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Daniel Radcliffe’s Strange Post-Potter Streak Continues With Tracy Morgan Series

We never know what he will do next.

Daniel Radcliffe is getting his freaky on (again).

On Mar. 13, NBC announced that the actor is joining the cast of Tracy Morgan’s currently untitled comedy series, and its premise sounds delightfully wacky.

The series follows Morgan, a disgraced former football player, on a mission to rehabilitate his image. Radcliffe will play an award-winning filmmaker named Arthur Tubin, who moves into Morgan’s mansion to create a documentary about the ex-communicated football player.

Since moving on from the Harry Potter franchise in 2011, Radcliffe’s arc in Hollywood has been downright peculiar. Instead of continuing to act in big-budget franchises and IPs, like his Harry Potter castmate Emma Watson, Radcliffe chose to go “weird” (his words), building one of the most eclectic resumes in Hollywood.

In 2016, he played a farty corpse in Swiss Army Man. The same year, Radcliffe starred in Imperium, playing an FBI agent who infiltrates a white supremacist Nazi group. In 2019, he was the leading man in PBS’ Miracle Workers, a comedy series about a low-level angel who must help two humans fall in love.

In between starring in quirky indie films and tv series, Radcliffe also played several leading men on Broadway, appearing in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying in 2011, The Cripple of Inishmaan in 2014, The Lifespan of a Fact in 2018, and Merrily We Roll Along in 2023, for which the actor won a Tony for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical.

And now, he will tackle NBC’s sitcom world, joining comedy stars Tina Fey, who will executive produce, and Robert Carlock and Sam Means, who are set to co-write the show.

As for whether the series will be as “weird” as the rest of Radcliffe’s industry credits, let’s just assume that’s a given.

Clare DonaldsonEditorial Intern

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