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Dan's Parade Magazine Interview
By: kamikaze ginny Date: January 5, 2012, 10:45 am
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HTML http://www.parade.com/celebrity/celebrity-parade/2012/01/daniel-radcliffe.html
... just an excerpt/preview
[quote]Are you a romantic?
"Yes. I don’t know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and
dad would read to me a lot. Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe,
tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the
stories I loved growing up. I still see something very romantic
in the world that perhaps isn’t there. I suppose I want it to be
the place of knights and that kind of stuff.”
Knights marry princesses. Do you want to get married?
"Yes, absolutely. When growing up, I thought of marriage as
being very official, drawing up a contract. It seemed slightly
clinical to me. But then you meet somebody that you really love
and you think, 'Actually, I wouldn’t mind standing up in front
of my friends and family and telling them how much I love you
and that I want to be with you forever.'
Are you in love with girlfriend Rosie Coker? [Radcliffe met
Coker, a production assistant, on the set of the last Potter
film.]
"Yes, absolutely. When Rosie’s here, every day seems better….I’m
not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I’m a
very good boyfriend, but there are times when I’m useless. I
mean, I’m a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become
obsessed with things. This year it’s fantasy football, which
means Rosie has to listen to me talking 24 hours a day about
this team. 'Should I take this player out, do you think,
darling?' And she listens to it, and she loves me for my
oddness, my awkwardness, all of those things that I hate about
myself. She finds them cute. I guess that’s love."
Why was that?
"I hated dating because I’m crap at it! [laughs] With Rosie, I
didn’t know what was appropriate, like on which date you’re
supposed to try and kiss her. At the end of the second date I
pulled a move out of the Bela Lugosi Book of Woo—I went to kiss
Rosie and at the last minute lost my nerve and ended up kissing
her neck, which is such a weirdly intimate place to kiss
somebody on a second date. Afterward, I texted her, saying, 'I’m
sorry, what I just did probably seems very odd to you.'
Fortunately, she just found it really funny, so she kept coming
back."
Last year you gave up alcohol. Why?
"My inner life was being drowned. I’ve worked with Richard
Harris, Gary Oldman, all those actors who went crazy when they
were young, and I always wanted that. The idea of that kind of
life and chaos was always so appealing to me. Unfortunately, the
way I do it, there is no romance to it! [laughs] There is
nothing glorious or triumphant about it—it was pathetic, boring,
and unhappy."
Your dad is a Protestant from Ulster and your mom is English and
Jewish. Were you raised in a particular religion?
"There was never [religious] faith in the house. I think of
myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I’m
English. My dad believes in God, I think. I’m not sure if my mom
does. I don’t. I have a problem with religion or anything that
says, 'We have all the answers,' because there’s no such thing
as 'the answers.' We’re complex. We change our minds on issues
all the time. Religion leaves no room for human complexity."
You’ve had enormous success for someone so young. Do you fear
that it won’t last?
"Yes. But it’s reality, not fear. It will happen, and I have
accepted that. In a way it’s a great relief that I will never,
ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But
neither will anybody else. [laughs] Or it will take them a long
time.”[/quote]
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Re: Dan's Parade Magazine Interview
By: FurySerenity Date: January 5, 2012, 11:53 am
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I loved what he says about Rosie. That's just so sweet of him! I
really hope they're relationship lasts because he seems to
really love her and he said to Larry King he does want marriage
and kids.
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Re: Dan's Parade Magazine Interview
By: linedancer Date: January 5, 2012, 1:19 pm
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I love how he texted her after the weird neck kiss and was all
"I'm sorry, that was odd". :D I love how he just owned it,
where as a lot of people would probably think "that was weird.
Hopefully she didn't notice!".
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Re: Dan's Parade Magazine Interview
By: Fawkes Date: January 5, 2012, 1:35 pm
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I'll definitely have to buy that. I really like Dan's views on
fame. He seems to really have a good head on his shoulders and
truly be down to earth. And I like the comment about nothing
ever being as successful as HP...or it'll take a very long time.
Because it's completely true.
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Re: Dan's Parade Magazine Interview
By: StealYellowMen Date: January 5, 2012, 2:40 pm
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I love that he plays fantasy football.
And I really like when he talks about fame, politics, and
religion. He may be an oddball (which I love), but he's very
down to earth and humble.
Also: I saw some pics/videos of this. I think we all need to
take a second to appreciate Dan's rad hair.
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Re: Dan's Parade Magazine Interview
By: linedancer Date: January 5, 2012, 8:55 pm
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Yes, he does have rad hair. Dan's hair and Rupert's hair need to
get together and make awesome hair babies.
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Re: Dan's Parade Magazine Interview
By: Loony_Gaby Date: January 8, 2012, 6:46 pm
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^Indeed :D
Aw how lovely. That Rosie is definitely lucky.
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