Harry Potter fans shocked at Daniel Radcliffe

I don't think he should be concerned that much. He should feel free to persue any other career or role he likes, the Harry Potter movies won't go on forever! I wonder if people would react the same way if instead of it being a play it were a movie, and a few years down the line from now. Many actors have started off with g-rated movies and done nude scenes in other movies later in their career and they're perfectly successful. People just need to learn to be more open minded about other peoples' choices in what they do with their life. Nobody's forcing them to go see this play after all and it doesn't make is role in Harry Potter any less impressive.

bloody hell! outrageous i may say!

bloody hell! outrageous i might say mate!

I can definitely understand why he would do it. So many actors do get pigeonholed early in their career, and either wind up out of the business entirely or playing almost the same roles forever.

However, I can also see how it will lose him a lot of fans. I've already heard people talking about how they no longer want to watch the Harry Potter movies, or about how disappointed in him they are.

Overall I think it was a gusty move, and I admire him for it.=)

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More power to him. I think his fans are ones with narrow minds. An actor needs to broaden his horizons so that they can become better actors. If you stick to playing the same role all the time. Then you get stereo typed and it will be hard for you to find work somewhere else. Very few child actors careers ever went past their teens. so I say bravo to him and I hope he keeps striving for more roles.

extremely disappointed

I'm sorry that some fans are shocked, although I can kind of understand. But Daniel Radcliffe should certainly be allowed to pursue whatever kind of an acting career he wishes! Of cousre, I have no idea what context the nudity is in in this play, but I'm sure that it's nothing bad, lol! There are plenty of times where a story calls for something in an artistic way that makes sense to the storyline, and I doubt that he would have gotten involved in anything more bawdy than that, lol! Anyway, you're right. There are definitely a lot of famous people who've been in "Hair!" LOL. And there's nothing wrong with that!^_^

I think he should be able to pursue the role he wants to. The reason people get shocked however is they tend to believe in the movie. It's like someone that plays good roles for a long time and suddenly play a bad role, or are in series then choose to go to a movie, sometimes people don't accept these changes as in their fantasy world those people don't belong there. People sort of idolize the part as if it were real. There have been a few cases of people that were stalked in real life, an example of this was a Brazilian soap that the girl's mother has a young boyfriend and then the boyfriend falls in love with the daughter. A lot of people would come up to the young actress asking her how could she do that to her mother. I guess people get so into the movie that there's a fine like that makes them not be able to separate what's real from what's not. That like in this case the young boy isn't some innocent kid and is a young professional actor with the will to choose any part he wishes as he wishes.

Here is the catch 22 about this whole thing. People are mad because he was nude in this play and they think that will tarnish him as Harry Potter, but if they were to hire a different actor to play Harry Potter then everyone would complain.

He is not Harry Potter, he is an actor and actor do many different roles and if some call for nudity then so be it. I think it is great that he is branching out and pulling away from Harry Potter.

IF all he wanted was money, and he didn't really want to act then he could have just done all the Harry Potter movies and then retired becuase I am sure he will make enough money just from the movies. However, he actaully wants to act, so he should be able to.

I think it is sad that people are already stereotyping him and I think he is smart to try and break those stereotypes right now. I say good for him.