{"id":20242,"date":"2012-01-19T17:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T17:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=20242"},"modified":"2012-07-06T08:09:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T07:09:27","slug":"the-woman-in-black-director-didnt-believe-daniel-radcliffe-was-the-right-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/the-woman-in-black-director-didnt-believe-daniel-radcliffe-was-the-right-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman In Black director &#8220;didn&#8217;t believe&#8221; in casting Daniel Radcliffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20243\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/the-woman-in-black-director-didnt-believe-daniel-radcliffe-was-the-right-choice\/attachment\/the-woman-in-black-daniel-radcliffe\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20243\" style=\"margin: 3px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"The Woman In Black Daniel Radcliffe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/The-Woman-In-Black-Daniel-Radcliffe-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"The Woman In Black Daniel Radcliffe\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a>Daniel Radcliffe may have reinvented himself as a convincing leading man thanks to those advance pictures and trailers for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/the-woman-in-black-new-poster\/\">The Woman In Black<\/a><\/em>, but before filming began, director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/magazine-issues\/scifinow-issue-63-is-out-now\/\">James Watkins<\/a> (<em>Eden Lake<\/em>) admits that he wasn&#8217;t sure the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/10-harry-potter-facts\/\">Harry Potter<\/a><\/em> star was up to the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDan&#8217;s an absolute delight,&#8221; Watkins told us, &#8220;but I never believe the party line. It&#8217;s interesting because I met up with [<em>Harry Potter<\/em> director] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/blog\/doctor-who-movie-from-david-yates-are-you-excited\/\">David Yates<\/a> before to get a bit of intel, and David Yates was really like &#8216;You&#8217;ll have a great time, he&#8217;s great, Dan&#8217;s a good guy and he&#8217;ll throw himself into anything&#8217;. And I thought he was just giving me the party line, and he wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This film really shows Dan in a new light,&#8221; Watkins enthuses, &#8220;he&#8217;s playing an adult, he&#8217;s playing a father, he looks different, he looks older.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We spent a lot of time figuring out his look, screen testing him, making him look right. It&#8217;s important to me, if you&#8217;ve done the biggest film franchise of all time that means \u2013 good or bad \u2013 there&#8217;s a lot of preconceptions, so you want to do something a bit more iconoclastic and this kinda cuts through all of that, so it was very important to create a kind of graphic reintroduction to Dan and his character.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the register of Dan&#8217;s performance is very different from what you see him doing in <em>Potter<\/em> \u2013 it&#8217;s much more withheld, it&#8217;s much more internal \u2013 he gets in character but it&#8217;s a different setting and a different type of film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Woman In Black<\/em> is in cinemas from 10 February 2012, read more about it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/magazine-issues\/scifinow-issue-63-is-out-now\/\">the current issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Woman In Black director &#8220;didn&#8217;t believe&#8221; Daniel Radcliffe was the right choice at first, the gothic horror adaptation is in cinemas from 10 February 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":20243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,7,140],"tags":[319,82,2415,2387],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/The-Woman-In-Black-Daniel-Radcliffe.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}