“I feel like everyone wanted Potter to be more of a handcuff than it actually was,” said Radcliffe.

“I think Harry Potter is going to be around for a while — a long while — but as long as it doesn’t inhibit me getting parts in the present time, then it’s fine. It’s a lovely association to have, because it’s something I’m incredibly proud of.

“People always say, ‘Don’t you just want to forget about it?’ No! That was my entire adolescence.”

“He walks that line between tragedy and comedy so brilliantly,” Radcliffe said of [playwright Martin] McDonagh.

“I think one of the hilarious things about this play is, by our standards today, how politically incorrect it is,” said the actor... “So much of the comedy is just people being relentlessly cruel to Billy.

“I’m trying to write something at the moment, and it’s just so dark, and I think it’s funny, but I’m not sure if anybody else ever would. I aspire to be a poor man’s Martin McDonagh.”

“Hopefully later on this year people will start to see some very different performances from me. And hopefully some really good movies,” he said. “It’s about the movie as a whole, not just people studying my performance and seeing how I’m getting different and how I’m growing up.”

He’s also filmed The F Word, which he calls a “very funny, very sweet but also very smart” romantic comedy from Canadian director Michael Dowse.

“I don’t want to say (I’m) playing myself, exactly,” Radcliffe said, “but (I’m) playing a character that’s fairly high-anxiety, slightly hyperactive guy.”

“It’s a love story, it’s a revenge movie, it’s a horror movie in parts — it’s going to be crazy,” said Radcliffe.