And Harry became a famous leading man in a dozen other Hollywood franchise films, right? Not so. Ad β content continues below. Forcing the BBFC to rewrite their own rules, the film was controversially given a 12A on release β going on to receive complaints from the parents of traumatised kids expecting to see Harry having more fun with comedy ghosts.
By all accounts, Radcliffe is a very well read young man. Unfortunately, all anyone wanted to ask him about was his gay sex scene with Dane DeHaan β and almost every tabloid headline of the time obsessed over his pubic hair and why certain full frontal close-ups were cut.
More would follow, but not for a few yearsβ¦. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Insulting though it is, you can sort of see their point.
Letting the lead go to James McAvoy instead, Radcliffe played his assistant, Igor, a weird circus freak who spends his first big scene having his hump drained of puss. At some point, a young Radcliffe would have sat down with his then more famous co-stars like Alan Rickman, John Hurt, Richard Harris and Gary Oldman and heard them impart their advice on the fame game.
Such was Now You See Me 2 , a film that still somehow made enough money to green-light another sequel and a Chinese spin-off. Another slightly more obvious choice for Radcliffe, he nevertheless took the one role in a starry ensemble that put him at odds with his Potter past. If you turn the volume up during the end credits you can just make out the sound of Dobby crying.
