Daniel Radcliffe Told He Must Use English Accent

Daniel Radcliffe has valiantly worked at casting off the career spectre of the ‘Harry Potter’ movies, but there’s one attribute that he’s been told he should not rid himself of.

The 25-year-old actor has revealed that he was told not to use a Canadian accent for a role because film-goers won’t want to see him unless he’s using his own British brogue.

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Speaking to the Sunday Express magazine S, he said: “It was basically: ‘You’re not marketable without your English accent,’ which is bad news for all the other stuff I’ve done with American accents.

“It was one of those ridiculous last-minute panics on their behalf, but I certainly wasn’t going to go: ‘Well, screw you guys, I’m going to put 200 people out of work for the sake of an accent’.”

Radcliffe, who now lives in New York, had perhaps better hope that he doesn’t pick up too much of the US accent, then, lest he lose his crucial marketability.

But on the plus side, it appears that he’s not just being offered wizarding roles anymore.

“A couple of quite good action films have come my way,” he added.

“But there’s never a fresh character involved in any of those films. It’s just the same people thrown into different cities with different casts.

“I like action movies and I feel there used to be lots of really witty ones, like ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Lethal Weapon’ and the ‘Bourne’ movies, but the good ones are few and far between now.”

Among his forthcoming roles are that of Igor in ‘Victor Frankenstein’, opposite James McAvoy, and playing civil engineer Washington Roebling, the man who built the Brooklyn Bridge, with Ben Kingsley.

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