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Daniel talks about women in black and future project Advocate publish the interview with an article Daniel Radcliffe is praised by Advocate certain times in the article you can read the article and interview below.

The intense gaze of Daniel Radcliffe’s wide blue eyes is as haunting as the moody English landscape that provides the setting for the actor’s most recent film,The Woman in Black. The 22-year-old actor chuckles when this is mentioned. “I’ve been told several times I have a thousand-yard stare,” he offers. “When I’m not in a bright and cheerful mood I tend to look like I’ve just run across no-man’s-land.”

Based on the famed 1982 novel and stunningly directed by James Watkins, the gothic ghost story (now available on DVD and Blu-ray) marks both Radcliffe’s first film since leaving Hogwarts and an unexpected return to the supernatural genre of the Harry Potter films, which made him a marquee name. Having already proven his versatility in hit stage revivals of the psychological drama Equus and the classic musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Radcliffe will soon portray his first gay character.

The 22-year-old actor will star in Kill Your Darlings, a true-crime drama from out director John Krokidas, in which he’ll depict legendary Beat poet Allen Ginsberg years before Howl made him a literary icon. Radcliffe belongs to a committed generation of young entertainers intent on using their fame as a platform to speak out for equality. For his efforts on behalf of the Trevor Project, which works to prevent LGBT teen suicides, Radcliffe received the organization’s Hero Award. “Young people deserve to live in a world that accepts them for who they are, regardless of a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity,” Radcliffe said upon learning of the honor. Radcliffe tells The Advocate about his return to the supernatural with The Woman in Black, what drew him to play Ginsberg, and why he’s tirelessly committed to speaking out for equality.

Daniel Radcliffe interview 

The Advocate: The Woman in Blackis the first film you made since the Potter franchise ended. Did you have any hesitation about making another movie within the horror-fantasy genre? 
Daniel Radcliffe: I said to myself, if I rule out any script that had remotely any fantasy element, I’d be cutting myself off from a huge amount of amazing work. If you’re talking about films made years ago, it would exclude me from films like The Shining or A Matter of Life and Death or who knows what else. There are so many films that could be deemed as having heightened paranormal elements to them, which could just be magical realism or a ghost story, which isn’t really the same feeling as Potter. I decided not to let that impinge on my decision-making.

What specifically appealed to you about the film?
For me it was a chance to do something that’s genuinely different and that I thought people wouldn’t be expecting and that I wasn’t expecting. If you’d said to me that the first film I’d do after finishing the last Potter would be a horror film, I wouldn’t have believed you. It’s never been something I’ve particularly gravitated towards. But one of the only horror films that made an impression on me while I was growing up was The Others. I saw it when I was about 13 and absolutely loved it.

The Woman in Black certainly shares qualities with that film.
When I read the script I thought of that film immediately and James Watkins felt the same. He also had a Spanish film called The Orphanage in his mind when he was conceiving this film. Having the chance to make one of those unusual, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary ... There’s a difference between a nasty film and a scary film. Of course films likeHostel and Saw are going to be horrifying because they’re unpleasant and there’s gruesome imagery involved. You’d be inhuman not to have some reaction to that. But with a film like this, it taps into things we have evolved to fear: darkness, noises we can’t identify the source of, those things that really scare us in real life. It all adds up to make a really effective, very scary film, I think. It also touches on family, loss, grief, and things you might not normally associate with a horror film.

You mentioned the 1946 fantasy A Matter of Life and Death. I’m impressed that you’re so film-literate.
That’s my favorite film. There are gaps in my film knowledge. I’ve never seen Star Wars and stuff like that. But A Matter of Life and Death I think is one of the greatest showings of what imagination in cinema can do, with no visual effects, really. It was a brilliant story and brilliantly acted. David Niven is the most impossibly charming man in the world in that film and always. It’s just a brilliant film.

You portray Allen Ginsberg in your next film, Kill Your Darlings.
I feel I am incredibly lucky to be playing him. Despite the damage from his upbringing and his mother and what he went through, he really emerged into the most fully formed open, compassionate human being out of all of the Beats. He’s certainly the one you’d be most comfortable spending time around, I think. When you watch footage of him and William Burroughs together and see how much they care about each other and how close they were and the love between all those guys and the incredible sadness that brought them all together that they were all carrying in some degree. It’s great.

This is director John Krokidas’s first feature film. What convinced you to take this leap of faith with a novice filmmaker?
You obviously haven’t met John. [Laughs] John is one of the most passionate people you could ever meet. For me this is an exceptional script. The scenes were almost completely devoid of exposition, yet the story was always being moved along and any information being given out in those scenes is given as information about the characters and not just handed out for the audience to understand. It’s a brilliantly written script. You meet John and he has such unwavering belief in this project and he’s enthusiastic and fun and I thought, Yes, I want to dive in with you and make this happen. I think that’s why so many people were drawn to this film. It’s myself, Lizzy Olson, Ben Foster, Jack Huston, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgwick ... an amazing group of people. That’s due to the script and John’s passion for the project.

Last year you received the Trevor Project’s Hero Award. The founder of Trevor Project said that you actually reached out to them to become involved with the organization. Why was this important to you?
I think it started when I was doing an interview a few years ago and I was being asked about gay rights and I realized I was speaking much more passionately about gay rights than anything else I’d been asked about. It’s because while growing up a lot of my mum and dad’s best friends were gay, so there were always a lot of gay men in my life. When I went to school, suddenly there was something weird about that for a lot of kids. That’s still very odd to me. I’m still like, What’s new about it? It’s been going on for ages. I couldn’t understand why people are freaked out about it. I find it incredibly frustrating that people are still being brought up in ways that encourage homophobia and allow it to affect the lives of millions of people across the country and the world. Finding out about Trevor Project through friends at that time just seemed perfect. I wanted to be of service and help, and I’m just incredibly proud that I’m able to. I do get people coming up to me and saying – I’d say at least five or six times each week someone will come up to me and say, "Thank you for what you do for the Trevor Project." It’s amazing that you’re able to effect a positive change just by being you and talking about things that you feel strongly about. I’m just very proud to be a part of it.

Marriage equality is a hot button issue in the States. Earlier this year British prime minister David Cameron stated his support. Is it safe to presume you support it as well? 
Yes, absolutely. Obviously. [Laughs] It shouldn’t even be a thing. It shouldn’t even be a discussion. That doesn’t sound right. Everything should be discussed. Anyone should be able to get married. One of the most amazing things I’ve seen was during the Republican thing earlier when Michele Bachmann was still around and some young girl asked her why gay men can’t get married. Michele Bachmann said they can but not to each other. I thought, That’s the problem. They don’t even understand the question. It’s so frustrating to me and bizarre. Hopefully progress will come.

Daniel Radcliffe interview to Collider

Colidre.com recently take an interview of Daniel  Radcliffe via phone.In the interview Daniel mention about the success of Women in black.he also mention his criteria in taking future projects.you can hear the interview below or here

Read the written interview below

Collider:  When The Woman in Blackopened and it did so exceptionally well at the box office, were you breathing a sigh of relief thinking “Thank god, I’m going to be able to do other movies besides Harry Potter, and have people come out”?

Daniel Radcliffe: Absolutely. Yeah, I’ve never known, really, what it’s like to have a film come out where you feel a lot of pressure around the release. And obviously in Potter it was always a question of how big the film was gonna be. So to have a film where you really don’t know how it’s going to do opening weekend and where you’re being released with a load of other films and you haven’t got that massively recognizable brand that obviously Potterhad. So you’re gonna have to scrap from recognition among those other films. I think it’s a testament to the quality of the movie that people not only went and saw it the first weekend but, particularly in the UK, went back for weeks and weeks to see it. And it was great, and for me personally, to see that people will still come out to support a film that I’m in that is notHarry Potter in that they did was just amazing. And I feel I worked hard on the film, both in the actual filming and then in the promotion of it, so it was lovely to see all that work rewarded. It was very gratifying, actually.

Are you the type of person that likes going to the theater opening weekends, standing in the back and watching the crowd? Especially something like this that will have the crowd reacting strongly to it?

Radcliffe: By the time this film had come out I’d seen it three times, and two of those times had been in the back of fairly full screening rooms, so I didn’t feel I needed to go opening weekend. But this is a particularly good film to watch for audience reactions. I saw it one time we sat near the front of the screening and one time I sat near the back, and it’s interesting because when you sit near the front you don’t have a sense of how the film is playing, really. But when you sit at the back and you can actually see the reactions of the people and you can see everyone jumping and kind of jostling each other as they scream. It’s a very, very satisfying film to watch like that, because my favorite thing to do is to pick a person, normally a group of teenage girls, and just watch them until they freak out and scream and throw popcorn everywhere.

Hindsight is 20/20; when you look back on the film now, what do you think really worked, and is there something about the film that you wish you could have done another take on or explored more?

Radcliffe: The part of the film that I think is the best and is the most compelling section is the 15-20 minutes in the middle where there’s no dialogue and it’s just me being chased around the house. In terms of things I think we could have done differently, I mean I’m very happy with the film and there will always be things in my own performance that I feel I could have done better. That’s part of the process and that’s where I was as an actor at the time, it was a while ago we did it now— it was a year and half, which is a long time in terms of how much you develop in that time. But yeah, there are certainly things that now I watch the film and I look back, and I go “Oh I could definitely have done that better,” or this or that. But generally speaking I’m happy, and particularly with the middle section of the film where— that’s the section where . . . If I’m not doing my job in that section then it shouldn’t really work, because I’m all there is there. So I was pleased with that. That was the section of the film that I look at with a lot of pride.

Some actors prefer the Clint Eastwood method of 2 takes and some actors love the David Fincher method of 50 takes; where do you fall in that spectrum and what’s the most you’ve every done?

Radcliffe: The most I’ve ever done? The most takes I’ve ever done . . . it was not a shot I was in. I’ve been on set for getting to 36 takes. That was on the second [Harry Potter] film, I think. Where do I fall in? It’s interesting, it’s amazing to me that Fincher has time to do 50 takes, I’ve just done a film where we’ve shot it in 26 days, and there’s some things where you get one take, but it’s not because of Clint Eastwood’s “so you get 1 take” method, that’s [just] all you have time for. So I dunno. To be honest, as long as I feel the director’s got what he wants, I don’t care if you do 1 take or 100. My energy level is such that I can keep going for as long as you need me to. I’m there until the director feels he’s got it, and when he does then I want to move on, but until I feel that he’s happy, then I really don’t feel comfortable moving on to another shot. I think also there’s this thing sometimes where if it’s a big scene it would be great to do a lot of takes, and just feel that you give every option, every way of playing it that you can. But if it’s a small scene and you feel you’re getting hung up on something and you get to take 10 on a tiny scene, then as an actor you start thinking, “Well Jesus, what do I have to do here, what is the right version of this?” But it’s not something you get too wrapped up on, I tend to just go by what the director wants.

I have a feeling that down the road WB will re-release the entire Harry Potter series in 3D.  What’s your feeling on that possibility?

Radcliffe: I have no idea . . . Yeah, they probably will, won’t they, I suppose? Maybe the 3D fad will have passed by the time we get around to it, who knows? I don’t know, I’m sure there is going to be many box sets and 3D releases of everything. In terms of how it affects my life, it doesn’t really other then there’s different things for me to sign. It will be a new box set to slap a signature on. The thing I always say about 3D is it’s not for me, I don’t love it. If you like 3D, and you like Harry Potter, then I have no doubt that you’ll love Harry Potter in 3D. But if you don’t like 3D, then it probably won’t add much for you. The one thing that terrifies me is that the idea that in 20 years or so they’ll probably remake the films. Just with the world’s generally shrinking attention span, it will probably only be 10 years before people are ready to remake them again. So you know, I could come back and play Lupin or whoever I want in 20 years maybe.

I’m really excited for Kill Your Darlings, which you mentioned you just wrapped on.  You play a very famous person; can you talk a little about the research that went in, what excited you about that project, and what people can be looking forward to?

Radcliffe: I think people can be looking forward to one of the best ensemble casts and filming one of the best scripts that I think, as a cast, we were all talking about on set how it’d been a long time since we read anything as good as this. It’s a fantastic script. To give you a rundown of the cast; it is Ben Foster, Michael C. Hall, Dane DeHaan, Jack Huston, Kyra Sedgwick, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Cross, Elizabeth Olsen . . . It’s a really great cast. In terms of the research for playing Allen, it was really about working on my American accent, and just making sure that it was right and felt like my voice and had a kind of subtle New Jersey element to it, but he really didn’t have much of an accent, [Allen] Ginsberg, so it wasn’t too focused on that. And it was about watching a lot of YouTube clips really, because even though there’s no footage of Allen at the age of 19, it’s interesting to watch people talk about him and the person he was and see what he then turned into. Really the thing that I always see when I watch Allen is he really is the most—although he can seem slightly introverted at moments—he’s actually the most expressive, enthusiastic, kind of excitable member of that group. And was really a very—at the time they met him—sweet, completely conformist just desperate to be liberated. Absolutely longing for the excitement that he dreamed of in New York to be in his life. And it’s about him meeting both all the right and all the wrong people at the same moment.

I’m sure you have your pick of a lot of different projects: What’s your criteria moving forward in terms of your film roles and have you all ready lined up something that you’re going to be starting in the neat future.

Radcliffe: I think my criteria is just . . . I read some thrillers recently, some thriller scripts, and it all kind of felt the same, there was an interesting part in some of them, but none of it felt like it was new. So I think the first thing that I look at when I read a new script is has this story been told before? Originality is really . . . it goes a long way to beat that in my book.

So have you figured out what you’re going to do next?

Radcliffe: I don’t have any immediate plans. There are lots of offers around, but I want to do something that I’m really— I’ve never been on a set of something that I’m not very passionate about, and I can’t imagine being on a set without being very passionate about something, so I’ve got to wait until I find something that I know really want to do.

The comic book genre is more popular then ever, is that a genre that excites you? And could you ever see yourself wanting to play another one of these iconic, title roles?

Radcliffe: Yeah, absolutely. I dunno who’s left, I mean a lot of comic books have . . . they’ve all been done. I don’t think anyone’s done The Flash yet, and that’s one I’d probably have a go at. Other then that, I’m not sure which comic book heroes are left.

Daniel new project could be Pinocchio movie

After the confirmation that Daniel is going to play young doctor of John Ham The news is spreading on the net that Daniel may work in  Daniel Radcliffe stop-motion “Pinocchio” movie read the article below

“Harry Potter” actor Daniel Radcliffe is just one of the names being branded about as a possibility for Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion “Pinocchio” movie.

The “Hellboy” director says Radcliffe himself has asked to be a part of the project, and he’s also keen to get Tom Waits and Christopher Walken, involved. Don’t get too excited though, nobody has signed for the project yet.

The filmmaker has a while before he has to attach names to the project, “Pinocchio” won’t be ready until 2014.

del Toro, speaking to the press at Cannes, will direct the project with Mark Gustafson.

“When we originally talked about this project I was going to direct but then I said I would executive produce it. But everything with the production discussions became more and more specific and I began to realize I was getting more and more involved,” THR quotes the filmmaker as saying.

The film, backed by Jim Henson’s company, will be a “dark, atmospheric tale” in, of course, 3D.

this article is copied from www.moviehole.net/ 

Daniel Radcliffe in Kyle and Jackie O. Show

Daniel Radcliffe is not only promoting the US/UK DVD and Blu-ray release of The Woman in Black this month and in June, but the actual theatrical release of the horror film in Australia this coming Friday. Dan spoke to Australian radio station Kyle and Jackie O. Show about the feature; and with IGN UK for the DVD release for the movie. That can be heard and read below.

Daniel Radcliffe IGN twitter update

if you don't know Daniel Radcliffe answer fans questions by using IGN twitter.i have found some new Questions so here is the update 

What was your fave sceen to film in the Woman in black? Love you Dan
Dan says: All the scenes with my son, he's my real-life god-son!

What is your favourite go to computer game of all time?
Dan says: Either Madden, or back in the day Sonic on the Megadrive!

What made you decide doing a horror film just after HP?
Dan says: It was the best script that I'd read & the chance to work with director James Watkins.

What is your biggest fear?
Dan says: Being buried alive, and yellowstone volcano gives me nightmares!

What would your dream movie role be?
Dan says: I'd love to direct, but I'd love to do more comedy 

What is your favourite ghost story?
Dan says: I'd have to say either 12 Angry Men (any part!) and A Matter of Life and Death (the Niven part)

Do you believe a little bit in more ghosts than you did before?
Dan says: No, this film was made entirely by cynics, all non-believers!

Dan, I love your taste in music! What are you listening to on your ipod these days?
Dan says: Slow Club, Florence and the Machine's latest album and... The Shivers

Sorry to ask such an immature question, but if you had to choose, would you pick Team Edward or Team Jacob? 
Dan says: Team Edward - as I've worked with Rob

Hi Dan :) what was it about 'Kill Your Darlings' that made you want to be a part of it?
Dan says: The material resonated with me & it's a brilliantly written script, and to work with an amazing cast 

Will you ever get twitter yourself Dan?
Dan says: No, probably not, I could never be concise enough!

Would you like to do a musical in the west end? 
Dan says: Absolutely, H2S didn't come to the UK as I didn't think it would have same appeal here. But in the future..

Hi Dan, what is your best gadget?:D
Dan says: Slingbox, it lets me watch UK TV in America. Cricket mainly!

Hi Dan, what is your favourite novel ever? Congrats with everything by the way :) X
Dan says: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. So much imagination in one book!

Which superpower would you choose, invisibility or flight? Why?
Dan says: Neither, super-speed like Wally West the Scarlet Speedster!

Hi Dan, what movie are you most looking forward to coming out this year?
Dan says: Ted the Seth McFarlane film, looks hilarious!

Is there someone you really want to work with?
Directors, the Coen Bros. & Chris Nolan. Actors - Jesse Eisenberg, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone

Were you a fan of the play before seeing the movie script? (WIB)
Dan says: I hadn't seen the play, we never did that school trip! But I've vowed to see it now!

what was it like to film the scenes within the house itself? x #WomanInBlack
Dan says: Kave Quinn's set was amazing and made it easy to act scared!

Dan, I'm on itunes right now. What songs should I buy? #WomanInBlack
Dan says: But An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, you'll laugh A LOT

What was it like working with Ciaran Hinds in the Woman in Black compared to the last HP? Any different or the same? :) #WomanInBlack
Dan says: Ciaran is a complete gentlemen, I've never seen an actor make it look so easy!

Who is your favourite James Bond and why?
Dan says: I love Daniel Craig, but Pierce is the Bond of my youth!

Daniel Radcliffe answer fans questions on IGN twitter

No Daniel didn't open his twitter account.Today Daniel take over IGN twitter and answer some fans question.he also tell he is probably never open a twitter account of his own you can see them below

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack what was your fave sceen to film in the Woman in black? Love you Dan♥
#WomanInBlack Dan says: All the scenes with my son, he's my real-life god-son! @RebeccaTWx

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack What is your favourite go to computer game of all time?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Either Madden, or back in the day Sonic on the Megadrive! @The_Real_Arran

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack What made you decide doing a horror film just after HP?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: It was the best script that I'd read & the chance to work with director James Watkins @moizshawalchi

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack What is your biggest fear? x
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Being buried alive, and yellowstone volcano gives me nightmares! @MlleSvenskah

@IGNUK What would your dream movie role be? #WomanInBlack
#WomanInBlack Dan says: I'd love to direct, but I'd love to do more comedy @TanujDua

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack Hello! If you could be in any film, past, present or future, what movie would it be?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: I'd have to say either 12 Angry Men (any part!) and A Matter of Life and Death (the Niven part) @CarlStuart_

@IGNUK Do you believe a little bit in more ghosts than you did before? #WomanInBlack
#WomanInBlack Dan says: No, this film was made entirely by cynics, all non-believers! @HayleyTheRumour

@IGNUK Dan, I love your taste in music! What are you listening to on your ipod these days?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Slow Club, Florence and the Machine's latest album and... The Shivers @KiwiMcI

@IGNUK Sorry to ask such an immature question, but if you had to choose, would you pick Team Edward or Team Jacob? #WomanInBlack
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Team Edward - as I've worked with Rob @irritabletoad

@IGNUK Hi Dan :) what was it about 'Kill Your Darlings' that made you want to be a part of it? #WomenInBlack
#WomanInBlack Dan says: The material resonated with me & it's a brilliantly written script, and to work with an amazing cast @SimplyTheZoe

@IGNUK will you ever get twitter yourself dan? #thewomeninblack
#WomanInBlack Dan says: No, probably not, I could never be concise enough! @Chlowilliamsx

@IGNUK would you like to do a musical in the west end? #WomanInBlack
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Absolutely, H2S didn't come to the UK as I didn't think it would have same appeal here. But in the future.. @Whamie

@IGNUK Hi Dan, what is your best gadget?:D
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Slingbox, it lets me watch UK TV in America. Cricket mainly! @RainbowHollie

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack Hi Dan, what is your favourite novel ever? Congrats with everything by the way :) X
#WomanInBlack Dan says: The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov. So much imagination in one book! @LowriBearman

@IGNUK - Which superpower would you choose, invisibility or flight? Why?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Neither, super-speed like Wally West the Scarlet Speedster! @BeckBockk

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack Hi Dan, what movie are you most looking forward to coming out this year?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Ted the Seth McFarlane film, looks hilarious! @MsterJames

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack Is there someone you really want to work with ?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Directors, the Coen Bros. & Chris Nolan. Actors - Jesse Eisenberg, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone. @AsooAkeel

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack Were you a fan of the play before seeing the movie script?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: I hadn't seen the play, we never did that school trip! But I've vowed to see it now! @bexlectric

@IGNUK what was it like to film the scenes within the house itself? x #WomanInBlack
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Kave Quinn's set was amazing and made it easy to act scared! @laurenellice

@IGNUK Dan, I'm on itunes right now. What songs should I buy? #WomanInBlack
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Buy An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer, you'll laugh A LOT @KiwiMcI

@IGNUK #womaninblack Hi Dan do you sit and read all of your fanmail that you get? :)
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Not as much as I'd like to, but as much as is humanly possible. @RebeccaTWx

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack Who is your favourite James Bond and why?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: I love Daniel Craig, but Pierce is the Bond of my youth! @RobChappell88

@IGNUK What was it like working with Ciaran Hinds in the Woman in Black compared to the last HP? Any different or the same? :) #WomanInBlack
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Ciaran is a complete gentlemen, I've never seen an actor make it look so easy! @LeeJ2512

@IGNUK #WomanInBlack Hi Dan, Whats your fave TV show? If you could star in any tv show, which one would it be?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: South Park, 30 Rock or Parks and Recreation. I'd love to be in 30 Rock! @jonnydavison

@IGNUK are you looking forward to Prometheus?
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Absolutely, I'm very excited for Prometheus! @MartinDLindsay

@IGNUK What's your earliest childhood memory? #WomanInBlack
#WomanInBlack Dan says: Thinking it would funny to call 999 when I was 5. I learnt that was wrong very quickly! @LizCavanagh

#WomanInBlack Dan says: Thanks for all your questions, I hope you enjoy the film on DVD. Thanks for the support!

Daniel Radcliffe conformed to play the doctor role

Daniel Radcliffe role for a doctor is conformed .Daniel Radcliffe will play younger part and jon hamm will play the older.Daniel is very excited because the project s write by hos favourite writer Mikhail Bulgakov.his book The Master and Margarita is one of Daniel favourite books

article from guardian.co.uk

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe and Mad Men's Jon Hamm are to star in a comedy drama about the Russian revolution on Sky Arts.

The pair will play the same doctor at different stages of his life in the four-part series, A Young Doctor's Notebook, by Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.

Hamm will play the older man, who has a series of "bleakly comic" exchanges with his younger self, played by Radcliffe.

The Mad Men actor described the project as "original, dark, funny and moving" and said he was "thrilled to get the opportunity to work on such rich source material with such fantastically talented people whose work I greatly respect".

A Young Doctor's Notebook will air in Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents strand in 2013. Playhouse Presents has featured projects starring Emma Thompson, Harry Shearer, David Tennant, Alison Steadman and Sir Tom Jones in his first acting role.

Radcliffe said: "I have been an obsessive Bulgakov reader for a couple of years now so when the opportunity to become involved in this project came up, I could barely contain my excitement.

"The book is funny, grotesque and heartfelt in equal measure and I look forward to working with a great group of people to help bring it to life."

The drama will be made by Big Talk, the independent producer behind Rev, in association with Point West Pictures, the production company run by Hamm and his partner Jennifer Westfeldt.

A Young Doctor's Notebook is based on a collection of short stories, published in 1975 as A Country Doctor's Notebook, that drew on Bulgakov's experiences as a young medic in the small village of Muryovo which was struggling to enter the modern age as the Russian revolution began in 1917.

It recounts the doctor's struggles to treat his patients and his battles with his own doubts and inner demons.

Bulgakov, who died in 1940, is best known for the novel The Master and Margarita.

Sky Arts previously looked to Russia for inspiration with its Chekhov Comedy Shorts season in 2010 starring Steve Coogan.

The Sky Arts channel director, James Hunt, said: "Having two of the world's most popular actors, whose iconic roles are seared on to the world's collective consciousness, is an enormous accomplishment for Sky Arts.

"Bulgakov's work is fascinating, dark and original and with talent like this, will surprise and entertain our viewers in a wholly unique way. It is brilliantly observed piece, which promises to be true historical magic and completely unlike anything else on television."

Sky head of comedy Lucy Lumsden said it was a "world-class lineup to take your breath away".

A Young Doctor's Notebook, which will air next year, will be adapted by Mark Chappell, Shaun Pye and Alan Connor, produced by Clelia Mountford and executive produced by Hamm and Allen, chief executive of Big Talk.

Allen said: "Clelia Mountford bought the project to me with a twinkle in her eye and that twinkle has rapidly developed into a rather extraordinary project that promises to be unmissable TV.

"I really hope we can find and entertain a whole new audience with the brilliance of Bulgakov and the pinch-yourself dream team combination of Jon and Daniel."

Part of Sky's drive to boost its homegrown programming investment by 50% to £600m by 2014, the series will be distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide.

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Daniel Radcliffe talk to THEFIX

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With Harry Potter a distant memory, Daniel Radcliffe is keen to show audiences he's more than just a child star. TheFIX spoke with the 22-year-old actor on the weekend about how far he's prepared to go to shake off that tag and be taken seriously as a dramatic actor.

"There's not anything out there I'd not do," he told us over the phone while filming thriller Kill Your Darlingsin New York. In that film he has a nude scene, while his latest horror flick The Woman in Black takes him into darker territory as a widower surrounded by dead children.

But there's one thing he will never do on film.

"I wouldn't kill an animal," he revealed. "I've heard of actors before who were asked if they would kill an animal on screen. I definitely would never do something like that."

Daniel reportedly hired two ex-SAS soldiers to guard his border collies Binka and Nugget after he received a death threat from a crazed fan in 2008.

Since HP wrapped up, Daniel launched straight into The Woman in Black, a critical and commercial success that recently became the highest-grossing British horror film in 20 years.

Made by Hammer studios, who brought us the original Frankenstein and Dracula movies, the film's creepy subject matter, involving a ghost that terrorises a community by sending children to their deaths, is far darker than the fantasy world younger Harry Potter fans are used to.

"If you're under 12 then you really probably shouldn't see this film. It's very very scary," he said. "I certainly wouldn't recommend the film for all ages by any stretch of the imagination."

Daniel took on the challenge of playing Arthur Kipps, a widower grieving his wife's death and caring for his three-year-old son (played by Daniel's real-life godson Misha Handley).

"He's known me all his life. It was a great, great pleasure being able to be on set with him, and show him, even though he's very young, much younger than when I started, it was still nice to be able to show him the world I grew up in," he said.

Does that make Daniel clucky to have a child with production assistant girlfriend Rosie Coker anytime soon?

"Not particularly! I love kids, and I look very much forward to having them at some point in the future, but it is very much in the future," he admitted. "It's not something I'm concentrating on anytime soon."

Now that he's scratched his horror film itch, Daniel won't rule out doing more graphic horror films in the future.

"Absolutely, I'd do horror again, it would not put me off that it was gory, but it would have to be a very, very good script to justify the graphic imagery," he said.

Speaking of graphic, Daniel's not afraid to bare all in front of millions of eyeballs. In Kill Your Darlings he plays gay '60s poet Allen Ginsburg, and was comfortable going nude on camera after baring all on stage inEquus a few years back.

"You just do it. It's just like getting naked in real life. You just pull your pants down," he revealed.

Daniel laughs at the thought of self-conscious actors who have routines to pump themselves up for nude scenes.

"I'm certainly not one of those guys, I have seen those actors that do a load of push-ups or sit-ups or start lifting things before they're doing a scene with their shirt off or something, and to be honest, it always just makes me laugh," he said. "I'm like, dude, if you didn't get big before now, you're not going to look that much bigger in two minutes' time!"

Daniel's career is only getting bigger and bigger. Worth a cool $80 million, he's one of the richest young men in Britain, so he can afford to try different things to push himself.

He recently completed a successful Broadway and West End run in musical How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and could be back for the planned sequel to The Woman in Black.

With plenty of scripts coming his way, Daniel has no regrets about turning down parts.

"So far, nothing I've turned down has gone on to be a massive hit and win everyone loads of Oscars," he said. "I haven't had one of those 'dah!' moments … no, not yet but I'll let you know!"

Daniel hopes to return to Australia after a five-year absence since filming December Boys in South Australia.

"I really miss it, there was a time when I was probably out there once or twice every 18 months probably for a few years and I just loved it," he beamed. "I don't know when but I will be running back as soon as I can."

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