Daniel Radcliffe has broken his silence on J.K Rowling's recent comments criticising the Harry Potter star and his co-stars.
12.04.2024 - 01:29 / justjared.com
Daniel Radcliffe made some very rare comments about fatherhood in a recent interview.
The 34-year-old Harry Potter star welcomed his first child – a son – with girlfriend Erin Darke in April 2023.
While on the Happy Sad Confused podcast this week, Daniel opened up about his little boy and what it was like being a dad.
He opened up about balancing work with parenting duties and concerns for the future when his son understood that he was famous. Daniel even revealed if they would read Harry Potter together in the future.
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If you were unaware, Daniel is currently starring in the musical Merrily We Roll Along. During the interview, he was asked if his little boy engages with the musical yet.
“My son is too young to be dancing. Although he has started walking and doing something that resembles dancing,” he joked, adding that Daniel prepared for the project while taking care of his son.
He said, “I held him while I was learning some of these songs. You try singing ‘Our Time’ holding your new baby. It’s impossible. It’s… You will just cry.”
Looking to the future, Daniel predicted “a really weird time” when his son eventually learns about his fame.
“This is a beautiful time when he is not aware of me being anything else but his dad, and that’s going to be really, really hard. I just want to keep me being famous a secret from him for as long as humanly possible,” he explained.
Will Harry Potter play a role in his son’s childhood? “I think I’ll read it to him if he wants me to read it to him. Like if he gets into it, yeah, of course I will,” he opined.
This isn’t the first time that Daniel has talked about parenthood. He previously revealed what is “terrifying” about the role but described it
Daniel Radcliffe has broken his silence on J.K Rowling's recent comments criticising the Harry Potter star and his co-stars.
By now, fans of the “Harry Potter” books, films, and overall franchise are likely well aware that J.K. Rowling, the author of the series, is no ally to the trans community and has been rather public, defiant, and unwavering about many of her bigoted and hateful transphobic comments over the last few years.
JK Rowling’s comments about the trans community.The author of the best-selling Harry Potter series has received significant backlash in recent years for anti-trans comments she has made online.Radcliffe, who played the famous wizard in the film series, has addressed Rowling’s comments previously, expressing his disagreement and lack of association with her views.Now, the actor responds again to her controversial comments in a new interview with The Atlantic.“It makes me really sad, ultimately,” he said. “Because I do look at the person that I met, the times that we met, and the books that she wrote, and the world that she created, and all of that is to me so deeply empathic.”In 2020, Radcliffe defended the trans community in an essay he wrote for the Trevor Project, an organisation focused on suicide prevention among the LGBTQ+ community.In the essay, Radcliffe referenced Rowling, writing: “Transgender women are women.
Daniel Radcliffe has been a supporter of the LGBTQ+ community and is disappointed in J.K. Rowling‘s anti-trans comments over the years.
Daniel Radcliffe is addressing JK Rowling‘s most recent anti-trans comments.
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Daniel Radcliffe has recalled how he was “terrified” of the late Alan Rickman at one of their first meetings and was worried that “he hated” him.Speaking on an episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast which you can see below, Radcliffe was played a clip by host Josh Horowitz that was taken from an interview he did with Rickman interview in 2016 – something Radcliffe had never seen. Rickman and Radcliffe were co-stars for a decade in the Harry Potter film series.In the footage, Rickman praises Radcliffe. “As much as I was doing it for seven weeks, they were doing it for 52 weeks,” Rickman said about the child actors on the Harry Potter movies (as per Variety).“This was their life from 12 to 22.
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J.K. Rowling isn’t backing down from her transphobia. In fact, she wants Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson to back down from their support for the trans community!
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Daniel Radcliffe was treated to an unexpected moment during an appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast alongside his “Merrily We Roll Along” co-stars Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. Podcast host Josh Horowitz played a clip from his Alan Rickman interview in 2016, which Radcliffe had never seen before. Rickman and Radcliffe were co-stars for a decade in the “Harry Potter” film series.
Daniel Radcliffe opened up about his evolving relationship with Harry Potter costar Alan Rickman.
transitioning children” that found that NHS did not know the longterm effects of gender-affirming healthcare for minors, fans were curious if the report could change the author’s relationship with the former “Harry Potter” child stars.The British author was blunt when questioned whether she could forgive Watson, 33, and Radcliffe, 34, if they apologized for previous criticism of her anti-transgender comments. “Just waiting for Dan and Emma to give you a very public apology … safe in the knowledge that you will forgive them …” one social media user wrote to Rowling.
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