I suspect that a certain film series from your past has given you the security and freedom to choose things that challenge you as an actor, is there an extent to which you are slightly constrained by the thought of bringing an audience with you that maybe grew up watching the other films you made?
Daniel: Do you think I’ve been constrained so far? I can only do the work that excites me and that I get passionate about. The people that like those films will go and see them, a lot of fans from Potter came and saw Equus, I think frankly that anything after that is… well it’s not going to get that much more extreme than seeing me have sex with a horse on stage.

You’re in a unique situation with Rupert and Emma, who at a young age have had your future mapped out for 10 years, when that ended was it like a safety net had been taken away and do you have to adapt in a different way?
Daniel: I was talking to Matthew Lewis about this recently, we were both saying that actually since finishing Potter, it’s not like a safety net was taken away, well it is like a safety net was taken away but as a good thing. I think that when you are somewhere for 10 years, no matter how diligent you try and be you become so comfortable in your surroundings that you start taking on information and learning different probably less efficient way that what you’re doing when you’re just thrown in at the deep end and there’s something new about it. I think that actually, for me, leaving Potter has been really exciting because, with Potter I did one film a year and it was Potter and to now be able to go off and do two or three films in a year and a play or whatever it is has given us all an appetite for trying to do as many different parts and do as many different films under our belts as possible.

J.K Rowling has been a big part of your life, had you been aware previously of the revelation’s surrounding the book she wrote under a pseudonym?
Daniel: I literally have no idea what you are talking about. * A brief explanation about the book and it being all over the news the day prior to the interview* I haven’t watched the news since two days ago, I have no idea. Oh, I think that’s pretty cool. Didn’t Paul McCartney do that when he was with the Beatles in the 60’s? I that that it’s a very clever thing for her to have done and well done her.

Now that you’ve done a series, like Potter and you’ve done individual films. Would you go back and do another series of them or stick to individuals?
Daniel: I think I would, if it was good enough. I would absolutely never stop myself. I think there are so many, stuff like Potter and Batman and now all the stuff that Marvel’s doing are kind of proving that franchise doesn’t need to be a dirty word. There some examples of some really, really great film making and hugely successful franchises. So yeah I would absolutely do another series. Possibly not for a little while and if I could have a part that was a supporting role that would be fab, I don’t have to be there for the whole 11 months. I’d never close myself off to anything.