"Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe has quite the sense of humor. Even though he would not trade his role as The Boy Who Lived for anything, he has joked that he feels jealous of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" star Eddie Redmayne because he got a much cooler costume for the "Harry Potter" spinoff.
"Oh (expletive) you, Eddie, in your brilliant costume - I got jeans and a zip top for 10 years and you've got a great coat already?" he laughingly told NME.
Looking back at his career, Radcliffe said that he definitely had a lot to prove after his decade-long role as Harry Potter wrapped up in 2011.
"I had a huge amount to prove. Proving that you can be a young actor and not be a complete (expletive) disaster when you grow up. That is the - quite unfair I think - image that people have of young actors," he said. "There are a huge number of child actors who grow up fine. Always with my career in film, I saw Potter as an amazing beginning to it. I'm sure I'll never hit that kind of commercial peak again but very, very few people will."
Radcliffe still has deep fondness and the utmost respect for the "Harry Potter" universe, and this is why he will be eagerly anticipating the West End production of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
However, Radcliffe hasn't moved entirely past the Harry character and says he is keen to catch the upcoming West End production of "Harry Potter And The Cursed Child."
The actor admitted that it would be pretty weird seeing a different actor portray Harry Potter, but he feels "happy for it to go on without me."
"I've no ownership of it," he added. "Now that I know (Harry's in it) I actually really want to see it. It would be a mental thing to try and see it with lots of very excited Harry Potter fans. But I kind of would like to know what happens now."
After graduating from "Harry Potter," Radcliffe's movie choices has been pretty varied. He starred in the dramas "December Boys" and "The Gamechangers," then the horror flick "The Woman in Black," and just recently, "Victor Frankenstein."
"People do ask me, 'Why do you choose such weird movies?' but I don't think they're weird, they're just stories I'm interested in," Radcliffe shared. "Isn't having weird tastes good, though? I think so. I think that's better than always wanting to play the handsome hero."
