Daniel Radcliffe felt so bad making racial slurs as a white supremacist in Imperium he kept apologising to co-stars
'We were the most apologetic bunch of skinheads'
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Your support makes all the difference.For the majority of the world, Daniel Radcliffe will likely forever be best known for playing Harry Potter.
Having been the Boy-Who-Lived for so long, it’s no wonder the actor is struggling somewhat with his latest role playing a white supremacist in Imperium.
Speaking on The Daily Show, Radcliffe revealed how after using racial slurs he would have to apologise to those around him.
“Whenever I was using racial slurs and stuff in the film I would have to go up to the actors afterwards and be like, ‘I’m so sorry’,” he told the US chat show, via The Telegraph.
“’I know you know that I don’t mean this, but I still feel like I have to say it’. We were the most apologetic bunch of skinheads.”
Imperium comes out later this year and sees Radcliffe play an undercover FBI agent as he infiltrates a supremacist group as they plan to make a bomb.
“It was a very weird film to make in one way because it was a fantastic experience and it was a great crew,” he said.
“On the other hand, we are dealing with this very heavy stuff and filming, like, Right-wing, white-supremacist rally scenes and we were all wearing T-shirts that said ‘white power’ on them, and stuff like that is weird and horrible.”
Also coming up for the actor is Swiss Army Man, in which he plays a “farting corpse with an erection,” a role that led to people walking out of the film’s premiere.
Imperium hits UK cinemas 23 September.
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