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“He was even scarier than Alan Rickman.” One Harry Potter actor terrified Daniel Radcliffe for several years

Daniel Radcliffe has itted that one actor from Harry Potter terrified him even more than Alan Rickman, and this continued for several years.

Edyta Jastrzebska

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“He was even scarier than Alan Rickman.” One Harry Potter actor terrified Daniel Radcliffe for several years, image source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, David Yates, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2011.
“He was even scarier than Alan Rickman.” One Harry Potter actor terrified Daniel Radcliffe for several years Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, David Yates, Warner Bros. Pictures, 2011.

For the first three years on the set of Daniel Radcliffe, who was wrongly convinced that the actor was not fond of him. The child star felt frightened because of Severus Snape actor’s menacing voice. These feelings certainly helped Radcliffe find his way into the role of Harry, who was terrified of the professor. Rickman, however, gradually began to show a warmer side to the young actor, becoming one of his biggest ers on set.

It turns out, however, that on the set of the films about the young wizard there was another actor who frightened Daniel Radcliffe even more than Rickman. It was Ralph Fiennes, who played the role of Lord Voldemort, Potter's greatest enemy. From their first scenes together, Radcliffe was afraid of Fiennes, who embodied the fearsome wizard so well.

Daniel Radcliffe talked about his feelings toward Ralph Fiennes in The Jess Cagle Interview.

I when I was 15 doing scenes with Ralph for the first time. He was even scarier than Alan was at first. Alan was super intimidating to start off with as well, but then you get into it, but Ralph genuinely scared me for a few years.

Fiennes was so good in his role that for the several years that he starred opposite Radcliffe in the Harry Potter series, he effectively made Radcliffe fearful during their scenes together. So the anxiety we saw in the young wizard on screen may have been Radcliffe's genuine reaction to how Fiennes performed as Voldemort in front of him.

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Edyta Jastrzebska

Author: Edyta Jastrzebska

A graduate of journalism and social communication as well as cultural studies. She started at Gamepressure.com as one of the newspeople in the films department. Currently she oversees the Gamepressure movie&TV newsroom. She excels in the field of film and television, both in reality-based and fantasy themes. Keeps up with industry trends, but in her free time she prefers to watch less known titles. Has a complicated relationship with popular ones, which is why she only gets convinced about many of them when the hype around them subsides. Loves to spend her evenings not only watching movies, series, reading books and playing video games, but also playing text RPGs, which she has been into for several years.