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When one of your first roles was Harry Potter...


You're career is pretty much downhill from there.

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Or, you've done something enormous, beaten the big boss on hard mode, taken down the entire system and now you just play the side games for fun.

Seems like he's not doing too shabby, really.. I mean, if you can't laugh with 'em, you laugh at 'em.

(I know it isn't an apt phrase in this context, but .. neither was this an apt movie for obvious reasons, just a bit of folly thrown in to satiate a morbidly boring Friday night with a bottle of your favourite plonk..)

Like watching a bad artist paint something and you're going "Ohh no, you can't do that.. don't.. stop.. why??" but at the end of it you think, "Hmm, that's not too bad really.. I mean I wouldn't pay for it, but... it's not too bad."

idk..

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You'd think he would have done the smart thing and retired. I mean, Daniel Radcliff is so rich now, he's pretty much set for life. Only reason I think he's still acting is because he wants to, not because he has to.

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He will always be Harry Potter..this is just a stupid amount of wasted money

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Yeah Emma Watson has had the best Career Rupert Grint is a nobody

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A multi-millionaire nobody, who we seems to be discussing right now.

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Actually this is what I like about Radcliffe. He doesn't take himself too seriously. He's Harry Potter, he's set for life. He doesn't obsess on the next big thing. Many child actors ended up bankrupt or dead OD-ing because they can't stop wanting to be a star all the time, forever.

Once you've tasted success, it's very very hard to let go. The fact that Radcliffe does these mediocre movies is probably even healthier for his psyche.

Keanu Reeves did mediocre movies all the time. He's Neo and he's John Wick. He's basically the most sane older Hollywood actor nowadays.

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lol what? hes doing all sorts of roles he actually likes and weird ones. like swissarmy man. Hes not trying to be a leading man, hes not trying to "break out of the Harry Potter role".

his career has seemed very organic and just dont whatever he wants

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Exactly. The guy made like $100 million and realizes he is likely typecast for life, so he takes the odd roles that differentiates himself. He went on Extras and made fun of himself and did the lead role in Equus (nude). I mean, that took some serious cajones.

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He's not really Harry Potter people!

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Harry Potter does not exist. Harry Potter can't hurt you.

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Radcliffe is awesome. He's done plenty of good movies after Harry Potter and he's not afraid to pick weird scripts.

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YES HE IS...AND YES HE HAS...I ESPECIALLY LIKED HIM IN SWISS ARMY MAN & JUNGLE.

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