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DEEP DIVE INTO DANIEL RADCLIFFE’S ECLECTIC POST-’HARRY POTTER’ CAREER.

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POSTED BY: Akatech Solutions | | DATE: July 01, 2016. | Source: Yahoo.com

This July will be five years since the release of Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Pt. 2, the last film in the Harry Potter series, one of the most successful in film history. Not every lead of every giant film franchise goes on to success afterwards.

But with a villainous turn in Now You See Me 2 (in theaters now), and quirky indie Swiss Army Man(which opened in limited release June 24), in which he plays a flatulent, surprisingly useful corpse, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe seems to be everywhere at the moment, and making the kind of unexpected, interesting choices that have become his trademark. We thought it was a good time to take a look at his post-wizarding work, and see how he’s fared in carving out a new career for himself.

Stage Projects

Radcliffe didn’t wait to line up post-Potterwork — as Deathly Hallows Pt. 2 hit theaters, the actor starred on Broadway in the musical revival How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

Reviews were mixed, but he ended up with a Tony nomination. He failed to repeat the feat for his next stage role in The Cripple Of Inishmaan in 2014, but the notices were far more glowing. He’ll return to the boards next month, at New York’s Public Theatre in the interactive playPrivacy. (Photo: Broadway.com)

‘The Woman In Black’ (2012)

Radcliffe’s first on-screen role after defeating Voldemort was in this Edwardian ghost story. Playing a widowed father and lawyer attempting to sell a spooky house, the actor is a little too young for his role, but mostly holds his own, and certainly banishes any thoughts of the Boy Who Lived.

He’s an appealing and grounded center for a remarkably efficient chiller that proved to be a sleeper hit. (Photo: Everett)

‘The Young Doctor’s Notebook’ (2012)

Some of the most interesting work that Radcliffe has done has been on the small screen.

In 2012, he starred with Jon Hamm (as the same Russian doctor at different ages) in the tragicomedy The Young Doctor’s Notebook. Across eight episodes, it was a triumph of sustaining a very particular, rather unusual tone.(Photo: BBC)

‘Kill Your Darlings’ (2013)

Giving him the best of his roles to date,Kill Your Darlings saw Radcliffe cast against type as poet Allen Ginsberg, here a naive college freshman at Columbia.

Ginsberg crosses paths with similarly youthful versions of William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston), but the focus is on his friendship with Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan). (Photo: Everett)

‘What If’ (2013)

One of the umpteen attempts to recapture the rom-com magic of When Harry Met Sally, What If is nowhere near as good as its inspiration, but still has a fair amount of charm.

It sees Radcliffe play a med school dropout with a crush on an animator (Zoe Kazan) who already has a boyfriend. It’s derivative and only fitfully funny, but the energy of the cast carries it all along. (Photo: Everett)

‘Horns’ (2013)

The darkest thing that Radcliffe has done so far, Horns is a distinctive swing-and-a-miss. Based on a novel by Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son), it sees Radcliffe play Ig, a man widely suspected of murdering of his girlfriend (Juno Temple).

Already a pariah, things get worse when he sprouts devil-like horns that give him supernatural powers. Director Alexandre Aja isn’t quite dexterous enough to jump between the film’s tonal shifts, but Radcliffe remains fiercely committed throughout. (Photo: Everett)

‘Victor Frankenstein’ (2015)

The star’s return to the big-budget world last year proved to be something of a low point. The movie attempted to do to Mary Shelley’s classic what the TV reboot ofSherlock did for Baker Street’s detective.

James McAvoy and Radcliffe do their best as the title character and his assistant Igor, but the script is one of the worst examples of Hollywood’s prequel mania. The film proved to be a disaster, with one of the worst wide-release openings on record. (Photo: Everett)

‘Swiss Army Man’ (2016)

The talk of Sundance this year (not always for the right reasons), Swiss Army Man stars Paul Dano as Hank, a man stranded on a desert island and about to kill himself when a weirdly useful — and occasionally sentient — corpse (Radcliffe) washes up and helps Hank survive.

It’s an amazing physical performance from Radcliffe in a film that — love or hate it —isn’t like anything else you’ve ever seen. (Photo: A24)