Life After Potter

I have accidentally watched a few Daniel Radcliffe films over the past week or so. I don’t think he’s a particularly outstanding actor, but he’s certainly made some interesting choices of roles and has been involved in some very watchable movies. I guess you can be choosy and selective when you earned £20million from your first role.

“Swiss Army Man” is bizarre and beautiful.

“Jungle” is a disturbing, delightful survival flick.

And “Escape from Pretoria” is a genuinely tense, edge-of-the-seat thriller that is based on a true story of which I knew nothing.

I seem to remember ‘Horns’ being one of the weirdest films of the last decade as well.

So what am I saying? I guess I’m saying that he is putting together a very interesting body of work, and it is very easy to watch him without thinking “Look, it’s Harry Potter!” and that is quite an achievement in itself.

Plus – writing this has distracted me from the nerves I am feeling about going into my new office today. But I can’t put it off any longer. It’s time to get in my car…..

RC 8-3-21