Daniel Radcliffe Not Keen On Returning To The Role Of Harry Potter In Future!

Daniel Radcliffe Not Keen On Returning To The Role Of Harry Potter In Future!

Check out what the actor had to say in a recent interview when quizzed on whether or not he would be interested in reprising the iconic role of Harry Potter at any point in the future should any more books be written...

By JoshWilding - Jun 19, 2011 09:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
Source: Hero Complex



"I know nothing about that whatsoever," Radcliffe told Hero Complex in a recent interview when asked about the recently launched 'Pottermore' website. "I’m sure that Jo will be writing a lot more in the coming years. I’m sure she has a lot more in her than we’ve read and a lot more stories to tell. As long as they don’t involve Harry, I’m quite happy to buy them."

In case you didn't already know, 'Pottermore' is a website that was launched last week and cryptically features nothing more than a couple of owls and the signature of J.K. Rowling. An announcement of some sort is expected later this week. It has been revealed that it is in fact NOT a new book or anything to do with the upcoming movie. Instead, rumors point to it possibly being some sort of MMORPG video game.

"Not particularly," he said when asked if he'd like to reprise the iconic role at any point in the future. "I think that would be a bit odd. I’d be very skeptical about that. First of all, I don’t think that she will" write another Potter installment, "and second of all, oh, I don’t know, the idea of going back to something after 10 or 20 years? At that point, I will have worked 20 years to establish a career outside of it, and at that point to go back to it would feel a little self-defeating."



Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Jason Isaacsand Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is set to be released in 3D on July 15th, later this year!




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jazzman
jazzman - 6/19/2011, 10:08 AM
this is the last he cant return.
golden123
golden123 - 6/19/2011, 10:12 AM
@Jazzman: JKR could always write another Novel based in the Harry Potter Universe. She could continue with the epilogue to the last book. You never know.
RockNRollCC
RockNRollCC - 6/19/2011, 10:15 AM
I will lose respect for JK Rowling if she decides to make more Harry Potter. The series is done.

In the words of George Carlin..."IT'S OVA NOW! STOP LIVIN IN THE PAST!"
D117
D117 - 6/19/2011, 10:16 AM
No need to make any more books or movies, just keep it the way it is.
patriautism
patriautism - 6/19/2011, 10:19 AM
If she did write another book, it would probably be a spin-off or a prequel about Dumbledore and Grindelwald..

A Potter MMO would be utterly amazing. I've always thought that would be a good idea..
BIGBMH
BIGBMH - 6/19/2011, 10:19 AM
Makes sense. Right now he's at the point where it's going to be difficult for him to make people not see him as Harry Potter. In the future, if he has succeeded in breaking away from that, I think it wouldn't hurt him in the hypothetical situation in which there were more stories featuring Harry and he reprised the role. Look at Jeff Briges. It's a different situation, but he reprised his role as Flynn in Tron Legacy, which wasn't very well received and no one is giving him crap for it. In fact, I'm sure a lot of his long-time fans were very glad to see him return to that role.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 6/19/2011, 10:32 AM
WE'LL THERES ALWAYS ...........TWIGHLIGHT?

jaysin420
jaysin420 - 6/19/2011, 10:35 AM
This is like the only time I think they should recast major parts like this, this dude looked too old for HP 5 years ago.
JULEZ13
JULEZ13 - 6/19/2011, 10:38 AM
Daniel Radcliffe is known to the entire world as Harry Potter. He has devoted a decade to the role, eventually their will come a time where you would want to play a different role.

He would like to move on with his career and be known as an actor - not as 'the guy who played Harry Potter'. This was evident in the theatrical play he was involved in a few years ago where parents were afraid to take their children to see because they didn't want them to see a naked Harry Potter on stage with a horse. This was made into a very big deal.

If I were him I would refuse to continue with the franchise too.
patriautism
patriautism - 6/19/2011, 10:40 AM
@JaySin420 you do realize he is only 21, right? 5 years ago he was only 16.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 6/19/2011, 10:41 AM
RADCLIFFE IS TRYING, THE GUY WILL BE EVERYWHERE AND WILL TRY ANYTHING AND THE HARRY POTTER CRED WILL TAKE HIM ANYWHERE HE WANTS TO GO...AND WE'LL LET HIM.
comicbookjerk
comicbookjerk - 6/19/2011, 10:52 AM
Well Fine this why Don't Ratcliff just spit in all the fans Faces and tell them he hates be harry Potter....Spoiled rich goodie goodie whos no good and Comedy and runs through the forest naked with Horses!
JatevinM
JatevinM - 6/19/2011, 11:26 AM
I honestly would like for her to go back and write a couple prequel books for the Marauders and Dumbledore and Grindlewald.
Koiboysg1
Koiboysg1 - 6/19/2011, 11:42 AM
Last film looks awesome but after this i have no more need for new potter movies.
LOL
LOL - 6/19/2011, 11:56 AM
HP went downhill after JKR started killing mainstream characters during her last books, most especially when she completely tagged in an epilogue that was seemingly copied right out of fan fiction. I respect Radcliffe's decision to move on, though he'll be forever linked to a role that made him famous despite the fact. In fact, I hope every child actor/actress involved will rise above the roles that they've portrayed and move on to bigger things now that the movie series have ended.

Ah Gunsmith... Twilight... such an abomination of fiction and cinematic celluloid mutation... Edward Cullen would be smelling a skygina if they would let him.
sde1122
sde1122 - 6/19/2011, 12:09 PM
Yeah, Mark Hamill thought the same thing after Star Wars. YOU are Harry Potter, and embrace it so you don't get bitter like Luke...um,I mean Mark did! Plus you'll at least be a lot richer for it!
JatevinM
JatevinM - 6/19/2011, 12:18 PM
LOL@ I beg to differ with you I like the fact that she didn't shy away from killing some of the main characters in Deathly Hallows. Just because they were main characters doesn't mean that they should be exempt from the actual danger and death of the event that was going on around them. Plus Jo had that epilogue written years before the final book. While I do agree that she made bad decisions on some of those names I enjoyed the rest.

sde@ I think he is stuck more as the Joker now than Luke.
StingrayX
StingrayX - 6/19/2011, 12:45 PM
Well I remember when people thought The Half Blood Price was going to be the last book, then the next book came out lol...I won't be surprised if she made another series, I was thinking she can make a 7 years series of Harrys Dad...leading up to him being murdered, a prequal series...probably will be made in about 20 years like Star Wars
ChaosFreak
ChaosFreak - 6/19/2011, 12:55 PM
DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL
LOL - 6/19/2011, 1:34 PM
@JatevinM, true that some of them needed to die (Dumbledore most especially) - there were some deaths that we could've done without IMO - but hey, war is war. I just found it very "icky" that HP ended up with a fangirl, that, since she could read had a bit of an unhealthy obsession with Harry Potter as TBWL.... she barely had any overtly meaningful character growth that I could see throughout the series - Chamber of Secrets incident notwithstanding. And while she may have written how the book ended, it seemed a little more "forced" in the end after all the supposed revisions during the course of the series that it had all the appearances of being "tagged" on at the last minute for the heck of it, and it shows. It was already a given that the title character was gonna triumph in the end since he's the main focus of the story and that's how it will always end with him being the winner. I've actually heard of some fans that completely disregard the epilogue and rip that part out of their books and place the ending where Harry was planning to return the Elder Wand back in Dumble's grave.... for them, it pretty much leaves the future open to a lot of possibilities (a part of me would agree with that because it spurs the imagination in different directions and not narrow it down to JKR's 19 yrs later epilogue). It was a good run while it lasted and one of the slightly better children's books out there that had a lot more going for it than the other monotonous hack had. Ah well, the series is over with and I can look forward to the next big thing that isn't Twilight.

Ah yes, I read Twilight before it became the popular thing it is now and before it became a "hit" movie - I showed it to my creative writing prof to read when I was in college finishing my masters at the time and it was, and I quote: "...a Mary Sue love story with an unhealthy dose of really bad LSD..." :P

SugarYumYum
SugarYumYum - 6/19/2011, 3:04 PM
Understandable. He's young and full of potential, he doesn't want to be stuck in a role from his childhood for the rest of his life. Who would?

Doubt that'll be a concern though, I think Rowling would rather start a new series or perhaps like someone else suggested: a prequel. Any good writer knows when it's time to move on and will be eager to tell new stories with new characters.

@LOL: God, I couldn't even finish the first Twilight book. How so many girls my age managed to get through the whole series is beyond my comprehension. =_=

JatevinM
JatevinM - 6/19/2011, 4:14 PM
LOL@ I am apart of the group who thinks that Harry should have ended up with Hermione. To me Harry and Hermione just clicked more and they had alot of romantic undertones at times. They especially showed up in the movie. I don't know who I would rather have Ron with but Hermione and he just didn't seem right to me.
Vital
Vital - 6/19/2011, 4:42 PM
Would he be good at anything else? He's no Hugh Jackman lol.
FightmasterNoel
FightmasterNoel - 6/19/2011, 5:56 PM
I think if she makes more books they should be about the next generation,and the actors shold be new. Just my oppinion.
JHowlett
JHowlett - 6/19/2011, 9:03 PM
Well Rowling didn't really leave it open to continue with Potter's story it's pretty much a dead issue anyone whose read the book knows what happened and how everything turned out there's not much left open to interpretation I think this is the last we'll see of Harry Potter...unless it's rebooted 20 years from now lol
AEStark
AEStark - 6/20/2011, 2:05 AM
I'm sorry is there some Harry potter comic book I'm not aware of? Can it really be a cbm without a cb?
plasticman
plasticman - 6/20/2011, 7:19 AM
Good, I hope this series is dead and gone. I like the first few movies but I just have never been big on this franchise. Maybe because he is not a comic book hero. Harry Potter versus Doctor Strange...Doctor Strange wins. Why? Because he is a comic book character, thats why!
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