You now know Daniel Radcliffe in many different ways…
Including, of course, the Harry Potter film series.
And if you’re a fan, you’ll also know that the late, great Alan Rickman played the series character Severus Snape.
Daniel and Alan appeared together in the eight films of the franchise. This is a much spent a lot of time together on set, and it’s no surprise that the actors developed a good rapport (more on that in a moment).
But as Daniel recently said in an appearance on Happy Sad Confused with Josh Horowitz When he first heard the podcast, he was so intimidated by the legendary actor that he feared he might be hostile towards him.
The topic came up when Josh played Daniel a clip from a 2016 interview with Alan that Daniel had never heard before. In it, he praised the child actors of the Harry Potter Franchise.
“Just as I danced for seven weeks, they danced for 52 weeks,” he said. “That was their life from 12 to 22. And sometimes you watched from the sidelines and threw in the odd lifeline because there was so little time. It was only in the last few years that I managed to sit in a cafe with Daniel in New York. He was in one theater and I was in another. I’m so proud to see him… How dare he dance as well as the New York dancers. He’s worked at it.”
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“Thank you for showing that. I’ve never seen that before. Thank you,” Daniel replied, before saying he was “intimidated” by Alan when they first started working together. “How can you not be with that voice?” he said.
“Even when you hear that voice, you forget how deep it was until it resonates inside you. I was so intimidated by him in the first three films. I was terrified of him and thought, ‘This guy hates me.'”
Daniel went on to say that Alan finally contacted him after realizing how passionate Daniel was about acting. “At some point he realized that I really wanted to do this and work on it,” he said.
Daniel also told another touching story about Alan – how he once cut short his vacation to see Daniel in the 2007 Broadway revival of the play. Equus.
“He went out with me afterwards and we talked about it. He was one of the first people to say, ‘You should look into voice training and research all that stuff.'”
“I’m so lucky.”
You can watch the entire podcast here.
