Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Potter star says David Bowie is his dream role
Actor says he'd be worried about 'screwing up a movie about my favourite musician’
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Your support makes all the difference.Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe says his dream role would be to play David Bowie in a film.
The 30-year-old actor revealed that the musician would be his chosen role after Fox News asked whether he would be interested in taking on any music biopic roles.
The actor replied: “If you’re talking like dream thing, who would it be fun to play and which songs it would be great to sing, then I suppose it’d be David Bowie.
“But I’m not actually submitting myself for that. I don’t think I’d be good, and I certainly think there are people that’d be better. And also, we don’t need to make a film about everyone’s life.
“If it was a musician that I loved as well, there would also be this sort of twin pressure of I don’t want to screw up a movie about my favourite musician.”
The actor continued: “Maybe something punk or something from the 1970s that would require less singing ability on my part. That might be good.”
In his new film Escape from Pretoria, Radcliffe plays the political prisoner Tim Jenkin, who attempted to break from the Robben Island Pretoria prison.
Earlier this week, Radcliffe was forced to clarify that he does not have coronavirus, after a false report from a fake BBC News Twitter account spreading the news emerged.
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