Radcliffe rejects idea of relationship with Watson
'Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe said today there was “something really incestuous” about the idea of him dating co-star Emma Watson.
The 19-year-old actor said that while a relationship between him and Watson, 19, who plays Hermione Granger, would be “everything the fans ever wanted”, it was just not happening.
But he said the teenage stars of the boy wizard films were all “unbelievably horny” between the filming of the third film, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', and the fifth, 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'.
He told Esquire magazine: “There was a period when we were the only boys and girls any of us knew. And so, you know, we were all unbelievably horny from about the third film to probably about the end of the fifth; then it all settled down. But, God, for a few years...”.
He added: “There was never anybody I fancied that much in the cast, though the conspiracy theorists always like to say that me and Emma are dating.
“We know it’d be everything the fans ever wanted. I’m sorry guys, it’s not happening. It’s just not. There’s something really incestuous about the idea of it.”
Radcliffe also said he was bullied at school but used the skills he learned on the film sets to fight back.
“Because I’d been on set with some really genuinely witty people over the last few years, I could turn round to these idiots and at least try and tear them apart,” he said.
“They didn’t like that. I’m not saying I was Oscar Wilde at 14, but I had a line for anything they could throw at me.”
Radcliffe also said he was learning ballet in a bid to equip himself for a future without Harry Potter as his safety net.
He said: “I need to make myself as viable a choice for any part as I possibly can.”
:: The full interview appears in the August issue of Esquire magazine, on sale Monday July 6.
