Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson were interviewed last week by
USA Today, where they spoke about their immediate and long-term plans after the
Harry Potter series has come to an end. New photos of the three actors accompany the article, and can be seen
here:
Dan talks about future stage work and the Dan Eldon biopic:
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"Hopefully in the next couple of years, I'll be back on stage in some form. I'd love to come to Broadway again," Radcliffe says. "They responded to the fact that I have a work ethic. I was on Broadway at the same time as Jeremy Piven, and I think he made me look really, really good because I didn't miss a show." He was jokingly referring to Piven's run in Speed-the-Plow, which was shortened by the actor's mercury poisoning.
Once the final Potter wraps, Radcliffe is scheduled to play British photojournalist Dan Eldon, who was killed in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia. "I really want to do that. It's just a matter of getting the script absolutely right," Radcliffe says.
First thing he'll do after Potter? "Sleep. Ideally, I would have three weeks off and go straight to something else. I get bored not working. … I have a huge amount of energy. When I'm on set, I use it all up. At home, I go wild in my head."
For Emma, she hopes that a modeling career will help fans get over her Hermione persona:
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"My way of hoping people would see me differently was through modeling. I worked very hard and did a lot of modeling shoots. Burberry offered me the campaign. That has moved me away a little bit. I'm not good at selling myself."
Rupert hopes to push out of the Harry Potter bubble and emerge through a variety of projects:
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"I look forward to seeing what else is out there and to move on, really. This is a bubble, really. You don't get a sense of the real kind of industry. I look forward to it."
Has he consciously tried to pursue roles that are the antithesis of chipper, happy-go-lucky Ron?
"It was never that conscious, really. Things just came up. It's kind of helped, really, to try to move away from this familiar character. I've always liked weird films. I'll wait and see what comes up."