The late Alan Rickman didn’t need a crystal ball to predict Daniel Radcliffe’s foreseeable future.
Rickman, who passed absent in 2016 at age 69, kept a journal during his time filming the “Harry Potter” franchise, where the actor built an observation about what profession he saw Radcliffe using up. Composing in a Might 2003 entry, per The Guardian, Rickman mentioned, “I continue to will not consider he is truly an actor but he will undoubtedly immediate/create.”
Radcliffe dealt with his “Harry Potter” co-star’s writings in a Nov. 7 appearance on “Enjoy What Comes about Live with Andy Cohen,” incorporating, “I would appreciate to, surely directing.”
“Developing looks like all the hard elements of the marketplace without having any of the pleasurable,” Radcliffe said, “so I you should not really have an interest in executing that, but yeah I would appreciate to [direct].”
Radcliffe included that “it was extremely sweet to read through all about” Rickman’s journal entries, which have been published on Oct. 18 in the memoir “Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman.”
“All the things Alan wrote, it was beautiful and nostalgic reading,” Radcliffe continued, in advance of joking, “His opinions about us getting like ‘these youngsters need to have to learn their strains, it can be type of a nightmare proper now.'”
The two actors developed a near bond in the course of their time filming the franchise of 10 several years. After Rickman’s death right after a struggle with cancer, Radcliffe penned a heartfelt tribute, describing him as “definitely just one of the biggest actors I will at any time function with.”
“As an actor, he was a person of the to start with of the older people on ‘[Harry] Potter’ to deal with me like a peer somewhat than a little one,” Radcliffe wrote in 2016. “Performing with him at this sort of a formative age was very essential and I will have the lessons he taught me for the relaxation of my everyday living and vocation. Film sets and theatre levels are all significantly poorer for the reduction of this good actor and male.”
