Sugar Covered Quills

As Harry Potter is nearing its end, Daniel Radcliffe is now looking forward to the future and what will happen to him Post-Potter. In a new interview with The Los Angeles Times, Dan talks about the end of Potter and how will he map out his career Post-Potter.

“Working is how I will best get through a very weird time,” Radcliffe said. “I know it’s the most constructive thing I can do because otherwise I’d be moping around and being a bit like, ‘Oh, I miss everyone … ’ So I’m quite pleased to go on to the next thing and the next challenge.”

He admits though that when the Potter cameras stopped rolling, he and his co-stars (Rupert and Emma) cried like a baby on-set.

“We, all three of us — me, Rupert and Emma — we just wept,” Radcliffe said of June 12, the final day on the set of the last “Potter” film.

However, moving on, Daniel will make his next film project in a horror genre as he will play the lead in film adaptation of the book, The Woman in Black. Its a movie project that has excited Dan, most especially as it will revive the most revered brand name in European horror, Hammer Film Productions.

“When I met first met James Watkins, our director, he told me about a quote of Stanley Kubrick’s, which was that all films about the afterlife or ghosts are innately consoling,” Radcliffe said. “I think there’s something about that that is very true to our story. While it is a horror story and it is very frightening, it’s also about loss and grief. I read it on a plane, and I don’t know what the people around me must have thought. I kept jumping and gasping…”

“It does bring a smile to my face, and it’s an absolutely genuine smile,” Radcliffe said. “Hammer is the company that everybody wants to see succeed. It’s such a part of our film heritage. It was a massive producer of films in its heyday — they were really prolific, there were tons of them — and with actors like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It’s wonderful to see that company, that name, in a resurgence.”

But after starring as the titular boy wizard in the past ten years, this new role is also a challenge for Dan as well as his fans.

It worries me, but the challenge is to look like a dad and a young father. If I get that right, that is something that immediately separates me from Harry,” Radcliffe said. “The script is so good and the characters are so clear, there is actually reduced pressure on me to be constantly ‘different,’ if you know what I mean; in other words, once people are into the story, they’ll be watching this really compelling movie and will stop — I hope — thinking about me.”

Dan also apologized for non-appearance at this year’s Comic Con and gives hope that he may attend it in the future.

“I apologize to all the wishful thinkers for my disappointing non-presence,” Radcliffe said Monday by phone from London. I’ve never done the Comic-Con thing,” Radcliffe said, “and I really, really want to experience that.”

He also spoke out on his 21st birthday, saying he was with a couple of friends in St. Petersburg in Russia.

“It was fantastic. I was in St. Petersburg for my birthday, which is probably the most beautiful, the most incredible, wonderful place I’ve ever been in my life. It really is absolutely amazing. I went with two friends and it was brilliant.”

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