Daniel Radcliffe Admits Past Drinking Problem – Says he was Drunk During Certain Scenes of he Potter Movies
What do you do when you are growing up, surrounded by people 3 times your age, and the star of the biggest grossing film franchise of all time ($7.7 billion), you get drunk!! By the way, the film wasn’t the only thing grossing, Radliffe’s personal bank account is now worth an estimated $75 Million.
Radcliffe admits that he has worked hard to counter everyone’s expectations. As a child actor everyone thinks he’s going to be a brat, but instead he comes off as pleasant and somewhat engaging. The Start tells the LA Times
“Ever since I was 15, I’ve kind of known what people expect when I walk into the room: ‘Oh, he was a child actor. He’s gonna be a … nightmare,’ I try as hard as I can to counteract that image immediately.”
This is the main reason he quit drinking 18 months ago. The shame of being a loud mouth drunk was too much to bare. Daniel wasn’t just getting tipsy, Harry Potter was getting’ tore up, from the floor up!! Radcliffe reveals,
I’m very good fun for the first four drinks, and then after that it’s a rapid, rapid decline into where I have to be helped home. Blackout was kind of my thing,”
DRUNK WHILE FILIMING POTTER FILMS
Although all the latest headlines are that Radcliffe filmed Harry Potter drunk, he never got drunk while filming. He was drunk the night before, and sometime was still drunk the next day on the set. In fact he says he can point to many scenes where he is just
“Gone, dead behind the eyes”
He said it got so bad that he was a shut in, drinking by himself. In his Interview with ShortList Magazine he says,
“It was pathetic — it wasn’t me. I’m a fun, polite person and it turned me into a rude bore. For a long time people were saying to me, ‘We think you have a problem,’ but in the end I had to come to the realization myself.”
Gary Oldman helped convince Daniel to stop drinking; telling the young star that he had “too much to lose”.
He said his drinking habit came from being around older people and hearing all the escapades of wonderful drunken nights, but he himself has never had a drunken night he can brag about. He started working on the Harry Potter movies at age 11. Some people say he didn’t have a childhood. Radcliffe sets these people straight. The 22 year olds says,
“People always say stuff like, ‘You didn’t have a childhood, That’s an insulting thing to say to somebody. Being on a film set is a fantastic place for a 10-year-old boy…. I would just be a nuisance in any other line of work. I think if I was in an office, I might come in one day and kill everyone. I might be one of those guys who just goes crazy.”
Wow – welcome to our world Danny!!
He admits that he was lucky, the media somehow was able to miss this, and his clean, unblemished reputation is still intact today, and has carried him through the Potter franchise and a Broadway Production of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”.
This round of interviews and press is part of his promotions tour for “The Woman in Black” which released yesterday. This will test if he truly has a built in fan base, or was it just the Potter franchise.
-Cosmo
