Life After Harry Potter 7 Poll

[BobbyD 2]

Here is another Poll. With the last 2 Potter films coming up...Who do you think will continue to blossom on the silver screen?

 

Write-ins are encouraged. I picked the younger, child actors, main cast.

[Hoyaheel 1,874]

I voted Emma but think Daniel Radcliffe will have good options too. I think others will probably be able to have character roles or stronger roles in smaller films - esp British films - but don't think any will be American box office stars. Honestly, I don't know that any of them want that kind of career after Harry Potter or care about it - they haven't seemed to in interviews the past 10 years, so who knows.....

[branchop 319]

I voted none of them. And they don't need to. They have made enough money to not work anymore as long as they invest it well. I think Emma and Daniel will stay in the business, but probably not in the movies.

[Maxiemom 623]

I also voted none of them, but with the qualifier that it would be by choice and not because they are screwed. It also wouldn't surprise me if any of them achieved career brilliance completely outside of acting.

[princess 1,712]

I bet they all do a play after to show their "range"

[daq 0]

I think the three leads will all have future acting success, if they want to continue to act.

[Persiaa 0]

Daniel Radcliffe got good reviews for Equus on the stage, so he should be good. Rupert Grint has been doing some offbeat comedies. I think Emma Watson has expressed some interest in academia.

[BobbyD 2]

Potter is doomed I think, since the dude looks like Potter and is compact in size, in person.

 

I think the rest will probably do well...stage, indie flicks(what I would recommend). I think Emma makes out the best..but I still voted Different Strokes...lol, child actors have a tough outlook. :4biggrin:

[Baby Doll 77]

Potter is doomed I think, since the dude looks like Potter and is compact in size, in person.

 

I think the rest will probably do well...stage, indie flicks(what I would recommend). I think Emma makes out the best..but I still voted Different Strokes...lol, child actors have a tough outlook. :4biggrin:

Me too! :4biggrin:

[tyler 408]

I bet they all do a play after to show their "range"

 

Daniel Radcliffe already has. Equus. He got good reviews and he is about to do another in London. The name escapes right now.

[tyler 408]

Potter is doomed I think, since the dude looks like Potter and is compact in size, in person.

 

I think the rest will probably do well...stage, indie flicks(what I would recommend). I think Emma makes out the best..but I still voted Different Strokes...lol, child actors have a tough outlook. :4biggrin:

 

I would agree if this were an American cast -- but those British -- they seem to have a different mind set when it comes to fame and fortune for the most part.

[tyler 408]

Potter is doomed I think, since the dude looks like Potter and is compact in size, in person.

 

I think the rest will probably do well...stage, indie flicks(what I would recommend). I think Emma makes out the best..but I still voted Different Strokes...lol, child actors have a tough outlook. :4biggrin:

Me too! :4biggrin:

 

 

For whatever its worth, Daniel has three movies in production -- and good things (I hear anyway) do come in small boxes (notice I didn't say "packages?") :4biggrin:

Edited November 16, 2010 by tyler

[BobbyD 2]

Potter is doomed I think, since the dude looks like Potter and is compact in size, in person.

 

I think the rest will probably do well...stage, indie flicks(what I would recommend). I think Emma makes out the best..but I still voted Different Strokes...lol, child actors have a tough outlook. :4biggrin:

Me too! :4biggrin:

 

 

For whatever its worth, Daniel has three movies in production -- and good things (I hear anyway) do come in small boxes (notice I didn't say "packages?") :4biggrin:

 

Good call.

Edited November 16, 2010 by BobbyD

[virginia4 0]

I vote for Alan Rickman. :4biggrin:

[BobbyD 2]

Nuts, how could I forget about Hans Gruber from that "independent" feature of Die Hard?

 

Radcliffe is closing in on Emma Watson? Really?

[Kath 153]

Part of me hopes that all of them just keep acting as a side gig and do something else with their lives. Not that I don't love celebs (thats' why I'm here, right?) but how cool would it be if Emma became a pediatrician and Daniel, an archeologist who worked because they loved it, not 'cuz they needed the money?!

[tyler 408]

I vote for Alan Rickman. :4biggrin:

 

*bangs head on desk* Me too! (and Maggie Smith)

 

 

Edited to add visuals.

Edited November 17, 2010 by tyler

[Maxiemom 623]

Now I wish I wrote in Helena Bonham Carter, if for no other reason than the Tim Burton factor.....

[Hoyaheel 1,874]

Well, Bobby did say he was focussing on the younger actors......

[BobbyD 2]

I figured that Bonham Carter, Rickman, Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson were all givens to have careers after Potter.

[tyler 408]

I figured that Bonham Carter, Rickman, Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Emma Thompson were all givens to have careers after Potter.

 

Maybe Maybe Not.

 

They all had careers (and very good ones at that) before HP -- had the movies tanked, they might have as well.

 

You know. The old saying? What have you done for me lately. . . .? :4biggrin:

[BobbyD 2]

Can young 'Potter' stars maintain career magic?

Wizard franchise made them famous, but breaking free of these roles could be tough

By Christopher Bahn

TODAYshow.com contributor TODAYshow.com contributor

 

The magic is ending soon for the long-running Harry Potter series, which will close out with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” being released in two parts Nov. 19 and July 2011. But filming is already over for its three stars -- Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the boy wizard, and Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, who play his best friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.

 

Now it’s time for them to look ahead to their future, and answer a question even a Hogwarts professor might have trouble seeing in a crystal ball: Can they make the transition from child actors to successful grown-ups?

 

It’s not an easy one for any young celebrity, says Stephanie Zacharek, chief film critic for Movieline. “Because they’re working in this very weird world, a lot of things can go wrong for them. It isn’t what we would call a normal way to grow up. Different child actors handle it with varying degrees of success.”

 

For the Potter trio, all cast in their roles around age 10, the high-profile and long-term nature of the Potter series gives them several advantages over their peers. Perhaps the most important was relative stability as they were growing up.

 

“Warner Brothers [knew] that they were going to be stuck with these three people for a long time,” says Saint Paul Pioneer Press film critic (and TODAYshow.com contributor) Chris Hewitt. “One of the things they were specifically looking for [in casting the roles] were people from supportive families. The whole Lindsay Lohan thing has basically happened during the life of the Potter movies, and what a nightmare for them if one of those three had trod that path.”

 

..So far, the Potter trio has avoided the kind of self-destructive, tabloid-baiting behavior that has dogged other child stars.

 

“The danger of that has probably passed. I think they’re through the birthing stage of becoming celebrities,” says Melissa Anetti, writer for Potter fan site The Leaky Cauldron and author of “Harry, A History,” a book about Potter fandom. “I think it would have been a much different thing if these had been filmed in California. Because then they’d have had celebrities around them at all parts of their lives, they would have been invited to parties left and right, [and] would have started making friends that indulged their less responsible desires. You would have seen a different story.”

 

Instead, the actors, who are all now in their early 20s, have now graduated from what amounts to a Hogwarts-level school of filmmaking.

 

“They’ve worked with a couple different directors, and some of the greatest actors in England, let’s not forget,” says Hewitt. “I think it’s hard to imagine how monumental it has turned out to be for all three of them. I wonder if there have ever been auditions in the entire history of moviemaking that were that huge. That took somebody that nobody had ever heard of and turned them into one of the biggest stars in the world with eight huge hits on their resume. That’s kind of crazy—they got one job and it’s set all of them for life, and given them the opportunity to have an interesting career if they can figure out how to make it work.”

 

Hermione and Emma Watson are similar

That may or may not involve acting, although all three are slated to appear in at least one upcoming film. Watson in particular is branching out beyond her role as high-achieving witch Hermione, having made inroads into the fashion world as a model and launching her own clothing line, People Tree. She’s also appearing in Kenneth Branagh’s upcoming drama “My Week With Marilyn.”

 

“From the get-go, she was the one who was like her character,” says Movieline’s Zacharek. “She’s proficient, she knows what she’s doing, and at the same time she’s incredibly likable. Her, I’ve never been worried about.”

 

Watson is also taking time away from acting to study at Brown University, a move Zacharek approves of: “Maybe it is better, especially if you have an unusual childhood, to do something that’s more normal for a change. Just go out there and be around regular people for a while. I don’t think it hurts an actor.”

 

“It seems as though Emma’s going to have the most varied career out of everybody,” says Anetti. “I can see her being a lot more than just a pretty face as she gets older.”

 

Hewitt cautions that, given their limited appearances outside the Potter films, the jury is still out whether any of the three have the dramatic range to play more than the one role that made them famous.

 

“I still don’t know that we can tell yet how great any of them are going to be,” he says. “[The Harry Potter] movies are so much not really acting showcases anyway. I don’t think any of them have been given a huge amount of chances to show what they can do.”

 

Another hurdle is potential typecasting.

 

“At this point they are so closely tied to their onscreen personas as the trio that it will be hard to break free from that,” says Andrew Sims, writer for Potter fan site mugglenet.com and host of Potter-themed podcast Mugglecast. “Dan (Radcliffe) has done a good job of trying to break free of that image.”

 

Radcliffe branches out

As the Potter series’ central actor, Radcliffe has the highest public profile of the trio and is probably in the best jumping-off position for a post-Potter acting career. Forthcoming projects include gothic ghost story “The Woman In Black,” a remake of WWI war drama “All Quiet on the Western Front,” and a drama based on the murder of a photojournalist in Somalia, “The Journey is the Destination.”

 

“He can take on these roles that are a little bit more prestigious,” says Zacharek. “From where we’re standing now, maybe there’s more open for him than someone like Rupert Grint.”

 

Radcliffe has been careful to take roles that show his willingness to break out of the boy-wizard mold, poking fun at himself in an episode of Ricky Gervais’ sitcom “Extras,” and jumping into the traditional actors’ proving-ground of Broadway in the dark psychological drama “Equus,” in which he appeared nude. Next year, he’ll star alongside John Larroquette in the Broadway revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”

 

“I think it’s smart for Daniel Radcliffe to have done a lot of stage work,” says Hewitt. “That gave him the opportunity to learn a lot, and from a lot of people who know what they’re doing. ... I think with all of them, the main thing that would be smart for them to do is something that they’re passionate about. And I think all of them are doing that.”

 

As for Rupert Grint, the redheaded young actor may find himself more hemmed in than the others by his alter ego, the affable but inept Ron Weasley.

 

“He’s got that ginger hair, which is a liability for people. I can say that because I’m a redhead myself,” laughs Zacharek. “He’s good-looking, but I don’t know if he’s leading man material.”

 

So far, Grint's non-Potter filmography has been limited to smaller, quirky English-made indie comedies including “Driving Lessons” and “Wild Target,” and starring as hapless British Olympic ski jumper Eddie Edwards in the forthcoming “Eddie the Eagle.”

 

“I think he’s also going to be hard to cast,” agrees Hewitt. “He’s sort of unusual looking... I don’t know that he’s going to be playing a lot of romantic leads, so he might be better as a character actor anyway.”

 

That’s certainly not a bad path for a future actor; after all, it’s working for another red-haired comic Brit, Simon Pegg. “It’s so hard to say because comedy is so hard to do,” says Zacharek. “I think it’s one of those things, he’ll have to just feel his way along, and see how it goes.”

 

Christopher Bahn is a frequent contributor to TODAYshow.com

[alpierce 9]

All I have to do is say two words to make the entire cast run screaming to their trailers.

 

Mark Hammill

 

Remember him, Luke Skywalker? What else did he ever do after Star Wars? Granted, Harrison Ford was the big winner there, having a nice career. but I don't see that kind of spark in any of the cast of Harry potter. Those that had a good career beforehand will continue to enjoy success. But, if their claim to fame is Harry Potter, then I doubt dancing with the stars would hire them after this.

 

Movies like this is the kiss of death for an actor. They might as well have all played Superman.

 

 

Oh, by the way, same goes for those Twilight kids.

Edited November 21, 2010 by alpierce

[BobbyD 2]

Oh, by the way, same goes for those Twilight kids.

Agreed. I dislike all of them immensly. They seem like they have the personalities of cardboard...especially Taylor Lautner.

[Hihomumio 168]

Oh, by the way, same goes for those Twilight kids.

Agreed. I dislike all of them immensly. They seem like they have the personalities of cardboard...especially Taylor Lautner.

 

 

 

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if they went nowhere, even in spite of Summit pushing that faux Rob/Kristen relationship to all the little Twi-hards out there.