Daniel Radcliffe fears he has “grammatical Tourette's”.
The 24-year-old Harry Potter star is stepping outside of his comfort zone by taking on the lead in romantic comedy What If.
He plays medical school dropout Wallace, who has been unlucky in love until he meets the charming Chantry. Unfortunately she already has a boyfriend, but they soon start to wonder if what they have is more than friendship.
Daniel didn’t see Wallace as a kindred spirit, until he realised they share one irritating quirk.
“On the second page of the script, he corrects somebody’s pronunciation of a word, and I thought, ‘Oh God, I’m this a**hole,’” he laughed to insidemovies.ew.com. “I’ve gotten better, but it’s like I’ve got some version of grammatical Tourette’s. I can’t hear someone make a mistake without wanting to correct them.”
In the past, Daniel has veered towards retro roles such as Victorian Arthur Kipps in The Woman in Black and ‘40s poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings. He calls What If his “first foray into the 21st century” and admits he prepared by watching his favourite romantic comedy, 1981’s Arthur.
“It’s really, really funny,” he said of the Dudley Moore classic. “In so many romantic comedies the humour is kind of lame.”
What If even stars a sexy skinny dipping scene, filmed during the fall in Toronto. He’s stripped off on stage for play Equus in the past, so it was the cold rather than the nudity that scared Daniel.
“We were really dreading it,” he shivered at the memory. “It had been cold a few nights before, but it got beautifully warm. Lake Ontario was fantastic.”
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