Never mind playing one of the vital beloved characters of all time, “Harry Potter” actor Daniel Radcliffe desires to be remembered as a farting corpse.
The actor recently sat down with GQ to interrupt down his most iconic characters and reveal the role he’s “proudest of.”
After wrapping the enduring “Harry Potter” series, which brought Radcliffe international fame during his decade because the titular character, the actor spent years craving to be recognized beyond The Boy Who Lived.
In 2016, he finally found the role he desired to define his profession: Manny, the farting corpse in “Swiss Army Man.”
“That was … truly top-of-the-line experiences I’ve ever had and possibly the film that I’m, like, proudest of,” Radcliffe said.
“Swiss Army Man” is a fantastical dramedy a couple of hopeless man named Hank, played by Paul Dano, who becomes stranded on a deserted island with a farting/ talking dead body (Radcliffe) that he befriends on his adventure home.
Radcliffe shared that he never second guessed his participation within the film and immediately knew he wanted to affix the production after reading the script and meeting the team.
“I used to be like, yeah, I would like to be involved on this,” he put it simply.
The English actor admitted he “fully didn’t know what [he] was going to do as this character for the longest time” and was glad the production team had a transparent vision.
“I had no idea what Manny was gonna be,” he said. Radcliffe remembered that he initially struggled with the character coming off too zombie-like until he was put within the makeup chair.
Once he saw the nice effects, he realized that he didn’t must try so hard to portray that he was dead, because he looked dead. He remembered considering, “I may be this sweet, little character, but he’ll just seem like a dead, sweet, little character due to what else is happening.”
The strange film won several international awards and eventually became a cult classic.
“If I get hit hit by lightning tomorrow or something, if there’s one scene that I could pick from every part I’ve ever done to simply be the thing that, like, lasts after me, it might be the scene on the bus from ‘Swiss Army Man,’” Radcliffe boldly declared.