„I Got Complacent.” Daniel Radcliffe „Hates” His Performance in This Harry Potter Movie
Daniel Radcliffe has spoken candidly about which part of Harry Potter he thinks he performed worst in. As he stated, he „hates” his performance in it.
Daniel Radcliffe grew up and developed as an actor in front of millions. He stepped onto the set of Harry Potter as an 11-year-old, and for the next few years his acting school was the sets of the subsequent installments. The actor has had his better and worse performances, however, there is one installment of the series that stirs up particularly negative emotions for him precisely because of his own performance.
Namely, we're talking about the 6th installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, in which, as Radcliffe himself admitted in an interview with the Daily Mail, he played one-dimensionally, which was due, among other things, to the fact that he became complacent.
As you can see, his acting was influenced by the success and international fame he had just experienced with Harry Potter, which led to errors in judgment in his own performance.
And that’s why it’s hard to watch a film like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, because I’m just not very good in it. I hate it. My acting is very one-note and I can see I got complacent and what I was trying to do just didn’t come across. My best film is the fifth one [Order of The Phoenix] because I can see a progression.
And while Radcliffe is generally not fond of seeing himself on screen, as he also pointed out in this interview, he does so and isn’t always so critical of his own performances. He pointed out that he likes how he played in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which is the 5th installment in the series. So it appears that after the peak came that particular decline, hated by Radcliffe.
