Last month, Dennys Ilic was interviewed regarding his professional including the people he has worked with over the years. Amongst them is Daniel Radcliffe, whom he has photographed in 2007 and 2009. Here is an excerpt:
Very cool. Can you name some of your favorites? Like actors you think looked really nice in photographs or that you liked to photograph?
It’s hard because every shoot is so different and offers an individual experience and result. Because I travel so much, I love the sort of lack of commonality in the shots that I do because the world is my studio. I’m always shooting in a very different random place. Liv Tyler is so beautiful very sweet. My shots of her are very angelic. I recently did shoots with Callum Keith Rennie and Tricia Helfer and on both occasions these people gave me something beautiful and extraordinary. Callum is dark and mysterious and a little cheeky. Theses images are some of my favorite male actor shots to date. Tricia on the other hand is just extraordinarily beautiful and soft. Her eyes are just pools of emotion and she is an incredible subject to shoot — absolute consummate professional. You take 100 shots, you get 100 different things from her. And that translates to being an actor too. Every time I look at my shots of her I get overwhelmed and don’t know where to begin! Just too much gorgeousness to deal with!
But in the end I have to say that probably the greatest experience for me overall — because I’ve been involved with it for a good four or five years now — has been photographing Daniel Radcliffe for the Harry Potter films. Partly because I shot him for the first time when he was fifteen years old and I now just finished shooting him when he’s 20, Just seeing him change and grow from a young child to this amazing young man. He’s so grounded and so intelligent and so focused on his work. Obviously he makes a good deal of money for someone his age, but he hasn’t suffered any of trappings that come with that. He’s a normal young man who probably works a hundred times harder than any of us can conceive or would do ourselves. He’s just all about his craft. It’s just amazing seeing a Harry Potter film being made and seeing how much he does — how hard he worked on Equus, reading scripts for other projects while at the same time he was preparing for my photoshoot.
When I shot him two years ago, he’d just come off filming — literally the day before — Harry Potter V. He jumped on a plane and came to Australia and was reading for Equus. After that he went straight into making another Harry Potter film. I just have this incredible respect and admiration for him and his focus. That’s probably the most pleasurable experience I had in the film industry, because just dealing with him and his family has been nothing but a positive experience. It just shows how wonderful and normal people work at that level of the film industry — the biggest film franchise in the world.
You also worked with him on December Boys in Australia?
Yeah, we did some publicity work for December Boys as well, which is a beautiful Australian film directed by the very talented Rod Hardy who as you know did quite a few episodes of Battlestar Galactica as well. The great thing about December Boys was that that it did not try to capitalize on Daniel’s fame. It wasn’t a film focused on him. His great craft just added to it. It was a gorgeous movie and great role for him.
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