Archive

Radcliffe: I Was Drunk During ‘Harry Potter’

HITTING THE BOTTLE

Actor admits he was intoxicated while filming.

cheats/2012/02/03/radcliffe-i-was-drunk-during-harry-potter/yes-list-harry-potter_hl9d18
Warner Bros. Pictures

This won’t help promote his new film: Daniel Radcliffe has admitted he was straight up snockered while filming scenes for the Harry Potter movies. “I have a very addictive personality,” Radcliffe said in an interview with the British magazine Heat earlier this week, in which he admitted to drinking “daily—I mean nightly.” While he insists he never drank on the job, he can still “point to any scenes where I’m just gone,” the 22-year-old actor exclaimed. “Dead behind the eyes.” Radcliffe talked about his alcohol problem with U.K. GQ last July, but with his new movie, The Woman in Black, already getting lackluster reviews, perhaps he should have kept mum about his personal life before the film’s U.S. premiere.

Read it at Reuters