Entertainment Weekly has a new feature online, highlighting the hottest 30 actors and actresses under 30. Actor Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) made the list, as did Emma Watson (Hermione Granger). On choosing Dan the magazine says:
“He’s utterly charming and managed to do the growing up thing with grace, even with a skin-baring role in a West End production of Equus. Plus, he’s got a teeny tiny fan base, seeing as how the Potter blockbusters have grossed nearly $4.5 billion (movie’s biggest franchise ever!) around the world. WHAT’S NEXT World domination! No, really, Radcliffe’s got the last two Potter flicks — Half-Blood Prince is set for release in November, and Deathly Hallows in 2010. Broadway, too, will see his Equus in 2008.”
Noting that this year Emma Watson will be part of the animated short The Tale of Despereaux as well as the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince due out this fall, the magazine states: “WHY HER Because she’s matured from a precocious pre-adolescent to a confident young actress, right in front of her eyes. And she’s done it without ever appearing in the tabloid pages.”
I’m just gonna throw this out there to remind everyone of some thing.
These kids are all barely or under 20 years old. They have another decade to find themselves on this list which, they probably don’t really care all that much about considering right now (literately right now as I type this at 4pm PST on a Sunday) they are probably in the middle of a scene, in make-up or sleeping (what with England’s time difference and all). Not to mention the fact that between the three of them, for the film they are currently making, my senior year in college could not only be paid by their pay checks…I could pay for the rest of the students going here as well. For the rest of time. I don’t think Rupert Grint is all that concerned because he was left off some blaze list that Entertainment Weekly wrote. I think he’s a little more concerned with making sure he’s got the whole “making Quidditch look real” thing while Dan’s concerned with “making it look like he care’s about Quidditch” thing (Since we all know how much he looooves doing those scenes).
The bottom line is, if these kids (and I do stress KIDS) stop working after Deathly Hollows (which they most likely won’t since Daniel has already signed on to do another film which makes me wonder if the boy actually sleeps or just powers down for an hour a day) they’ll still be forever in cinema history as “the trio”. As far as the Biz is concerned, those kids have already made it. Hell, they made it the second Sorcerer’s Stone came out and that was when…2001? I’m pretty sure that a list, that left off a LOT of people (since if you look at the women side, the most successful under 30 women ever have been the Olsen twins but since they’re just chillin’ (as they should be) they aren’t on it either (and I highly doubt they care)) isn’t really keeping them up at night. And if it is, they’ve got a slew of really rounded, well accomplished actors by their sides to smack them upside the head and tell them to get over it.
I’m sure Alan Rickman will more than be willing to do the job.
I just think Emma Watson is a terrible actress > She's never Hermione > She annoys me so much with her eyesbrown . That’s just my opinion > I'm not Rupert' fan or Dan' fan > I just hate Emma because of her bad acting >,<
@EruditeWitch: That’s a perfect summary of how many on this board feel. And I’m starting to find myself annoyed with the “well, Rupert doesn’t have any future projects” or “DL is old news” opinionators. That doesn’t take away from his talent. Before Ballet Shoes was even a project for Emma, I’m sure many of you still believed she was talented and has loads of potential. So excuse us Rupert fans for believing in our guy.
If Rupert wants to continue in the field, maybe he should get:
a) a new agent so that he gets more auditions or scripts; or
b) acting lessons (yes, I think he’s talented but he could do better) so that he wins the auditions or scripts; or
c) tutoring on how to talk to the media.
Maybe once one or more of these things happen, the press will pay more attention to him and he’ll appear on these lists. While I don’t think these lists are the “be all and end all”, they are a mark of what the people in the industry think. And those are the people who cast movies and give projects attention.
One important thing, though – did anyone ever consider whether he wants to continue in acting? Maybe, just maybe, he doesn’t. I like Rupert – I think he has loads of potential, but maybe this acting thing is not his bag?
While we all speculate about what Rupert is going to do post Harry Potter (I’d love to see him continue but hey I’m just one person) I’d just like to give him credit for being relatively normal.
Yes, he doesn’t have the greatest media skills. But that doesn’t really have anything to do with him not having media training. If you look at his interviews during junkets, he does rather well. He’s just not the type of individual to jump into the spot light. Good for him. It means less people will bug him on the streets when they see him during his off time.
And no, he hasn’t done all that much in between the Harry Potter films. Good for him. I personally can’t believe Dan Radcliff has done quite as much as he has done. I’m rather worried that he’s going to either burn out far to fast for someone who looks like they could be a rather amazing talent, or when it comes time for him to want a real break, get scrutinized for it. Rupert, in my opinion, seems to be taking the time off in between the Harry Potter films to be a normal teen. I rather commend him for that.
The HP films are rather unique in the fact that they take much longer to film than most (October to May is a much longer time period than most, which usually take only about 4 months) and that’s only principle production. These films are intense, grueling and are very physical. They involve wizard fight scenes and these kids are tested with each film. If Rupert doesn’t feel like churning out 13 thousand other projects in the short time he has off in between them, who are we to argue and complain? Quite frankly, I probably wouldn’t want to either. I’d want to chill in my home in England and drive my ice cream truck the same way he does.
After all, he only has a short time where he can just hang around and be Ron Weasley. Afterwards people are going to expect him to either chose to do other projects or do something else entirely. Why not enjoy the break while he has it?
So Rupert, from me to you, rock out. Take breaks, be normal. I like the fact that I don’t know everything about you, that you aren’t at every party and that I have yet to run into you at a club in Hollywood on the weekends.
It’s a nice change from some of the people I have run into.
congratulation!!! that is really great i hope that there will be more project for emma watson and daniel radcliffe but i want them to be together and act as a loveteam or something that is romantic!!!! does anybody know if they are really together??? pls answer my question…..
Gen, I don’t think they’ll use actual alcohol and drugs in the movie! Oy, if they did, it’d probably never get finished. He does say later that he is determined to get all 4 names on board but while 2 have provisionally said yes, Dan has yet to sign on. Anyways they’d need a script first and probably financing/producing stuff to settle.
Still he said he wanted Dan and that’s music to my ears! This would be so different from what he’s done. That’s exactly what I want to hear.
I didn’t get the negativity for Zac Efron and Miley Cyrus for being on this list. They are both very hard workers from what I can see, and keeping their noses clean so far. Zac has project after project and until Miley hits her twenties and thirties, she’s probably the go to girl for teen movies. There were quite a few girls on that list that i’m not familiar with at all, but they’re lookers and will have projects because they are young ingenues, like Emma. All of these young kids are getting practice with every project they do, and the trio especially are under pressureto do Oscar winning projects . Those are rare and inbetween and I don’t think the other young stars have such high expectations. They should be able to do little projects and spread their wings, much like these other young people are able to do because they are under the radar. Very few movies are Brokeback Mountain successful. Justy saying.
Maybe that’s just my opinion! I feel Dan’ character is supported so good but he can’t steal full of it . In OOtp , when he cried, I couldn’t feel any emotion. I feel he just try to act … he’s not Harry!
If Rupert’s fans are fine with him taking his time developing his career, living a “normal life”, if Rupert’s fans love him for being quite, not courting limelight, not putting himself out there, not playing up to the media, then they should also be fine with him not getting much recognition. Rupert is in a very competitive business where actors are here today and gone tomorrow, and talent alone is just not enough. (Also, it’s not as if Rupert is the only talent young actor around). So, if he doesn’t want to put himself out there and his fans are fine with that, then what are we arguing about?, why should the media be taken to task because they notice people who are “out there” more? If your child who sings very well doesn’t feel like going for the singing try-out and you, as parent ,are fine with that, would you blame teachers for not selecting your child for a school play?
This is nothing to do with Rupert, it’s about his fan’s ambivalent attitude.
And the list is up to 30, so for all we know he may be 31.
"That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you."
I’m just gonna throw this out there to remind everyone of some thing.
These kids are all barely or under 20 years old. They have another decade to find themselves on this list which, they probably don’t really care all that much about considering right now (literately right now as I type this at 4pm PST on a Sunday) they are probably in the middle of a scene, in make-up or sleeping (what with England’s time difference and all). Not to mention the fact that between the three of them, for the film they are currently making, my senior year in college could not only be paid by their pay checks…I could pay for the rest of the students going here as well. For the rest of time. I don’t think Rupert Grint is all that concerned because he was left off some blaze list that Entertainment Weekly wrote. I think he’s a little more concerned with making sure he’s got the whole “making Quidditch look real” thing while Dan’s concerned with “making it look like he care’s about Quidditch” thing (Since we all know how much he looooves doing those scenes).
The bottom line is, if these kids (and I do stress KIDS) stop working after Deathly Hollows (which they most likely won’t since Daniel has already signed on to do another film which makes me wonder if the boy actually sleeps or just powers down for an hour a day) they’ll still be forever in cinema history as “the trio”. As far as the Biz is concerned, those kids have already made it. Hell, they made it the second Sorcerer’s Stone came out and that was when…2001? I’m pretty sure that a list, that left off a LOT of people (since if you look at the women side, the most successful under 30 women ever have been the Olsen twins but since they’re just chillin’ (as they should be) they aren’t on it either (and I highly doubt they care)) isn’t really keeping them up at night. And if it is, they’ve got a slew of really rounded, well accomplished actors by their sides to smack them upside the head and tell them to get over it.
I’m sure Alan Rickman will more than be willing to do the job.