Daniel Radcliffe has shared in the past that he battled with a drinking problem while he was working on the ‘Harry Potter‘ films. During the promotion of his new movie ‘Woman in Black‘, Daniel tells Heat magazine that he didn’t drink AT work, but there were plenty of days that he was definitely still wasted when he got there:
“I went into work still drunk,” he tells the magazine. “I can point to many scenes where I’m just gone. Dead behind the eyes. I have a very addictive personality. It was a problem.”
Stressing that he didn’t drink at work, Radcliffe adds that, “People with problems like that are very adept at hiding it. It was bad. I drank a lot and it was … nightly.”
The actor has said that he no longer drinks. “You either have to change something,” he tells Heat, “or give into that shame.”
This makes me sad. I’m so glad Daniel got help and stopped drinking, but I hope some of his younger fans don’t read that interview. I’m sure they’ve got him up on a pedestal and who wants to watch Harry and wonder “hmm..wonder if THAT was one of the scenes he mentioned?”. I bet Warner Brothers wishes he weren’t being so honest….
Harry Potter opened this weekend, and shattered every box office record in history! It was the biggest opening in US history ($168 million), with the help of an opening day total of $92 million and another $43 million in midnight shows.
According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 finished the weekend making $475.5 million worldwide.
After a single weekend, the final Potter movie made almost a half-billion dollars!
Working its final movie mojo, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 soared into the record books with the highest-grossing opening weekend ever. The series finale drew an estimated $168.55 million on around 11,000 screens at 4,375 locations, dethroning The Dark Knight’s $158.4 million.
What did you see this weekend? Were you one of the 3 people who didn’t see Harry Potter? (I didn’t either)
PS: If you’re looking for something a little lighter? I finally saw ‘Horrible Bosses’ and I have to admit, I absolutely LOVED IT. It was HILARIOUS!! I know I posted a couple weeks ago that it was getting bad reviews, but I saw it myself…and I really loved it. Laughed all the way through!
We’re less than a month away from the final Harry Potter movie, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2″ — and the just-released trailer makes it look like the can’t-miss movie of the summer!
Jake Gyllenhaal skips the red carpet but still attends the premiere of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1″ at the Odeon and Empire Leicester Square by sneaking in the back door.
Daniel Radcliffe became world famous overnight when he was cast in the lead of the movie versions of J.K. Rowling’s monstrously popular ‘Harry Potter’ novels — he was just 11. Yet somehow, in a movie industry where super-sized egos and a grand sense of entitlement are often excused, Radcliffe remains grounded, genuine and self-deprecating.
As movie no. 6, ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,’ makes its way to a sure-to-be blockbuster opening, a grown-up Radcliffe, now 19, speaks candidly to Moviefone about transitioning from child star to sex symbol, dropping trou on stage in ‘Equus’ — and why he really thinks Dumbledore was outed. – By Kevin Polowy
You became rich and famous so quickly and at such a young age. How in the world did you avoid turning into a raging a-hole?
[Laughs] Thank you very much. Nicely phrased. I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have. They are shouting at an idea of you as a famous person. They don’t know me. They might still like me if they got to know me, but it would be a different person than the one that they’re cheering for. If you think they’re cheering for you and all your flaws, and the slobbishness, and everything else that goes with you, that’s when I think you start to become thick-headed and believe your own hype. Also I just think I’ve been lucky enough to have great parents, and I’ve had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots. I really think that’s what it comes down to. I think England is a place that is not tolerant of arrogance, and also the reaction to arrogance in England is different than it is in the States, because sometimes in the States, people can be a bit freaked out by that thinking and back off, whereas in England, they become more aggressive at you and take the piss out of you. In England, anybody’s arrogance is just lampooned, constantly. When you grow up in that culture, you know that’s not what you want to be.
It’s a long one, so click after the jump to read the entire interview! (more…)
A rabid Harry Potter fan took his life yesterday after inadvertently learning a plot spoiler from the soon-to-be-released J.K. Rowling movie, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.”
Jude Ralston, 32, of Hudson, Ohio left a suicide note indicating that since overhearing the plot spoiler at a shopping mall earlier in the day, “I no longer have a reason to live.”
Family and friends who gathered for a candlelight memorial outside Mr. Ralston’s house remembered a man who seemed to live only for Harry Potter – and wondered if they could have done anything to prevent his tragic fate.
“When Jude got that vanity license plate that said ‘Hogwarts,’ that seemed harmless enough,” said Polly Clovis, who attended Model U.N. with Mr. Ralston while the two were in high school. “But when he started wearing that wizard hat around town, we really should have seen that as a cry for help.”
According to friends of Mr. Ralston, the Potter fanatic had done everything in his power to protect himself from stumbling across Potter plot spoilers, even disconnecting his computer from the Internet and avoiding his favorite vintage comic book store.
Ms. Clovis said that she hoped Mr. Ralston’s death would cause federal authorities to tighten the flow of Harry Potter plot information to prevent similar tragedies from taking place.
“In my heart I believe that could have saved Jude’s life, even if he didn’t have one,” she said.
