When I first worked with George Clooney he was SO good at playing that nice doctor on TV, he wasn’t getting any movie role offers, so I made him a killer, like, 180 degrees, and then he got all kinds of stuff. “I really love taking actors and having them play a role they don’t usually get to play.
“I love transformations,” says Rodriguez, who first began working with Vega when she was 12. So if I was ever going to play this kind of role, I trusted Robert with that.” It's a crazy, fun movie, it empowers women, and Robert shoots all of his women very, very well – the lighting, the outfits, they're all pretty awesome. “ were very welcoming to it – I think because we aren't taking ourselves seriously. “We set out to try to change people's minds because they only see you as a kid because they grow up with those movies,” she explains. “It was definitely unexpected, to say the least,” Vega admits, crediting director Robert Rodriguez for the makeover. And now that Jo has had success away from Potter with The Casual Vacancy and Cuckoo's Calling, I think she can obviously step back to it with confidence.”Īlexa Vega, 25, admits that while she’s happy to finally have graduated from her squeaky-clean Spy Kids image as Carmen Cortez to a skimpy-lingerie-clad badass named KillJoy in Machete Kills, she never expected the seismic impact her new sexpot image would have. “There are so many people out there who have this real hunger for the continuing expansion of the Potter universe.
Rowling’s plan to turn the in-book text Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them into a spin-off film franchise. Meanwhile, he’s just as thrilled as the rest of the legions of Harry Potter fans to learn of author J.K. “He's highly intelligent and plays a huge part in Frankenstein's dilemma and the solving – it's a much more equal partnership than we've seen in the past, I'd say.” “Igor is really being given more of a backstory than ever seen before,” says Radcliffe. To that end, he’s next taking on the role of the hunchbacked lab assistant Igor in a trope-tweaking new iteration of Frankenstein opposite James McAvoy as the boundary-testing scientist. “If there's a philosophy or strategy, it’s don't repeat yourself." Radcliffe says the more diverse a post-Hogwarts filmography he can assemble, the happier he’ll be. He told Katie Couric earlier this week that "It's quite an easy headline, I guess… there's a lot of jokes to be made." (Last week costar DeHaan told E! News that Daniel is a "great kisser," so there you go.) The film includes a much-ballyhooed gay sex scene between Ginsberg and writer Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan) that Radcliffe has said is no big deal. "Allen's poetry, particularly, becomes a lot more emotionally involving if you actually know about his real life.” Reading Ginsberg’s diaries, Radcliffe found the poet “somebody who was incredibly aware of their own intelligence and very proud of it, but at the same time was very insecure and kind of awkward socially.”
The latest role that the 24-year-old actor’s gone to the mat for was that of poet Allen Ginsberg in the indie film Kill Your Darlings, director John Krokidas’ Sundance smash that chronicles a long forgotten murder among the Beat Generation icons of the 1950s. “So I fight and work just as hard as anyone else, I think, to get those parts I really care about.” “I certainly don't assume that because I've got a famous face at the moment that that guarantees me anything,” says Daniel Radcliffe, recognizing that his Harry Potter resume doesn’t mean he won’t need to audition for the roles he craves. Welcome to BAM! POW! ZAP!’s inaugural All Grown-up Edition, in which we hear from Hogwarts alum and faculty alike, as well as one of the Office of Superspies’ youngest recruits who discusses being an adult in a fanboy/fangirl world.įrom Gryffindor to Ginsberg: Daniel Radcliffe