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Daniel Radcliffe: 'Harry Potter stopped me killing everyone'
Published Thursday, Feb 9 2012, 10:42 GMT | By Daniel Sperling | 3 comments
Daniel Radcliffe has suggested that he would have gone insane without the Harry Potter franchise.
The Woman In Black actor joked that he would be driven to "kill everyone" if he landed in any other profession.
"I would just be a nuisance in any other line of work," the Daily Star quotes him as saying. "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."
Radcliffe also dismissed suggestions that starring in Harry Potter had denied him a childhood, though he accepted that being around adult co-stars may have accelerated his alcohol issues.
"People always say stuff like: 'You didn't have a childhood'. That's an insulting thing to say to somebody," he said. "Being on a film set is a fantastic place for a 10-year-old boy.
"What Potter did was put me around people who were older than me. I'm very good fun for the first four drinks, then after that it's a rapid, rapid decline where I have to be helped home. Blackout was kind of my thing."
> Daniel Radcliffe: 'Harry Potter's Richard Harris inspired my drinking'
> Daniel Radcliffe: 'I almost quit Harry Potter'
Watch Daniel Radcliffe chat to Digital Spy about The Woman In Black below:
The Woman In Black actor joked that he would be driven to "kill everyone" if he landed in any other profession.
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"I would just be a nuisance in any other line of work," the Daily Star quotes him as saying. "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."
Radcliffe also dismissed suggestions that starring in Harry Potter had denied him a childhood, though he accepted that being around adult co-stars may have accelerated his alcohol issues.
"People always say stuff like: 'You didn't have a childhood'. That's an insulting thing to say to somebody," he said. "Being on a film set is a fantastic place for a 10-year-old boy.
"What Potter did was put me around people who were older than me. I'm very good fun for the first four drinks, then after that it's a rapid, rapid decline where I have to be helped home. Blackout was kind of my thing."
> Daniel Radcliffe: 'Harry Potter's Richard Harris inspired my drinking'
> Daniel Radcliffe: 'I almost quit Harry Potter'
Watch Daniel Radcliffe chat to Digital Spy about The Woman In Black below:
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