certain point, that becomes a hugely liberating realization: I’ve been freed from that definition of success.”

Radcliffe’s pursuit of creative freedom comes to a head this spring, when a wide swath of his interesting projects will be released. There’s the hyper-violent action movie Guns Akimbo, and Escape from Pretoria, a heady drama about political prisoners in South Africa. There’s his TV work, including the upcoming supernatural comedy series Miracle Workers, in which he stars alongside Steve Buscemi, and the new special of Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. And of course there was that Beckett play.

Radcliffe, now 30, laid the groundwork for change early, before Potter had even finished. In 2007, between Order of the Phoenix and The Half-Blood Prince, Radcliffe realized that he would “need to do something to achieve longevity” after the mega-franchise came to an eventual end. So he made the audacious choice to star in Equus, the famous (and famously difficult) Peter Shaffer play about a young man obsessed with horses. Even if you didn’t see Equus in London or on Broadway, you probably saw some of the promotional stills used to advertise the production, much-circulated in tabloids at the time. They showed Radcliffe, brooding and shirtless, six-pack abs flaring as he strokes a stallion’s mane. “Yeah, yeah, I know,” he groans when I mention it. “But doing that play sent a signal. It’s not a play you do unless you really want to be an actor — and not just because of the nudity.”

His performance in Equus was well-received by critics. (“Thank God,” Radcliffe jokes.) But he witnessed glimpses of how precarious the situation was — how perilously near he’d come to humiliation, his dream of being taken seriously dashed in an instant. “One of those supportive English papers like The Daily Mail ran a headline that said something like, ‘Crash — What’s That — The Sound of Dan Radcliffe’s Career Coming to a Grinding Halt.’ An unwieldy headline, I know, but when I saw that, I was suddenly like, ‘Oh, man, this has to be good. I have to be decent in this.’ ” So he worked on enunciation and projection with a vocal coach for 18 months. “I didn’t want them faulting me for that. Some of them probably did fault me for that, but not nearly as much as if I hadn’t done all that work.”

“From the moment you start acting as a kid, you’re confronted with the perception that child actors are dicks. Getting to show a little self-awareness was very valuable.”

Around the same time he made his serious stage debut, he was invited to appear as an exaggerated caricature of himself in an episode of Extras, Ricky Gervais’s BBC comedy. An avowed Gervais superfan (“I grew up watching The Office and could still quote whole episodes back to you,” he says), he was ecstatic about the cameo. Extras finds Radcliffe co-starring in a fantasy film with Warwick Davis. Between takes, he runs amok around the set, showing off that he smokes cigarettes and hitting on women twice his age. (“I’ve made it with a girl, intercourse-wise,” he brags at one point.) For Radcliffe, the jokes rang true. “From the moment you start acting as a kid, you’re confronted with the perception that child actors are dicks,” he explains. “Getting to show a little self-awareness, to convince people I have a sense of humour about myself, was very valuable.”

In 2013, at the Toronto International Film Festival, you could have seen Radcliffe in three very different movies playing three very different roles: the charming leading man in an independent romantic comedy (The F Word), the devilish anti-hero of an idiosyncratic supernatural thriller (Horns), and the great beat poet Allen Ginsberg (Kill Your Darlings). The timing was unintentional, if convenient. “If you wanted to see my versatility as an actor after Potter,” he says, “that TIFF was the place for me to convince you I had some range.” Yet he maintains he never chooses films because they’re different or unusual. “If it seems like an eclectic mix, it’s because I don’t see them that way. I do it because I just happen to like the movie — and sometimes I just happen to play, like, a farting corpse that comes back to life.” (That one is real. It’s called Swiss Army Man. )

In his downtime, Radcliffe isn’t much of a cinephile. (He sort-of liked Parasite; Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood “felt a little bit long.”) Mostly, he watches documentaries on Netflix. “I don’t watch a huge amount of films, is my honest answer,” he confesses. “If the film is bad, I hate it immediately and want to stop but feel obligated to finish and just drag it out and don’t enjoy it. If it’s good, I get stressed out and sad because I’ll never get to be in it.” This hang-up, he knows, sounds “really stupid and narcissistic.” But he can’t help it. “As an actor, when you see something great, you’re like, ‘Oh, man, that’s already been made! I’ll never be in that now, and if they remade it, it would be shitty.’ ”

He likens his career now to that of Robert Pattinson. Both became famous on the strength of starring roles in tent-pole youth franchises. Both have avoided blockbusters ever since, instead favouring lower-budget projects and more eccentric work. “Rob and I were both lucky to be in something super huge when we were young, and that’s given us a lot of independence, and we both seem to be like, ‘Okay, let’s use that to do as much cool stuff as we can.’ ” Although he insists his name alone is “absolutely not enough to get a film financed,” he admits that putting the weight of his star power behind a project can sometimes get smaller projects made. “If having played Harry Potter helps people see these small movies I want to make, I’m very much okay with that,” he says.

But enjoying freedom in his career doesn’t mean he’s not ambitious. He still has goals and dreams, things he wants to do someday. Chief among them: writing and directing his own feature. “I’ve watched a lot of directors and I think it would be something I’d really enjoy,” he explains. “I don’t take it lightly. It’s a difficult job. But that’s something I want to start in the next few years.” Well, he will have at least the next few weeks on his hands, I point out — perhaps he should get writing. “I know, I know,” he groans. “Everyone’s sending this King Lear shit ’round. I know how unproductive Shakespeare is supposed to make the rest of us feel.” Still, you never know. “I have the next 14 days at least. I’ve started on a script. I might as well use this time to finish it.”   

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New stills from Miracle Workers Season 1 have been posted there are more to post so I will do that very soon. Stills have been posted from most episodes except episode 4 and 6.

Television > 2018 | Miracle Workers > Season 1 > Stills > Episode 001 | 2 Weeks

Television > 2018 | Miracle Workers > Season 1 > Promotional Photos

Add 244 captures of Episode 10 of Miracle Workers Dark Ages.

Television > 2018 | Miracle Workers > Season 2 > Captures > Episode 010 | Moving Out Part 2

New scans from Fiasco Magazine from 2013

Magazines > 2013 | Fiasco

See the latest trailer for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend coming on May 12.

Kimmy sets off on her biggest adventure yet. Three states! Explosions! A dancing hamburger! And you, the viewer, get to decide how the story goes.

Jake Hamilton recently had an interview with Dan on Zoom. The topics they discussed were.

New etalk interview with Dan talking about the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with a few new scenes, on set and discussing that kiss.

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‘For as long as anyone on this earth has been alive there’s been The Old Vic’

The Old Vic wouldn’t have been here for over 200 years without theatre lovers. We’re your independent theatre and we get no regular public subsidy. If you’re able to support us this #GivingTuesday, we’d be so grateful https://bit.ly/2W4L3ks

Daniel Radcliffe reads iconic lines from Titus Burgess’ finest moments.

New interview and Posters from Korea. Also we have a new admin in our Escape from Pretoria facebook group. Welcome Director Francis Annan. He’ll be posting exclusive stuff in our group and let us know when the movie is in your area. Escape from Pretoria is now available in Korea.

Films > 2020 | Escape from Pretoria > Posters

Daniel Radcliffe talks about his quarantine Lego hobby and about his role in the interactive Netflix special “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend.”

The cast of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs the Reverend, including Ellie Kemper (Kimmy), Daniel Radcliffe (Frederick), Jane Krakowski (Jacqueline) and Carol Kane (Lillian), played our game of Would You Rather: Kimmy Schmidt edition.

Daniel Radcliffe and Ellie Kemper, stars of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend,” team up to tackle The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest.

“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend” is the latest interactive special on Netflix. We asked the cast about the best watching strategies and what it was like to film multiple versions of the same scene.

New interview from People. This has been embedded from our facebook group.

We have new stills and posters from Playmobil, Beast of Burden, Imperium, Guns Akimbo and Now You See Me 2.

Films > 2020 | Guns Akimbo > Stills

Films > 2018 | Beast of Burden > Stills

Films > 2016 | Imperium > Stills

Films > 2016 | Now You See Me 2 > Cast Shoot

Films > 2019 | Playmobil: The Movie > Posters

New interview from Watch What Happens Live. There are five clips to view, but there is more to see in the full episode. You can watch them all below and here is a link to the full episode.

Get sorted into the house of The Boo Crew as you hang out with the iconic, charming and immensely talented, award winning actor of the stage and screen, Daniel Radcliffe! He’ll tell you about his favorite horror films! Find out what he kept from the set of the Potter movies! Revisit his incredible career in horror and genre, working with greats like Alex Aja, James Watkins and more, plus the scoop on his new interactive Netflix special, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt : Kimmy Vs The Reverend! Then, the Crew gets together for another round of Horror Homework and maybe a secret s’mores recipe:) Petrificus totalus yourself and experience the magic of The Boo Crew episode 130, available now!

Source: Tales from the Boo Crew

Daniel Radcliffe speaks about his new film, shot entirely in Adelaide.

I announced that our gallery is closed. I took it down early because no one contributed. So I am already working on a backup for it. There is two weeks left after that it is gone for good. The site will be a mess with broken links. But yeah so I will be fixing that after the backup. I won’t be adding new photos. Thanks for your understanding.

If you want to contribute to save the gallery send donations via paypal to heartofdestiny@gmail.com

The time has come for our fan fiction site to go. Reason is that the efiction software that we use is no longer up to date. The site that hosts the current version are putting their site up for adoption and by the end of the year the site and software will be null and void.

Our site became famous when Graham Norton showed our fan fiction site on his show to Dan. So it will be sad to see it go. However, I’ve been contemplating what to do for a while now. I was thinking maybe using PDF’s or WordPress for it with links to all the stories. The question I leave for the current authors is would you like your story integrated into this or removed.

Leave a comment or email me. If I don’t hear from you your story will not be added. It will be deleted.

Many thanks to the ones who contributed to our gallery I meant to put this up yesterday but life is kind of chaotic at the moment. So thanks to those 5 precious angels who saved our gallery. I added June 23 candids to the gallery. Will add more soon.

Also I decided to leave the fan fiction section as is until at least the end of the year. I am hoping something or someone takes over and picks up where the admins left off. Sure I can add my writing to Wattpad or somewhere else but it won’t be the same. This was our archive for our site. So for now it will stay where it is.

I’ve also been thinking about reorganizing the gallery. But still thinking about that for now I will be adding and updating old pics with new ones. So there’s food for thought.

Yesterday Dan was on Smallzy’s Surgery, he called in to promote his latest film Escape from Pretoria which is now available in Adelaide. Here’s what he had to say. You can listen to the audio clip down below.

Been working the past few days clearing up errors, dead links and page errors. Everything has been fixed as far as I can tell.

New stuff coming very soon. I also have a book review coming for Kill Code by Clive Fleury. I was supposed to do it before COVID but other priorities took over so hopefully I will have my review up this coming Monday.

Screen Captures of Escape from Pretoria, Guns Akimbo and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt are also on the way.

I’ve done captures from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. For now only two scenes. Wedding Rehearsal and the Bachelor Party. More Soon.

TELEVISION > 2020 | UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT INTERACTIVE SPECIAL > SCREEN CAPTURES > BACHELOR PARTY

TELEVISION > 2020 | UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT INTERACTIVE SPECIAL > SCREEN CAPTURES > WEDDING REHEARSAL

New Scans from Tele Cable Sat Weekly from August 15-21. You can view them in the gallery.

MAGAZINES > TELE CABLE SAT WEEKLY

New Photos from Escape from Pretoria Japan and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Remastered in China.

FILMS > 2020 | ESCAPE FROM PRETORIA > STILLS

FILMS > 2001 | HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE > POSTERS

Much more is located in our gallery: Promotional Photos, Behind the Scenes from Escape from Pretoria and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, New poster from Guns Akimbo Thailand, Ripple Productions: Cunning Stunts screenshots, and a new scan from Cosmopolitan India July issue.

New video of the Harry Potter stars wishing the Gazette du Sorcier a 20th Anniversary.

The monument will depict a scene from ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ and will form a part of Leicester Square’s existing ‘Scenes in the Square’ trail – joining the likes of Paddington Bear, Mary Poppins and Mr Bean in the heart of London.

The Statue will be revealed late September and will coincide with the start of Inside Out Festival, which is bringing cultural activities to the area’s streets from October 1.

The statue of Harry Potter has finally been revealed on Leicester Square’s Scenes in the Square Trail. The statue is of Daniel Radcliffe as the boy wizard in the scene where he first takes flight for quidditch. He’s been sculpted in bronze, just like his Leicester Square co-star statues. He occupies the north terrace of the very same square where the movie premiered back in 2001. Harry Potter content has also been added to the Square’s pre-exiting audio tour to coincide with the statue’s unveiling. 

Harry will be poised on his Nimbus 2000 until July 2023. Pictures are posted in our gallery.

MISCELLANEOUS > 09.30.20 | HARRY POTTER STATUE UNVEILING

Dozens of rare celebrity items are going for auction to aid the hospice, which revealed it is currently facing a shortfall of £2million because of the Covid-19 pandemic

An item Dan has submitted is up for auction. You can view many other items by other celebrities on their homepage.

Here is the item up for bid for Dan. Click here to make a bid.

New interview with Dan, Tim and Francis Annan. As they talk about the story of the escape and much more.

You can win your very own Message from Dan at UWin. This will be in support of The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH), Essex & Herts Air Ambulance, and Cancer Research UK.

You can submit your donation via UWIN at https://uwin.co.uk/product/daniel-radcliffe-festive-message

New video for Dan’s UWin Festive Message

A behind the scenes look at Guns Akimbo.

He’s known as one of the nicest guys in entertainment but has also used his Harry Potter earnings for many philanthropic endeavours. Daniel is vice president of children’s hospice Demelza, a charity that provides end-of-life care to young people and which he says is “close to his heart”.

In the past, Daniel has also received a Hero Award from The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention charity helping LGBTQ people.

“He’s aware of how much he means to so many people and takes it upon himself to operate in the world with grace and humility.” Karan Soni, Daniel’s Miracle Workers co-star

His co-star Karan Soni opened up about working with the actor on comedy series Miracle Workers, telling HELLO!: “Daniel Radcliffe is everything you want him to be. Like many others, I grew up watching him and found myself quite starstruck when we first met. Dan instantly relaxed me with his kindness.

“He’s aware of how much he means to so many people and takes it upon himself to operate in the world with grace and humility. His passion for acting hasn’t dimmed after all these years of doing it. His work ethic is infectious and it is only surpassed by his capacity to care for others.”

Source: Hello!

New layout for Radcliffe Media, the site has been fully updated with all videos working now. We currently have 306 videos on the site and I added a new FAQ to explain how to keep flash enabled. Next up will be a new layout for the captures section.

See Dan attempt the challenge and answer some questions

Remember to login your account on January 2021 if not your account could be deleted. Every year we clean out old logins. So be sure to do that come January or you will have to reapply.

Also new photos have been added so there’s more reason to login. Enjoy!

Since flash is going out of the way like the dinosaurs on December 31, 2020. Radcliffemedia is getting a big change all flash files are now being changed over to mp4 format. That means no more annoying enable flash to view, These sections have so far been changed: Public Announcements, Public Appearances, Fan Videos, Game Trailers, Photoshoots, Stage and Television.

I still have these sections to go: Movies and Interviews

Also change of layout for Radcliffemedia Captures has been done already with a new outtake. You can view that here: https://radcliffemedia.sosugary.com/captures/

In 2021 things will start off differently. Here are my plans for the site starting January 1. There’s going to be a big makeover starting with the gallery. I wanna start clean and fresh so everything is properly organized. For that time it will be down. As for how long that depends I will let you know week by week. But that is my big task for the new year. Believe me its a mess. With a whole redo, your passwords and username will not be added. When it is open you can re-register when I open it for registration. i got 131,000 photos to sift through and it won’t be an easy task. Also thinking of opening a book section for all books I do reviews on and so forth.

RadcliffeMedia has been completely redone with all videos in MP4 format at 640×360. Both RadcliffeMedia and Captures have fresh new layouts. Other than what is listed above that will probably be it. If anything new arises you will be notified.

Thanks for visiting and Happy Holidays – Marcie

Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe Vs Jane Horrocks and Karl Johnson – who will win in the ultimate game of SAMUEL BECKETT OR EEYORE?

“Dark Ages” is the second installment of the “Miracle Workers” anthology series, created by Simon Rich (FXX’s “Man Seeking Woman”) and both starring Radcliffe, Steve Buscemi and Geraldine Viswanathan. But while Season 1 was based on Rich’s 2013 book “What in God’s Name” and followed low-level angels in a corporate version of heaven, Season 2 is set in Medieval times, as the bumbling Chauncley grapples with inheriting the throne from his bloodthirsty father (Peter Serafinowicz). 

Radcliffe, 30, says “Dark Ages” is “Game of Thrones” meets “The Simpsons,” and strikes a unique tone of being “sweet and charming, but also very profane and stupid and funny.” He chats with USA TODAY about the show, and life after “Harry Potter.” 

Question: What are some similarities between your characters Craig (in Season 1) and Chauncley (in Season 2)? 

Daniel Radcliffe: They’re both socially inept but come from completely different places. Craig’s social ineptitude is caused by him being overly analytical and self-aware, whereas Chauncley has no self-awareness. He starts as someone who’s psychotically stupid, and his journey is one of starting to become a good person by the end. It’s a very different role for me – I’ve never done anything this broad before. It’s very hard to find a grounded and subtle way of playing someone who dances with ducks. 

Q: Given the medieval setting, did you have to learn how to swordfight or ride horses? 

Radcliffe: I got out of that, thankfully. When we were first doing the show, I was like, “I’m definitely going to have to ride.” I can get on a horse and go from point A to point B, but I don’t love it. I also didn’t have to do any sort of fighting, because my character’s a coward. Really, the only thing I had to do was called “duck training,” where I’d stand there for 10 minutes, and the (animal handlers) would be like, “Pick up the duck. Now put it down again. Cool, need anything else from us?” 

Q: Aside from the cast, are there any connective threads between the stories in seasons 1 and 2?  

Radcliffe: We discovered some as we were going along, but I don’t even know if they’re intentional. It’s really little things, like a scene where me and Geraldine’s character end up spreading a map out on a table and poring over it and working out a plan, which is an echo of something from the first season, (which was) thematically about finding the bravery to be yourself. And the second has a more parental theme: How do we love our parents, and how do we move away from (them)? But done in the craziest, most heightened context.  

Q: You’ve appeared in Broadway shows, independent films and now TV series in the decade since “Harry Potter.” What was the most difficult part of making that transition? 

Radcliffe: There’s a lovely thing, which is that I’m open to some weirder stuff. Well, maybe other people say it’s weird, but I just think it’s fun. And weird begets weird, so then you become known for responding to those scripts and get sent (them). What I had to learn is that I’m in a position very few actors are in, which is you have autonomy over your career. And because “Potter” has been very good to me financially, you can pick and choose some (projects) purely because it makes you happy. 

There was a stage where I thought I should be doing a certain type of film, and it was a very valuable lesson to learn that, “Oh, I shouldn’t necessarily do something because it’s the right thing to do on paper.” I was very worried at the end of “Potter,” because I didn’t know what the future was going to be or what my life was like without that thing. But if you told me then that in 10 years, I’d have made films like “Horns” and “Kill Your Darlings” and “Guns Akimbo” and “Swiss Army Man,” I’d have bitten your hand off. “Potter” was this amazing start, and then I had to step back and say, “OK, what do you want your career to be?”

Q: I spoke to your “Harry Potter” co-star Rupert Grint, who said he recently re-watched “Sorcerer’s Stone” (released in 2001, when Radcliffe was just 11 years old). Have you seen any of the movies lately? 

Radcliffe: Yeah, I was at the gym on Thanksgiving and it was just on on a loop on some channel. I came into the gym and there was a little bit of recognition at the door, but it settled down and I was like, “OK, cool, cool.” And then I get on the treadmill and look up, and it’s (expletive) me in the third film (“Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”)! It’s funny. I don’t know if I can watch them, just because I don’t know if I’m ready for that opioid-level hit of nostalgia. It would be too much of a mixture of sadness and happiness and embarrassment. But I will watch them again at some point. It’s definitely not something I seek out, though. 

Source: USAToday

 Check out the NEW TRAILER and see it in theaters March 6.

Escape From Pretoria is the true story of Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe) and Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber), young, white South Africans branded “terrorists”, and imprisoned in 1978 for working covert operations for Nelson Mandela’s banned ANC. Incarcerated in Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, they decide to send the apartheid regime a clear message and escape! With breath-taking ingenuity, meticulous surveillance, and wooden keys crafted for 10 steel doors, they make a bid for freedom…Beyond a thrilling will-they-won’t-they-escape, this is the story of an oppressed majority’s struggle, and two ordinary men who stood-up to be counted in the pursuit of equality for all.

Sorry about the lack of updates been sick with the flu, but we have new scans for you from TV and Satellite Week and Radio Times, more rehearsal pics from Endgame and a few graphic edits contributed by members which I will be posting soon.

THEATRE > 2020 | ENDGAME > REHEARSALS

MAGAZINES > TV & SATELLITE WEEK

MAGAZINES > RADIO TIMES

Dan was interviewed during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), on September 2019.

Daniel Radcliffe & Alan Cumming join Lauren to talk about their new production of Endgame at the Old Vic in London. You can listen to the interview at the BBC Website.

INTERVIEWS > 2020 > JANUARY 15 | LAUREN LAVERNE

First trailer for Guns Akimbo has been released along with a new poster from New Zealand.

MOVIES > 2020 | GUNS AKIMBO > POSTERS

Dan appeared on Graham Norton to promote his new play with Alan Cumming. Endgame previews January 27. You can join our facebook group for more information.

Two More clips from the Graham Norton show can be viewed on our playlist.

New Photos from the Graham Norton show have been posted in the gallery.

INTERVIEWS > 2020 > JANUARY 10 | GRAHAM NORTON